You find your current work very boring and meaningless, but you work hard at it, in part, because you provide yourself with little rewards. If you get a job done you will buy yourself a pastry that you particularly like. You are currently involved in ______________ regulation.

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This is an example of introjected regulation because the individual is using external rewards (pastries) to motivate themselves to complete tasks, but the rewards are also tied to their own sense of self-worth and identity (wanting to feel like they accomplished something). It is not intrinsic regulation since the motivation to work hard does not come from within and it is not integrated regulation since the behavior is not fully integrated with the individual's values and goals.

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