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Reciprocal effects of motivation in physical education and self-reported physical activity

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posted on 2017-02-09, 10:06 authored by Ian TaylorIan Taylor
Objectives: The present study tested whether self-reported school and leisure-time physical activity have a reciprocal relationship with Physical Education (PE)-based motivational regulations described by selfdetermination theory. Participants were 635 11- and 12-year-old school children from the United Kingdom. Design & Method: A cross-lagged longitudinal design over two time points was employed. Study hypotheses were analyzed using latent factor reciprocal effects models. Results: Following temporal invariance tests, data revealed positive relationships between both types of physical activity and subsequent changes in autonomous motivation, but not the oft-stated reverse relationship. No relationships were observed involving introjected regulation. Theoretically aligned relationships between external regulation and changes in physical activity were observed, but no reverse relationships. Both types of physical activity behavior were negatively associated with changes in amotivation in PE, but surprisingly, amotivation in PE positively predicted changes in leisure-time physical activity. Conclusions: In general, physical activity participation may help children internalize reasons for partaking in PE and foster self-determination. However, the widespread theory that self-determined PE motives can develop school and leisure-time physical activity participation was not compellingly demonstrated.

Funding

This study was supported by a grant from the Nuffield Foundation (SGS/39228).

History

School

  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Volume

31

Pages

131 - 138

Citation

TAYLOR, I.M., 2017. Reciprocal effects of motivation in physical education and self-reported physical activity. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 31, pp. 131–138.

Publisher

© Elsevier

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-01-16

Publication date

2017-01-17

Notes

This paper was published in the journal Psychology of Sport and Exercise and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2017.01.003.

ISSN

1469-0292

Language

  • en