Personal need for structure shapes the perceived impact of reduced personal control

Control is a fundamental motive in people's lives and previous research converges on the notion that lack of control aversive because it undermines epistemic beliefs nonrandomness world. A key motivation underlying therefore need to perceive world as structured. However, strong individual differences exist extent which people structure. Based this, we reasoned if structure indeed motivation, instances low should be more impactful for with high We tested this logic three studies. Results confirmed participants personal evaluated control-threat important negative than those Need did not impact evaluations control-affirmation. The current shows important, but even so