Balance across contexts: Importance of balanced need satisfaction across various life domains

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1031-1045

  Milyavskaya, Marina ^a   Gingras, Isabelle ^a   Mageau, Geneviève A ^b   Koestner, Richard ^a   Gagnon, Hugo ^a   Fang, Jianqun ^c   Boiché, Julie ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c NINGXIA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Adolescents; Psychological need satisfaction; Self determination theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 69149090531     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167209337036     Document Type: Article

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