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Basic Psychological Need-Satisfying Activities during the COVID-19 Outbreak #MMPMID32970367
Behzadnia B; FatahModares S
Appl Psychol Health Well Being 2020[Dec]; 12 (4): 1115-1139 PMID32970367show ga
BACKGROUND: The rapidly spreading novel coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) worldwide may increase fear and stress, and has a cost for people's well-being and their motivation toward activities. In this study, we applied principles from Self-Determination Theory to develop and test activities to satisfy basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence, and relatedness) to enhance the experience of need satisfaction, autonomous self-regulation, and subjective vitality, and to decrease the experience of need frustration, controlled self-regulation, amotivation, and perceived stress. METHOD: Using a 10-day experimental research design among an Iranian sample (N = 208, M(age) = 23.52, SD = 5.00), we randomly allocated participants to either an experimental (basic psychological need-satisfying activities intervention, n = 98) or a control (neutral comparison group, n = 110) condition. RESULTS: Repeated measure ANCOVA showed that participants in the experimental condition reported greater psychological need satisfaction, autonomous self-regulation, subjective vitality, and lesser psychological need frustration, amotivation, and perceived stress than did participants in the control condition. CONCLUSION: We conclude that the intervention was successful in helping participants enhance their motives and well-being and reduce their stress when life is surrounded by uncertainty and during social distancing restrictions.