TARGETing secondary school students' motivation towards physical education: The role of student-perceived mastery climate teaching strategies.

ABSTRACT: The aim of the present study was to explore the impact of TARGET-based teaching strategies on students' motivation in a Dutch secondary school PE context. We examined to what extent mastery climate teaching strategies perceived by students (independently or interactively) explain variability in students' motivation towards PE. In total 3,150 students (48.2% girls; 51.8% boys) with a mean age of 13.91 years (SD = 1.40) completed the Behavioural Regulations in Physical Education Questionnaire (BRPEQ), measuring students' autonomous motivation, controlled motivation and amotivation, and the Mastery Teaching Perception Questionnaire (MTP-Q), measuring student-perceived application of mastery TARGET teaching strategies. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that after controlling for gende

SUBMITTER: Weeldenburg G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9499303 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature