Polish Adaptation of the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale

Abstract

This article presents the findings of four studies designed to validate the translated Polish version of the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale. Results of exploratory factor analyses in Study 1 (N = 272, M age = 41.07) showed that the psychological need for autonomy, relatedness, and competence that are central to the Self-Determination Theory have a bidimensional structure, involving both a need for satisfaction and need for frustration component. Subsequent confirmatory factor analyses in Study 2 (N = 265; M age = 38.15) provided further evidence for a sixdimensional structure of the scale, thereby distinguishing a satisfaction and frustration component for each of the three needs. Study 3 (N = 158; M age = 27.28) further revealed that the distinguished subscales are moderately to highly internally consistent and yielded good test-retest reliability. Finally, Study 4 (N = 204; M age = 20.57) confirmed that satisfaction of the needs is positively related to well-being, while frustration is positively related to depressive symptoms. The Polish version of the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale can be successfully used in future basic and applied studies in the context of Self-Determination Theory.

Effect of the Frustration of Psychological Needs on Addictive Behaviors in Mobile Videogamers—The Mediating Role of Use Expectancies and Time Spent Gaming

“…These results show that if mobile gamers’ basic psychological needs are frustrated when they play, because they are forced to act against their volition, cannot be competent or feel rejected or isolated, the consequences are negative—greater probability of experiencing IGD and a greater tendency to seek rewards or evasion when they play. These results are consistent with the suggestion that need frustration can be linked to the development of psychopathology [ 35 ] and to a pattern of obsessive gaming [ 34 , 36 ], over which the gamer has little control [ 46 ]. Also, previous findings [ 23 ] suggest that, despite mobile games being simpler and having limited interfaces, they can produce addictive behaviour, because their users expect them to alleviate feelings of loneliness and to enhance social relatedness.…”

“…Frustration of basic psychological needs has only recently been studied as separate from low need satisfaction and has been proposed to be related to the development of psychopathology [ 34 ]. Need frustration is especially predictive of poor well-being—disengagement, poor sleep, elevated blood pressure, disordered eating and obsessively pursued behaviors [ 35 ].…”

The Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale. Adaptation and associations with well-being and mental health disorders in a Polish sample

“…To fully explain what determines the well-being and prosperity of an individual, as well as the malfunctioning, maladjustment, and psychopathology, it is necessary to take into account the frustration of needs. Measuring the frustration of basic psychological needs makes it possible to fully and empirically discover their importance, not only for psychological well-being but especially for malfunctioning and disorders (Bartholomew et al, 2011;Kuźma et al, 2020;Vansteenkiste & Ryan, 2013).…”

“…So far, the scale has been adapted and translated into several languages, including Japanese (Nishimura & Suzuki, 2016), Italian (Costa et al, 2017), German (Heissel et al, 2018) and recently Polish (Kuźma et al, 2020). In each of these adaptations, it was finally assumed that the model that best reflects the theoretical structure of the BPNS&FS is the six-factor model, independently taking into account satisfaction and frustration regarding each of the three needs.…”

“…Our study aimed to prepare and validate the Polish language version of the BPNS&FS. Another Polish adaptation of the tool by Kuźma et al (2020) was released during the research. Nevertheless, we found it necessary to publish the results 1 .…”