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This study aimed to examine the varying functions of basic needs satisfaction in predicting well-and ill-being among college students using a choice theory based perspective. A sample of 1150 college students completed self-report measures of Satisfaction with Life Scale, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, Beck Depression Inventory, and University Students’ Basic Needs Scale. Path analysis model was performed to analyze the predictive relationships between research variables. Findings provided supportive evidence for the major hypothesis of choice theory that as the basic needs satisfaction increases, the well-being increases, and the ill-being decreases as well. However, functions of the basic needs varied in predicting well-and ill-being. Actually, basic needs satisfaction was more effective in predicting subjective well-being in comparison to depressive symptoms. Freedom need emerged as the foremost variable in predicting subjective well-being, and in predicting depression. Additionally, although fun need had a unique contribution to subjective well-being in the path analysis model, its moderate contribution decreasingly disappeared in predicting depression with the combined effect of partial correlations specifically including freedom and love and belonging needs. 

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