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Hodge, Jarrad D.; Cunningham, Michael – Youth & Society, 2023
The study examines if African American adolescents' academic self-esteem moderates relations between negative youth experiences and academic achievement. Grounded in a PVEST perspective, the study collected responses from 364 Black adolescents (69% girls) in a southern, urban city. The primary finding in the study confirmed the hypothesis that…
Descriptors: Youth, Poverty, Foreign Countries, Individual Development
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Smorti, Martina; Sica, Luigia Simona; Costa, Sebastiano; Biagioni, Silvia; Liga, Francesca – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
In the Italian context, parental bonding has great relevance in promoting satisfaction of emerging adults' psychological needs, impacting their wellbeing, also in terms of interpersonal sensitivity. Aims: to analyse, in 497 emerging adults: the direct influence of maternal and paternal bonding on young interpersonal sensitivity and life…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Young Adults
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Buzzai, Caterina; Sorrenti, Luana; Costa, Sebastiano; Toffle, Mary Ellen; Filippello, Pina – School Psychology International, 2021
The main purpose of this study is to investigate how students' perceptions of need satisfaction and need frustration at school are indirectly associated with academic achievement through academic engagement. A modified version of the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale was used to assess these needs in a school-based…
Descriptors: Correlation, Psychological Needs, Personal Autonomy, Competence
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Molinari, Luisa; Mameli, Consuelo – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2018
In this paper, we examine the relationship between basic psychological needs and student engagement in a population of Italian secondary school students. To measure the psychological needs, we have selected a set of indicators that, beyond the needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness, also include the need for justice, which is crucial in…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Learner Engagement, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Moè, Angelica; Katz, Idit – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2021
Teachers whose basic psychological needs for competence, autonomy and relatedness are satisfied tend to use a motivating teaching style characterised by the provision of autonomy support and structure, whereas teachers whose needs are frustrated tend to use controlling or chaotic styles which are considered de-motivating. Given the importance of…
Descriptors: Self Control, Teaching Styles, Personal Autonomy, Psychological Needs
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Di Battista, Rossana; Robazza, Claudio; Ruiz, Montse C.; Bertollo, Maurizio; Vitali, Francesca; Bortoli, Laura – European Physical Education Review, 2019
Grounded in achievement goal theory and basic psychological needs theory, the aim of this study was to examine the impact of the interaction of perceived motivational climate in physical education with psychological needs satisfaction (relatedness, competence and autonomy) and psychobiosocial states on student intention to engage in leisure-time…
Descriptors: Intention, Leisure Time, Physical Activities, Physical Education
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology