The investigation of contributon to basic psychological needs level for life and relationship satisfaction

To correctly realize the social life development and integration of persons who form the society, determining the basic psychological needs and saturating these needs and while all these happen, it is known that social environment should support these trends and behaviors. The purpose of this study is to determine the contribution of basic psychological needs level satisfying by their partner's to life satisfaction and relationship satisfaction. 204 couples who are in a relationship at least a year have participated to this research. To determine the level of satisfying of the basic pschological needs, for one of the partner, "Basic Psychological Needs Scale" is used, and to determine life satisfaction "Emotional Well-Being Scale—EWBS" is used for he other partner and to determine relationship satisfaction "Relationship Assesment Scale" is used. The results of the analysis in order to determine the contriution of satisfying of the partner's basic pschological needs of the partners who has participated to this research, relationship satisfacton and life satisfaction are statistically significant. It is found that while the satisfying autonomy needs level -which is one of the basic pschological needs- increase, the relationship satisfaction increase gradually (p <0.05).