Study Sheldon & Elliot (1999): study US 1994 /2

Public

18+ aged, students followed 3 months, USA, 199?

Sample

Respondents

N = 73

Non Response

Assessment

Questionnaire: Paper & Pencil Interview (PAPI)
T1, T6, T11: take-home pakets of questionnaires T2-T5, T7-T10: in-class questionnaires

Correlate

Authors's Label

Semester need satisfaction

Our Classification

Remarks

T2-T5 + T7-T10: Assessed 8 times during 3 month semester

Operationalization

At 8 times during semester Participants free listed the three activities (excluding eating or sleeping), respectively social contacts, they had spent the most time performing during the preceding 24hr

Rated feelings of competence, autonomy and relatedness while doing each activity using a 1 (not at all competent) to 7 (very competent) scale

competence and relatedness composite scores were formed by averaging the ratings, respectively.

autonomy composite score was formed by summing average identified and intrinsic ratings and subtrating average external and introjected ratings.

to form a composite score the composite scores for competence, autonmomy and relatedness were summed.

Observed Relation with Happiness