Goal Orientations, Motivational Climate, Discipline and Physical Self-Perception Related to the Teacher's Gender, Satisfaction and Sport Activity of a Sample of Spanish Adolescent Physical Education Students.

The aim of this research was to find possible relationships between goal orientations, motivational climate, physical self-perception and discipline and the teacher's gender, satisfaction with physical education and sport activity outside school hours in Spanish physical education students. The sample consisted of 565 students aged between 12 and 16. Participants completed the following scales: Coal Orientations. Motivational Climate in Physical Education Classes. Disciplined-Undisciplined Behaviour and Physical Self-Perception Profile. Correlations were raised among the discipline-indiscipline behaviours, perceptions of the motivational climate, goal orientations and physical self-perceptions. The results showed that students who have a female teacher have higher task-involving motivational climate, discipline, body attractiveness, sport competence, physical condition and self-confidence than those that have a male teacher. Those that are satisfied with physical education have higher task-involving motivational climate, task orientation, discipline, body attractiveness, sport competence, physical condition and self-confidence than those that are not satisfied. Exercisers have higher ego orientation, task orientation, body attractiveness, sport competence, physical condition and self-confidence than non-exercisers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]