The coach-created motivational climate within youth sports teams has been shown to be of great importance for the quality of youths' sports experiences as well as their motivation for continuing or discontinuing sport participation. While the player's perspective on motivational climates has been studied extensively, the coach's perspective has received considerably less attention. Thus, little...

the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between perceived motivational climate and self – determination judokas in iranian pro league, which was carried out by a descriptive field method. the statistical population of this study comprised the entire judokas of pro league in iran. statistical sample set of 126 judokas of pro league in iran. in order to collect data, demograph...

Embedded in achievement goal theory (Ames, 1992; Meece, Anderman, & Anderman, 2006), this study examined how perceptions of coach and peer motivational climate in youth sport predicted moral attitudes, emotional well-being, and indices of behavioral investment in a sample of British adolescents competing in regional leagues. We adopted a longitudinal perspective, taking measures at the middle a...

Embedded in achievement goal theory (Ames, 1992; Meece, Anderman & Anderman, 2006), this study examined how perceptions of coach and peer motivational climate in youth sport predicted moral attitudes, emotional well-being, and indices of behavioral investment in a sample of British adolescents competing in regional leagues. Adopting a longitudinal perspective, measures were taken at the middle ...

This article employs Duda's (2013) hierarchical conceptualization of the coach-created motivational climate to inform the validation of a questionnaire (Empowering and Disempowering Motivational Climate Questionnaire-Coach; EDMCQ-C) that assesses junior athletes' perceptions of the social environmental dimensions proposed by achievement goal theory and self-determination theory. Confirmatory fa...

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the relationships among perceived motivational climate, individuals' goal orientations, and dispositional flow, with attention to possible gender differences. A sample of 413 young athletes, ages 12 to 16 years, completed the Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire-2 (PMCSQ-2) and Perception of Success Questionnaire (POSQ), as well ...

School Physical Education (PE) is recognised as the key resource for promoting physical activity (PA) among young people (Trost, 2004; Department for Children, Schools & Families [DCSF] 2008). Unfortunately, physical activity levels during many PE lessons fall significantly short of national recommendations (Fairclough & Stratton, 2005). Ames (1992a) devised the ‘TARGET’ acronym, a model used b...

Achievement goal theory research presumes that a classroom goal structure influences students' adoption of achievement goals and related cognitions and behaviors. Motivational climate plays a significant role as a determinant of sports participation and behavioral patterns in relation to reasons for continuing to contribute to a task or sport. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effec...