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Table 2 Motivation score based on motivational categories within the Self Determination Theory

From: Characteristics and motivational factors for joining a lay responder system dispatch to out-of-hospital cardiac arrests

Motivation category

Mean

SD

Values

3.97

0.55

Reciprocity

3.88

0.90

Self-esteem

3.22

0.92

Recognition

2.76

0.77

Understanding

2.74

1.08

Career development

2.22

0.90

Social

2.04

0.80

Social interaction

2.01

0.89

Protective

1.93

0.64

Reactivity

1.65

0.79

All

2.64

0.82

  1. Higher score reflects motivation of greater importance to the participant, i.e. more self-determined, and the lower score represent motivation of less importance, i.e. less self-determined. Three is considered neutral
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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

ISSN: 1757-7241