Satisfying one's needs for competence and relatedness: Consequent domain-specific well-being depends on strength of implicit motives

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1147-1158

  Hofer, Jan ^a   Busch, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

competence; culture; implicit motives; job satisfaction; relatedness; relationship satisfaction

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; OCCUPATION; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CAMEROON; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; OCCUPATIONS; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960723207     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167211408329     Document Type: Article

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