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Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions
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“Earlier measures of BPNT's psychological needs primarily tapped into the presence of need satisfaction, with a few items measuring the absence or deprivation of need satisfaction being reverse-scored and combined into a composite satisfaction score (e.g.Reeve and Sickenius 1994;Sheldon et al. 2001;Van den Broeck et al. 2010).”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Reeve and Sickenius 1994 source
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“Ideally then, all three psychological needs are satisfied to foster the process of internalization (Milyasvkaya et al. 2014).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > BPNT's trio of needs
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- Supportedcites Milyasvkaya et al. 2014 source
The Role of Psychological Need Satisfaction section says all three needs—autonomy, competence, and relatedness—are theorized to be essential, and that need satisfaction facilitates the integrative process. The Brief Discussion also says people are better able to internalize goals when they experience need satisfaction in the relevant domain. The claim is consistent with the paper's theoretical framing, though the studies measured overall need satisfaction rather than testing each need separately. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Needs that emerge only in response to frustrations of basic psychological needs often represent a need-substitute or a compensatory preference (Ryan and Deci 2017;Vansteenkiste and Ryan 2013).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Basic criteria
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Ryan and Deci 2017 source
- Supportedcites Vansteenkiste and Ryan 2013 source
The “Costs of Psychological Need Frustration and Need Thwarting” section says chronic need frustration can lead people to develop need substitutes and compensatory behaviors. The “Maladaptive Mechanisms to Cope with Need Frustration” section defines need substitutes as goals pursued to compensate for experienced need frustration. The supplied passages do not specify page numbers. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“These three needs, each uniquely but also in interactive ways (e.g., Kluwer et al. 2019), appeared to be essential for individuals' well-being across ages, contexts, and cultures.”
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- Partly supportedcites Kluwer et al. 2019 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Conclusion (page unavailable) reports that autonomy and relatedness interact in their association with relationship-maintenance behavior, supporting the citation as an example of interactive needs. It does not establish an interaction involving all three needs or show that the interaction is essential for well-being across ages, contexts, and cultures; the Limitations section notes that the samples were mainly from Western nations. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“Similarly, a desire for power (Hofer and Bush 2019;Winter 1973) may signal that one feels 'caged' and, hence, is attempting to compensate for a lack of autonomy (Martela et al. 2019).”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hofer and Bush 2019 source
- Not matchedcites Winter 1973
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- Supportedcites Martela et al. 2019 source
In the section “Power, Social Adherence, Self-Expression, and Mastery as Four Previously Unexamined Aspirations” (page not provided), the paper says motives for power have been interpreted as compensating for a prior lack of autonomy. The citing sentence’s hedged paraphrase matches that account; “caged” is its metaphor for that lack of autonomy. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“Congruent with this assumption, an increasing number of studies have identified mechanisitic correlates of need-based experiences (Di Domenico and Ryan 2017; Reeve and Lee 2019).”
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- Supportedcites Di Domenico and Ryan 2017 source
The Discussion describes growing interest and emerging evidence on neurobiological systems supporting intrinsic motivation. In Proposition II, the paper reports several neuroimaging studies linking neural activity to free choice, curiosity, and intrinsic motivation; its Methodological Suggestions section also reports neural activations associated with competence feedback. Together, these support the broad claim that studies have identified mechanistic correlates of need-related experiences. (LLM, conf=0.88)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Reeve and Lee 2019 source
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“Further, these concrete experiences and behaviors should be salient in people's natural language when asked to reflect about their most (dis)satisfying experiences (Jang et al. 2009;Sheldon et al. 2001), to recall significant memories (Philippe et al. 2011), or to engage in a life review (Bauer and McAdams 2000).”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Jang et al. 2009 source
- Supportedcites Sheldon et al. 2001 source
The introduction (p. 1) describes the method as relying partly on natural language: participants identified satisfying events, and the authors examined which psychological characteristics were most salient in them. The Measures (p. 9) also describe participants writing about an unsatisfying event and rating what was missing. The other citations in the sentence attach to significant memories and life review, so those are not attributed to Sheldon et al. (LLM, conf=0.86)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Philippe et al. 2011 source
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“Because the criterion of essentialness (Basic Criterion #2) implies that both satisfaction and frustration of a basic need should play a unique role, the authors concluded that beneficence may constitute a well-being enhancer.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Advancements
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Martela and Ryan 2020 source
The Criteria for a basic psychological need section says a candidate need must show both enhancement from satisfaction and negative effects from frustration. The Conclusion (page unavailable) tentatively proposes beneficence as a basic wellness enhancer rather than a basic psychological need because its frustration might not independently predict ill-being after accounting for the three established needs. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“The reason for treating need frustration as a distinct notion is that it involves an active threat of the psychological needs (rather than a mere absence of need satisfaction).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > A retrospective look
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Vansteenkiste and Ryan 2013 source
In “The Crux of Self-Determination Theory: Need Satisfaction and Need Frustration” (p. 6), the paper explicitly distinguishes a lack of need fulfillment from need frustration, illustrating the latter with active rejection or exclusion. The same section contrasts passive low need support with active obstruction of psychological needs. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“A confrontation with a needfrustrating activity or context may elicit different responses, including disengagement from the activity or context or more active attempts to compensate for frustrated needs.”
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- Supportedcites Vansteenkiste and Ryan 2013 source
The Oppositional Defiance section (page not available) describes resistance to engaging in a requested activity and detachment from caregivers in response to a need-thwarting environment. The Costs of Psychological Need Frustration and Need Thwarting section (page not available) also identifies compensatory behaviors as a response to need frustration. Together, these support the two possible responses in the claim. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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- Probably not a substantial claim. 21
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“Conversely, the essential role of these basic psychological needs manifests also in the functional costs associated with their frustration, which predicts lower happiness and multiple forms of maladjustment (Bartholomew et al. 2011;Ryan et al. 2016).”
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- Partly supportedcites Bartholomew et al. 2011 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The General Discussion (p. 24) links need thwarting in athletes to multiple forms of ill-being, including depression, burnout, disordered eating, and negative affect. The claim about lower happiness is not supported by the daily findings: the Measures section (p. 20) includes “Happy” in positive affect, but the analysis (p. 22) says changes in positive affect were associated with need satisfaction, not need thwarting. (LLM, conf=0.88)
- Not matchedcites Ryan et al. 2016
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“If psychological needs are inherent, they should be universally applicable and operative (Ryan and Deci 2017), and thus relevant for individuals regardless of their demographic characteristics (e.g., age, nationality, gender; Henning et al. 2019), personality (e.g., Mabbe et al. 2016), or cultural background (e.g., Benita et al. 2020).”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Ryan and Deci 2017 source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Henning et al. 2019 source
- Supportedcites Mabbe et al. 2016 source
The cited Mabbe et al. paper supports the personality part of the citing sentence. In “Understanding the Mechanisms Underlying Psychologically Controlling Parenting,” it reports that the explanatory role of need frustration was operative irrespective of specific personality dimensions, consistent with the needs’ universal importance. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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- The authors state this as an assumption: Human beings naturally develop in the direction of increasing adaptation, integration, and coherence where possible.
- The authors state this as an assumption: Psychological needs form an ingrained part of our psychological make-up.
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“In contrast, offering external rewards for partaking in an interesting activity can undermine intrinsic motivation (Deci et al. 1999), presumably because controlling rewards can shift one's perceived locus of causality (deCharms 1968) from internal to external, thereby diminishing a sense of autonomy (Houlfort et al. 2002).”
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- Supportedcites Deci et al. 1999 source
The Discussion reports that tangible rewards significantly reduced intrinsic motivation for interesting tasks, while noting exceptions for rewards that were unexpected or not contingent on task behavior. This supports the qualified claim that external rewards can undermine intrinsic motivation. The proposed shift in perceived causality is attributed to other citations in the citing sentence, not to Deci et al. (LLM, conf=0.93)
- Not matchedcites deCharms 1968
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Houlfort et al. 2002 source
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“Underscoring the claim that BPNT's core needs constitute such essential psychological nutrients, need satisfaction has been found to predict adjustment (e.g., Van den Broeck et al. 2016), to characterize satisfying life events (e.g., Sheldon et al. 2010), to be critical to a sense of meaning in life (González-Cutre et al. 2020;Martela et al. 2018) and to contribute to harmonious passions (Valleran”
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- Supportedcites Van den Broeck et al. 2016 source
The Van den Broeck et al. citation is attached to the claim that need satisfaction predicts adjustment, not to the later claims about life events, meaning, or passion. The paper’s RW Analyses of the Three Needs (p. 19) report that each need uniquely predicts measures of psychological well-being among workers, supporting that claim in a work context. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites González-Cutre et al. 2020 source
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“Their work largely confirmed the critical role of the three basic needs, which were ranked in the top five of the most satisfied (or deprived) needs during both satisfying (and unsatisfying) events, with all three needs uniquely relating to event-related affect.”
