Title:
Need satisfaction and psychological health: bridging the gap between self-determination theory and clinical psychology
Author:
Karina E. Chapman
Committee Member:
Alison Papadakis
Committee Member:
Jen Lowry
Degree Granting Institution:
Loyola University Maryland--College of Arts and Sciences
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Loyola University Maryland
Date Created:
2009
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
reformatted digital
Abstract:
Self Determination Theory (SDT) research has historically focused on the association between individual and environmental support of need satisfaction, need satisfaction, and well-being. Although extensive research has supported the importance of need satisfaction in promoting well-being, research predicting clinical outcomes is lacking. In addition, research has more heavily focused on environmental factors that support need satisfaction rather than individual factors. To address these limitations in the literature, the current study examined global need satisfaction as a mediator for the effects of individual and environmental support of need satisfaction on depression and anxiety. A total of 145 patients participating in therapy at community mental health centers participated. Results supported the prediction that global need satisfaction mediates the negative association between environmental support of need satisfaction and depression and anxiety. This model accounted for 41.2% of the variance in depression and 20.0% of the variance in anxiety. Although this study did not support the meditational model with individual support as a predictor of need satisfaction and depression and anxiety, the results indicate that higher levels of an impersonal motivational orientation are positively associated with depression and anxiety.
Subject:
Need (Psychology)
Subject:
Autonomy (Psychology)
Subject:
Clinical psychology
Subject:
Basic Psychological Needs Scale
Subject:
General Causality Orientations Scale
Degree:
Doctor of Clinical Psychology
Level:
Doctoral
Discipline:
Psychology
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Identifier:
ChapmanKE-09
