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University Students’ Basic Psychological Needs, Motivation, and Vitality Before and During COVID-19: A Self-Determination Theory Approach by Florian H. Müller; Almut E. Thomas; Matteo Carmignola; Ann-Kathrin Dittrich; Alexander Eckes; Nadine Großmann; Daniela Martinek; Matthias Wilde; Sonja Bieg is a Psychology article available to read on EtoBox.

What is University Students’ Basic Psychological Needs, Motivation, and Vitality Before and During COVID-19: A Self-Determination Theory Approach about?

Self-determination theory assumes that the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness are associated with motivational regulation. As these basic psychological needs may have been affected by the shift to distance learning, students' motivational regulation and vitality may have suffered as well. The purpose of this study was to examine the motivational regulation, satisfaction, or frustration of the basic psychological needs and vitality of university students before and after the transition to forced distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: Two student samples from Austria and Germany were studied: One was surveyed before the conversion to distance learning (=1,139) and the other at the beginning of forced distance learning (=1,835). The instruments used were the Scales for the Measurement of Motivational Regulation for Learning in University Students (SMR-L), the German version of the Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Frustration Scale, a scale developed by the authors to differentiate the assessment of social relatedness, and the German version of the Subjective Vitality Scale. The results show that the satisfaction of basic psychologica

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Author
Florian H. Müller; Almut E. Thomas; Matteo Carmignola; Ann-Kathrin Dittrich; Alexander Eckes; Nadine Großmann; Daniela Martinek; Matthias Wilde; Sonja Bieg
Published
2021
Language
EN
Field
Psychology (Social Sciences)

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