This study sought to better understand the process of how youth development programs work by examining psychological need satisfaction among youth that participated in a weekly after school program, Cool Girls, Inc. The sample included 216 pre and early adolescent females participating in Cool Girls Club at sites in Atlanta, GA. It was hypothesized that Cool Girls participants would experience ...

Background: University students, as emerging adults, have autonomy one of their central developmental tasks. Parents need to provide an autonomy-supportive environment encourage students act based on volition, benefiting psychological well-being. This study aims explore the effect parental support well-being by mediation satisfaction. Methods: 227 university in Indonesia (21.6% male, 78.4% fema...

Studies in 2 work organizations tested a self-determination theory based model in which employees’ autonomous causality orientation and their perceptions of their managers’ autonomy support independently predicted satisfaction of the employees’ intrinsic needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness, which in turn predicted their performance evaluations and psychological adjustment. Path anal...

This article provides a theoretical review of how, within notions Self-Determination Theory, adolescents’ use social media can contribute to both the satisfaction and/or frustration their basic psychological needs, and thus (or impede) attainment key developmental goals in adolescence, such as identity formation peer affiliation, how these may impact overall well-being. In this way, work import...

Under the basic framework of self-determination theory, the present study examined a moderated mediation model in which exhibitionism mediated the relationship between online basic psychological need satisfaction and self-disclosure on the mobile Internet, and this mediation effect was moderated by narcissism. A total of 296 Chinese middle school students participated in this research. The resu...

BACKGROUND Smartphones are increasingly receiving attention from public health scholars and practitioners as a means to assist individuals' health management. A number of smartphone apps for smoking cessation are also available; however, little effort has been made to evaluate the content and functions of these apps employing a theoretical framework. OBJECTIVE The present study aims to analyz...

This study investigated the roles of basic psychological needs-autonomy, competence, and relatedness-in physicians' professional well-being, specifically satisfaction with professional life, work-related engagement, and exhaustion. Using an online survey, quantitative data were collected from 57 practicing physicians. Overall, 65% of the participants were female; 49% were family medicine (FM) p...

This research examined the mediatory role of life purpose and career indecision in the relationship between the satisfaction of basic psychological needs and aggression. Data were collected from high school students (n = 466) and results showed that life purpose and career indecision fully mediated the relationship between basic psychological needs satisfaction and aggression. These findings su...