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
!! USA: web-based, Singapore: paper-an-pencil

Correlate

Authors's label

Autonomy need satisfaction

Our Classification

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