• Basic psychological need satisfaction in leisure activities and adolescents' life satisfaction 

      Leversen, Ingrid; Danielsen, Anne Grete; Birkeland, Marianne Skogbrott; Samdal, Oddrun (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Participation in leisure activities is an important arena for the positive psychological development of adolescents. The present study set out to examine the relationship between adolescents’ satisfaction of the psychological needs for competence, relatedness, and autonomy in their participation in leisure activities and their perceived life satisfaction. The aim was to identify the extent to which ...
    • What they want and what they get: self-reported motives, perceived competence and relatedness in adolescent leisure activities 

      Leversen, Ingrid; Danielsen, Anne Grete; Wold, Bente; Samdal, Oddrun (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      This study explored the extent to which adolescents’ motives for leisure activity participation are related to their perceptions of competence and relatedness in different kinds of activities and aimed to provide new insight into boys’ and girls’ leisure experiences and their motivational orientations for activity participation. These proposed associations were based on previous empirical work and ...