Can external interventions crowd in intrinsic motivation? A cluster randomised field experiment on mandatory accreditation of general practice in Denmark
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Can external interventions crowd in intrinsic motivation? A cluster randomised field experiment on mandatory accreditation of general practice in Denmark. / Pedersen, Line Bjørnskov; Andersen, Merethe Kirstine Kousgaard; Jensen, Ulrich Thy; Waldorff, Frans Boch; Jacobsen, Christian Bøtcher.
I: Social Science and Medicine, Bind 211, 2018, s. 224-233.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Can external interventions crowd in intrinsic motivation? A cluster randomised field experiment on mandatory accreditation of general practice in Denmark
AU - Pedersen, Line Bjørnskov
AU - Andersen, Merethe Kirstine Kousgaard
AU - Jensen, Ulrich Thy
AU - Waldorff, Frans Boch
AU - Jacobsen, Christian Bøtcher
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Motivation crowding studies have demonstrated that external interventions can harm effort and performance through crowding out of intrinsic motivation, when interventions are perceived as lack of trust. However, motivation crowding theory also presents a much less investigated crowding in effect, which occurs when external interventions increase intrinsic motivation. This study empirically tests the motivational effect of a specific external intervention and its associations with the perception of the intervention. We draw on a cluster randomised stepwise introduction of a mandatory accreditation system in general practice in Denmark combined with baseline and follow-up questionnaires of 1146 GPs. Based on a series of mixed effects multilevel models, we find no evidence of motivation crowding out among surveyed GPs, although most GPs perceived accreditation as a tool for external control prior to its implementation. Rather, our results indicate that being accredited crowds in intrinsic motivation. This is especially the case when GPs perceive accreditation as an instrument for quality improvement. External interventions can therefore, at least in some cases, foster intrinsic motivation of health care professionals.
AB - Motivation crowding studies have demonstrated that external interventions can harm effort and performance through crowding out of intrinsic motivation, when interventions are perceived as lack of trust. However, motivation crowding theory also presents a much less investigated crowding in effect, which occurs when external interventions increase intrinsic motivation. This study empirically tests the motivational effect of a specific external intervention and its associations with the perception of the intervention. We draw on a cluster randomised stepwise introduction of a mandatory accreditation system in general practice in Denmark combined with baseline and follow-up questionnaires of 1146 GPs. Based on a series of mixed effects multilevel models, we find no evidence of motivation crowding out among surveyed GPs, although most GPs perceived accreditation as a tool for external control prior to its implementation. Rather, our results indicate that being accredited crowds in intrinsic motivation. This is especially the case when GPs perceive accreditation as an instrument for quality improvement. External interventions can therefore, at least in some cases, foster intrinsic motivation of health care professionals.
KW - Accreditation
KW - Crowding in
KW - Crowding out
KW - Denmark
KW - External interventions
KW - General practice
KW - Intrinsic motivation
U2 - 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.06.023
DO - 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.06.023
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 29966817
AN - SCOPUS:85049072633
VL - 211
SP - 224
EP - 233
JO - Social Science & Medicine
JF - Social Science & Medicine
SN - 0277-9536
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