Purpose: To assess the impact of a sustained Teaching for Personal and Social Responsibility program in Physical Education. Method: There were 72 primary and secondary education students (11–13 years), enrolled in two different schools, and their four teachers were randomly distributed into an experimental group (n = 35) and a nonequivalent group (n = 37) by their schools’ administration. A pre-/posttest, repeated-measures nonequivalent group design was used. The two teachers of the experimental group implemented a Teaching for Personal and Social Responsibility program, whereas the two teachers of the nonequivalent group used Direct Instruction in their classes over four consecutive learning units (29 sessions, 5 months). Results: Students in the experimental group significantly increased their personal and social responsibility (p < .01), self-determined motivation (p < .01), basic psychological needs satisfaction (competence, autonomy, and relatedness; p < .01), sportsmanship (p < .05), and intention to be physically active outside school (p < .05). Conclusion: The Teaching for Personal and Social Responsibility program was more able to increase students’ self-determined motivation and to generate positive psychosocial consequences than the Direct Instruction approach.

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The aims of this study were to uncover the different motivational climate profiles to compare differences on their implicit beliefs of sports ability, motivational orientation, and intention to be physically active, and finally to analyse the relationship of the gender with motivational climate profiles, in a large sample of high-performance handball players in Spain. A total of 444 (233 males, 211 females) high-performance handball players agreed to participate. They completed a questionnaire that included the Spanish validated versions of Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire, Conceptions of the Nature of Athletic Ability Questionnaire-2, Sport Motivation Scale and Intention to be Physically Active Questionnaire. A hierarchical cluster analysis uncovered two independent motivational climate profiles that were confirmed by a K-Means cluster analysis: “mastery climate” and “performance climate”. The results revealed that the mastery climate profile comprised players with less amotivation and higher scores in both incremental ability belief and greater intention to be physically active, and more women than men. By contrast, the performance climate profile comprised players with higher scores in extrinsic motivation and amotivation, both entity ability belief, lower intention to be physically active and primarily men. The importance of the coach in creating a mastery climate that fosters athletes' engagement was confirmed.

El objetivo de este estudio fue conocer las relaciones existentes entre la responsabilidad percibida por los estudiantes, los mediadores psicológicos, la motivación autodeterminada, deportividad, estilo de vida e intención de ser físicamente activo, proponiendo un modelo de predicción en consonancia con los postulados del modelo jerárquico de la motivación intrínseca y extrínseca. Participaron 128 estudiantes de Educación Física (68 chicos y 60 chicas) con edades comprendidas entre los 11 y los 15 años (M = 12,45; DT = 1,15). Se utilizó un diseño transversal. Se administraron los cuestionarios PSRQ, BPNES, CMEF, MSOS, IPAS y Test corto Krece Plus para medir las variables estudiadas. Los resultados mostraron que la responsabilidad percibida predijo positivamente la satisfacción de los mediadores psicológicos y estados de motivación autodeterminada. Como consecuencia, se explica una mayor importancia de la PALABRAS CLAVE: consecuencias psicosociales, deportividad, estilo de vida, mediadores psicológicos, motivación autodeterminada, responsabilidad.