Basic Psychological Needs and Agency and Communion During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Author(s)
- Selma Korlat Ikanovic, Julia Reiter, Marlene Kollmayer, Julia Holzer, Elisabeth Pelikan, Barbara Schober, Christiane Spiel, Marko Lüftenegger
- Abstract
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(s)
- Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Department for Teacher Education
- Journal
- Journal of Individual Differences
- Volume
- 44
- Pages
- 18-35
- No. of pages
- 18
- ISSN
- 1614-0001
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001/a000378
- Publication date
- 08-2022
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 501004 Differential psychology
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychology(all), Biological Psychiatry
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/basic-psychological-needs-and-agency-and-communion-during-the-covid19-pandemic(d4da6d4e-5245-4519-861c-e6d6f3275d58).html