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- Partly supportedcites Sheldon et al. 2001 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
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“Similarly, need satisfactions have been found to account for toddlers' curiosity-driven exploration of the environment (Whipple et al. 2011), adolescents' negotiation of parental requests (Van Petegem et al. 2017), and adults' engagement in volunteering (Huang et al. 2019).”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Whipple et al. 2011 source
- Partly supportedcites Van Petegem et al. 2017 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Autonomy need satisfaction and frustration section measures adolescents’ anticipated autonomy satisfaction and negotiation in response to a maternal request. The General Discussion reports more negotiation among adolescents with an autonomy-supportive parenting history, but attributes that pattern to parenting context; it does not establish that need satisfaction accounts for negotiation. The toddler and adult findings are attributed to other citations, not this paper. (LLM, conf=0.83)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Huang et al. 2019 source
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“Examples of specific behaviors denoting psychological need satisfaction include the formation of harmonious relationships and building rapport (Baker et al. 2020), steadily extending one's skills, or pursuing one's core interests (Weinstein et al. 2016a).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Associated criteria
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- Supportedcites Baker et al. 2020 source
Baker et al. describe relatedness as feeling close and connected to others (Basic Psychological Needs; page unavailable). Their Results report that rapport predicts satisfaction of autonomy, competence, and relatedness needs. The skills and core-interests examples are attributed to Weinstein et al., not Baker et al. (LLM, conf=0.88)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Weinstein et al. 2016a source
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“Although beneficence frustration correlated with various indicators of ill-being, it failed to predict incremental variance above the frustration of autonomy, competence, and relatedness.”
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- Supportedcites Martela and Ryan 2020 source
The Brief discussion reports robust zero-order correlations between beneficence frustration and all measured ill-being indicators. The Regression analysis reports that adding beneficence frustration did not provide additional predictive power for any of the three ill-being outcomes after accounting for the three basic need frustrations. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“During the past decade, however, a conceptual and methodological breakthrough led to an exponential increase in the study of the 'dark' side of human functioning and to a focus on need thwarting conditions and need frustrating experiences (Bartholomew et al. 2011;Vansteenkiste and Ryan 2013).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > A retrospective look
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- Partly supportedcites Bartholomew et al. 2011 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The introduction (p. 4) describes recent conceptual and measurement advances that enabled research on need thwarting and the darker sides of functioning; Limitations and Future Directions (p. 28) calls the paper a new empirical approach. The copy does not establish that research increased exponentially over the past decade or attribute that growth to this advance. (LLM, conf=0.86)
- Partly supportedcites Vansteenkiste and Ryan 2013 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Abstract (page not specified) describes a rapidly growing body of research on need frustration and negative outcomes. The Need Thwarting Environments section (page not specified) likewise says an increasing number of studies examine need-thwarting environments. Neither passage establishes an exponential increase or attributes that growth to a conceptual and methodological breakthrough. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“This work in the sport context was quickly confirmed in other life domains, such as work (Trepanier et al. 2016), education (e.g., Jang et al. 2016a), romantic relationships (e.g., Kindt et al. 2016;Vanhee et al. 2016), and exercising (e.g., Teixeira et al. 2018).”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Trepanier et al. 2016 source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Jang et al. 2016a source
- Supportedcites Kindt et al. 2016 source
Section 3.3 reports that changes in relationship-based need frustration and need satisfaction were both significantly related to partners’ daily negative affect, conflict, and helping exhaustion. The paper tested the two needs together in chronic-pain couples, supporting the cited example from the romantic-relationship domain; the other domains are attributed to other citations. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Bartholomew et al. (2011) were the first to directly measure both types of need-based experiences.Their series of 1 3 studies revealed two important findings.First, congruent with the presumed asymmetrical relation between need satisfaction and need frustration, both types of need-based experiences were found to be negatively and moderately correlated.Second, as hypothesized, experiences of need”
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“These two experiences (i.e., need satisfaction and frustration) stand in an asymmetrical relation to each other, as the absence of need satisfaction does not necessarily imply the presence of need frustration, whereas the presence of need frustration denotes the absence of need satisfaction (Vansteenkiste and Ryan 2013).”
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“The BPNSFS is currently the most widely used measure.Originally validated in Dutch, English, Spanish, and Chinese, today a variety of translations and contextspecific adaptations are available, including validations in German (Heissel et al. 2018), Japanese (Nishimura and Suzuki 2016), Italian (Costa et al. 2018), Hebrew (Benita et al. 2020), Turkish (Selvi and Bozo 2020), and Portuguese (Cordeiro”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Heissel et al. 2018 source
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The citation is attached to the Japanese validation in a list of translations, not to the claim that the BPNSFS is the most widely used measure. The Discussion reports that the authors developed a Japanese version and found evidence of its reliability and validity; the Conclusion confirms its development. (LLM, conf=0.94)
- Supportedcites Costa et al. 2018 source
The citation to Costa et al. (2018) is attached to the Italian validation, not the sentence’s broader claim that the BPNSFS is the most widely used measure. The Summary (p. 2) describes two studies adapting and evaluating the BPNSFS in Italy, and the Instrument section (p. 9) confirms that the original scale was translated and adapted into Italian. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“in the domain of physical education, Haerens et al. (2015) found basic need frustration to relate positively to amotivation, reflecting discouragement and helplessness.Following students throughout an entire school year, Bartholomew et al. (2018) reported that semester-to-semester variation in students' need frustration covaried positively with amotivation and controlled motivation, and negatively”
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- Supportedcites Haerens et al. (2015) source
The citation to Haerens et al. attaches to the finding about need frustration and amotivation, not the subsequent findings attributed to Bartholomew et al. In the Discussion (page unavailable), Haerens et al. report that students with greater need frustration were more likely to see the lesson as a waste of time, which they identify as amotivation. The paper also describes amotivated students as sometimes feeling helpless. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“Among the direct costs associated with basic psychological need frustration are loss of motivation, disengagement, and experiences of ill-being and distress.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Motivational costs and Ill-being
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- Partly supportedcites Haerens et al. 2015 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion (page not provided) reports that need frustration was associated with amotivation in physical education students, while the Need satisfaction and need frustration section describes it as a vulnerability factor for ill-being and cites links with stress. The claim overstates these associations as direct costs, and this study does not establish disengagement as a direct outcome of need frustration. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Jang et al. 2016a source
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“need frustration related positively to a drive for muscularity among male bodybuilders (Selvi and Bozo 2020).Interestingly, particularly, relatedness frustration helped explain body builders' muscle checking and exercise-dependency (see also Edwards et al. 2016).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Need substitutes
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Selvi and Bozo 2020 source
- Partly supportedcites Edwards et al. 2016 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Abstract (page unavailable) reports that need thwarting predicted weightlifting and muscle dissatisfaction in a sample of men. It does not report a finding specifically about relatedness frustration, muscle checking, or exercise dependency among bodybuilders. The preceding claim about a positive relationship with drive for muscularity is cited to Selvi and Bozo, not Edwards et al. (LLM, conf=0.83)
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“Contingent self-worth functions as a doubleedged sword, on the one hand entailing great commitment (Crocker et al. 2003) but on the other hand also relating to greater emotional distress (Van der Kaap-Deeder et al. 2016).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Motivational costs and Ill-being
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Crocker et al. 2003 source
- Supportedcites Van der Kaap-Deeder et al. 2016 source
The citation to Van der Kaap-Deeder et al. attaches to the emotional-distress part of the sentence, not the commitment part. In the General Discussion, the paper reports that contingent self-esteem was positively related to emotional disaffection, including test anxiety and tension, across its two studies in achievement settings. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“Various profiles were identified, with those being characterized by a stronger presence of need satisfaction and by an absence of need frustration yielding the most adaptive outcomes.The opposite profile of low need satisfaction and high frustration yielded the most maladaptive outcomes (see also Vanhove-Meriaux et al. 2018).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Future directions
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Vanhove-Meriaux et al. 2018 source
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“Notably, such need-specific coping reactions may, in turn, be partially genetically determined but also rooted in developmental exposure to need-supportive or thwarting contexts (Van Petegem et al. 2017).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Future directions
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- Partly supportedcites Van Petegem et al. 2017 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion (page not provided) links adolescents’ constructive or maladaptive coping with their histories of autonomy-need support or frustration. It does not address genetic determination, and its findings concern autonomy-related coping rather than need-specific coping generally. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Promising work in this are was conducted among secondary school (Ratelle and Duchesne 2014) and university (Gillet et al. 2019) students, thereby revealing considerable heterogeneity in need trajectories, although these studies focused on need satisfaction only.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Future directions
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Ratelle and Duchesne 2014 source
- Supportedcites Gillet et al. 2019 source
The Need Satisfaction Trajectories section reports three distinct profiles among university students and says their need satisfaction fluctuated heterogeneously over a semester. The Limitations section states that the study focused solely on trajectories of global need satisfaction. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“Clearly, the study of need frustration as a separate dimension from need satisfsaction has extended the reach of BPNT, with need-based experiences potentially playing a unifying role between literature on psychological growth and wellbeing and literature on psychopathology and risk ( Vansteenkiste and Ryan 2013).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Future directions
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“Further, the fact that need frustration elicits oppositional defiance may help to explain why need frustration relates to a variety of externalizing problems such as the expression of resentment towards authorities (Aelterman et al. 2016), bullying (Hein et al. 2015), cheating (Kanat-Maymon et al. 2015), aggressive behaviors (Vandenkerckhove et al. 2019a), and delinquency (Van Petegem et al. 2015a”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Motivational costs and Ill-being
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Aelterman et al. 2016 source
- Supportedcites Hein et al. 2015 source
The Hein et al. citation is attached specifically to bullying, not to the other externalizing problems in the sentence. In the Discussion, the paper reports a significant relationship between perceived need thwarting and bullying behaviour in high-school students, fully mediated by anger. The sentence’s explanation involving oppositional defiance is the citing authors’ framing, not a finding attributed specifically to Hein et al. (LLM, conf=0.91)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Kanat-Maymon et al. 2015 source
