“…The issue concludes with a paper by Pelikan and colleagues (2023, this issue) who explore longitudinal effects between university students’ satisfaction of their basic psychological needs (competence, autonomy, and social relatedness), intrinsic motivation, and self-regulated learning using a cross-lagged panel model. Findings from a large sample with four waves between April 2020 and July 2021 showed that surprisingly all measured constructs remained stable.…”