**Link to the pre-registration:** https://aspredicted.org/blind.php?x=fa6ur8 The paper related to this project deviates in the following aspects from the preregistration: 1) we refrained from multilevel regression analyses (within-person effects) as we deemed them to go beyond the scope of this paper that focused on the differences between groups (pre/during the pandemic) and on the relationships between the variables on the between-person level 2) additional mediation analyses were performed to explore the relationships between need satisfaction and discrete emotions/teaching satisfaction **Link to article:** https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0272738 ------------------------------------------ **__Information on the files:__** **Final dataset and main analyses are found in the files** - 02__Script_final analyses - 02_dataset final_final_anonymized_participants_aggregated_se-qu-min.1x_pub **Additional files** contain the non-aggregated data, script for aggregation, data preparation, reliability analyses, and the scale creation - 03__Script_data preparation, aggregation, reliabilities, scale creation - 03a_dataset_anonymized_participants_non-aggregated_pub - 03b_dataset_anonymized_participants_aggregated_pub - 03c_dataset_nonnumeric-variables Personal information has been omitted from the publsihed data.