doi:10.1016/j.tate.2025.105168engMayo-Rota, CarlosAbós, ÁngelHaerens, LeenDe Cocker, KatrienGarcía-González, LuisHow pre-service physical education teachers’ motivational profiles shape their (de)motivating teaching profilesART-2025-145211Following a cross-sectional design with 554 pre-service physical education teachers (Mage = 25.03 years-old; SD = ± 4.31; 67.8 % male), this study aimed to identify their motivational and teaching profiles and examine the relationships between them. Four distinct motivational profiles and four teaching profiles emerged. More self-determined motivational profiles were associated with more adaptive teaching profiles. Conversely, less self-determined motivational profiles were linked to less adaptive teaching profiles. These findings underscore the importance of fostering self-determined motivation in teacher education programs to promote more motivating teaching approaches and better student outcomes.2025http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/16276510.1016/j.tate.2025.105168http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/162765oai:zaguan.unizar.es:162765info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA-CUS/702-2022info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S01-24TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION 165 (2025), 105168 [13 pp.]byhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.esinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess