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A Prospective Study of Participation in Optional School Physical Education Using a Self-Determination Theory Framework.

This study examined whether contextual and personal motivational variables, taken from selfdetermination theory, could predict student cognitive and affective experiences in school physical education…
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A model of contextual motivation in physical education: Using constructs from self-determination and achievement goal theories to predict physical activity intentions.

Assessing the motivational responses of 328 secondary school students, this study examined a model of student motivation in physical education that incorporated constructs from achievement goal and…
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A test of self-determination theory in school physical education.

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Structural equation modelling analysis revealed that students who perceived a need-supporting environment experienced greater levels of need satisfaction, and invariance testing revealed the model to be largely invariant for male and female students.
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Self-Determination Theory Applied to Health Contexts

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It is suggested that SDT is a viable conceptual framework to study antecedents and outcomes of motivation for health-related behaviors and positive relations of psychological need satisfaction and autonomous motivation to beneficial health outcomes are shown.
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Psychological need thwarting in the sport context: assessing the darker side of athletic experience.

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The initial development of a multidimensional measure designed to assess psychological need thwarting, an under-studied area of conceptual and practical importance is outlined, and suggestions are made regarding the use of the PNTS in research pertaining to the darker side of sport participation.
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The Coach–Athlete Relationship Questionnaire (CART‐Q): development and initial validation

  • S. JowettN. Ntoumanis
  • Psychology, Education
    Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in…
  • 1 August 2004
TLDR
Principal component analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were used to reduce the number of items, identify principal components, and confirm the latent structure of the CART‐Q, which supported the multidimensional nature of the coach–athlete relationship.
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The controlling interpersonal style in a coaching context: development and initial validation of a psychometric scale.

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The development and initial validation of the Controlling Coach Behaviors Scale (CCBS), a multidimensional self-report measure designed to assess sports coaches' controlling interpersonal style from the perspective of self-determination theory, demonstrates good content and factorial validity, as well as internal consistency and invariance across gender and sport type.
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Empirical links between achievement goal theory and self-determination theory in sport

  • N. Ntoumanis
  • Psychology
    Journal of sports sciences
  • 1 January 2001
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The results suggest the adaptive role of task orientation in facilitating self-determined motivation in sport, but the findings are not conclusive, as the variance explained in most analyses was relatively small.
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Self-Determination Theory and Diminished Functioning

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Athletes’ perceptions of need satisfaction predicted positive outcomes associated with sport participation (vitality and positive affect), whereas need thwarting more consistently predicted maladaptive outcomes (disordered eating, burnout, depression, negative affect, and physical symptoms).
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Motivational clusters in a sample of British physical education classes

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