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College as a Growth Opportunity: Assessing Personal Growth Initiative and Self-determination Theory
Journal of Happiness Studies ( IF 4.087 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-20 , DOI: 10.1007/s10902-020-00312-x
Ingrid K. Weigold , Arne Weigold , Shu Ling , Migyeong Jang

Although college presents a time for personal and vocational development, little research has examined individuals’ intentional use of college as a growth opportunity. Consequently, the current study assessed relationships among personal growth initiative (an individual’s active desire to grow in personally relevant domains), basic needs satisfaction at college, and positive outcomes in samples of students from a large, public, predominantly White institution (n = 818) and a small, private, minority-majority college (n = 195). Using structural equation modeling, we examined a hypothesized model in which personal growth initiative was indirectly related to the two outcomes (psychological well-being and vocational commitment) through the satisfaction of the basic needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness; this was compared to a reverse model. The hypothesized model was a better fit for the data in the university sample, and both models had similar fit for the college sample. Tests of indirect effects using the hypothesized model showed evidence of mediation, with similarities and differences between the samples. Finally, the two models were invariant across institutions at the structural level. PGI and basic needs satisfaction explained over half of the variance in psychological well-being and approximately one-quarter of the variance in vocational commitment in both samples.



中文翻译:

大学作为成长机会:评估个人成长主动性和自决理论

尽管大学是个人和职业发展的时期,但很少有研究调查个人有意将大学用作成长机会。因此,当前的研究评估了个人成长主动性(个人在个人相关领域成长的积极愿望)、大学基本需求满意度以及来自大型公立、主要是白人机构的学生样本的积极成果之间的关系(n  = 818 ) 和一个小型的、私立的、少数族裔占多数的学院 ( n = 195)。使用结构方程模型,我们检验了一个假设模型,其中通过满足自主性、能力和相关性的基本需求,个人成长主动性与两个结果(心理幸福感和职业承诺)间接相关;这与反向模型进行了比较。假设模型更适合大学样本中的数据,并且两个模型对大学样本的拟合相似。使用假设模型对间接影响进行的测试显示了中介的证据,样本之间有相似之处和不同之处。最后,这两种模型在结构层面上跨机构是不变的。

更新日期:2020-09-20
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