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LIT-1969: Interpersonal supports for basic psychological needs and their relations with motivation, well-being, and performance: A meta-analysis.

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StatusActive — read in full 2026-11-03 (NOTE-1507), from the CC BY Online First PDF as posted on selfdeterminationtheory.org; supplementary tables not read. Worth reading as the largest synthesis of SDT's contextual claim, 881 samples; its "effects" are correlations, mostly cross-sectional, and its three supports intercorrelate about .7.
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Tagsmotivation, well-being
Cited as “paper” byNOTE-1507 — Slemp et al. — Interpersonal supports for basic needs, a meta-analysis
Cited as “source” byTHEORY-1307 — In Slemp et al.'s meta-analysis of 881 mostly cross-sectional samples, perceived support for autonomy, competence and relatedness each correlated strongly with satisfaction of all three needs (ρ = .44–.62) and negatively with their frustration, but the three supports intercorrelated .67–.71, and their need-specificity appears only in joint models: with all three entered, relatedness support carried relatedness satisfaction (β = .56) and autonomy support added nothing to it (β = .007)

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Slemp, G. R., Field, J. G., Ryan, R. M., Forner, V. W., Van den Broeck, A., Lewis, K. J. (2024). Interpersonal supports for basic psychological needs and their relations with motivation, well-being, and performance: A meta-analysis.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 127(5), 1012-1037. doi:10.1037/pspi0000459.

Key takeaways

Read in full on 2026-11-03 (NOTE-1507); supplementary tables not read. THEORY-1307, Active, is filed from it.

Standing in the record

A recent meta-analysis of interpersonal need support, for SDT’s contextual claims.

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