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01-06-2024 | Research Paper

Can Students Learn to Optimize Their Need-Based Experiences and Mental Health During a Stressful Period? Testing a Need-Crafting Intervention in Higher Education

Authors: Daphne van den Bogaard, Bart Soenens, Katrijn Brenning, Nele Flamant, Maarten Vansteenkiste

Published in: Journal of Happiness Studies | Issue 5/2024

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Abundant research has shown that the support of students’ basic needs for autonomy, relatedness, and competence contributes to higher motivation and mental health. Yet, whether students themselves can craft their own need satisfactions and be trained herein has rarely been examined. The findings of the present online intervention study among university students indicates that a brief 7-day training on need crafting during a stressful period suffices to foster greater need satisfaction and well-being, while reducing need frustration and ill-being, with enhanced need crafting accounting for the training benefits. These effects were somewhat stronger for participants who were more actively engaged in the program, but did not depend on participants’ type of motivation to initiate the training, the self-chosen pacing of the training or their use of WhatsApp during the training. Yet, more autonomously motivated participants, those using WhatsApp and choosing the fast track were less likely to drop-out of the training. The discussion focuses on the role of need crafting as a pro-active skill that fosters well-being and resilience in students.

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The order and type of hypotheses generally follows the same sequence as reported in the preregistration, with some slight deviations. For example, we did not include the moderating effect of personality differences for practical reasons (i.e., page length) and WhatsApp use was conceived as an indicator of a composite score of engagement’ in the preregistration while both variables were separately examined to shed light on their unique effects.

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Title: Can Students Learn to Optimize Their Need-Based Experiences and Mental Health During a Stressful Period? Testing a Need-Crafting Intervention in Higher Education
Authors: Daphne van den Bogaard
Bart Soenens
Katrijn Brenning
Nele Flamant
Maarten Vansteenkiste
Publication date: 01-06-2024
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Journal of Happiness Studies / Issue 5/2024
Print ISSN: 1389-4978
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7780
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-024-00761-8

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