scholarly journals Anxiety and Climate Change: A Validation of the Climate Anxiety Scale in a German-Speaking Quota Sample and an Investigation of Psychological Correlates

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlis Wullenkord ◽  
Josephine Tröger ◽  
Karen R.S. Hamann ◽  
Laura Loy ◽  
Gerhard Reese
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Emotional Factor ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Protective Strategies ◽  
And Gender

The climate crisis is an unprecedented existential threat that causes disturbing emotions, such as anxiety. However, relatively little is known about how people cope with climate anxiety, how it influences mental health and well-being, and whether it is relevant for climate (in)action. Recently, Clayton and Karazsia measured climate anxiety as a “clinically significant anxious response to climate change” (2020, p. 9) that may impair human well-being and functioning. To gain a more nuanced understanding of the phenomenon from an empirical psychological perspective, we translated the Climate Anxiety Scale into German and assessed potential correlates in a large German-speaking quota sample (N=1011, stratified by age and gender). Overall, people reported low levels of climate anxiety. Climate anxiety correlated positively with anxiety and depressiveness, avoidance of climate change in everyday life, and the frustration of basic psychological needs. It correlated negatively with climate-relevant self-protective strategies and denial. While unrelated to ideological beliefs, stronger climate anxiety was associated with pro-environmental intentions and support for climate policies. We were not able to replicate the scale’s original factor structure. Thus, we encourage researchers to rework the scale and include an emotional factor in future research efforts.

scholarly journals Anxiety and climate change: a validation of the Climate Anxiety Scale in a German-speaking quota sample and an investigation of psychological correlates

2021 ◽  
Vol 168 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlis C. Wullenkord ◽  
Josephine Tröger ◽  
Karen R. S. Hamann ◽  
Laura S. Loy ◽  
Gerhard Reese
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Emotional Factor ◽  
General Anxiety ◽  
German Speaking

AbstractThe climate crisis is an unprecedented existential threat that causes disturbing emotions, such as anxiety. Recently, Clayton and Karazsia measured climate anxiety as “a more clinically significant ‘anxious’ response to climate change” (2020, p. 9). To gain a more nuanced understanding of the phenomenon from an empirical psychological perspective, we translated the core of the Climate Anxiety Scale into German and assessed potential correlates in a large German-speaking quota sample (N = 1011, stratified by age and gender). Overall, people reported low levels of climate anxiety. Climate anxiety correlated positively with general anxiety and depressiveness, avoidance of climate change in everyday life, frustration of basic psychological needs, pro-environmental behavioral intentions, and policy support. It correlated negatively with different forms of climate denial and was unrelated to ideological beliefs. We were not able to replicate the two dimensions found in the original scale. Moreover, we argue that items appear to measure a general climate-related emotional impairment, rather than distinctly and comprehensively capturing climate anxiety. Thus, we encourage researchers to rework the scale and include an emotional factor in future research efforts.

scholarly journals A Review of Self-Determination Theory’s Basic Psychological Needs at Work

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 1195-1229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Van den Broeck ◽  
D. Lance Ferris ◽  
Chu-Hsiang Chang ◽  
Christopher C. Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Need Satisfaction ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Psychological Growth ◽  
Psychological Need ◽  
Analytic Review ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences

Self-determination theory (SDT) conceptualizes basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness as innate and essential for ongoing psychological growth, internalization, and well-being. We broadly review the literature on basic psychological need satisfaction at work with three more specific aims: to test SDT’s requirement that each basic psychological need should uniquely predict psychological growth, internalization, and well-being; to test whether use of an overall need satisfaction measure is appropriate; and to test whether the scale used to assess basic psychological needs influenced our results. To this end, we conducted a meta-analytic review of 99 studies with 119 distinct samples examining the antecedents and consequences of basic need satisfaction. We conclude with recommendations for addressing issues arising from our review and also identify points for future research, including the study of need frustration and culture, integrating the basic needs with other motivation theories, and a caution regarding the measures and methods used.

Naturally Good?

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Ryan ◽  
Patricia H. Hawley
Keyword(s):  
Social Values ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Harm To Others ◽  
Protective Strategies

People find inherent satisfactions in helping and contributing to others for nonselfish reasons. Self-determination theory (SDT) suggests that being benevolent is often intrinsically motivated, or alternatively done out of deeply internalized social values that are autonomously enacted. In turn such behaviors satisfy basic psychological needs and thereby enhance subjective well-being. A further question concerns more ultimate explanations. Drawing on both SDT and evolutionary psychology, this chapter argues that the association of these proximal need satisfactions with moral and prosocial actions has persisted because these propensities and satisfactions have yielded manifold selective advantages. In addition, need-thwarting conditions evoke more aggressive, competitive, and self-protective strategies. The fact that people typically experience benevolence as deeply need satisfying, and doing harm to others as need frustrating, is thus an aspect of how proximally experienced satisfactions in individual development are linked with the evolutionary roots of our human nature.

