Abstract
Title: Coaches, peers and parents' autonomy support and its predictive ca- pacity on young athletes' self-determined motivation. Abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of youth sports' socialization agents on athletes' self-determined motivation. We used a transversal methodology and assessed, via questionnaires, the pre- dictive capacity of coaches, peers and parental autonomy support on au- tonomous regulation, controlled regulation and amotivation of 269 athletes age ranged between 11 and 17 years old, through regression analyses. Re- sults showed that the perception of coaches' autonomy support in first place, followed by parental and peers', predicted a more autonomous be- havioral regulation. The perception of coaches' autonomy support also played the role of protective factor for the athletes' amotivation. Our dis- cussion, in line with Vallerand's hierarchical model, suggests that in a spe- cific context such as sports, the most influent autonomy support would be provided by the most authoritative figure in that given context, specifically coaches for this case.
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