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Nov 03, 2026

THEORY-1305: In Kasser and Ryan's two cross-sectional samples, holding constant how much a person aspires to overall, the relative importance of extrinsic aspirations (money, fame, image) goes with less self-actualization and vitality and more physical symptoms, and of intrinsic aspirations (growth, relationships, community, health) with the reverse; the paper does not test whether this survives the reasons for pursuing the goals

Nov 03, 2026

THEORY-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)

Nov 03, 2026

THEORY-1308: In Chen et al.'s student samples from Belgium, China, the USA and Peru, need satisfaction related to life satisfaction and vitality and need frustration to depressive symptoms with no detectable difference across countries, and neither relation was moderated by how much a person valued or desired the need

Nov 03, 2026

THEORY-1310: In Sheldon, Elliot, Kim and Kasser's three studies of most satisfying events, self-esteem was as salient as autonomy, competence and relatedness in every sample and the largest unique predictor of event affect balance among ten candidate needs in two of the three US samples (β = .28, .38); the authors, SDT researchers, concluded that there may be four fundamental needs and judged it imprudent to treat self-esteem as an outcome

Nov 03, 2026

THEORY-1319: In Niemiec, Ryan and Deci's post-college sample, attaining intrinsic aspirations went with more well-being and less ill-being, and attaining extrinsic aspirations, entered alongside it, added nothing to well-being and went with more ill-being; the extrinsic null is a unique-variance result, since alone extrinsic attainment correlated positively with well-being and need satisfaction

Nov 03, 2026

THEORY-1325: In Chirkov et al.'s student samples from South Korea, Russia, Turkey and the USA, the more autonomous people's reasons for engaging in practices of any cultural orientation, collectivist and vertical included, the higher their well-being, with no detectable difference across countries or genders; and vertical practices were much less internalized than horizontal ones

Nov 03, 2026

THEORY-1327: As Ryan and colleagues' 2022 meta-review maps it, the meta-analytic evidence for self-determination theory is concentrated in cognitive evaluation, organismic integration and basic needs theory, is mostly cross-sectional and heterogeneous, and has gaps: no meta-analysis of relationships motivation theory or of need frustration, one or two of causality orientations and goal contents, and none that separates integrated from identified regulation

Nov 03, 2026

THEORY-1338: In the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale as Chen et al. built it, the distinction between satisfaction and frustration coincides with item direction: every satisfaction item states a positive experience and every frustration item an aversive one, so the better fit of six factors over three, which is the scale's evidence that frustration is a separate dimension, is also what a keying or valence factor would produce

Nov 03, 2026

THEORY-1345: In three cross-sectional studies of undergraduates, most of the variance in adult attachment security lay within persons, across relational partners (56–79%, error included), and relationship-specific satisfaction of the needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness predicted relationship-specific security in every relationship tested, also with the relatedness items removed; relatedness was the strongest unique predictor, then autonomy, then competence

Nov 03, 2026

THEORY-1347: In Patrick, Knee, Canevello and Lonsbary's three correlational studies, perceiving that a romantic partner fulfils one's needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness goes with better relationship quality, with relatedness the strongest unique predictor and the partner's fulfilment adding to one's own; but the measure does not separate the needs, its autonomy and competence subscales correlating .96 once corrected for unreliability

Nov 02, 2026

LIT-1960: The path taken: Consequences of attaining intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations in post-college life

Nov 02, 2026

LIT-1962: A meta-analysis of self-determination theory-informed intervention studies in the health domain: effects on motivation, health behavior, physical, and psychological health

Nov 02, 2026

LIT-1966: What is satisfying about satisfying events? Testing 10 candidate psychological needs.

Nov 02, 2026

LIT-1967: We know this much is (meta-analytically) true: A meta-review of meta-analytic findings evaluating self-determination theory.

Nov 02, 2026

LIT-1968: Daily Well-Being: The Role of Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness

Nov 02, 2026

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

Nov 02, 2026

LIT-1971: The role of need fulfillment in relationship functioning and well-being: A self-determination theory perspective.

Nov 02, 2026

LIT-1977: Further Examining the American Dream: Differential Correlates of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Goals

Nov 02, 2026

LIT-1979: Within-person variation in security of attachment: A self-determination theory perspective on attachment, need fulfillment, and well-being.

Nov 02, 2026

LIT-1980: Beyond the three basic needs: beneficence satisfaction and frustration as predictors of well- and ill-being in a Central European sample

Nov 02, 2026

LIT-1983: Distinguishing between basic psychological needs and basic wellness enhancers: the case of beneficence as a candidate psychological need

Nov 02, 2026

LIT-1988: Assessing basic/fundamental psychological need fulfillment: systematic mapping and review of existing scales to foster cumulative science

Nov 02, 2026

LIT-2000: Basic psychological need satisfaction, need frustration, and need strength across four cultures

Nov 02, 2026

QUESTION-369: What would show that an experience is a basic psychological need, something an organism's functioning requires, rather than something that reliably raises reported well-being, when self-determination theory identifies needs by their effects on well-being and treats well-being as the presence of need satisfaction?

