Effects of Manipulating the Motivational Climate in Physical Education Lessons

This study investigated the effects of manipulating the motivational climate in athletics lessons to be mastery oriented on pupils’ perceptions of the motivational climate, achievement goal orientations and cognitive and affective responses. A total of 153 male and female secondary school pupils were involved in the study over a period of seven weeks. Eighty pupils participated in the mastery intervention programme (experimental group) which...