Motivation and physical activity across Chinese adolescents: Based on latent profile analysis.

ABSTRACT: Despite known links between motivation and physical activity, latent profiles of motivation among Chinese adolescents remain unexamined. Using the person-centered approach, this paper explores the relationship between adolescent motivation and physical activity. We aim to identify the latent motivation profiles and examine how these profiles differential predict physical activity (PA) levels, with attention to gender and age variations. This study recruited 571 adolescents (M age = 11.995, SD = 1.519) in southern China by the scale of Sport Motivation Scale and International Physical Activity Questionnaire-Short Form. We conducted latent profile analysis (LPA) to classify motivation subgroups using Mplus. MANOVA and ANOVA were employed to compare PA differences across profiles, genders, an

SUBMITTER: Zhao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12310012 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature