LifeCraft

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title = {Testing an Online Program to Foster Need Crafting During the COVID-19 Pandemic},

author = {Nele Laporte and Daphne van den Bogaard and Katrijn Brenning and Bart Soenens and Maarten Vansteenkiste},

url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359517070_Testing_an_Online_Program_to_Foster_Need_Crafting_During_the_COVID-19_Pandemic},

doi = {10.1007/s12144-022-03012-2},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-03-28},

urldate = {2022-03-28},

journal = {Current Psychology},

abstract = {The COVID-19 pandemic represents a threat not only to individuals’ physical health but also to their mental health. Self-Determination Theory assumes that the satisfaction of basic psychological needs for autonomy, relatedness and competence promotes psychological well-being during destabilizing times. Yet, the pandemic seriously hampered individuals’ opportunities to satisfy their needs. The current study provides a preliminary test of the effectiveness of a 7-session online program, LifeCraft, that promotes individuals’ proactive attempts to uplift their need-based experiences (i.e., need crafting). Next to the effects on individuals’ need crafting skills, we examined program-effects on adults’ need-based experiences and mental health and we explored the role of participants’ program engagement. An experimental study among 725 Belgian adults [Mage = 51.67 (range = 26 – 85); 68.55% female] was conducted, with an experimental condition of 252 and a control condition of 473 participants. At the level of the entire sample, there was limited evidence for the effectiveness of the program. There were only small immediate program-effects on need crafting and well-being. After taking into account the role of program engagement, findings showed that the program was more beneficial for participants who actively participated, with these participants reporting immediate and stable increases in need crafting, need satisfaction and well-being and decreases in need frustration. Further, changes in need crafting fully mediated changes in need-based experiences and well-being. To conclude, the findings provide initial evidence for the effectiveness of LifeCraft during the COVID-19 pandemic, with active participation being a prerequisite for the program to be effective.},

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@article{nokey,

title = {The role of daily need crafting in daily fluctuations in adolescents’ need-based and affective experiences},

author = {Nele Laporte and Bart Soenens and Nele Flamant and Maarten Vansteenkiste and Elien Mabbe and Katrijn Brenning 

},

url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11031-021-09921-2},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-12-02},

journal = {Motivation and Emotion},

abstract = {Based on self-determination theory, this diary study examined associations between adolescents’ daily need crafting and daily fluctuations in their need-based and affective experiences. We also examined the role of daily perceived autonomy-supportive parenting in adolescents’ daily need-crafting. Adolescents (N = 159; Mage = 15.56; 62% female) filled out a diary for seven consecutive days. Multilevel path analyses indicated that need crafting varied on a day-to-day basis, with daily need crafting relating positively to daily positive affect and negatively to negative affect. The benefits of daily need crafting were accounted for by higher daily need satisfaction and lower need frustration. Further, on days adolescents perceived more parental autonomy support, they reported more need satisfaction and less need frustration, an effect that was partially due to higher need crafting that day. Overall, the results suggest that need crafting represents a critical pro-active skill, with resulting benefits for adolescents’ daily need-based experiences and well-being.},

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@article{nokey,

title = {Adolescents as active managers of their own psychological needs: The role of psychological need crafting in adolescents’ mental health},

author = {Nele Laporte and Bart Soenens and Katrijn Brenning and Maarten Vansteenkiste},

url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140197121000294?casa_token=00tIG3rkXgYAAAAA:FutPZ5gqxyhLo6va0lyX3qsGZFsH_lbkxegqRe8m1nsJ1-MZ3vgRYRT6QUvOxW1ZHE8C-A4aPsE},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-04-01},

urldate = {2021-04-01},

journal = {Journal of Adolescence},

volume = {88},

pages = {67-83},

abstract = {Introduction

Satisfaction of adolescents' basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness contributes to their well-being. Socialization figures (e.g., parents) can assist adolescents in getting these needs met. In addition, adolescents can engage in need crafting, thereby proactively managing their behavior towards improved need satisfaction. This research aimed to develop a need crafting measure and to examine the role of need crafting in adolescents’ need-based experiences and mental health.



Method

A cross-sectional study in 233 Flemish students (Study 1; Mage = 16.6, 58.4% female) addressed the psychometric properties of a need crafting measure and its associations with relevant constructs. Using a three-wave longitudinal study in 436 Flemish students (Study 2; Mage = 16.33, 66,0% female), we investigated the role of need crafting in adolescents’ mental health and the intervening role of need-based experiences.



Results

In Study 1, a CFA yielded evidence for the psychometric quality of the need crafting measure. Need crafting was related in meaningful ways with different validation constructs and with adolescents' need-based experiences. Study 2 showed that need crafting was related to adolescents’ mental health, both at the level of inter-individual differences and at the level of intra-individual change. Need-based experiences accounted partly for the mental health benefits associated with need crafting, with the effects remaining significant after controlling for perceived maternal need-support.



Conclusion

The findings provide initial evidence for the importance of adolescents' need crafting in mental health. Future research needs to further examine factors that determine adolescents’ ability to manage their own psychological needs.},

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