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“Such defiance is reactive in nature because the primary goal is to escape from feeling controlled (Koestner and Losier 1996).Oppositional defiance is assumed to be an unskillful way of expressing resistance against authorities (Parkin and Kuczynski 2012).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Motivational costs and Ill-being
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- Supportedcites Koestner and Losier 1996 source
The Koestner and Losier citation supports the first sentence, not the separate claim about unskillful resistance, which cites Parkin and Kuczynski. In Present Studies (p. 7), the paper describes reactance as striving to restore threatened freedom and links reactive autonomy to perceiving coercion and opposing social influence. (LLM, conf=0.88)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Parkin and Kuczynski 2012 source
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“Interestingly, the costs of need frustration even manifest through one's dreams, with individuals appraising their dreams in a more negative way and reporting more negative dream contents on days that their needs get frustrated (Weinstein et al. 2018).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Advancements
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- Partly supportedcites Weinstein et al. 2018 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Study 2 Brief discussion (page unavailable) reports that on days of greater need frustration, participants experienced more negative emotions in their dreams, supporting the negative-appraisal part. It also says that day-to-day need experiences were unrelated to dream themes, so the claim that they reported more negative dream contents on those days is not supported if ‘contents’ means themes. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“To illustrate, need-based dynamics now appear critical for individuals with mild intellectual disabilities (Frielink et al. 2019), for the engagement and productivity of crew members in a long-term mars simulation flight (Goemaere et al. 2019) and for senior adults' adjustment who face the challenge of achieving ego-integrity (Custers et al. 2012).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Advancements
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Frielink et al. 2019 source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Goemaere et al. 2019 source
- Partly supportedcites Custers et al. 2012 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion (page unavailable) says that matching nursing home residents’ needs with their fulfillment is crucial for well-being, supporting the general point about need-based dynamics and adjustment. The paper concerns nursing home residents specifically; the searched passages do not address achieving ego-integrity, so that part of the attributed claim is unsupported. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“That is, both the percentage of variance explained by interactions but also the number of obtained interactions is rather limited in most, if not all, studies (e.g., Katz et al. 2009;Van Assche et al. 2018).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Empirical findings
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Katz et al. 2009 source
- Supportedcites Van Assche et al. 2018 source
The paper is cited as an example, and its ‘The Moderating Role of Autonomy Desire and Valuation’ section reports that only 18.75% of tested interactions were significant across its two studies. Those interactions explained just 1–4% additional variance, supporting both parts of the claim for this example. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“For example, adolescents who grew up in a home characterized by increasing autonomy-supportive socialization over the years perceived exposure to a new autonomy-supportive, relative to a controlling, encounter with parents as more autonomy satisfying and reacted in more constructive ways to a controlling situation (Van Petegem et al. 2017).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Future directions
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“Similarly, Chinese adolescents perceive the parental practice of guiltinduction as more benign compared to Belgian teens, yet still as more controlling and autonomy-thwarting compared to autonomy support (Chen et al. 2016; see also Chao and Aque 2009).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Future directions
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- Supportedcites Chen et al. 2016 source
The Discussion reports that Chinese adolescents perceived guilt-induction as less controlling than Belgian adolescents, at least in the academic domain. It also says Chinese adolescents perceived guilt-induction as more controlling than autonomy support, with greater perceived control related to more need frustration. (LLM, conf=0.93)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Chao and Aque 2009 source
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“Similarly, experimental studies indicate that learners benefit from an autonomy-supportive teaching style, with participants' motivational differences affecting these effects only to a limited extent (e.g., Delrue et al. 2019b;De Meyer et al. 2016;Flünger et al. 2019).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Empirical findings
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Delrue et al. 2019b source
- Supportedcites De Meyer et al. 2016 source
The Conclusion reports that an experimental study found students’ motivation played only a modest role in the effectiveness of autonomy-supportive teaching for engagement and oppositional defiance. It recommends an autonomy-supportive stance even for students who are controlled motivated or amotivated. The study concerns physical education students, rather than learners in every setting. (LLM, conf=0.92)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Flünger et al. 2019 source
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“To illustrate, Wörtler et al. (2020) found in samples of both Dutch and American employees that experiences of volition, mastery, and connection at work are conducive to employees' engagement and organizational citizenship behavior, with need strength moderating these effects only to a very limited degree.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Empirical findings
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- Supportedcites Wörtler et al. (2020) source
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“To illustrate, adolescents high and low on trait autonomous functioning experienced a controlling parental request to put out extra effort after poor exams as equally autonomy frustrating, but those high on trait autonomy did not perceive the request as illegitimate, nor did they intend to defy the request, signaling a nuanced pattern of moderation (Van Petegem et al. 2019).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Empirical findings
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- Partly supportedcites Van Petegem et al. 2019 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
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“To illustrate, the effects of need satisfaction on individuals' felt emotions (Flünger et al. 2013) andwellbeing (Van Assche et al. 2018) become gradually less strong with decreasing explicit need strength, but even those low in need strength did not benefit from dissatisfaction or frustration of their needs (see also Schüler et al. 2016).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Empirical findings
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- Partly supportedcites Schüler et al. 2016 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
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“Similarly, psychologically controlling parenting (i.e., a specific type of need-thwarting parenting characterized by love withdrawal and guilt-induction) has been found to relate to more internalizing problems irrespective of children's Big Five personality traits but to relate to externalizing problems mainly among children low on agreeableness (Mabbe et al. 2016).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Empirical findings
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- Partly supportedcites Mabbe et al. 2016 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Primary Analyses (page not provided) find that psychological control was related to externalizing problems among adolescents low in Agreeableness, but not those high in Agreeableness. The claim overstates the internalizing finding: in Sample 1, mother-reported psychological control was unrelated to internalizing problems among adolescents high in Extraversion or Emotional Stability, although adolescent-reported control showed no such moderation. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Similarly, Big Five personality traits (Mabbe et al. 2016) and differences in need strength (e.g., Sheldon et al. 2001) have not been shown to reliably affect the functional role of need satisfactions on developmental outcomes.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Empirical findings
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- Partly supportedcites Mabbe et al. 2016 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Primary Analyses report that none of the Big Five traits significantly moderated the association between need frustration and adolescents’ problem behaviors. However, the Methods section says the study measured need frustration rather than need satisfaction, and its outcomes were problem behaviors rather than developmental outcomes generally. The separate claim about need strength is attributed to Sheldon et al., not to this source. (LLM, conf=0.86)
- Partly supportedcites Sheldon et al. 2001 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Substantive Analyses (p. 6) found that need-strength interactions, as a set, did not significantly predict event-related affect, although one interaction was significant. The Summarizing the Results section (p. 12) likewise says need preferences did not moderate the main effects. This supports the cited point about need strength, but the paper tested event-related affect, not developmental outcomes; the Big Five portion is attributed to a different citation. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“To illustrate, positive feedback was found to promote greater interest and enjoyment of an activity (Vallerand and Reid 1984), an effect accounted for by the satisfaction of individuals' need for competence (De Muynck et al. 2017).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > BPNT's trio of needs
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“Indeed, the development and maintenance of a healthy lifestyle is affected by ongoing need satisfactions and frustrations (e.g., Ng et al. 2012), with a healthy lifestyle feeding back into individuals' need-based experiences (Campbell et al. 2018c).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Basic criteria
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“Different from Bagheri and Milyavskaya (2020), they reported some evidence for the moderating role of openness to experience in the relation between novelty satisfaction and well-being (cfr.Basic Criterion #5).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Advancements
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites González-Cutre et al. 2020 source
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“Autonomy and competence were most salient during self-generated satisfying events and accounted for substantial variation in event-related affect.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > A retrospective look
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“Controlling for SDT's three basic needs, novelty satisfaction was found to still contribute to individuals' motivation and adjustment during exercising (Study 1) and to well-being (Study 2), while its frustration was related negatively to well-being (Study 2; cfr.Basic Criterion #2).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Advancements
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“Defining novelty-variety as the individual's perception of experiencing or doing something new, including the possibility to swith things up in different combinations, Bagheri and Milyavskaya (2020) showed in a series of correlational and vignette-based experimental studies that novelty-variety can be factor-analytically separated from the other needs (Basic Criterion #4), that it contributes”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Advancements
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“In their contribution to the special issue, they provided further evidence by showing that moral satisfaction is related to the enactment of moral behaviors and to wellness at both between-and within-person levels of analysis, thereby satisfying Basic Criterion #5.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Advancements
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Prentice et al. 2020 source
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“Concerns about self-worth largely surface on moments when the basic psychological needs are frustrated (Bartholomew et al. 2018), and thus the dynamics of self-esteem are primarily dependent upon the basic needs (Ryan and Brown 2003).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > A retrospective look
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Bartholomew et al. 2018 source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Ryan and Brown 2003
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“At the heart of BPNT (Ryan and Deci 2017) is the argument that individuals have a limited set of basic psychological needs, the satisfaction of which is essential for flourishing and well-being.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > BPNT's trio of needs
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“Fourth, a basic psychological need in BPNT should be sufficiently distinct from other identified basic needs, both experientially and dynamically.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Basic criteria
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“BPNT considers both the satisfaction and frustration of these three needs, with frustration representing a stronger and more threatening experience than the mere absence of its fulfilment.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > BPNT's trio of needs
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“Conversely, deprivation or frustration of these needs diminishes flourishing and increases risk for ill-being and psychopathology.”
