AUTHOR=Fernet Claude , Morin Alexandre J. S. , Mueller Marcus B. , Gillet Nicolas , Austin Stéphanie 

TITLE=Psychological need satisfaction across work and personal life: an empirical test of a comprehensive typology

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=14

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1216450

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1216450

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<sec><title>Introduction</title><p>A comprehensive typology of the satisfaction of psychological needs at work and in personal life was developed and tested. The typology proposes five scenarios (<italic>Enriched, Middling, Impoverished, Work-Fulfilled,</italic> and <italic>Personal Life-Fulfilled</italic>) accounting for various profiles of employees showing distinct configurations of global and specific levels of need satisfaction at work and in personal life.</p></sec><sec><title>Methods</title><p>The scenarios were tested in a sample of 1,024 employees.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>Using latent profile analysis, five profiles were identified that were consistent with four or the five scenarios, either aligned (<italic>Globally Satisfied, Globally Unsatisfied</italic>) or misaligned (<italic>Globally Satisfied at Work with High Relatedness, Globally Satisfied in Personal Life with High Autonomy, and Globally Satisfied in Personal Life with Low Autonomy</italic>) across domains. No profile corresponding to the <italic>Middling</italic> scenario was observed.</p></sec><sec><title>Discussion</title><p>The results indicate that perceived job and individual characteristics predicted membership in distinct profiles. More importantly, unlike the profile <italic>Globally Unsatisfied</italic>, the profile <italic>Globally Satisfied</italic> contributed substantially to higher well-being (vitality and lower psychological distress), and to more favorable job attitudes (job satisfaction and lower turnover intentions) and behaviors (self-rated job performance and lower absenteeism, presenteeism, and work injuries). Furthermore, two of the misaligned profiles were also substantially associated with highly desirable outcome levels.</p></sec>