The Darker and Brighter Sides of Human Existence: Basic Psychological Needs as a Unifying Concept

By Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci. 2000

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Psychological need thwarting in the sport context: assessing the darker side of athletic experience. (2011, background): “However, “SDT has historically dealt not only with growth and well-being, but equally with the undermining, alienating, and pathogenic effects of need thwarting . . . ” (Ryan & Deci, 2000, p. 319).”
Exploratory Orientation as an Educational Goal (2006, background): “An experience of participation in a self-directed process is at the core of self-constructed identity (Marcia, 1993), an experience that in turn enhances a sense of autonomy (Deci & Ryan, 2000; Flum & Blustein, 2000).”
On the psychological and motivational processes linking job characteristics to employee functioning: Insights from self-determination theory (2015, background): “Indeed, unlike lack of need satisfaction, which may limit the opportunities to nurture employees’ psychological needs, need frustration is likely to actually erode these necessary inner resources and thus lead to defensive and maladapted behaviours (Ryan & Deci, 2000; Vansteenkiste & Ryan, 2013).”
Being Independent is a Great Thing: Subjective Evaluations of Self-Employment and Hierarchy (2008, positive): “…stresses, for example, that procedures providing individuals with autonomy are valued not so much because they lead to better outcomes, such as a higher income, but because having control over one’s actions satisfies a basic human psychological need (e.g. Ryan and Deci 2000; Lind and Tyler 1988).”
Developing Who I Am: A Self-Determination Theory Approach to the Establishment of Healthy Identities (2009, background): “SDT suggests there are three basic psychological needs— autonomy, competence, and relatedness—that are the essential constituents for psychological development (including identity development) and well-being (Ryan & Deci, 2000a; Ryan & Deci, 2001).”
Capacity of Mass Participant Sport Events for the Development of Activity Commitment and Future Exercise Intention (2011, background): “Hence, the MPSE facilitates goal-directed purposeful behavior by allowing various motives to be satiated (eg, Ryan & Deci, 2000 ).”
Thriving at work: A meta‐analysis (2019, methodology): “Researchers have argued that eudaimonic well ‐ being leads to feelings of vitality (Ryan & Deci, 2000b; Ryan & Deci, 2001; Ryan et al., 2008).”
The role of psychological needs in ceasing music and music learning activities (2013, methodology): “The current study aimed to evaluate the extent to which the psychological needs proposed by Ryan and Deci (2000) provide an explanation for why the children and adolescents in our study ceased or continued playing musical instruments.”
Thwarted Belongingness and Perceived Burdensomeness: Construct Validity and Psychometric Properties of the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire (2011, background): “Perceived burdensomeness is a mental state characterized by apperceptions that others would “be better off if I were gone,” which manifests when the need for social competence that is posited by frameworks including self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000) is unmet.”
Dropping out of high school: The role of parent and teacher self-determination support, reciprocal friendships and academic motivation (2016, background): “The concept of needs as proposed in SDT refers to the innate psychological drives that must be fulfilled in order to promote growth, integrity, and personal well-being (Ryan & Deci, 2000).”
The role of teachers’ controlling behaviour in physical education on adolescents’ health-related quality of life: test of a conditional process model* (2019, result): “This finding is in line with the tenets of SDT and previous research (Haerens et al., 2015; Ryan & Deci, 2000; Vansteenkiste & Ryan, 2013), and indicates that need frustration might be a pathway to maladaptive outcomes in educational contexts, which is activated by teachers’ controlling behaviour…”
Psychological need satisfaction and thwarting: A test of Basic Psychological Needs Theory in physical activity contexts ☆ (2013, methodology): “According to Ryan and Deci (2000), the framework set forth within BPNT addresses not only issues germane to personal growth and well-being, but also the “.undermining, alienating, and pathogenic effects of need thwarting contexts” (p. 319).”
Emotion regulation and need satisfaction shape a motivating teaching style (2020, background): “Teachers’ need satisfaction and adoption of (de)motivating styles Self-Determination Theory (SDT: Ryan & Deci, 2000, 2017) posits that people aim to satisfy three basic psychological needs: competence (the perception that they are able to perform tasks successfully), autonomy (feeling free to…”
Need satisfaction and need frustration as distinct and potentially co-occurring constructs: Need profiles examined in physical education and sport (2019, background): “2015; Ryan and Deci 2000).”