Need-satisfying experiences corresponding to students’ psychological needs of autonomy, relatedness, and competence lead increased academic engagement well-being. A lack education-specific basic instruments validated in Swedish may inhibit research Swedish-speaking student populations. Thus, the present study aimed adapt Need Satisfaction Frustration Scale (NSFS) context education Sweden valida...

Previous research has shown that the effects of basic psychological needs on the flow experience in sports are moderated by implicit motives. However, so far, only leisure and health-oriented sports have been analyzed. In a pilot study and a main study (N = 29, 93), we tested whether the implicit achievement and affiliation motives interact with the need for competence and the need for social r...

The purpose of this study was to examine the prediction of autonomy support, psychological mediators and self-determined academic motivation on basic competences. A sample of 405 adolescent students aged between 12 and 16 was used to measure autonomy support, psychological needs, self-determined motivation and basic competences. The results supported the factorial structure of the scale and sho...

This study explored the associations between physical activity (PA) anxiety levels, and perception of satisfaction basic psychological needs (BPN), during Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown. Thus, 1,404 participants (977 women, 426 men, one respondent preferred not to answer) ranging from 18 89 years old (36.4 ± 11.7 year-old) completed a questionnaire in period 1st 15th April 2021. T...

The purpose of this study is to develop and validate the Basic Psychological Needs at Work Scale (BPNWS) in French, but items are also provided in English in the article. The BPNWS is a work-related self-report instrument designed to measure the degree to which the needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness, as identified by Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan, 2000), are satisfied at w...

Using basic psychological needs theory (BPNT; Ryan & Deci, 2000) as our guiding framework, we explored cultural differences in the relationships among physical education students' perceptions of teacher autonomy support, psychological need satisfaction, subjective vitality and effort in class. Seven hundred and fifteen students (age range from 13 to 15 years) from the U.K. and Hong Kong, China,...

Abstract A within-person perspective with several measurement points per individual allows to analyse relations between variables within individuals. Such an approach is still scarce in research from a self-determination theory perspective. Therefore, this study measured basic psychological need satisfaction and intrinsic motivation real-time at lessons the experience sampling method. In way, r...