Oct 23, 2026

LIT-1448: Back to Bentham? Explorations of Experienced Utility

Oct 16, 2026

LIT-1183: A survey on self-assessed well-being in a cohort of chronic locked-in syndrome patients: happy majority, miserable minority

Oct 11, 2026

CLAIM-162: In flow an activity's immediate reward and its longer-run value coincide, so no interest has to be overridden (synchronization as non-crossing valuations, with no dynamical mechanism claimed), and that is why focused action in flow is reported as effortless

Oct 11, 2026

LIT-914: The Concept of Flow

Oct 03, 2026

LIT-553: Psychological Flexibility as a Fundamental Aspect of Health

Oct 03, 2026

LIT-558: The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior

Oct 03, 2026

LIT-559: Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being

Oct 03, 2026

LIT-561: Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions

Oct 03, 2026

LIT-572: Narrative Identity

Oct 03, 2026

LIT-574: A Multicomponent Conceptualization of Authenticity: Theory and Research

Oct 03, 2026

LIT-589: Goal Striving, Need Satisfaction, and Longitudinal Well-Being: The Self-Concordance Model

Oct 03, 2026

LIT-592: The Authentic Personality: A Theoretical and Empirical Conceptualization and the Development of the Authenticity Scale

Oct 03, 2026

LIT-595: “First we invented stories, then they changed us”: The Evolution of Narrative Identity

Oct 03, 2026

LIT-606: Thine Own Self: True Self-Concept Accessibility and Meaning in Life

Oct 03, 2026

THEORY-060: A life story constructed from adolescence on is the form a person's diachronic identity takes, and its content shapes later well-being

Oct 03, 2026

THEORY-074: Implicit accessibility of the true self-concept is not what self-report scales of authenticity or of need satisfaction measure, though those two self-reports are not shown to be separate constructs

Oct 03, 2026

THEORY-077: Goals pursued for identified or intrinsic reasons receive more sustained effort, which carries their better attainment, and attaining them raises well-being more than attaining goals pursued under pressure

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LIT-1960: The path taken: Consequences of attaining intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations in post-college life

LIT-1962: A meta-analysis of self-determination theory-informed intervention studies in the health domain: effects on motivation, health behavior, physical, and psychological health

LIT-1966: What is satisfying about satisfying events? Testing 10 candidate psychological needs.

LIT-1967: We know this much is (meta-analytically) true: A meta-review of meta-analytic findings evaluating self-determination theory.

LIT-1968: Daily Well-Being: The Role of Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness

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

LIT-1971: The role of need fulfillment in relationship functioning and well-being: A self-determination theory perspective.

LIT-1977: Further Examining the American Dream: Differential Correlates of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Goals

LIT-1979: Within-person variation in security of attachment: A self-determination theory perspective on attachment, need fulfillment, and well-being.

LIT-1980: Beyond the three basic needs: beneficence satisfaction and frustration as predictors of well- and ill-being in a Central European sample

LIT-1983: Distinguishing between basic psychological needs and basic wellness enhancers: the case of beneficence as a candidate psychological need

LIT-1988: Assessing basic/fundamental psychological need fulfillment: systematic mapping and review of existing scales to foster cumulative science

LIT-2000: Basic psychological need satisfaction, need frustration, and need strength across four cultures

LIT-1448: Back to Bentham? Explorations of Experienced Utility

LIT-1183: A survey on self-assessed well-being in a cohort of chronic locked-in syndrome patients: happy majority, miserable minority

CLAIM-162: In flow an activity's immediate reward and its longer-run value coincide, so no interest has to be overridden (synchronization as non-crossing valuations, with no dynamical mechanism claimed), and that is why focused action in flow is reported as effortless

LIT-914: The Concept of Flow

LIT-553: Psychological Flexibility as a Fundamental Aspect of Health

LIT-558: The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior

LIT-559: Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being

LIT-561: Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions

LIT-572: Narrative Identity

LIT-574: A Multicomponent Conceptualization of Authenticity: Theory and Research

LIT-589: Goal Striving, Need Satisfaction, and Longitudinal Well-Being: The Self-Concordance Model

LIT-592: The Authentic Personality: A Theoretical and Empirical Conceptualization and the Development of the Authenticity Scale

LIT-595: “First we invented stories, then they changed us”: The Evolution of Narrative Identity

LIT-606: Thine Own Self: True Self-Concept Accessibility and Meaning in Life

THEORY-060: A life story constructed from adolescence on is the form a person's diachronic identity takes, and its content shapes later well-being

THEORY-074: Implicit accessibility of the true self-concept is not what self-report scales of authenticity or of need satisfaction measure, though those two self-reports are not shown to be separate constructs

THEORY-077: Goals pursued for identified or intrinsic reasons receive more sustained effort, which carries their better attainment, and attaining them raises well-being more than attaining goals pursued under pressure