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The role of daily need crafting in daily fluctuations in adolescents’ need-based and affective experiences

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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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The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in Open Science Framework at https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/YH8R6.

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  1. Although we focused in the main analyses on need crafting as an overall construct, we also explored how daily fluctuations in the subcomponents of need crafting (i.e., awareness component and action taking component) are uniquely related to daily fluctuations in adolescents’ affective experiences, through their need-based experiences. To do so, we re-estimated the multilevel path analyses of Hypothesis 1 separately for each of the subcomponents. The findings obtained with the overall score were largely analogous to the findings obtained with the separate scores for awareness (CFI = 1.00; RMSEA = 0.03; SRMR on the within-person level = 0.00) or action taking (CFI = 1.00; RMSEA = 0.03; SRMR on the within-person level = 0.00). The results indicated that both daily awareness (b = 0.49; SE = 0.051, p < 0.001) and action taking (b = 0.43; SE = 0.035, p < 0.001) relate positively to need satisfaction, which in turn relates to more positive affect (model 1: b = 0.50; SE = 0.046, p < 0.001; model 2: b = 0.48; SE = 0.050, p < 0.001) and less negative affect (model 1: b =  − 0.15; SE = 0.049, p < 0.05; model 2: b =  − 0.16; SE = 0.049, p < 0.01). Further, awareness (b =  − 0.29; SE = 0.047, p < 0.001) and action (b =  − 0.26; SE = 0.037, p < 0.001) each related negatively to need frustration which, in turn, relates positively to negative affect (model 1: b = 0.31; SE = 0.044, p < 0.001; model 2: b = 0.31; SE = 0.044, p < 0.001) and which is unrelated to positive affect. All indirect associations were significant. Also, after taking into account the intervening role of adolescents’ need-based experiences, there were still significant direct associations between the subcomponents of need crafting and both positive affect (model 1: b = 0.14; SE = 0.037, p < 0.001; model 2: b = 0.17; SE = 0.042, p < 0.001) and negative affect (model 1: b =  − 0.11; SE = 0.035, p < 0.01; model 2: b =  − 0.08; SE = 0.037, p < 0.05). These findings suggest that both the awareness and action taking components were related to adolescents’ need-based experiences and affective experiences. However, more research is necessary to gain more insight in the interplay between both components and how they relate to adolescents’ mental health.

  2. Specifically, in the Flemish population: 42.9% of the adolescents follows an academic track, 48.8% of the adolescents is female, 9.5% of the families has an immigration background and 71.0% of the families is intact (Statistiek Vlaanderen, 2021).

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Laporte, N., Soenens, B., Flamant, N. et al. The role of daily need crafting in daily fluctuations in adolescents’ need-based and affective experiences. Motiv Emot 46, 137–149 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-021-09921-2

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