Trayectoria de las necesidades psicológicas básicas en estudiantes secundarios de Entre Ríos, Argentina

The objective of the study is to know the trajectory of basic psychological needs in high school students from Entre Ríos, Argentina, in three moments of their school career. The design is quantitative and longitudinal. The sampling was intentional nonprobabilistic. The sample consisted of adolescent high school students from Entre Ríos. It included 313 participants at the first measurement point, 280 at the second and 249 at the third. The age ranged from 12 to 17 years. The instrument used was the Basic Psychological Needs Scale in General, in a version adapted to the educational context. Date were analyzed with Latent Growth Curve Models; the findings indicate that the trajectory of autonomy can be explained through a quadratic change model, that of competence through a linear model, and that of relatedness through a quadratic model.