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What Makes for a Good Day? Competence and Autonomy in the Day and in the Person
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This diary study examined the proposal that satisfaction of two psychological needs, competence and autonomy, leads to daily well-being. Between-subjects analyses indicated that participants higher in trait competence and trait autonomy tended to have "better" days on average. Independently, within-subject analyses showed that good days were those in which participants felt more competent and autonomous in their daily activities, relative to their own baselines. Other predictors of daily well-being included gender, whether the day fell on a weekend, and the amount of negative affect and physical symptomatology felt the day before. Although past diary studies have tended to focus on threats to daily well-being, the authors suggest that psychological need concepts offer promise for understanding its positive sources.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sheldon, K. M., Ryan, R., & Reis, H. T.
- Venue
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1996-12
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1270-1279
- ISSN
- 0146-1672 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7433
- OpenAlex
- W1999215166
- Cited by
- 910
- References
- 48
- FWCI
- 7.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
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