The effects of different motivational climates on students' achievement goals, motivational strategies and attitudes toward physical education☆

This article has been drawn from the first author's PhD dissertation, “The effects of physical education lessons conducted according to different motivational climates on students’ achievement goals, motivational strategies and attitudes toward physical education” under the supervision of second author for Hacettepe University, Institute of Health Sciences.

Abstract

The aim of this study was to analyse whether conducting physical education lessons according to different motivational climates leads to a significant difference between students' achievement goals, motivational strategies and attitudes towards physical education. Participants (81-ninth grade students) were allocated to one of three experimental groups. The researchers conducted a 12-week programme of physical education lessons with the experimental groups. The programme used the same lesson plans; however, in each experimental group, the researchers created different motivational climates (mastery, performance approach or performance avoidance) according to the Motivational Climate Observer Control List. The students' achievement goals, motivational strategies and attitudes towards physical education were measured at the beginning and end of the semester. Consequently, it was observed that the mastery-and performance-approach focused-motivational climates within physical education lessons produced positive outputs in terms of cognitive and affective scores.

Keywords:

• motivation
• physical education
• Turkish ninth-grade students
• motivational climate
• achievement goal
• motivational strategy
• attitude
• physical education

Notes

This article has been drawn from the first author's PhD dissertation, “The effects of physical education lessons conducted according to different motivational climates on students’ achievement goals, motivational strategies and attitudes toward physical education” under the supervision of second author for Hacettepe University, Institute of Health Sciences.