Unhappy or unsatisfied: distinguishing the role of negative affect and need frustration in depressive symptoms over the academic year and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Motiv Emot · 2022 · PMC8635315 · PMID 34873352

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Need frutration was a marginally significant predictor of others’ reports of depressive symptoms when controlling for baseline reports, beta = 0.14, p = 0.07.

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