“…Support for the existence of a specific dark pathway was obtained in the domains of sports (Bartholomew, Ntoumanis, Ryan, Bosch, et al, 2011;Stebbings, Taylor, Spray, & Ntoumanis, 2012), work (Gillet, Fouquereau, Forst, Brunault, & Colombat, 2012), and health (Verstuyf, Vansteenkiste, Soenens, Boone, & Mouratidis, 2013). However, few studies in the educational literature have examined the dark pathways involved in students' motivation (De Meyer et al, 2014). The present study aimed to fill this gap by investigating a theoretically driven model involving a bright path from perceived autonomy support via need satisfaction to optimal motivational functioning and a dark pathway from perceived controlling teaching via need frustration to maladaptive motivational dynamics in the context of PE.…”