“…To date, a paucity of research has examined the extent to which positive teacher-student relationships predict happiness via satisfaction of psychological needs, although psychological needs satisfaction as a mediator between relationships and happiness has been studied in other types of social relationships, such as friendships (Demir & Özdemir, 2010) and romantic relationships (Wei, Shaffer, Young, & Zakalik, 2005). In a recent study, teacher-student relationships predicted school-related happiness via psychological need satisfaction in a sample of Chinese adolescents (Tian, Tian, & Huebner, 2016). These results held for males and females, which is in accordance with studies indicating that adolescent girls and boys report equivalent levels of happiness (Csikszentmihalyi & Hunter, 2003;Mahon, Yarcheski, & Yarcheski, 2005).…”