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