Fengjiao Zhang's research while affiliated with Shanghai Second Polytechnic University and other places

... In other words, positive parent-child relationships enable parents to provide adolescents with more support, thereby promoting the condition of BPNs (Nishimura et al., 2021). Moreover, empirical evidence suggests that BPNs increase subjective vitality in left-behind adolescents (Guo et al., 2021;Yu et al., 2020). Self-determination theory views the fulfillment of BPNs as necessary for sustaining and promoting personal subjective vitality. ...

... These learning environments created by instructors and perceived as autonomy supportive by college students across many disciplines, including STEM, are associated with greater satisfaction of basic psychological needs, self-determined motivation, well-being, and in turn higher levels of achievement as measured by course grades (GPA) and higher levels of perceived learning as assessed by the Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG) [33]. In fact, the creation of an autonomy supportive environment regardless of the transformation implemented, is the most important and consistent predictor of the motivational and educational outcomes studied, including basic psychological needs, student motivation and engagement, perceived learning attainment and learning transfer, as well as actual performance as measured by grades [12,29,[34][35][36][37][38][39]. ...