- Helps connect activities like leisure and work to well-being
- The DRAMMA model integrates six psychological needs
- detachment
- switching off from work-related thoughts and tasks during free time
- relaxation
- psychobiological unwinding with low activation, high positive affect
- [[Freedom|Autonomy]]
- mastery
- meaning
- affiliation
- detachment and relaxation help people go from fatigue to baseline
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- Previous studies have shown that satisfaction of individual DRAMMA needs relate to higher subjective well-being.
- A longitudinal study examining the model as a whole is needed to examine how DRAMMA needs conjointly affect subjective well-being and ill-being over time.
- All DRAMMA needs are related to at least one of the three well-being variables (vitality, life satisfaction, and subjective health) in the multilevel analyses in the study.
- Relaxation and detachment from work are most consistently related to optimal functioning, while overall balance between the DRAMMA needs also plays a role in subjective health.
- Different combinations of DRAMMA need satisfaction could yield differing benefits or detriments for optimal functioning and well-being.
- Balanced need satisfaction predicted subjective health (and marginally, stress) beyond the influence of overall DRAMMA need satisfaction.
- A daily diary study could investigate the importance of psychological detachment and relaxation for optimal functioning compared to other DRAMMA needs.