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“Consistent with the growth-instead of deficit-oriented character of basic needs within BPNT, people would have a propensity to actively seek activities, goals, and relationships in which they can experience a sense of volition, mastery, and connection, and to avoid need frustrating counterparts (Laporte et al. 2019;Weinstein et al. 2016a).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Associated criteria
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“Technically, basic psychological needs should be context-responsive constructs (Prentice et al. 2019), thus systematically showing variability as a function of contextual variations, while also mediating the relation between variations in social environments and individuals' psychosocial adjustment.”
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“Experiencing failure (Waterschoot et al. 2020), feeling conflicted about identity-relevant choices (Assor et al. 2020), or feeling lonely (Baumeister and Leary 1995) each denote experiences of psychological need frustration.”
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“Also, much like other potential need candidates, such as self-actualization (Maslow 1971) and meaning (Martela and Steger 2016), self-esteem represents an outcome that follows from having psychological needs fulfilled.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > A retrospective look
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“People should also gravitate towards need-supportive contexts, a tendency more visible for those with high levels of agency (Legault et al. 2017;Patall et al. 2019;Reeve 2013).”
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“The observation that the psychological needs are involved in such phenotypically diverse phenomena speaks to the pervasive impact of these psychological needs and underscores the parsimony of BPNT as a theoretical framework.”
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“The fact that need-based experiences are implicated in the way people think about and handle their final destiny again speaks to the essential and pervasive nature of the SDT's current three basic needs.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Motivational costs and Ill-being
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“It is in this sense that Ryan and Deci (2017) argued that 'distinct human natures' (p.620) can manifest as a function of not only genetic inclinations, but also contextual variations in basic need supports and thwarts and their interplay (Van Assche et al. 2016).”
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“In older adults, reflections on need frustration across one's life relate to death anxiety, in part because higher need frustration is associated with greater feelings of despair, bitterness, and regret (Van der Kaap-Deeder et al. 2019).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Motivational costs and Ill-being
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“relatedness does not only involve a sense of connection and mutuality at the individual level (e.g.Fedesco et al. 2019), but extends to feelings of inclusion and harmony at the group level (Kelly et al. 2008;Sheldon and Bettencourt 2002) as well as experiences of care vis-à-vis the broader society, the universe, and even the proposed need-candidate relatedness with nature (Baxter and Pelletier 201”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Conceptual considerations
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“beneficence satisfaction initially appeared to conform to the criteria of a basic need (Martela and Ryan 2016;Martela et al. 2018), with subsequent work indicating that frustration of beneficence may fail to yield a unique contribution.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Conceptual considerations
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“Moreover, findings concerning compensatory, substitute, and reactive processes associated with need frustration attest to the dynamic nature of needrelated processes, and the depth in psychological functioning afforded by BPNT (Ryan and Deci 2017).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Future directions
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“Illustrating such a potentially transdiagnostic role, Campbell et al. (2018a) showed that need frustration not only predicted adolescents' depressive symptoms and eating pathology, but also largely accounted for their cooccurrence and co-evolution across time (Campbell et al. 2018a).”
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“Apart from BPNT's basic psychological needs, people also require food, water, air, sex, sleep and other inputs to survive and to be physically healthy, as noted by drive-based theories (Hull 1943).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Theme 3: What is the interplay between basic psychological and basic physical needs?
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“Thus, basic need frustration was found to underlie phenotypically different symptoms and to explain why these symptoms cluster at the surface level.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Future directions
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“There is growing and varied evidence showing how experiences of need frustration can elicit insecurity about self-worth and, as one compensatory strategy, foster egoinvolved behaviors.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Motivational costs and Ill-being
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“In an experimental study, Waterschoot et al. (2020) showed that participants dispositionally high on resilience displayed an attentional bias towards competence-relevant cues in response to manipulated negative feedback.In turn, this attentional shift was found to be functional in recovering from the blow to their competence need.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Future directions
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“Although defiance may be undertaken to restore threatened psychological needs and to regain a sense of independence and freedom, longitudinal research suggests that defiant adolescents become increasingly alienated from their personal preferences and interests, experiencing decreasing autonomy over time (Van Petegem et al. 2015b).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Motivational costs and Ill-being
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“Instead, the difference between mental health and risk for psychopathology is a matter of continuity, with need-relevant dynamics playing a role both in actualizing individuals' potential for growth and in awakening vulnerabilities for psychopathology, as manifest in both subclinical and clinical disorders (Ryan et al. 2016).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Future directions
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“Studies have included measures of somatization and physical symptoms as indicators of ill-being (e.g., Reinboth et al. 2004;Reis et al. 2000), which were found to stem from low need satisfaction and especially high need frustration.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Theme 3: What is the interplay between basic psychological and basic physical needs?
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“Skinner, Edge, Altman, and Sherwood (2003) identified for each of the three needs a family of need-relevant (mal)adaptive coping strategies that deserve more empirical attention.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Future directions
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“semester-to-semester fluctuations in students' need frustration covaried with semester-to-semester fluctuations in contingent self-worth (Bartholomew et al. 2018).Similarly, children's tendency to experience self-aggrandizement following success, and shame and inferiority following failure, appears to be associated with need-thwarting parenting styles (Assor and Tal 2012).Further, an obsessive”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Motivational costs and Ill-being
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“Unlike ARC, which represent growth needs, these deficit needs become salient and operative when unfulfilled, with their salience again waning when satisfied.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Theme 3: What is the interplay between basic psychological and basic physical needs?
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“Ironically, the hoped-for emotional benefits associated with the pursuit of extrinsic goals are often overestimated (e.g., Sheldon et al. 2010).In reality, the pursuit of extrinsic goals and even their attainment has been found to relate to diminished need satisfaction and increased need frustration, which helps explain their detrimental effects on wellbeing (Hope et al. 2019;Leung and Law 2019;Un”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Need substitutes
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“Also, in his highly popularized need-hierarchy Maslow (1954) proposed, in addition to these physiological needs, a physical need for safety and security, which involves being protected against physical harm, uncertainty, and pain.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Theme 3: What is the interplay between basic psychological and basic physical needs?
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“Holding et al. (2020) illustrate how this can occur.In two large samples of university students, Holding et al. reported that individuals with more extrinsic goals had more controlled motives for the key career goal they had selected for themselves in the beginning of an academic year, which led them to forego the pursuit of psychological need-satisfying activities during the year.Such”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Need substitutes
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“Using an event-contingent diary methodology, Smith (2007) reported that undergraduates who experienced greater autonomy, competence, and relatedness during sexual interactions reported more positive outcomes (e.g.relaxed, satisfied) and less negative outcomes (e.g., regret, guilt).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Advancements
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“Van Egmond et al. (2020) examined whether resource scarcity, including the deprivation of food and clean water on a daily basis, may attenuate the beneficial role of Malawian adolescent girls' psychological need satisfaction.No evidence for moderation was found, suggesting that psychological need satisfaction contributes to self-esteem, even among adolescents growing up in very poor circumstances.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Advancements
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“Congruent with this reasoning, the experimental induction of prospective economic threat, relative to a nothreat condition, was sufficient to undermine participants' needs for autonomy and competence, which explained their decreased well-being (Dupuis and Newby-Clark 2016).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Future directions
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“Presumably, on days that one's needs get frustrated, binge eating is more tempting because it may compensate for the negative affect associated with need frustration.Also, need frustration has a direct energydepleting effect, which helps to explain break-downs in selfcontrol on such days.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Advancements
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“In terms of individuals' physiological need for food, several studies have now reported that need satisfaction is predictive of healthier eating patterns, whereas need frustration predicts unhealthy and disrupted eating (e.g.Pelletier and Dion 2007).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Advancements
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“Rather, the setting of expectations (Vansteenkiste et al. 2012), the monitoring of whereabouts (Rodriguez-Meirinhos et al. 2019), and the provision of feedback (Carpentier and Mageau 2013) can be done in more autonomy-supportive or controlling ways”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Theme 4: Are there new insights in the conditions that affect need-based experiences?
