Predicción de la motivación autodeterminada según las estrategias para mantener la disciplina y la orientación motivacional en estudiantes adolescentes de educación física

Abstract

The objective of this paper was to checking the relations between the motivation self-determination, the goal dispositional orientation and the strategies used by the teacher to maintain discipline in the adolescent physical education students. A sample of 736 students Compulsory Secondary Education or Secondary School Certificate courses, was used for that purpose. They were given the POSQ (Roberts and Balaguer, 1991; Roberts, Treasure and Balaguer, 1998), SMS (Pelletier et al., 1995) and SSDS scales (Papioannou, 1998). The results showed the importance to direct the pupils towards the task for developing the most self-determinated motivation and discipline way. Also, the strategies used by the teacher to maintain discipline in the classroom  (concern/responsibility) and ego dispositional orientation showed like key factors in the self-determination motivation preview.