Crafting happiness from everyday life: Personality, personal projects, basic psychological need satisfaction, and well-being

Introduction: Feeling competent, related, and autonomous promotes well-being through satisfying basic psychological needs, according to self-determination theory’s need satisfaction mini-theory. Personal projects are personally relevant goal-directed activities that take place over an extended period. The quality of life elicited from pursuing personal depends on the degree which provide a sense relatedness, competence, autonomy. We expected that, when controlling for perfectionistic standards discrepancies, achievement striving would lead pursual in turn leads well-being. also explored autonomy relatedness as mediators. Methods: sample (N = 327) was composed students general adult population who provided information positive mental health, passion, zest life, purpose, personality, satisfaction, projects. used cross-sectional survey design tested hypotheses with twelve serial mediation models. Results: Achievement were positively associated predicted 12 indirect effects tested. striving, discrepancies contributed change or 9 24 exploratory Discussion: Those oriented toward motivation likely feel competent their pursuits (personal projects), Pursuing suit one’s personality (i.e., make it more meet needs) may be tool boost