PURPOSE To test a mediational model of the relationships among motivation-related variables in middle-school physical education and leisure-time physical activity behavior. METHODS Sixth- and seventh-grade physical education students from five middle schools in the midwest United States completed a survey containing measures of study variables on two occasions, 1 year apart. RESULTS Motivat...

The original trans-contextual model of motivation proposed that autonomy support from teachers develops students' autonomous motivation in physical education (PE), and that autonomous motivation is transferred from PE contexts to physical activity leisure-time contexts, and predicts attitudes, perceived behavioral control and subjective norms, and forming intentions to participate in future phy...

As animal personality research becomes more central to the study of animal behavior, there is increasing need for theoretical frameworks addressing its causes and consequences. We propose that regulatory focus theory (RFT) could serve as one such framework while also providing insights into how animal personality relates to welfare. RFT distinguishes between two types of approach motivation: pr...

background: among all cancers, malignancies of gastrointestinal tract are the most common cancer among iranian population. dietary behavior is thought to be the most important risk factor in gastric cancer. fear and perceived severity are two important constructs of the protection motivation theory (pmt). despite the evidence of the impact of these two constructs in modifying dietary habits aga...

<b><i>Objective:</i></b> The aim of this study was to determine the leadership styles nurse managers and then relationship respective with organizational commitment during COVID-19 pandemic. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> A quantitative correlational design employed in investigation. Simple random sampling yielded 259 nurses who participated study. It con...