What is it about?
This study examines associations between the motivational climate in PE classes and student stress responses.
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Why is it important?
Results suggest that an ego-involving climate may undermine efforts to utilize PE as a means to promote physical activity and may also have an adverse effect on youth that extends beyond sporting contexts.
Perspectives
A PE setting with a caring, task-involving climate seems a promising vehicle in which to promote adolescent well-being and foster a greater interest in physical activity.
Candace Hogue
Pennsylvania State University
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This page is a summary of: The impact of the perceived motivational climate in physical education classes on adolescent greater life stress, coping appraisals, and experience of shame., Sport Exercise and Performance Psychology, November 2018, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/spy0000153.
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