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Personality and motivation of physical activity in adolescent girls: effects of perceived parental support and social physical anxiety

Authors: Zahra Fathirezaie, Georgian Badicu, Fatma Hilal Yagin, Mohamadtaghi Aghdasi, Seyed Hojjat Zamani Sani, Kosar Abbaspour, Özgür Mülazımoğlu Ballı, Sara Entezar, Luca Paolo Ardigò

Published in: BMC Public Health | Issue 1/2024

Abstract

In the present study, we investigated the relationship between personality and motivation for physical activity while introducing perceived parental support and social physical anxiety in adolescent girls (N = 318, M_age: 16.19 ± 0.51 years). The present study was a retrospective correlational study that was conducted to analyze of a path model. Dark triad traits: Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy, student’s motivation for physical activity, social physique anxiety, and participants’ perceptions of parents’ behaviors were measured. The findings indicated that psychopathy and Machiavellianism were directly and indirectly associated with motivation for physical activity, but Narcissism could only directly predict the motivation for physical activity. Also, need-thwarting (the most), need-supportive and social physical anxiety could predict motivation for physical activity. This model of the result suggests that among adolescent girls, dark triad personality could, directly and indirectly, predict motivation with need-supportive and need-thwarting and also social physical anxiety. It seems that the sense of importance and more attention to oneself in adolescent girls, which exists in the narcissistic personality, can directly lead to more motivation for physical activity. Also, the duplicitous ways of Machiavellian people in pursuing their motives were confirmed in this research.

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Title: Personality and motivation of physical activity in adolescent girls: effects of perceived parental support and social physical anxiety
Authors: Zahra Fathirezaie
Georgian Badicu
Fatma Hilal Yagin
Mohamadtaghi Aghdasi
Seyed Hojjat Zamani Sani
Kosar Abbaspour
Özgür Mülazımoğlu Ballı
Sara Entezar
Luca Paolo Ardigò
Publication date: 01-12-2024
Publisher: BioMed Central
Keyword: Anxiety
Published in: BMC Public Health / Issue 1/2024
Electronic ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18060-5

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