Basic Psychological Needs at Work Scale
Sample items
- “When I’m with the people from work, I feel understood.”
- “My work allows me to make decisions”
Reliability & validity
Reliability & validity evidence is syncing from Principia.
Sources
- Brien et al.
Deploy it
The full item bank and survey deployment live in the People Analytics Toolbox (the enterprise survey-item library), with the min-N privacy gate.
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
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