Study Sheldon & Hoon (2006): study ZZ East-West pairs 2001

Public

University students, USA and Singapore, 200?

Sample

Respondents

N = 533

Non Response

6%

Assessment

Questionnaire: Paper & Pencil Interview (PAPI)
!! USA: web-based, Singapore: paper-an-pencil

Correlate

Authors's Label

competence need satisfaction

Our Classification

Error Estimates

All α=. 79; USA α = .77; Singapore α = .73

Remarks

subscale of the Basic Psychological Needs scale (BPNS; Deci et al., 2001) with 7 items subscale of the need-satisfaction scale (Sheldon et al., 2001) with 3 items

Distribution

All M = 3.64, SD = .66; USA M = 3.77; Singapore M = 3.46

Related specification variables

Operationalization

Selfreport on 10 questions about their feeling of competence in general, f.e.
- most days, I feel a sense of accomplishment from what I do
- that I was successfully completing difficult tasks and projects
- that I was taking on and mastering hard challenges
- very capable in what I did

Aggregate measures were computed by standardizing and averaging the twom measures

Observed Relation with Happiness