What is satisfying about satisfying events? Testing 10 candidate psychological needs.

By Kennon M. Sheldon, A. Elliot, Youngmee Kim, T. Kasser. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2001

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Safety Research, Social Psychology

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Motivational teacher strategies: the role of beliefs and contextual factors (2015, neutral): “Sheldon et al. (2001) showed that members from collectivistic cultures ﬁnd relatedness more fulﬁlling than members from other cultures.”
A NOVEL APPROACH TO ASSESSING ACHIEVEMENT GOALS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE 2 X 2 FRAMEWORK: IDENTIFYING DISTINCT PROFILES OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DIFFERENT DOMINANT ACHIEVEMENT GOALS (2006, background): “Relative to the different forms of extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation is associated with greater autonomy and, accordingly, with indicators of well-being such as satisfaction, lack of psychological health complaints, and positive affect (e.g., Ryan et al., 1999; Ryan & Deci, 2000; Sheldon, ”
Social psychology of exercise and sport (2005, background): “Finally, unlike theories of intentional behaviour that consider many different short- and long-term consequences of behaviour, self-determination theory addresses the ultimate or universal reasons for motivation and behaviour (Sheldon et al. 2001).”
Differentiating autonomy from individualism and independence: a self-determination theory perspective on internalization of cultural orientations and well-being. (2003, background): “Finally, Sheldon et al. (2001) found that autonomy was one of the most important components of satisfying events and that event-related autonomy uniquely predicted well-being within both Korean and U.S. samples.”
Perceived autonomy support in physical education and leisure-time physical activity : A cross-cultural evaluation of the trans-contextual model (2005, background): “…the converging evidence that supports the universality of the hypotheses of self-determination theory across cultures (Deci & Ryan, 2000; Sheldon et al., 2001), in the present study we hypothesized that there would be congruencies in the motivational processes that underpin behavior…”
Meaningful Work, Employee Engagement, and Other Key Employee Outcomes (2011, methodology): “This is hypothesized from research suggesting that dimensions of meaning address things that are exceptionally important to people (King & Napa, 1998; Sheldon et al., 2001).”
Friendship, Need Satisfaction and Happiness (2010, background): “Indeed, these three needs were rated among the four most important needs by American college students ( Sheldon et al. 2001 ).”
A Review of Self-Determination Theory’s Basic Psychological Needs at Work (2016, neutral): “…the management literature, systematic comparisons of alternate need candidates (e.g., for status or power) against the effects of basic psychological needs has generally not been conducted in organizational research (but see Sheldon, Elliot, Kim, & Kasser, 2001, for a nonorganiza-tional example).”