Background and Purpose: today, basic psychological needs have key role in educational environments; the aim of current research is studying the relationship between organaizational cultures of schools with basic psychological needs

Method: 187 sixth grade elementary school students in Urmia city were selected and answered to the Hofstede cultural dimension scale (Akour, 2006), and basic need psychological (La Guardia et al. 2000

Results: Canonical correlation analysis revealed that Hofstede cultural dimensions have significant relationship with psychological needs satisfaction. Canonical analysis of data discovered two significant sets of relationship between cultural dimensions and basic psychological needs. In first set power distance, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity/ femininity and individualism/ collectivism had the negative relationship with the sense of autonomy, competence and relatedness. In second set high power distance and uncertainty avoidance and low masculinity had significant correlation with high sense of relatedness and low autonomy.

Conclusion: In general, Based on the results one can conclude that in schools that their organizational culture doesn’t support the students' autonomy, the sense of competence, cohesiveness and autonomy among students will be low.