At 7:37 AM -0500 2/16/01, Miguel Roig wrote:
>The following comes from an APA News Release:
>
>Study Finds Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness and Self-Esteem at Top of
>List of
>Psychological Needs
>
>Washington - Attaining popularity or influence and money or luxury is not what
>makes people the happiest and is at the bottom of the list of psychological
>needs, according to a new study. Topping the list of needs that appear to
>bring
>happiness are autonomy (feeling that your activities are self-chosen and
>self-endorsed), competence (feeling that you are effective in your
>activities),
>relatedness (feeling a sense of closeness with others) and self-esteem. The
>findings appear in the February issue of the Journal of Personality and Social
>Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association (APA).
Or at least, that's what these people are reinforced for self-reporting.
In fact, the two sets of situations ("autonomy, etc" and "money, etc")
would appear to be correlated.
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