This article presents the findings of four studies designed to validate the translated Polish version of the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale. Results of exploratory factor analyses in Study 1 (N = 272, M age = 41.07) showed that the psychological need for autonomy, relatedness, and competence that are central to the Self-Determination Theory have a bidimensional structure, involving both a need for satisfaction and need for frustration component. Subsequent confirmatory factor analyses in Study 2 (N = 265; M age = 38.15) provided further evidence for a sixdimensional structure of the scale, thereby distinguishing a satisfaction and frustration component for each of the three needs. Study 3 (N = 158; M age = 27.28) further revealed that the distinguished subscales are moderately to highly internally consistent and yielded good test-retest reliability. Finally, Study 4 (N = 204; M age = 20.57) confirmed that satisfaction of the needs is positively related to well-being, while frustration is positively related to depressive symptoms. The Polish version of the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale can be successfully used in future basic and applied studies in the context of Self-Determination Theory.

Does everybody feel the urge to make sense of the activities they undertake, or do people vary in this regard? We explored if there exist individual differences in the extent to which people possess a need for sensemaking, how these differences correspond to personality factors, and if a need for sense-making features as element of people's identities. Chater and Loewenstein (2016, p. 138) argue that one of the goals that drives people's behavior is to "construe our lives in a way that makes sense (sense-making)." They argue that a general drive for sensemaking motivates people to gather and process information, which facilitates this sense-making process. The need to make sense of the world around us is argued to be a central component of human life (Frankl, 2006).Psychologists have long investigated the process of meaning making (e.g.

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