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Parent-perceived autonomy-supportive experiences and basic psychological needs of people with complex support needs: Development and preliminary psychometric evaluation of two questionnaires

Van Tuyll Van Serooskerken,J.M.
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Willemen,A.M.
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Embregts,P.C.J.M.
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Schuengel,C.
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Background Understanding and supporting basic psychological needs of persons with complex support needs is important but difficult because of communicative challenges . We developed and tested questionnaires to obtain parents’ perspectives on autonomy support and basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Method Two parent-informant questionnaires were developed, administered, and subjected to psychometric property analyses. Participants were 63 Dutch parents of persons diagnosed with severe or profound intellectual and multiple disabilities. Results Principal component analyses revealed a one-factor structure for the Parental Perceptions on Autonomy-Supportive Experiences questionnaire, while the Parental Perceptions on Basic Psychological Need Signals questionnaire yielded two-factors interpreted as Noticing Signals of Autonomy and Noticing Signals of Competence/Relatedness. Evidence for construct validity was found for both instruments. Conclusions Preliminary evaluation of the new questionnaires is encouraging, but further validation with a larger sample size is warranted.
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Projectcode: 42003224A
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2024
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autonomy support, basic psychological needs, development, psychometric evaluation, severe or profound intellectual and multiple disabilities
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Van Tuyll Van Serooskerken, J M, Willemen, A M, Embregts, P C J M & Schuengel, C 2024, 'Parent-perceived autonomy-supportive experiences and basic psychological needs of people with complex support needs : Development and preliminary psychometric evaluation of two questionnaires', Journal of Intellectual Disabilities. https://doi.org/10.1177/17446295241237553
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