Motivational Climate Effect on the Development of Anxiety and Body Image in Education Students: A Structural Equation Model.

Motivation is one of the key factors affecting the achievement of a specific task. Therefore, the present research aims to identify and establish the existing relationships between sport motivation, the anxiety-related disorder, and the own body perception, divided into (a) developing an explanatory...

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Publicado en:Perspectives in Psychiatric Care pp. 1 - 10
Autores principales: Melguizo-Ibáñez, Eduardo, González-Valero, Gabriel, Badicu, Georgian, Saemi, Esmaeel, Puertas-Molero, Pilar
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 2/13/2023
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Sumario:Motivation is one of the key factors affecting the achievement of a specific task. Therefore, the present research aims to identify and establish the existing relationships between sport motivation, the anxiety-related disorder, and the own body perception, divided into (a) developing an explanatory model of the motivational climate towards sport and its relationship with anxiety and physical self-concept and (b) contrasting the structural model through a multigroup analysis according to sex. A descriptive, nonexperimental (ex post facto), and cross-sectional study of young university students was carried out. The Perceived Motivational Climate Questionnaire for Sport (PMCSQ-2), the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and the Self-Concept Form 5 (AF-5) were used for data collection. The data reveal that males show higher scores in all the variables that make up the ego climate and in the physical self-concept, while females show higher scores in the variables that make up the task climate and higher levels of anxiety.