Effects of the Sport Education model on adolescents’ motivational, emotional, and well-being dimensions during a school year

2021 ◽  
pp. 1356336X2110478
Author(s):  
Antonio Méndez-Giménez ◽  
María del Pilar Mahedero-Navarrete ◽  
Federico Puente-Maxera ◽  
Diego Martínez de Ojeda
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
Sport Education ◽  
School Year ◽  
Education Model ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Over Time

Research on the impact of the Sport Education model (SEM) in motivational terms is prolific and consistent; however, studies that jointly address the effects of the SEM on adolescents’ motivational, emotional, and well-being dimensions are scarce. This study aimed to examine the effect of a multi-season SEM-based program on self-determined motivation, basic psychological needs, emotional intelligence, satisfaction with life, and the intention to be physically active on physical education (PE) students during a school year. A total of 212 high school students ( M  =  13.88; SD  =  1.68) from grades 7 and 10 (nine intact groups) participated in this study. A quasi-experimental design, with four measurements (T1, September; T2, December; T3, March; and T4, June), without a control group was carried out. The repeated measures analysis of variance, with time as within-subject factor, and both grade level and gender as between-subject factors, revealed significant effects over time on autonomy F(3, 624)  =  12.413, p < 0.001, η2  =  0.056, competence F(2.78, 579.09)  =  10.733, p < 0.001, η2  =  0.049, emotional control and regulation F(2.74, 569.74)  =  7.045, p < 0.001, η2  =  0.033, and emotional empathy F(2.71, 563.71)  =  4.248, p < 0.01, η2  =  0.007. Some interactions were also found according to grade level and gender. Between-subject multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) showed differences tended to progressively increase over time. Results confirm the potential of the SEM to cushion motivational decline and satisfy the basic psychological needs during adolescence. Furthermore, the SEM was shown to be a useful approach for increasing the emotional intelligence dimensions in the PE context.

scholarly journals Beyond basic psychological needs: The hope construct during adjuvant treatment in colorectal cancer patients

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Romero-Elías ◽  
David González-Cutre ◽  
Vicente J. Beltrán-Carrillo ◽  
Alejandro Jiménez-Loaisa
Keyword(s):  
Colorectal Cancer ◽  
Adjuvant Treatment ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Colorectal Cancer Patients

AbstractThis study explored basic psychological needs (BPN) experiences, motivation to continue living, and psychological well-being in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients during adjuvant treatment. Qualitative data from 30 participants (ten CRC patients, ten relatives and ten healthcare professionals) were collected by performing two sets of semi-structured interviews. Three categories were identified: (a) BPN frustration, (b) hope as a source of motivation, and (c) sources of hope. This last category included several subcategories: positive attitude, religious faith, positive medical feedback, knowing that they were going to receive a short-term chemotherapy, and being aware that other patients were in a worse condition. CRC patients felt their basic psychological needs were thwarted during adjuvant treatment. However, hopeful thoughts were reported as relevant sources of motivation to live, which positively impacted on patients’ psychological well-being. Future research could explore the construct of hope as a hypothetical moderator between BPN and CRC patients’ well-being during treatment.

The perceived conditions for living well: Positive perceptions of primary goods linked with basic psychological needs and wellness

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma L Bradshaw ◽  
Cody R. DeHaan ◽  
Philip Parker ◽  
Randall Curren ◽  
Jasper Duineveld ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Effect Size ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Need Satisfaction ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
Average Effect ◽  
Average Effect Size ◽  
Primary Goods

We integrate Rawls’ (1971/2009, 1993, 2001) concept of primary goods with self-determination theory (SDT; Ryan &amp; Deci, 2017), to examine the link between people’s perceptions of primary goods (i.e., views of society as just and fair), basic psychological need satisfaction, and well-being. In Study 1 (N=762, countries = Australia, the United States, South Africa, India, and the Philippines) and Study 2 (N=1479, groups = ethnic minority, sexual minority, political group, religious group), we used partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) to assess associations between perceptions of primary goods and wellness, and the intermediary role of basic psychological needs. Perceptions of primary goods linked positively to well-being (average effect size = 0.48), and negatively to ill-being (average effect size = -0.46). These associations were strongly mediated by basic psychological needs (average percentage mediated: 53% Study 1 and 68% Study 2). Results signify the importance of primary goods’ perceptions to wellness.

scholarly journals The Basic Psychological Needs in the Classroom Scale (BPN-CS)

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Pedro Javier Conesa ◽  
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Classroom Context ◽  
School Students ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Convergent And Divergent Validity ◽  
Students Satisfaction

Recent experimental and theoretical studies have shown that the assessment of students’ satisfaction of their basic psychological needs (BPN) can be a powerful resource to identify different areas to improve their well-being, engagement, or learning achievement in school contexts. However, currently, the number of validated tools to assess the satisfaction of the BPN is very low, hindering informed decision-making strategies at the educational level. The aim of this study was to develop and validate the Basic Psychological Needs in the Classroom Scale (BPN-CS) instrument, adapting existing instruments and putting the new tool to the test. The BPN-CS was developed to measure the level of satisfaction of autonomy, competence, relatedness, and novelty in the classroom. We tested the scale on a representative sample of 1344 Spanish elementary school students from 8 to 13 years old. A series of analyses were run in order to test the internal consistency of the main factors as well as to prove the convergent and divergent validity of the instrument. In summary, the BPN-CS is presented as a reliable and valid self-report instrument to measure basic psychological needs in a classroom context with elementary school pupils in the Spanish context.

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