Predicting the brighter and darker sides of interpersonal relationships: Does psychological need thwarting matter?

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 11-24

  Costa, Sebastiano ^a   Ntoumanis, Nikos ^b   Bartholomew, Kimberley J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interpersonal competence; Interpersonal sensitivity; Need thwarting; Psychological needs; Self determination theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920589976     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: 15736644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-014-9427-0     Document Type: Article

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