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Using the theoretical lens of self-determination theory, we examined correlates of burnout among high school athletic directors (N = 477, M = 45.8 years of age). Structural equation modeling of data from this cross-sectional study indicated that autonomy support from supervisors was positively associated with satisfaction of the three psychological needs (i.e., autonomy, competence, relatedness), whereas controlling behavior from supervisors was negatively correlated with psychological needs satisfaction. Competence was positively correlated with self-determination (autonomy and relatedness were not), which in turn was strongly associated with three dimensions of burnout.

(2010). Motivation through Goal Setting: A Self-Determined Perspective. Strategies: Vol. 23, No. 6, pp. 18-23.

Clinicians are shifting away from dualistic conceptions of mind and brain toward a view of psychiatric illnesses as involving interactions between biology, mind, and environment. Our understanding of panic disorder benefits from such an integrative analysis. We review genetic, neurochemical, and neuroimaging data on panic disorder, along with a series of biological and psychological models. We propose that separation and suffocation alarm systems cut across various models, and we suggest how biological, psychological, and environmental interactions can lead to panic onset and persistence. Separation and suffocation alarm systems may become sensitized due to environmental events, an inborn vulnerability, or both. These oversensitized systems create a vulnerability to environmental experiences of loss and intrusion and to frightening psychological experiences of separation and suffocation. In individuals with this vulnerability, angry feelings and fantasies, often unconscious, further intensify fears of los...