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“Potentially explaining these dynamics, need frustration was associated with higher stress which, in turn, predicts dysfunctional pre-sleep cognitions that interfere with sleep patterns (Campbell et al. 2017(Campbell et al. , 2018b)).”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Advancements
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“Performing cross-lagged analyses, Tavernier et al. (2019) reported that, after controlling for multiple covariates (i.e., personality, chronotype, sleep medication, self-esteem, social desirability), need fulfillment among university students predicted improved sleep quality and an increase in sleep duration during the weekend (but not over the week) over one semester, while sleep patterns did not”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Advancements
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“For instance, in sport athletes, both training-to-training (Carpentier and Mageau 2016) and game-to-game (Delrue et al. 2017) variation in experienced need-supportiveness are predictive of athletes' self-confidence, autonomous sport motivation and their pro-and anti-social play.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Advancements
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“Campbell et al. (2018c) reported on a controlled sleep deprivation experiment in which participants were deprived of sleep for three consecutive nights (i.e., 5 h per night).Although reduced sleep had an immediate energy-depleting effect after the first night, it took three nights before need satisfaction was eroded, with a reduction in morning energy and an impaired mindful approach during the”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Advancements
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“The notion that all human beings would share a similar set of basic psychological needs, the satisfaction of which is critical for well-being, flourishing, and psychological growth initially elicited quite some debate.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > A retrospective look
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“The discussion centered especially on the need for autonomy, the most disputed need.”
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“Specifically, autonomy was conceived as an attribute that should come only in moderate doses or that would be beneficial only to specific groups of individuals, such as those growing up in individualistic cultures (Markus and Kitayama 2003), adolescents who increasingly strive for more self-reliance (Zimmer-Gembeck and Collins 2003), and highly educated employees who are socialized in taking init”
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“Second, BPNT's universality claim especially holds with respect to the output-side of the model: any person, regardless of sociodemographic or psychological characteristics, should benefit, in one way or another, from need satisfaction and suffer from need frustration, if subjectively experienced (e.g., Vansteenkiste et al. 2006).”
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“To illustrate, parents' request to monitor homework may be perceived as intrusive and meddlesome by some children, thwarting their need for autonomy, whereas for others it may be experienced as useful and constructive guidance so they can competently complete their homework (e.g., Moe et al. 2018).”
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“The diversity of countries being sampled in the current special issues is remarkable, with participants coming from Brazil, Israel, Belgium, Peru, Canada, Turkey, Malawi, the US, the UK, the Netherlands, Spain, and Korea, and with all studies reporting various benefits in relation to ARC satisfaction and costs in relation to ARC frustration (see also Benita et al. 2020).”
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“In such views the benefits of autonomy depend on one's culture, age, and social class.”
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“This circumplex serves as a guide or compass for socializing agents because, as can be expected, subareas on the right side in the model (i.e., attuning, guiding) yield the strongest correlates with need satisfaction and with desirable outcomes, whereas those on the left side (i.e., abandoning, domineering) yield the strongest correlates with need frustration and undesirable outcomes.”
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“For instance, having provided evidence for the measurement equivalence of the BPNSNF scale across Chinese, Belgian, American, and Peruvian university students, Chen et al. (2015a) reported that their need-based model held across different countries (see also Church et al. 2013;Sheldon et al. 2011;Taylor and Lonsdale 2010).”
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“Yet, by conceiving autonomy as a universal psychological need, the claim made in SDT was that any person better thrives when this need is satisfied.”
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“To illustrate, Jang et al. (2016b) provided more refined insights in the way how choice can be implemented in the classroom by showing that teaching a lesson in student preferred vs. non-preferred ways promoted greater autonomy, in turn, relating to greater engagement and learning.”
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“Effective intervention programs for teachers (e.g., Cheon and Reeve 2015), parents (e.g., Joussemet et al. 2014;Moe et al. 2018) and coaches (e.g., Reynders et al. 2019) are now available, showing benefits for both the persons being motivated and for the socializing agents themselves.”
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“These studies indicate that socializing agents can be trained to adopt a more need-supportive style and to move away from a need-thwarting style.”
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“Most scholars emphasizing the limited benefits associated with autonomy have defined autonomy as acting independently and making independent choices, whereas autonomy within SDT implies that one's actions, thoughts, and feelings are undergirded by a sense of volition and authenticity.”
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“Such volitional functioning can characterize independent behavior, when one wants to act on one's own, as well as a willing dependency on others for inputs and guidance (Soenens et al. 2018).”
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“Overall then, the circumplex structure is in need of replication, extension, and refinement in diverse age groups, life domains, and cultures.”
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“Illustrative in this context is work by Marbell-Pierre et al. (2019), who reported that parental provision of choice related to positive developmental outcomes among US, but not among Ghanaian adolescents.”
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“The present overview makes clear that, today, research on basic psychological needs is active and growing.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Conclusion
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“Not only the broader cultural ambience but also the more immediate family environment may alter the meaning attributed to need-relevant practices.”
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“Such findings are fully congruent with the circumplex model, which suggests that the attuning approach may be more directly need-nurturing, while the participative approach is merely need-enabling (Aelterman et al. 2019).”
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“Concern for basic psychological needs also has implications for (re)organizing schools and work settings, as well as for developing sustainable health care and welfare policies.”
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“Although a controlling response was less favorable in both situations compared to an autonomy-supportive one, the context of disturbance attenuated some of the costs associated with coach control.”
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“Finally, although need frustration and contextual need thwarting are generally detrimental to development and psychological growth, there is some evidence that interindividual differences determine the type of costs associated with need frustration and perceived need-thwarting socialization.”
§ Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions > Empirical findings
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“Finally, specific situational features may play a role in altering the perceived meaning and effectiveness of needsupportive and need-thwarting practices.”
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“For instance, American compared to Chinese elementary school children perceived a controlling teacher as more hurtful and controlling, which was reflected in their reduced motivation for schoolwork (Zhou et al. 2012).”
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“That is, there is no evidence that individuals suffer from basic need satisfaction, or show gains from frustrations; if anything, the nutritional basis of need satisfaction is more pronounced for some individuals.”
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“Based on BPNT, the topic of basic psychological needs has been studied by researchers across the world, presumably because it touches upon fundamental theoretical questions regarding our human nature and carries far-reaching practical implications for parents, educators, managers, coaches and other social relationships.”
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“Although there is some evidence for gradations in the strength of the benefits and costs associated with, respectively, subjectively felt basic need satisfaction and need frustration, no evidence for cross-over interactions has emerged.”
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Human beings naturally develop in the direction of increasing adaptation, integration, and coherence where possible.
“Specifically, in the organismic view that underpins SDT (see Deci and Ryan 1985;Ryan 1995), it is assumed that human beings naturally develop in the direction of increasing adaptation, integration, and coherence where possible.”
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Psychological needs form an ingrained part of our psychological make-up.
“The assumption that psychological needs form an ingrained part of our psychological make-up opposes blank slate conceptions in which people's needs, values, and satisfactions are scripted or programmed into individuals by social environments.”
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There are energizing forces within human nature that foster psychological growth and proactivity.
“Instead, BPNT gives recognition to the idea that there are energizing forces within human nature that foster psychological growth and proactivity.”
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Full functioning requires the satisfaction of both psychological and physiological/safety needs.
“Based on the assumption that full functioning requires the satisfaction of both psychological and physiological/safety needs”
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Individuals are vulnerable for being self-centered, passive, and aggressive.
“SDT's meta-theoretical assumption that individuals are vulnerable for being selfcentered, passive, and aggressive”
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There is a growth tendency supported by universal needs.
“because the assumption of a growth tendency supported by universal needs contradicts their blank slate, culture-as-script understanding of human propensities”
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“Teachers provide structure to support students' need for competence.”
From Blending Teacher Autonomy Support and Provision of Structure in the Classroom for Optimal Motivation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2025) · cites this paper as Vansteenkiste et al., 2020
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“Finally, the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness, both in general and via media use specifically, has been linked to various psychological well-being indicators (e.g., Johnson et al., 2020; Vansteenkiste et al., 2020).”
From Media for Coping During COVID-19 Social Distancing: Stress, Anxiety, and Psychological Well-Being (2020) · cites this paper as Vansteenkiste et al., 2020
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“This need reveals itself as the desire to extend an individual’s own capacities and skills [6,10].”
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“Likewise, prior research [74,75] has demonstrated the importance of psychological needs to the development and wellbeing of individuals.”
