Basic Psychological Needs and Agency and Communion During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Autor(en)

Selma Korlat Ikanovic, Julia Reiter, Marlene Kollmayer, Julia Holzer, Elisabeth Pelikan, Barbara Schober, Christiane Spiel, Marko Lüftenegger

Abstrakt

Despite the conceptual proximity between the basic needs and agency and communion and their similar function for psychological functioning, studies investigating their interplay are scarce. This study aims to investigate their joint role in hedonic and eudaimonic well-being in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Self-reports were collected from 13,313 adolescents (Sample 1) and 1,707 young adults (Sample 2) from Austria. The results show the importance of both agency and communion for the fulfillment of different basic needs and their role in well-being, with a universal interaction effect between communion and perceived competence on intrinsic motivation (eudaimonic aspect) in both gender groups in adolescence, as well as on positive emotions (hedonic aspect) among young women. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Psychologie der Entwicklung und Bildung, Institut für Lehrer*innenbildung

Journal

Journal of Individual Differences

Band

44

Seiten

18-35

Anzahl der Seiten

18

ISSN

1614-0001

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001/a000378

Publikationsdatum

08-2022

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

501004 Differentielle Psychologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Psychology(all), Biological Psychiatry

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/basic-psychological-needs-and-agency-and-communion-during-the-covid19-pandemic(d4da6d4e-5245-4519-861c-e6d6f3275d58).html