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

competence need satisfaction

Our Classification

Operationalization

Selfreport on 10 questions about their feeling of competence in general, f.e.
- most days, I feel a sense of accomplishment from what I do
- that I was successfully completing difficult tasks and projects
- that I was taking on and mastering hard challenges
- very capable in what I did

Aggregate measures were computed by standardizing and averaging the twom measures

Observed Relation with Happiness