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Self-citationChevrier, B., & Lannegrand‐Willems, L. (2021) · Psychologie Française · doi:10.1016/j.psfr.2020.09.005 · Cited by 41
Martinek, D., Carmignola, M., Müller, F. H., Bieg, S., Thomas, A., Eckes, A., Großmann, N., Dittrich, A.-K., & Wilde, M. (2021) · European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education · doi:10.3390/ejihpe11020030 · Cited by 36
“The satisfaction of all three basic psychological needs is associated with more autonomous forms of regulation [5], while controlled regulation is linked to higher levels of need frustration [15].”
BackgroundResultInfluentialChevrier, B., & Lannegrand‐Willems, L. (2021) · European Journal of Psychology of Education · doi:10.1007/s10212-021-00569-7 · Cited by 29
“According to the Basic Psychological Needs Theory (BPNT), a mini-theory within the Self-Determination Theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 2000), self-determination processes comprise motivation and basic psychological needs and allow the examination of individuals’ development during major life events (Ryan & Deci, 2019).”
BackgroundInfluentialÁlvarez, E. F., López, J. C., Gómez, V., & Spray, C. M. (2021) · Psychology of sport and exercise · doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2021.102021 · Cited by 36
Digital badges affect need satisfaction but not frustration in males in higher education
Schürmann, L., & Quaiser-Pohl, C. M. (2022) · Computers & Education · doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2022.104484 · Cited by 36
Marcos, F. M. L., Behzadnia, B., López-Gajardo, M. Á., Batista, M., & González, J. J. P. (2022) · Journal of Teaching in Physical Education · doi:10.1123/jtpe.2022-0040 · Cited by 28
“In contrast, the frustration of the basic needs leads to amotivation and negative outcomes (Vansteenkiste et al., 2020).”
BackgroundShowing with whom I belong: The desire to belong publicly on social media
Büttner, C. M., Lalot, F., & Rudert, S. C. (2022) · Computers in Human Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.chb.2022.107535 · Cited by 33
Álvarez, E. F., González-Peño, A., Martínez, P. T., & Martínez-Majolero, V. (2023) · Journal of Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Education · doi:10.1016/j.jhlste.2023.100432 · Cited by 42
Coll, C., & Mignonac, K. (2022) · The International Journal of Human Resource Management · doi:10.1080/09585192.2022.2054284 · Cited by 30
“…and consistent with the assumption of BPNT that basic need-supportive work contexts promote employees’ optimal functioning (Deci et al., 2017; Vansteenkiste et al., 2020), we argue that basic need satisfaction serves as a mechanism through which POS increases task performance among…”
BackgroundInfluentialBurgueño, R., García‐González, L., Abós, Á., & Sevil‐Serrano, J. (2023) · European Physical Education Review · doi:10.1177/1356336x231165229 · Cited by 30
“…research has well documented that low levels of need satisfaction were consistently associated with feelings of low wellness, but not necessarily with experiences of illness, whereas need frustration was robustly related to illness and malfunctioning (Ryan et al., 2021; Vansteenkiste et al., 2020).”
BackgroundMethodResultInfluentialMartela, F., Unanue, J., Gómez, M. E., & Unanue, W. (2024) · Journal of Happiness Studies · doi:10.1007/s10902-024-00741-y · Cited by 33
“…meaning in life as a potential predictor of psychological need satisfaction is not only relevant for research on meaningfulness but also for research in self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2017; Vansteenkiste et al., 2020) that aims to identify key factors enhancing need satisfaction.”
Steindórsdóttir, B. D., Nerstad, C. G. L., & Magnúsdóttir, K. Þ. (2020) · Nordic Psychology · doi:10.1080/19012276.2020.1817770 · Cited by 40
“The mediating roles of autonomy, competence, and relatedness One theory that could be useful in explaining the positive influence of a mastery climate on job embeddedness is the BNT, a sub theory of the self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2002; Vansteenkiste et al., 2020).”
BackgroundResultInfluentialCultural Identity Conflict and Psychological Well-Being in Bicultural Young Adults
Rahim, H. F., Mooren, T. T. M., van den Brink, F., Knipscheer, J. W., & Boelen, P. A. (2021) · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease · doi:10.1097/nmd.0000000000001332 · Cited by 32
Grassroots innovation success: The role of self-determination and leadership style
Stremersch, S., Camacho, N., Keko, E., & Wuyts, S. (2021) · International Journal of Research in Marketing · doi:10.1016/j.ijresmar.2021.10.003 · Cited by 33
“According to SDT, expressions of confidence and support by leadership stimulate and encourage employees not only to seek goal completion but also to attribute such goal completion to their own skills (Forner et al., 2020; Vansteenkiste, Ryan, & Soenens, 2020).”
BackgroundZhang, Y., Tsang, K. K., Wang, L., & Liu, D. (2022) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su14042260 · Cited by 29
“The theory suggests that individuals’ desire to satisfy their basic needs, which is conductive to psychological wellbeing, while failing to satisfy these needs, increases their risk for ill-being [25].”
BackgroundInfluentialJankauskienė, R., Urmanavicius, D., & Bacevičienė, M. (2022) · Behavioral Sciences · doi:10.3390/bs12090314 · Cited by 38
“SDT postulates the existence of three basic human needs: autonomy, competence and relatedness [12].”
BackgroundCo-creation with service robots and employee wellbeing: a self-determination perspective
Yang, X. X., & Gao, Y. (2023) · Behaviour and Information Technology · doi:10.1080/0144929x.2023.2295032 · Cited by 26
Staller, N., Großmann, N., Eckes, A., Wilde, M., Müller, F. H., & Randler, C. (2021) · Frontiers in Education · doi:10.3389/feduc.2021.681840 · Cited by 23
Zhang, L., & Jiang, Y. (2023) · Journal of Intelligence · doi:10.3390/jintelligence11060111 · Cited by 25
Too complex to handle: Goal conflict and tourist preference for simple aesthetics
Chen, S., Ahlström, D., & Xiao, T. (2023) · Annals of Tourism Research · doi:10.1016/j.annals.2023.103639 · Cited by 26
A Psychological Need-Fulfillment Perspective for Designing Social Robots that Support Well-Being
Janssen, S., & Schadenberg, B. R. (2024) · International Journal of Social Robotics · doi:10.1007/s12369-024-01102-8 · Cited by 29
“Each need is associated with a unique set of experiences and is distinct from other basic needs [186].”
InfluentialAmoadu, M., Agormedah, E. K., Obeng, P., Srem‐Sai, M., Hagan, J. E., & Schack, T. (2024) · Children · doi:10.3390/children11050512 · Cited by 38
“This cohort of students was chosen due to their developmental stage, which poses unique challenges related to academics, living standards, and personal, social, and psychological needs [32,33].”
BackgroundRamaiah, T. S., Pasupuleti, R. S., Chebolu, R. M., Banala, T. V., & Thiyyagura, D. (2024) · Journal of Computers in Education · doi:10.1007/s40692-024-00343-w · Cited by 37
“At the core of this theory lies the premise that individuals are inherently inclined toward personal growth, self-regulation, and integration, provided that their innate psychological needs are adequately supported (Vansteenkiste et al., 2020).”
Ha, C., Pressley, T., & Marshall, D. T. (2025) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0317471 · Cited by 59
Morales‐Sánchez, V., Crespillo-Jurado, M., Jiménez-López, D., Morillo-Baro, J. P., Hernández-Mendo, A., & Reigal, R. E. (2020) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph17134909 · Cited by 25
“The thwarting of competence is experienced as a sense of ineffectiveness or even failure [13].”
BackgroundRodrigues, F. F., Macedo, R., Teixeira, D. S., Cid, L., Travassos, B. F. R., Neiva, H. P., & Monteiro, D. (2021) · The Journal of Psychology · doi:10.1080/00223980.2020.1862738 · Cited by 31
“Recent advances in SDT research have shown that additional assessment of needs frustration is needed, to account for maladaptive outcomes (T othKir aly et al., 2020; Vansteenkiste et al., 2020; Warburton et al., 2020).”
BackgroundInfluentialBallou, N., Deterding, S., Iacovides, I., & Helsby, L. (2022) · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/3491102.3501858 · Cited by 30
“Unlike ‘purely’ intrinsically motivated behaviour, such compensatory behaviour is seen to be less fexible and apt, and can therefore lead to negative efects [73].”
BackgroundInfluentialHuyghebaert‐Zouaghi, T., Gillet, N., Fernet, C., Thomas, J., & Ntoumanis, N. (2022) · European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology · doi:10.1080/1359432x.2022.2127354 · Cited by 33
“Vansteenkiste et al. (2020) also emphasized the practical value of this approach, explaining that it allows to “provide a more overarching perspective on individuals’ configuration of need-based functioning instead of “slicing” an individual into different need-relevant dimensions” (p. 12).”
