TY - JOUR
T1 - Social roles, basic need satisfaction, and psychological health
T2 - The central role of competence
AU - Talley, Amelia E.
AU - Kocum, Lucie
AU - Schlegel, Rebecca J.
AU - Molix, Lisa
AU - Bettencourt, B. Ann
N1 - Funding Information:
Data collection and manuscript preparation were supported by a grant from the National Cancer Institute (CA97916-01) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (T32 AA13526).
PY - 2012/2
Y1 - 2012/2
N2 - The authors propose that competence need fulfillment within valued role domains (i.e., spouse, parent, worker) will account, in part, for associations between autonomy and relatedness need fulfillment and psychological health. Testing these assertions in cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys of women in two independent community samples, the findings are the first to formally examine whether the satisfaction of competence needs within social roles accounts for associations between other types of need satisfaction and affective outcomes as well as depressive symptomology. Evidence supporting the hypothesis was stronger when examining individuals' affective health as compared to their depressive symptoms. Implications of the findings are discussed with regard to need fulfillment within social roles.
AB - The authors propose that competence need fulfillment within valued role domains (i.e., spouse, parent, worker) will account, in part, for associations between autonomy and relatedness need fulfillment and psychological health. Testing these assertions in cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys of women in two independent community samples, the findings are the first to formally examine whether the satisfaction of competence needs within social roles accounts for associations between other types of need satisfaction and affective outcomes as well as depressive symptomology. Evidence supporting the hypothesis was stronger when examining individuals' affective health as compared to their depressive symptoms. Implications of the findings are discussed with regard to need fulfillment within social roles.
KW - affect
KW - competence (self-efficacy)
KW - depression
KW - need satisfaction
KW - roles
KW - self-determination theory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84856187668&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0146167211432762
DO - 10.1177/0146167211432762
M3 - Article
C2 - 22215698
AN - SCOPUS:84856187668
VL - 38
SP - 155
EP - 173
JO - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
JF - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
SN - 0146-1672
IS - 2
ER -