Background: Athletes in recreational sports do not receive the same attention and have far more limited access to learning resources when it comes to anti-doping education, as compared to athletes in elite, competitive, organized sports. Furthermore, the existing anti-doping education resources for recreational sports athletes are informed by relevant practices in elite/competitive sports and largely focus on a...
Finding communication strategies that effectively motivate social distancing continues to be a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-country, preregistered experiment (n = 25,718 from 89 countries) tested hypotheses concerning generalizable positive and negative outcomes of social distancing messages that promoted personal agency and reflective choices (i.e., an autonomy-support...
The study investigated the role of motivation and metacognition in the formation of cognitive and affective outcomes from participation in physical education lessons within the framework of self-determination theory. A sample of 630 adolescents (M age = 14.06, SD = .29) participated in the study. Participants completed questionnaires including measures of perceived autonomy support in PE, autonomous motivation ...