Building Bridges between Motivation and Self-Regulation in Sport. Exercise, and Physical Education

Patrick Gaudreau

University of Ottawa, Canada

Citation

Gaudreau, P. (2014). Building Bridges between Motivation and Self-Regulation in Sport. Exercise, and Physical Education. International Journal of Sport Psychology, 45(6), 505-515. doi:10.7352/IJSP.2014.45.505

Abstract

Motivation and self-regulation are two building pillars of sport, exercise, and physical education. The goal of this special issue is to create bridges between these two pillars to better explicate how they respectively influence consequential outcomes of athletes, exercisers, and physical education students. Before presenting the special issue, an overview of the motivation and self-regulation constructs is presented. This special issue contains six empirical studies in which the researchers have examined some self-regulatory functions combined with some relevant motivational factors. In each article, authors were encouraged to insightfully reflect upon how their findings are shedding light to our effort to bring together principles of motivation and self-regulation.

Keywords: Exercise, Motivation, Physical activity, Physical education, Self- Regulation, Sport