The Relation between Vocational Commitment and Need Fulfillment in Real Time Experiences in Clinical Internships
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This study concerns the question how specific characteristics of real-time experiences relate to commitment change. The focus is on the real-time fulfillment of the basic needs: the need for competence, for relatedness and for autonomy. The research question was: “What is the relation between real time need fulfillment and commitment in psychology students during their practical internships?” The participants were 56 master students who did a five-month clinical internship in psychology. The participants wrote at least 19 weekly diary reports (in a period of 5 months) about the most important experience in their internship in that week, and in addition they filled in a short questionnaire. With a linear mixed model analysis, the relation was analyzed between need fulfillment and commitment on an individual and on a group level. The basic needs were found to be a relevant characteristic of experiences: need fulfillment or need frustration was described in by far most experiences. Experiences with a positive need fulfillment were related to higher levels of commitment strength than experiences that concerned frustration of need fulfillment, or that did not report need fulfillment. This pattern of relations was found in 90% of the individual participants. The experiences of the atypical 10% of the participants reflected a non-optimal relationship with their internship or supervisor.
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Among students doing a clinical internship, real-time fulfillment versus frustration of the need for competence, relatedness, and autonomy was related to stronger and weaker commitments, respectively.
“among students doing a clinical internship, real-time fulfillment versus frustration of the need for competence, relatedness, and autonomy was related to stronger and weaker commitments, respectively [27]”
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The Discussion reports that need fulfillment was associated with stronger vocational commitment among psychology students in internships and confirms this relationship for competence and relatedness. The Results show the same descriptive pattern for autonomy, but say there were too few autonomy experiences for statistical analysis; the relationship could not be confirmed for that need. No page numbers were available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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- Authors
- Kunnen, E. S.
- Affiliations
- University of Groningen (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Kunnen, E. Saskia
- ORCID
- Kunnen, E. Saskia
- Venue
- Identity
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2021-07-15
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 6-16
- ISSN
- 1528-3488 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-706X
- OpenAlex
- W3183691749
- Cited by
- 7
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2
- FWCI
- 1.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Identity (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- Dept of psychology, University of Groningen, the Netherlands (collaborative research project psychology)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Leadership and Management › Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Career Development and Diversity
- Keywords
- professional commitment, need satisfaction, basic psychological needs, competence, relatedness, autonomy, clinical internship, psychology students, internship experience, need frustration, supervisor relationships
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