135572 20260217205534.0 doi 10.1177/1356336X241248262 sideral 138667 ART-2024-138667 eng García-Cazorla, Javier Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-8245-349X What factors are associated with physical education teachers’ (de)motivating teaching style? A circumplex approach 2024 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Building upon the circumplex approach to (de)motivating styles defined by self-determination theory, this research aimed: (a) to analyse the extent to which physical education (PE) teachers’ (de)motivating teaching approaches differ across gender, school level, and years of teaching experience, and (b) to test paths from PE teachers’ need-based experiences to their (de)motivating teaching approaches, via motivation quality. A purposive and cross-sectional sample of 667 Spanish PE teachers (63.7% male; 54.7% primary; mean teaching experience = 10.77 years) participated. The overall results found that male, secondary school, and more experienced teachers scored lower on autonomy-supportive approaches, and higher on controlling and chaotic approaches. The findings also showed that, after controlling for gender, school level, and teaching experience, need satisfaction showed a direct significant effect on autonomous motivation and an indirect effect on participative, attuning, guiding, and clarifying approaches via autonomous motivation. Need frustration showed a direct significant effect on controlled motivation and amotivation and an indirect effect on demanding, domineering, abandoning, and awaiting approaches via controlled motivation and amotivation. Another noteworthy result is the positive relationship between need satisfaction and controlled motivation. Our results underscore the role that PE teachers’ personal traits play in the adaptive motivational mechanisms underlying their variety of (de)motivating approaches to PE teaching. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2021-127897NA-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es 3.3 2024 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 76 / 762 = 0.1 2024 Q1 T1 1.306 2024 Education 2024 Q1 Sports Science 2024 Q1 Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation 2024 Q1 Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 2024 Q1 7.9 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion García-González, Luis Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-8115-0649 Burgueño, Rafael Diloy-Peña, Sergio Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-1357-9771 Abós, Ángel Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-1543-5109 3001 187 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Expres.Music.Plást.Corp. Área Didáctica Expres.Corporal 1006 245 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Fisiatría y Enfermería Área Educación Física y Depor. 31, 1 (2024), [41 pp.] European Physical Education Review European Physical Education Review 1356-336X 1447686 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/135572/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 1300823 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/135572/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:135572 articulos driver 2026-02-17-20:33:40 ARTICLE