TY - JOUR
T1 - Responsive support
T2 - A matter of psychological need fulfillment
AU - Refoua, Elad
AU - Rafaeli, Eshkol
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023
PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - Skillful responsive support facilitates coping with stressors and overcoming challenges. We posit that support responsiveness is best understood through the prism of psychological need fulfillment and as varying along two dimensions. The horizontal dimension speaks to the specificity and breadth of support (i.e., which needs, and how many, are addressed by it, respectively). The vertical dimension speaks to the degree to which support is enacted, or perceived to be enacted, in ways that touch on self-coherence needs for meaning and identity, needs tied most strongly to recipients’ core selves. Empathic identification of psychological needs and of their deeper structure, often achieved through good listening, is argued to be the key for effective responsive support.
AB - Skillful responsive support facilitates coping with stressors and overcoming challenges. We posit that support responsiveness is best understood through the prism of psychological need fulfillment and as varying along two dimensions. The horizontal dimension speaks to the specificity and breadth of support (i.e., which needs, and how many, are addressed by it, respectively). The vertical dimension speaks to the degree to which support is enacted, or perceived to be enacted, in ways that touch on self-coherence needs for meaning and identity, needs tied most strongly to recipients’ core selves. Empathic identification of psychological needs and of their deeper structure, often achieved through good listening, is argued to be the key for effective responsive support.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85175415784&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101691
DO - 10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101691
M3 - مقالة مرجعية
C2 - 37931490
SN - 2352-250X
VL - 54
JO - Current Opinion in Psychology
JF - Current Opinion in Psychology
M1 - 101691
ER -