ÜNİVERSİTE ÖĞRENCİLERİNDE İYİ VEYA HASTA OLUŞA İHTİYAÇ TEMELLİ BİR YAKLAŞIM

Year 2020, Issue: 54, 435 - 460, 29.04.2020

Turgut Türkdoğan Erdinc Duru

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı, üniversite öğrencilerinde iyi oluşun ve hasta
oluşun yordanmasında temel ihtiyaçlar doyumunun farklılaşan işlevlerini seçim
kuramına dayalı bir yaklaşımla incelemektir. Araştırma örneklemini oluşturun
1150 öğrenci Yaşam Doyumu Ölçeği, Pozitif ve Negatif Duygu Ölçeği, Beck
Depresyon Envanteri ve Üniversite Öğrencileri Temel İhtiyaçlar Ölçeği’nden
oluşan öz-bildirim ölçeklerini tamamlamıştır. Araştırma değişkenleri arasındaki
yordayıcı ilişkileri analiz etmek için yol analizi yürütülmüştür. Bulgular
seçim kuramının ana hipotezini desteklemiştir. Buna göre; üniversite
öğrencilerinde temel ihtiyaçlar doyumu arttıkça öznel iyi oluş artmış ve
depresif belirtiler azalmıştır. Bununla birlikte, temel ihtiyaçların iyi oluşu
ve hasta oluşu yordamadaki işlevleri farklılaşmıştır. Esasen, temel ihtiyaçlar
doyumu, depresif belirtilere kıyasla, öznel iyi oluşun yordanmasında daha
etkili bulunmuştur. Özgürlük ihtiyacı, hem öznel iyi oluşun hem de depresyonun
yordanmasında en güçlü değişken olmuştur. Ek olarak, eğlence ihtiyacı öznel iyi
oluşun yordanmasına özgün bir katkı sunmuş olsa da, özellikle özgürlük ve
sevgi-ait olma ihtiyaçları ile gösterdiği kısmi korelasyonların birleşik
etkisiyle birlikte, eğlence ihtiyacının depresyonu yordamadaki ılımlı katkısı
ortadan kalkmıştır.  

Keywords

Seçim kuramı, temel ihtiyaçlar, iyi oluş, hasta oluş, depresyon, öznel iyi oluş

A NEED-BASED APPROACH TO WELL-AND ILL-BEING AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS

Abstract

This study aimed
to examine the varying functions of basic needs satisfaction in predicting
well-and ill-being among college students using a choice theory based
perspective. A sample of 1150 college students completed self-report measures
of Satisfaction with Life Scale, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, Beck
Depression Inventory, and University Students’ Basic Needs Scale. Path analysis
model was performed to analyze the predictive relationships between research
variables. Findings provided supportive evidence for the major hypothesis of
choice theory that as the basic needs satisfaction increases, the well-being
increases, and the ill-being decreases as well. However, functions of the basic
needs varied in predicting well-and ill-being. Actually, basic needs
satisfaction was more effective in predicting subjective well-being in
comparison to depressive symptoms. Freedom need emerged as the foremost
variable in predicting subjective well-being, and in predicting depression.
Additionally, although fun need had a unique contribution to subjective
well-being in the path analysis model, its moderate contribution decreasingly
disappeared in predicting depression with the combined effect of partial
correlations specifically including freedom and love and belonging needs. 

Keywords

Choice theory, basic needs, well-being, ill-being, depression, subjective well-being

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