Analysis of relationships between goal orientations, motivational climate, assessment of Physical Education and dispositional flow in secondary school Physical Education students

This study analyses from a social-cognitive perspective of goal achievement the key predictor variables of dispositional flow, including both dispositional orientation and perception of motivational climate in the classroom, as well as the evaluation of Physical Education (P.E.) students. Additionally, the study analyses the relationships between the different variables. A sample of 300 Physical Education students, between the ages of 14 and 18 years, participated in the study. Regression and correlations analyses were carried out on the data. The results show that significant predictors of dispositional flow are: dispositional orientation and P. E. students' evaluation. Task-involving motivational climate is only predictor of dispositional flow if it is considered the sole possible predictor variable.