BackgroundInfluentialDisturbing aspects of smartphone usage: a qualitative analysis
Ochs, C., & Sauer, J. (2022) · Behaviour and Information Technology · doi:10.1080/0144929x.2022.2129092 · Cited by 25
Harder, better, faster, stronger: digitalisation and employee well-being in the operations workforce
Lyngstadaas, H., & Berg, T. (2022) · Production Planning & Control · doi:10.1080/09537287.2022.2153735 · Cited by 31
“The fundamental idea of SDT is that individuals have a limited set of basic psychological needs, with well-being as an outcome of experiencing need satisfaction (Vansteenkiste, Ryan, and Soenens 2020; Kluwer et al. 2020).”
InfluentialHaw, J. Y., & King, R. B. (2023) · Social Psychology of Education · doi:10.1007/s11218-023-09790-2 · Cited by 28
Two ways teachers can develop greater harmonious passion
Jang, H.-R., Cheon, S. H., Reeve, J., Song, Y.-G., & Lee, Y. (2023) · Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy · doi:10.1080/17408989.2023.2206832 · Cited by 27
“What facilitates autonomous internalization is need satisfaction, while its absence disrupts the internalization process and leaves the person having to force the valued activity into their identity (i.e. controlled internalization) (Vansteenkiste, Ryan, and Soenens 2020).”
Assessing Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness Briefly
Martela, F., & Ryan, R. M. (2024) · European Journal of Psychological Assessment · doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000846 · Cited by 32
Self-citationHarrison, M. G., Wang, Y., Cheng, A. S., Tam, C. K. Y., Pan, Y.-L., & King, R. B. (2024) · Teaching and Teacher Education · doi:10.1016/j.tate.2024.104819 · Cited by 48
Campbell, R., Vansteenkiste, M., Soenens, B., Vandenkerckhove, B., & Mouratidis, A. A. (2020) · Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin · doi:10.1177/0146167220923456 · Cited by 26
Self-citationPerceived Motivational Climates and Employee Energy: The Mediating Role of Basic Psychological Needs
Nerstad, C. G. L., Caniëls, M. C. J., Roberts, G. C., & Richardsen, A. M. (2020) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01509 · Cited by 23
Datu, J. A. D., & Fincham, F. D. (2021) · Journal of Social and Personal Relationships · doi:10.1177/02654075211029380 · Cited by 28
“As prior evidence indicates that meaning in life (Steger et al., 2006, 2011) and satisfaction of psychological needs (Deci & Ryan, 2000; Vansteenkiste et al., 2020) catalyze optimal psychological health, we anticipate that meaning in life (H11) and relatedness needs satisfaction (H14) will be…”
BackgroundAbós, Á., García‐González, L., Solana, A. A., & Sevil‐Serrano, J. (2021) · Psychology of sport and exercise · doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2021.101988 · Cited by 35
Sarıçalı, M., & Güler, D. (2022) · Current Psychology · doi:10.1007/s12144-022-02866-w · Cited by 24
“it was considered that Autonomy frustration is related to sense of pressure, Relatedness frustration sense of social alienation and competence frustration sense of ineffectiveness, failure as well as helplessness (Vansteenkiste et al., 2020).”
BackgroundOpdenakker, M. (2022) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1021904 · Cited by 50
“According to the self-determination theory (Ryan and Deci, 2000, 2020; Deci and Ryan, 2002), and in particular the sub-theory Basic Psychological Needs Theory—BPNT (Deci et al., 1996; Vansteenkiste et al., 2020; Opdenakker, 2021), students are more likely to engage in self-regulated learning if their learning environm…”
BackgroundMethodResultInfluentialHendrick, L. A., Opdenakker, M., & van der Vaart, W. (2023) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1221003 · Cited by 33
“The often-last-mentioned need, relatedness, ‘ denotes the experience of warmth, bonding, and care, and is satisfied by connecting to and feeling significant to others ’ (Vansteenkiste et al., 2020, p. 1).”
InfluentialZhang, Q., Siraj, S. B., & Razak, R. A. (2025) · Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching · doi:10.1080/17501229.2025.2515111 · Cited by 39
Hlupić, T. V., Butković, A., Pocrnić, M., & Bratko, D. (2022) · Current Psychology · doi:10.1007/s12144-022-04158-9 · Cited by 21
“…SDT, basic psychological needs are conceptualized as innate (universal to all humans), and essential to psychological well-being (Deci & Ryan, 2000; Vansteenkiste et al., 2020), but they have been operationalized in various ways – at a general level (i.e., need-based experiences in life), within…”
BackgroundFryer, L. K., & Leenknecht, M. J. M. (2023) · Educational Psychology Review · doi:10.1007/s10648-023-09787-5 · Cited by 32
“Structure as part of the broader concept of need-supportive teaching has been studied extensively in SDT literature (see Ahmadi et al., 2022; Stroet et al., 2013; Vansteenkiste et al., 2020).”
BackgroundWorker Well-Being and Quit Intentions: Is Measuring Job Satisfaction Enough?
Pelly, D. (2022) · Social Indicators Research · doi:10.1007/s11205-023-03166-x · Cited by 38
“Providing conditions that favour BPN satisfaction should in turn foster more autonomous motivation (Fernet et al., 2020; Vansteenkiste et al., 2020).”
BackgroundBig Five of Mindfulness and Personality: Cross-Cultural Network Analysis
Roemer, A., Cervin, M., Medvedeva, A., Bravo, A. J., & Medvedev, O. N. (2023) · Mindfulness · doi:10.1007/s12671-023-02293-3 · Cited by 16
“…vs. Honduras: Motiño et al., 2021 ), including mindful - ness, to which they may have varying degrees of exposure (Höllinger & Smith, 2002 ), because of different approaches to meeting basic needs and coping with political and social hardship (Chirkov et al., 2005 ; Vansteenkiste et al., 2020).”
Li, C., Wang, J., Koh, K. T., Tan, K. S. S., Tan, S. M., Ang, W. B., Wong, L. H., & Yeo, H. N. C. (2021) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.675639 · Cited by 28
Álvarez, E. F., Pérez, C. T., González-Peño, A., & López, J. C. (2021) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su132212468 · Cited by 30
“Lastly, relatedness refers to a need for connectedness with significant others [18].”
BackgroundUnderstanding and supporting the motivation of students from low-income families
Alivernini, F., Manganelli, S., Lucidi, F., & Cavicchiolo, E. (2023) · Contemporary Educational Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.cedpsych.2023.102177 · Cited by 35
“…the behaviors of teachers and school staff that can foster perceptions of autonomy support (Chia et al., 2016; Grolnick, 2016; Reeve, 2002; 2006; 2009; Reeve & Cheon, 2014) and that appear to be effective also for disadvantaged students (Alivernini et al., 2019; Vansteenkiste et al., 2020).”
BackgroundNordin, W. N. A. W. M., Kamil, N. L. M., & Chandran, V. (2024) · Management Research Review · doi:10.1108/mrr-08-2023-0596 · Cited by 25
Li, J., Zhang, J., Chai, C. S., Lee, V. W. Y., Zhai, X., Wang, X., & King, R. B. (2025) · npj Science of Learning · doi:10.1038/s41539-025-00339-w · Cited by 35
“AccordingtoSDT,threebasicpsychologicalneedsaremanifestedbythe needforautonomy(i.e.,feelingfreedominmakingchoices),competence (i.e.,feelingcapableofperformingtasks),andrelatedness(i.e.,feeling connectedwithothers) 35 .”
Ostracism in Real Life: Evidence That Ostracizing Others Has Costs, Even When It Feels Justified
Legate, N., Weinstein, N., & Ryan, R. M. (2021) · Basic and Applied Social Psychology · doi:10.1080/01973533.2021.1927038 · Cited by 24
“…provide important empirical support for recent but only partially tested assumptions within SDT. Specifically, SDT proposes a dual process model (Vansteenkiste et al., 2020) in which basic needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness are satisfied by volitionally engaging in helpful actions,…”
BackgroundSelf-citationLettau, J. (2021) · Child Indicators Research · doi:10.1007/s12187-021-09830-3 · Cited by 32
“Thus, they are more likely to show maladjustments in terms of ill-being, develop different behavioral patterns stabilizing their selfworth, like heavy gaming, or react to it by oppositional defiance in form of deviant behavior and action against authorities (Vansteenkiste et al., 2020).”
BackgroundKara, F. M., & Sarol, H. (2021) · Higher Education Studies · doi:10.5539/hes.v11n4p91 · Cited by 22
“People‟s basic needs have been a topic of research for a very long time (Vansteenkiste et al., 2020).”
BackgroundDo teachers’ engaging messages predict motivation to learn and performance?
