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Correlational findings

Study Sheldon & Hoon (2006): study ZZ East-West pairs 2001

Public
University students, USA and Singapore, 200?
Sample
Respondents
N = 533
Non Response
6%
Assessment
Questionnaire: Paper & Pencil Interview (PAPI)
!! USA: web-based, Singapore: paper-an-pencil

Correlate

Authors's Label
Autonomy need satisfaction
Our Classification
Error Estimates
α=.73
Remarks
the Basic Psychological Needs scale (BPNS; Deci et al., 2001) with 7 items te need-satisfaction scale (Sheldon et al., 2001) with 3 items
Distribution
M = 3.68, SD = .58
Operationalization
Selfreport on 10 questions about their feeling of autonomy in general, f.e.
- I feel free to express my ideas and opinions
- that my choices were based on my true interests and values
- free to do things my own way
- that my choices expressed my "true self"

Aggregate measures were computed by standardizing and averaging the two measures

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks M-AO-*-mq-*-7-a Beta = +.45 p < .01 Beta controlled for
- competence need satisfaction
- relatedness need satisfaction