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1University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
Abstract:
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to reexamine the motivational transfer hypothesis of the trans-contextual model from the perspective of individuals' motivational profiles. Methods: A total of 348 eighth-grade students participated in this study. Participants' motivation for physical education (PE) and physical activity (PA) and their out-of-school PA were measured. Results: Latent profile analysis revealed four similar motivational profiles for PE and PA-Motivated, Autonomous, Average, and Low-motivation. Proportion of agreement index showed that 43% of students had consistent motivational profiles for PE and PA. ANOVA and MANOVA showed that students with the Motivated, Autonomous, and Average profiles had the similar levels of out-of-school PA, which suggested that students with higher levels of self-determined types of motivation tended to have higher levels of out-of-school PA, no matter how high/low the level of their controlled types of motivation. Conclusion: These results partially support the propositions of the trans-contextual model.
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