Santana‐Monagas, E., Putwain, D. W., Alonso, J. L. N., Loro-Ferrer, J. F., & León, J. (2021) · Revista de Psicodidáctica (English ed ) · doi:10.1016/j.psicoe.2021.11.001 · Cited by 30
Why being morally virtuous enhances well-being: A self-determination theory approach
Arvanitis, A., & Stichter, M. (2022) · Journal of Moral Education · doi:10.1080/03057240.2022.2066640 · Cited by 21
van Serooskerken, J. M. V. T., Willemen, A. M., de la Croix, A., Embregts, P. J. C. M., & Schuengel, C. (2022) · Disabilities · doi:10.3390/disabilities2020024 · Cited by 20
A self-support approach to satisfy basic psychological needs during difficult situations
Behzadnia, B., & FatahModares, S. (2022) · Motivation and Emotion · doi:10.1007/s11031-022-09968-9 · Cited by 29
Miao, R., Cao, Y., Cheng, M., Jia, Y., & Xi, N. (2022) · Current Psychology · doi:10.1007/s12144-022-03525-w · Cited by 23
“Self-determination theory pointed out that individuals’ autonomy, relationship, and competency needs are directly related to their mental health and well-being (Ryan & Deci, 2000a, b, 2017; Vansteenkiste et al., 2020).”
BackgroundBusiness Psychology Analysis of Consumer Purchasing Factors: A Literature Review
Wikansari, R., Ausat, A. M. A., Hidayat, R. S., et al. (2023) · doi:10.4108/eai.17-12-2022.2333186 · Cited by 21
“These desires or needs may be based on physical feelings, such as hunger or thirst, or on psychological demands, such as the urge to possess [15].”
BackgroundMotivating Motivation Regulation Research—An Evidence and Gap Map Approach
Trautner, M., Grunschel, C., & Schwinger, M. (2025) · Educational Psychology Review · doi:10.1007/s10648-025-10019-1 · Cited by 33
“Proponents of self-determination theory argue that people are able to develop external motivation through intermediate stages into an integrated, more intrinsic motivation (e.g., Vansteenkiste et al., 2020).”
Borghouts, L. B., Slingerland, M., Weeldenburg, G., Eijck, B. V. D.-V., Laurijssens, S., Remmers, T., & Haerens, L. L. (2021) · Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy · doi:10.1080/17408989.2021.1958175 · Cited by 26
“…are believed to stand in an asymmetrical relation to each other, meaning that the absence of need satisfaction does not necessarily imply the presence of need frustration, whereas the presence of need frustration does denote the absence of need satisfaction (Vansteenkiste, Ryan, and Soenens 2020).”
BackgroundNinfa, A., Crispiatico, V., Pizzorni, N., Bassi, M., Casazza, G., Schindler, A., & Fave, A. D. (2021) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0257683 · Cited by 21
“In motivational terms, needs refer to “the presence of a particular desire or preference, often rooted in a deficit or shortage, with such preferences varying widely between individuals” [26].”
BackgroundBombaerts, G. J. T., & Vaessen, B. E. (2022) · Journal of Engineering Education · doi:10.1002/jee.20448 · Cited by 22
“, the training course, social interactions) determines need-based experiences (Vansteenkiste et al., 2020).”
BackgroundEtiology of basic psychological needs and their association with personality: A twin study
Bratko, D., Butković, A., Hlupić, T. V., & Pocrnić, M. (2022) · Journal of Research in Personality · doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2022.104201 · Cited by 23
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Cooperation enhances motor learning
Kaefer, A., & Chiviacowsky, S. (2022) · Human Movement Science · doi:10.1016/j.humov.2022.102978 · Cited by 20
Toxic Leadership and Empowering Leadership: Relations with Work Motivation
Semedo, C., Salvador, A., dos Santos, N. R., Pais, L., & Mónico, L. D. S. M. (2022) · Psychology Research and Behavior Management · doi:10.2147/prbm.s340863 · Cited by 45
“Even though the leader provides a vision, this profile may create meaningless work for those who undertake the tasks due to the lack of agency and competence need satisfaction.(8) The coach profile, associated in our sample to a more extrinsic material motivation, is characterized by the ability to identify highly qui…”
BackgroundXu, L., Wang, Z., Li, Z., Lin, Y., Wang, J., Wu, Y., & Tang, J.-H. (2022) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-060599 · Cited by 32
“We consider collecting longitudinal data in future studies to confirm the findings of this study.”
ResultHeißel, A., Pietrek, A., Kangas, M., van der Kaap‐Deeder, J., & Rapp, M. A. (2023) · Journal of Clinical Medicine · doi:10.3390/jcm12020395 · Cited by 25
“According to the BPNT [1,2], people have three inherent universal needs (i.e., autonomy, relatedness, and competence) that are important for personal psychological growth.”
BackgroundInfluentialGonzález‐Cutre, D., Brugarolas-Navarro, M., Beltrán‐Carrillo, V. J., & Jiménez-Loaisa, A. (2023) · Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy · doi:10.1080/17408989.2023.2167969 · Cited by 23
“…an essential part of the inclusion criteria established by Ryan and Deci (2017) to describe BPNT’s needs (first inclusion criterion; Ryan and Deci 2017; Vansteenkiste, Ryan, and Soenens 2020); and second, to design/implement future teaching interventions aimed at minimizing novelty frustration…”
Students’ Motivation in an Online and a Face-To-Face Semester
Bosch, E., & Spinath, B. (2023) · Zeitschrift für Psychologie · doi:10.1027/2151-2604/a000519 · Cited by 24
Motivational profiles of EFL learners: A person-centered approach to uncovering gender differences
Li, J., King, R. B., & Wang, C. (2023) · Language Teaching Research · doi:10.1177/13621688231213030 · Cited by 23
“Autonomy pertains to the desire to exhibit behaviors that are self-endorsed or have a clear rationale; competence refers to the need for a sense of ability to effectively engage in desired tasks; and relatedness concerns the need for a close connection with others (Vansteenkiste et al., 2020).”
Yang, J., & Lou, K. (2024) · Learning and Motivation · doi:10.1016/j.lmot.2024.101986 · Cited by 25
Álvarez, E. F., Cuevas, R., López, J. C., & Spray, C. M. (2021) · Journal of Teaching in Physical Education · doi:10.1123/jtpe.2020-0070 · Cited by 21
Strand, N., Fang, L., & Carlson, J. M. (2021) · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnhum.2021.627589 · Cited by 21
Estilo docente y competencia en educación superior: mediación del clima motivacional
Granero‐Gallegos, A., Alcalá, D. H., Hernando-Garijo, A., & Poyatos, M. C. (2021) · Educación XX1 · doi:10.5944/educxx1.28172 · Cited by 37
Tvedt, M. S., Bru, E., Idsøe, T., & Niemiec, C. P. (2021) · Educational Psychology · doi:10.1080/01443410.2021.1948505 · Cited by 25
“…teachers and loneliness among peers at school) are determinants of the amount of relatedness students experience at school (Niemiec & Ryan, 2009; Vansteenkiste et al., 2020) and have been shown to be associated with intentions to quit school in cross-sectional analyses (Frostad et al., 2015;…”
BackgroundPromoting Sustainable Transportation Modes: A Systematic Review of Behavior-Change Strategies
Pan, M., & Ryan, A. (2024) · Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board · doi:10.1177/03611981241274641 · Cited by 21
“Relatedness refers to people’s sense of being connected to and significant to others as a result of feelings of warmth, bonding, and concern ( 91 ).”
Stockinger, K., Dresel, M., Marsh, H. W., & Pekrun, R. H. (2025) · Learning and Instruction · doi:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2025.102089 · Cited by 33
Ye, L., Li, Y., & Zhang, N. (2025) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0322184 · Cited by 57
“In these supportive settings, employees perceive themselves as competent and autonomous, which strengthens their emotional investment in tasks and increases the likelihood of experiencing positive emotions such as joy, enthusiasm, and fulfillment [25,57].”
Reynders, B., Puyenbroeck, S. V., Ceulemans, E., Vansteenkiste, M., & Broek, G. V. (2020) · Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology · doi:10.1123/jsep.2019-0317 · Cited by 24
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Effects of a Web-Based Autonomy-Supportive Intervention on Physical Education Teacher Outcomes
Tilga, H., Kalajas-Tilga, H., Hein, V., Raudsepp, L., & Koka, A. (2021) · Education Sciences · doi:10.3390/educsci11070316 · Cited by 27
“autonomy, competence, and relatedness [9], which have shown to be fulfilled by perceived autonomy-supportive behaviour from significant others [10,11].”
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- Authors
- Vansteenkiste, M., Ryan, R. M., & Soenens, B.
- Affiliations
- Ghent University (BE)
- Australian Catholic University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Vansteenkiste, Maarten
- Venue
- Motivation and Emotion
- Published
- 2020-01-21
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-31
- ISSN
- 0146-7239 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-6644
- OpenAlex
- W3001065916
- Cited by
- 1,891
- References
- 343
- Citations by year
- 2026: 415 · 2025: 328 · 2024: 316 · 2023: 369 · 2022: 229 · 2021: 179 · 2020: 53
- FWCI
- 226.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Motivation and Emotion (publishedVersion)
- Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Human Behavior and Motivation
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Psychological Testing and Assessment
- Keywords
- basic psychological needs, self-determination theory, need frustration, psychological need satisfaction, sleep, sex, hunger, maladjustment, motivation, wellness
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