Satisfaction, boredom and importance of physical education on the intention to perform physical activity outside of school in Mexican adolescents

Satisfacción, aburrimiento e importancia de la educación física…

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/cpd.358461

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The aim of this study was to examine the effect of the satisfaction and/or boredom of physical education class has over the importance that students give to the class and its relationships with the intention of the future practice of physical activity. 457 students (46% boys and 54% girls), with ages between 12 and 17 (M = 14,10; DT = 0,84) from metropolitan area of Monterrey participated in the study. Three instruments were used: 1) Intrinsic satisfaction in Physical Education, 2) Importance and utility of physical education and 3) Intention to partake in leisure-time physical activity (LTPA). The proposed model was tested through structural equation modeling using LISREL 8.80. Significant and positive relationships of the satisfaction towards the importance of P.E. (b = ,52, p < ,01), and the importance of PE with the intention towards future practice of the LTPA (b = ,44, p < ,01) and significant indirect effect of satisfaction towards intentional future practices of the LTPA (b = ,23, p < ,01). The results obtained in the present study demonstrates the importance of designing new and improved and dynamic PE sessions so that adolescents give value and importance to the PE class, increasing the probability to develop active habits in the future or extra-curricular activities that will reinforce the benefits of physical activity in this adolescent population.

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Published
12-09-2019
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Baños, R., Marentes-Castillo, M., Zamarripa, J., Baena-Extremera, A., Ortiz-Camacho, M. del M., & Duarte-Félix, H. (2019). Satisfaction, boredom and importance of physical education on the intention to perform physical activity outside of school in Mexican adolescents: Satisfacción, aburrimiento e importancia de la educación física…. Sport Psychology Notebooks, 19(3), 205–215. https://doi.org/10.6018/cpd.358461
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Psicología del Deporte