Abstract
ABSTRACT Global self-worth is important for healthy development and learning, and is therefore highlighted as a major aim in the Norwegian physical education (PE) curriculum. Based on prior research this study aimed to assess potential differences in global self-worth and contextual basic need satisfaction among 2854 adolescents (47.5% boys, 52.5% girls, ages 13 and 16) participating in different movement contexts, and to determine whether basic need satisfaction in PE relates to global self-worth. Structural equation modeling analyses indicate that basic need satisfaction in PE relates significantly to global self-worth. However, adolescents who do not participate in movement contexts outside school report significantly lower basic need satisfaction in PE compared to their sports-active peers, and could possibly therefore experience reduced global self-worth development through PE. Findings support research showing that sports active youth reap most of the benefits of PE, and thus, that PE violates the principles of equal education.
Highlights
Global self-worth develops in the interactive relationships between the adolescent and the multitude of contexts this adolescent is involved in in his or her everyday life (Lerner, Lewin-Bizan, & Warren, 2011)
Analyses showed that adolescents who only participated in physical education (PE) (PE-only) and participants who were involved in PE and self-organized movement activity reported a lower level of global self-worth2 and less basic need satisfaction in PE compared to adolescents who were active in sports
Results from the present study show that students who did not participate in leisure-time movement contexts experienced both less basic need satisfaction in PE and less global self-worth compared to sports active students
Summary
Global self-worth develops in the interactive relationships between the adolescent and the multitude of contexts this adolescent is involved in in his or her everyday life (Lerner, Lewin-Bizan, & Warren, 2011). From the perspective of BNT (Ryan & Deci, 2017), the need to experience autonomy, competence, and relatedness is considered important independent of demographics and contexts Different contexts, such as organized sports, self-organized movement activity, and PE, have distinctive characteristics and may serve different peoples’ basic need satisfaction and global self-worth differently. According to prior research on self-organized movement activities and lifestyle sports in particular (Gilchrist & Wheaton, 2017; Säfvenbom, Wheaton, & Agans, 2018), involvement in such activities may affect basic psychological need satisfaction and global self-worth positively. PE presents a unique opportunity – and obligation – to promote basic psychological need satisfaction and global self-worth among all adolescents
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