Athanasios Papaioannou

TL;DR: Evidence of construct validity was shown in that students' intrinsic motivation and positive attitudes toward the lesson were positively related to the learning- oriented scales and unrelated to performance-oriented scales.

TL;DR: In this article, a mixed method design was used to explore 218 teachers' motivation and intentions regarding participation in training and teaching of an innovative academic subject (i.e., Research Project).

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of a year-long intervention in Greek junior high school physical education on motivational climate, goal orientations and attitudes towards exercise and healthy diet were assessed through questionnaires at the beginning and end of the school year and 10 months after the end of an intervention.

TL;DR: The authors evaluated the effects of classroom motivational climate and individual goal orientations on individual students' outcomes (intrinsic motivation, attitudes, physical self-concept, and exercise intentions) collected early (T1) and late (T2) in the school year.

Abstract: This study examined the effect of task structure, perceived motivational climate, and goal orientations on students' task involvement and anxiety in the physical education lesson. Two hundred thirty-nine junior high school students participated in a physical education lesson comprised of four task-involving tasks and in a physical education lesson consisting of three ego-involving tasks. After the completion of each task the students responded on a questionnaire measuring concentration, autotelic experience, and loss of self-consciousness. In the last part of the lessons the students completed instruments assessing anxiety and perceived motivational climate. In the lesson comprised of task-involving tasks the students had higher state self-confidence, lower somatic anxiety, and perceived a higher task-involving and a lower ego-involving climate than in the lesson consisting of the ego-involving tasks. In both lessons, task orientation and the perception of a task-involving climate were positive p...