The Co-Occurrence of Satisfaction and Frustration of Basic Psychological Needs and Its Relationship with Exercisers’ Motivation

Although the relationship between both need frustration and, particularly, satisfaction and different motivational regulations for exercise has been widely examined in literature, little is known about co-occurrence of context. Grounded self-determination theory, present study aimed to examine effects on exercise, by applying a response surface analysis approach. In total, 477 regular exercisers aged 18–54 years participated this study. The interaction needs (high frustration) displayed positive significant association with amotivation, integrated regulation, intrinsic motivation. Considering direction discrepancy vs. low levels related behavioral regulations, results showed that higher relative was associated more self-determined Contrarily, lower scores external, introjected, identified regulation. Overall, these findings extend previous suggesting are distinct factors can be experienced simultaneously individuals during degrees have associations regulations.