Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effects of psychological needs on the relationship between perceived leaders motivational style and psychological happiness by college students majoring in dance. For this study, 298 college students majoring in dance completed surveys to measured their perceived leaders motivational style, psychological needs and psychological happiness. SPSS 24.0 program(frequency analysis, reliability analysis, descriptive statistics analysis, and correlation analysis) and AMOS 24.0 program(confirmatory factor analysis, convergent validity, SEM, and mediating effect analysis) was used to analyze. The results are as follows. First, autonomy motivating support style was a positively predictive of autonomy. Second, autonomy motivating support style was a positively predictive of competence. Third, autonomy motivating support style was a positively predictive of relatedness. Fourth, controlling motivating support style have non-significant effect of autonomy. Fifth, controlling motivating support style have non-significant effect of competence. Sixth, controlling motivating support style negatively influenced relatedness. Seventh, autonomy motivating support style was a positively predictive of psychological happiness. Eighth, controlling motivating support style negatively influenced psychological happiness. Finally, there were partial mediating effects of psychological needs on the relationship between leaders motivational style and psychological happiness. Therefore, leaders need to provide autonomy motivating support style rather than controlling motivation style so that majors can feel psychological happiness in college classes.

Full Text
Published version (Free)

Talk to us

Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have

Schedule a call