Abstract

MARTINEZ GALINDO, Celestina; CERVELLO GIMENO, Eduardo  and  MORENO MURCIA, Juan Antonio. Predicting student's reasons to be disciplined in physical education classes. rev.latinoam.psicol. [online]. 2012, vol.44, n.3, pp.41-52. ISSN 0120-0534.

The aim of this study was to determine relationships between the discipline strategies used by teachers in the classroom: perception of motivational climate, and goal orientations as well as the student's reasons have influence on them to be disciplined. A sample of 1126 physical education students participated in the study. They completed the SSDS, LAPOPECQ, POSQ and CPIDEF to measure these variables. Results showed that the intrinsic and responsibility strategies used by teachers to maintain discipline, were positively related with the perception of a task-involving motivational climate and task orientation. Task-involving motivational climate and goal orientation, predicted the intrinsic and indentified reasons of students to be disciplined. Future research should corroborate the results found in experimental designs to understand the process which uphold undisciplined behaviours in school.

Keywords : Physical education; Classroom discipline; Educational objectives.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )