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This study investigated students' perceptions of their behavioural and emotional self-regulation after a six-to-eight week implementation of classroom physical activity breaks (CPAB). It also explored students' perceptions of their affective states before and after CPAB, as well as their interest and engagement during CPAB. Eighty-two elementary students aged from 6 to 10 years filled in booklets each week during the study. Among them, 14 students with behavioural difficulties as experimental group and 14 students as control group completed the Self-Regulation Questionnaire at the beginning and the end of the experimental design. Repeated measure ANOVA revealed an interaction effect (condition X group) on emotional self-regulation among students with behavioural difficulties compared to their peers after CPAB. A descriptive analysis of the booklets revealed the positive reactions of students to CPAB, especially those with behavioural difficulties. These findings thus support the value of CPAB for students with behavioural difficulties, and open new perspectives of research.

The present field experiment investigated the effects of accurate and non-accurate performance feedback on causal attributions, success expectancy, performance, and persistence on a motor task. Forty-six male middle-schoolers were randomly assigned to a Contingent (accurate) feedback, Non-contingent (non-accurate) feedback, or Control (no feedback) group and completed a challenging motor task. An initial treatment phase provided either accurate contingent feedback or yoked non-contingent feedback during the task, and measured task performance, attributions about performance, and success expectancy about future performance. A subsequent testing phase (same task) used the same measures and added a measure of motivation (persistence). Compared to the Contingent and Control groups, Noncontingent outcome feedback during the initial treatment phase led to more personally uncontrollable attributions, lower success expectancy, poorer performance, and lower persistence in the subsequent test phase. Despite a high rate of failure in the motor task for both feedback groups in the treatment phase, the Contingent group--getting accurate feedback about performance--had a higher sense of personal control and expectancy of success than the Non-contingent feedback group initially, and maintained these perceptions in the subsequent test phase where they also had better performance and higher levels of persistence than the Non-contingent group. Non-contingent feedback in an initial motor task appears to induce helplessness deficits in subsequent task performance and persistence. In contrast, providing accurate (contingent) feedback about achieved performance appears to protect against performance and motivational losses.

This study investigated students' perceptions of their behavioural and emotional self‐regulation after a six‐to‐eight week implementation of classroom physical activity breaks (CPAB). It also explored students' perceptions of their affective states before and after CPAB, as well as their interest and engagement during CPAB. Eighty‐two elementary students aged from 6 to 10 years filled in booklets each week during the study. Among them, 14 students with behavioural difficulties as experimental group and 14 students as control group completed the Self‐Regulation Questionnaire at the beginning and the end of the experimental design. Repeated measure ANOVA revealed an interaction effect (condition X group) on emotional self‐regulation among students with behavioural difficulties compared to their peers after CPAB. A descriptive analysis of the booklets revealed the positive reactions of students to CPAB, especially those with behavioural difficulties. These findings thus support the value of CPAB for students with behavioural difficulties, and open new perspectives of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examined the relationships between perceived motivational climate and observed aggression as a function of competitive level in youth male French handball. Players (n = 162) and coaches (n = 21) from 15 teams completed a French version of the Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire (Walling, Duda, & Chi, 1993). Sixteen handball games (8 per context) were videotaped and observed on monitor by means of a grid allowing the distinction between instrumental and hostile aggression. Results indicated that interregional level players (higher level) displayed more instrumental aggression than departmental level players (lower level). Furthermore, discriminant analysis revealed that, at the interregional level, players who were classified as highly perceived performance-oriented motivational climate displayed more instrumental aggression than lowly classified ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractObjectiveMethodsResultsConclusionSelf-esteem may be adversely affected in adults with overweight or obesity, particularly women and those showing higher BMIs, although there is no consensus in the literature. The objective of the current study, based on reported cross-sectional associations, was to clarify the relationship between global self-esteem and overweight/obesity in adults.Four databases were searched to identify eligible literature published prior to June 2024, and a systematic review was conducted of the 120 articles identified. Meta-analytic processing of 38 eligible articles at the study level and of the participant data obtained from 16 studies (n = 2,972) was conducted for quantitative synthesis. Potential moderators, such as gender, age, BMI, type of assessment, and treatment-seeking status, were tested.The summary correlation between BMI and self-esteem across studies was r = −0.11, 95% CI [−0.17, −0.05], z = −3.70, p < .001. None of the tested moderators affected this association, although the meta-analysis of the individual participant data provided by the authors revealed a small effect of gender and a non-linear evolution of self-esteem linked to BMI.The present study found a negative relationship between global self-esteem and overweight/obesity in adults, which suggests a negative, although weak, effect of excess weight on self-perception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a study which explores the players' views on given aggression accounts in sports. It includes coaches and 119 French male soccer players, ages 18 to 24, who were asked to a role-play experiment wherein four aggressive acts could either be hostile (to harm) or instrumental (to gain the ball). Results show that most players prefer to be silent or apologize than to deny, excuse or justify. Hostile preference is considered illicit and often discouraged by players and coaches.