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The Influence of Inadequate Teacher-to-Student Social Support on Amotivation of Physical Education Students
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Shen, Bo; Li, Weidong; Sun, Haichun; Rukavina, Paul Bernard – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2010
Guided by Green-Demers, Leagult, Pelletier, and Pelletier's (2008) assumption that amotivation (absence of motivation) is a multidimensional construct, we designed this study to investigate the influence of inadequate teacher-to-student social support on amotivation of high-school physical education students. Five hundred and sixty-six ninth…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Structural Equation Models, Questionnaires, Grade 9
Coping against Weight-Related Teasing among Adolescents Perceived to Be Overweight or Obese in Urban Physical Education
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Li, Weidong; Rukavina, Paul Bernard; Wright, Paul – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine coping against weight-related teasing among adolescents perceived to be overweight or obese in urban physical education. Forty-seven students perceived to be overweight or obese from a large urban school district were interviewed. Trustworthiness of data analysis was established by using a member-checking…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Physical Education, Obesity, Focus Groups
An Amotivation Model in Physical Education
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Shen, Bo; Wingert, Robert K.; Li, Weidong; Sun, Haichun; Rukavina, Paul Bernard – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2010
Amotivation refers to a state in which individuals cannot perceive a relationship between their behavior and that behavior's subsequent outcome. With the belief that considering amotivation as a multidimensional construct could reflect the complexity of motivational deficits in physical education, we developed this study to validate an amotivation…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Construct Validity, Predictive Validity, Factor Structure
Measuring Students' Perceptions of Personal and Social Responsibility and the Relationship to Intrinsic Motivation in Urban Physical Education
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Li, Weidong; Wright, Paul M.; Rukavina, Paul Bernard; Pickering, Molly – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2008
The purpose of the current study was to test the validity and reliability of a two-factor model of the Personal and Social Responsibility Questionnaire (PSRQ) and examine the relationships between perceptions of personal and social responsibility and intrinsic motivation in physical education. Participants were 253 middle school students who…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis, Social Responsibility