Perceived variety, psychological needs satisfaction and exercise-related well-being

Sylvester, Standage, Dowd, Martin, Sweet, Beauchamp · Psychology & Health · 2014 · health-psychology · 10.1080/08870446.2014.907900 · record Sylvester2014-perceived-variety-psychological-needs-satisf
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perceived variety psychological needs satisfaction felt variety variety support Competence Relatedness the instrument is built in three declared steps - item development, focus groups, and expert review - used to develop AND refine the items rather than only to produce them the focus groups use a modified retrospective think-aloud protocol, whose stated purpose is to understand how members of the target population INTERPRET and respond to the items the refinement has a STOPPING RULE rather than a fixed number of rounds: transcripts are coded by constant comparison for places where a participant raised concern with an item, and the cycle repeats after each group until no new suggestions emerge latent variable regression is chosen over multiple regression for a stated reason: multiple regression assumes the variables are measured without error, and the authors say that assumption would produce biased estimates here the chi-square test is deliberately not relied on alone, because a non-significant chi-square is called unrealistic, so supplementary indices are examined too - with separate numerical bands DESIGNATED for good fit and for excellent fit discriminant validity is given a numerical criterion rather than an impression: the average variance extracted for a construct must exceed the SQUARED CORRELATION between it and any other construct, alongside stated floors for loadings and composite reliability relative importance among predictors is decided by an index with a cut-off DERIVED from the number of predictors rather than chosen - one over twice the predictor count, which in this analysis makes the threshold 0.13 THE KEY TEST IS BUILT AS A COMPETING MODEL, NOT A CORRELATION: a three-factor structure is fitted specifically to see whether the new construct is empirically synonymous with one of the three established needs, and the authors state in advance what result would count against their own claim variety basic psychological needs theory (BPNT) composite reliability Relative Pratt Index exercise-related positive affect exercise-related subjective vitality autonomy regression latent variable regression (LVR) exploratory factor analysis EFA analysis confirmatory factor analysis confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) weighted least squares estimation weighted least squares mean and variance-adjusted (WLSMV) estimation chi-squared model fit indices (RMSEA, CFI, TLI) root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) composite reliability and average variance extracted average variance extracted average variance extracted (AVE) relative importance index oblique factor rotation Geomin rotation (to produce an oblique solution survey
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limitationsThe design is non-experimental, so no causal inference is licensed; experiments are needed.
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what this limits: any causal reading: EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS WILL BE NECESSARY IN FUTURE RESEARCH TO EXAMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH CHANGES ... RELATES TO CHANGES IN EXERCISE-RELATED WELL-BEING
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limitationsVariety was assessed only at the contextual level.
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what this limits: the level at which the finding holds: assessments of perceived variety were operationalised AT THE CONTEXTUAL LEVEL only
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limitationsThe results say nothing about acute/episodic effects of perceived variety or about global life-level effects.
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what this limits: acute and global claims: THE RESULTS OF THE STUDY DO NOT PROV[ide evidence] about episodic effects or life-level outcomes
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limitationsThe factor structure was verified on the same sample used to derive it, only at a different time point.
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limitationsWhether the new construct is distinct from the three established needs, or subsumed by them, was an open question this study set out to examine rather than assume.
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what this limits: perceived variety as an established separate need: the paper examines whether it is distinct from or subsumed by competence, relatedness and autonomy
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limitationsThe construct it is measured alongside has been operationalised inconsistently in the literature, sometimes as a single latent variable.
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what this limits: comparisons with other needs-satisfaction studies: the paper notes the construct has at times been operationalised as a single latent variable, and tests a one-factor model for that reason
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controlsthe trimmed item pool was reviewed by three people with expertise in instrument development and in the exercise domain
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eliminates: that the items measure something other than the construct they are named for - expert content review is the check on that before any data is collected · outcome (stated by the tagger, no quotation): held
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conceptsperceived variety
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sensesvariety - the general stipulated definition: the pursuit and experience of diverse activities, behaviours and opportunities in one's social milieu
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sensesvariety - the narrower sense used in this study, which explicitly admits simple, mundane and conventional experiences and so is not sensation-seeking
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senses`felt variety` / `variety support` - TWO TERMS COINED IN ONE SENTENCE TO PREVENT A CONFLATION, WITH THE REASON STATED. `For the sake of conceptual clarity Quotation withheld` The pre-existing literature had one word, `variety`, doing both jobs - an experience and an affordance - and the split is announced as a methodological requirement rather than discovered. The paper then measures only the first.
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senses`competence` / `relatedness` / `autonomy` - THREE NEEDS DEFINED BY A SINGLE `refers to` EACH, AND ALL THREE ARE ATTRIBUTED. Every definition ends in a citation to Deci & Ryan; the paper is importing a vocabulary intact rather than building one, which is the opposite move to `felt variety` two pages earlier. The same article both borrows a settled partition and coins a new one, and the writing does not mark the difference.
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claim_relationsreplicates → Sheldon and Lyubomirsky (2012), conclusion that perceptions of variety directly predict well-being
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claim_relationsbuilds-on → Kahn and Ratner (2005) and Sheldon and Lyubomirsky (2012), definition of variety
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concept_edgesperceived variety —distinct-from→ psychological needs satisfaction
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strength of the relation: 0.9 Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its full span and kept, but the paper EXAMINED 'the extent to which' perceived variety is distinct; stated as a question.
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content_tagsPerceived variety together with competence, relatedness and autonomy measured at Time 1 explained 37.2% of the variance in exercise-related positive affect six weeks later.
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content_tagsThe same four predictors explained 33.1% of the variance in exercise-related subjective vitality.
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content_tagsFor exercise-related negative affect, autonomy was the only statistically significant predictor; perceived variety did not predict it.
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content_tagsA four-factor structure that keeps perceived variety separate from competence, relatedness and autonomy fitted the data better than one-factor or three-factor structures.
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content_tagsNone of the five perceived-variety items cross-loaded onto the competence, relatedness or autonomy subscales at the |0.30| threshold.
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content_tagsPerceived variety in exercise is empirically distinct from, and not subsumed by, perceived competence, relatedness and autonomy.
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content_tagsA supplementary test found no significant curvilinear relationship between perceived variety and positive affect, negative affect or subjective vitality.
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content_tagsThe authors state that the observational design prevents any causal claim about variety and well-being.
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content_tagsvariety
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content_tagsfelt variety
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content_tagsbasic psychological needs theory (BPNT)
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content_tags13.5% — variance in exercise-related negative affect explained by variety plus the three needs
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content_tags19.76% — share of the explained variance in positive affect attributable to perceived variety (Relative Pratt Index)
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content_tags27.02% — share of the explained variance in subjective vitality attributable to perceived variety, against 37.70% for competence
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content_tagsχ2 (758) = 1746.98, p < .001, CFI = .974, TLI = .972 — fit statistics for the latent variable regression model
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