The current study aims to advance the theoretical understanding of work and family authenticity, or the extent to which one's time, energy, and attention in work and family roles are consistent with life values, by examining the antecedents and processes by which they occur within a self-determination theory framework. By testing the tenets of self-determination theory, we examine a conceptual model in which we posit that work and family need satisfaction relates positively to life satisfaction through domain-specific autonomous motivation, work and family authenticity, and domain satisfaction. We test our conceptual model with data collected at two time points from 220 working adults. Our results largely support our hypotheses in the work domain but, interestingly, not in the family domain, suggesting that human motivation processes differ by domain. We conclude by discussing implications and offering suggestions for future research.

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工作、家庭角色和幸福中的真实自我：自我决定理论的检验

本研究旨在通过考察工作和家庭真实性的理论理解，即一个人在工作和家庭角色中的时间、精力和注意力与生活价值观相一致的程度。自决理论框架。通过测试自我决定理论的原则，我们研究了一个概念模型，在该模型中，我们假设工作和家庭需求满足通过特定领域的自主动机、工作和家庭的真实性以及领域满意度与生活满意度呈正相关。我们使用 220 名在职成年人在两个时间点收集的数据来测试我们的概念模型。我们的结果在很大程度上支持了我们在工作领域的假设，但有趣的是，在家庭领域却没有，这表明人类动机过程因领域而异。最后，我们讨论了影响并为未来的研究提供了建议。