Janjić, Ognjen and Lazić, Milica and Ljevaja, Milica (2025) The basic psychological need satisfaction and frustration scale (BPNSFS) among Serbian adolescents: testing factor structure and gender measurement invariance. Current Psychology, 44 (1). pp. 15851-15861. ISSN 1046-1310
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This study aimed to replicate research on the multidimensionality of basic psychological needs within a Serbian cultural context. Using both traditional (bifactor) confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and (bifactor) exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) frameworks, this study examined the factor structure of the Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Frustration Scale (BPNSFS) and tested measurement invariance across gender in a sample of 413 Serbian high school students (54.2% female; Mage = 16.62, SDage = 0.722). The ESEM model with six specific factors (three satisfaction and three frustration factors for autonomy, competence, and relatedness) demonstrated superior fit indices and measurement quality compared to alternative models. Full scalar invariance of the BPNSFS was supported. Males reported substantially higher competence satisfaction, while females reported higher autonomy frustration. Our findings support the use of BPNSFS as a multidimensional measure of basic psychological needs among adolescents and confirm the usefulness of applying the ESEM framework for evaluating validity aspects of this scale.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Institutional centre: | Centre for political research and public opinion |
| Depositing User: | D. Arsenijević |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Oct 2025 09:06 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2025 09:06 |
| URI: | http://iriss.idn.org.rs/id/eprint/2810 |
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