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

relatedness need satisfaction

Our Classification

Error Estimates

relatedness α=.74

Remarks

subscale of the Basic Psychological Needs scale (BPNS; Deci et al., 2001) with 7 items subscale of the need-satisfaction scale (Sheldon et al., 2001) with 3 items

Distribution

M = 3.97, SD = .64

Operationalization

Selfreport on 10 questions about their feeling of relatedness in general, f.e.
- people in my life care about me
- a sense of contact with people who care for me, and whom I care for
- close and connected with other people who are important to me
- a strong sense of intimacy with the people I spent time with

Aggregate measures were computed by standardizing and averaging the twom measures

Observed Relation with Happiness