ReviewMotivational climate interventions in physical education: A meta-analysis
Highlights
► Mastery motivational climates produced a small overall positive effect for students in physical education. ► Outcome analyses identified the largest effects in student behavioral responses. ► Moderator analyses produced no significant differences; however, several trends were present. ► Recommendations for future motivational climate interventions in physical education settings are based on outcome and moderator analyses.
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Motivational climate
Within AGT, the term ‘motivational climate’ has been adopted to encompass the study of environmental factors that lead individuals to construe competence in different ways and pursue different goals. One way to define one’s competence is through the perception of self improvement and mastery of skills, whereas a second perspective entails the comparison of one’s own ability with that of others in a salient reference group. Logically, individuals who employ the first definition pursue goals
Motivational climate interventions
Reviews of motivational climate research in physical activity highlight the prevalence of cross-sectional studies that seek to identify the correlates of perceived mastery and performance climates (see Duda & Whitehead, 1998; Harwood et al., 2008, Ntoumanis and Biddle, 1999). This comprehensive body of work provides support for the positive or adaptive correlates (e.g., confidence, enjoyment, task orientation) associated with mastery climate, whereas performance climate is often not associated
Literature search & inclusion criteria
A literature search was conducted in three phases that included a) an electronic database search, b) a search for review articles and c) a search of the reference sections in articles determined to be relevant from the previous searches (a & b). Electronic database searches were performed in Academic Search Elite, ArticleFirst, ERIC, Medline, OmniFile, Physical Education Index, Proquest Dissertations and Theses, PsychINFO, PsychARTICLES, and SportDiscus using variations of the keywords
Results
The primary purpose of the current study was to determine the overall effectiveness across all outcomes of motivational climate interventions and the secondary purpose was to determine the effect of motivational climate interventions (TARGET) on specific affective, behavioral, and cognitive outcomes in school-based physical education. There were a total of 22 studies with 24 independent samples that included 4932 participants meeting inclusion criteria. The overall inter-rater agreement between
Discussion
The purpose of our literature synthesis was twofold and focused on the effectiveness of motivational climate interventions and moderating factors that contributed to positive or negative results in physical education contexts. Our results found an overall positive treatment effect for groups and participants exposed to a mastery motivational climate and negative effects for untreated control groups or performance climate conditions. More specifically, TARGET strategies used to manipulate an
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