TY - JOUR AU - Vernegaard, Kristian AU - Johansen, Bjørn Tore AU - Haugen, Tommy PY - 2017/09/25 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Students’ motivation in a disc golf-lesson and a soccer-lesson: An experimental study in the Physical Education setting JF - Journal for Research in Arts and Sports Education JA - JASEd VL - 1 IS - 3 SE - Forskningsartikler DO - 10.23865/jased.v1.629 UR - https://jased.net/index.php/jased/article/view/629 SP - AB - <p>The purpose of physical education (PE) in both Norway and Denmark is that PE should inspire to a lifelong active lifestyle. Based on the self-determination theory, the aim of the present study was to compare students’ intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and perceived competence in a lifestyle sport inspired PE-lesson (disc golf) to a traditional PE-lesson (soccer) and general PE. In addition, we aimed to investigate whether differences in motivation and perceived competence was conditional of the students´ relative attitude toward PE. The result of the study revealed that perceived competence was higher in the disc golf-lesson compared to the soccer-lesson and general PE. No overall differences in intrinsic motivation were found. However, when investigating differences in intrinsic motivation according to the students´ relative attitude toward PE, the results indicated that the students with a negative attitude toward PE was significantly more intrinsically motivated in disc golf-lesson compared to soccer-lesson and general PE.  The findings may be seen as preliminary recommendations to physical educators to vary the activity choices in physical education classes.</p> ER -