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Achievement Goals in Physical Education: Examining the Predictive Ability of Five Different Dimensions of Motivational Climate
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Barkoukis, Vassilis; Thogersen-Ntoumani, Cecilie; Ntoumanis, Nikos; Nikitaras, Nikitas – European Physical Education Review, 2007
The aim of the present study was to investigate the differential relationships between five dimensions of motivational climate and achievement goals, as the latter have been conceptualized by the revised achievement goal theory. Adolescents (N = 336, M age = 13.45 years, SD = 1.04) participating in a summer camp in southern Greece took part in the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Achievement Need, Measures (Individuals), Program Effectiveness
The Influence of Future Certainty and Contextual Factors on Delinquent Behavior and School Adjustment among African American Adolescents
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Caldwell, Roslyn M.; Wiebe, Richard P.; Cleveland, H. Harrington – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2006
This study examined the ability of future certainty--an individual's perception of future stability, operationalized as the likelihood of certain life outcomes--to explain variance in delinquency and school adjustment, while controlling for economic, neighborhood, and family factors, among a cross-sectional sample of 1422 male and 1562 female…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Student Adjustment, African Americans, Adolescents