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Table 4 Relationship between sex, extracurricular school-based sports participation, community sports participation and weekly self-reported physical activity

From: Extracurricular school-based sports as a motivating vehicle for sports participation in youth: a cross-sectional study

Weekly self-reported physical activity (Model 1)

Parameter

Null model 1

Model 1a

Model 1b

Model 1c

Fixed part

β (S.E.)

β (S.E.)

β (S.E.)

β (S.E.)

Intercept

581.04 (21.78)

588.48 (24.10)

446.73 (62.62)

499.99 (38.15)

Age

 

64.88 (19.48)***

52.60 (19.13)**

50.92 (19.31)**

SES (high)a

 

−15.65 (24.06)

−35.33 (23.35)

−36.61 (23.31)

Autonomous motivation

 

156.94 (17.57)***

117.70 (18.28)***

118.24 (18.23)***

Controlled motivation

 

15.05 (19.05)

4.59 (18.37)

5.95 (18.43)

Amotivation

 

34.64 (19.89)

27.01 (19.14)

24.67 (19.17)

Pupil sex (girl)b

  

−102.38 (74.18)

−135.45 (22.89)***

Extracurricular school-based sports participation (yes)c

  

187.22 (68.93)*

157.62 (28.54)***

Community sports participation (yes)d

  

85.47 (77.59)

57.07 (27.95)*

Girl x extracurricular school-based sports

  

59.36 (92.40)

 

Girl x community sports

  

40.27 (95.77)

 

Extracurricular school-based sports x community sports

  

11.23 (85.54)

 

Girl x extracurricular school-based sports x community sports

  

−184.65 (114.12)

 

Random part

σ2 (S.E.)

σ2 (S.E.)

σ2 (S.E.)

σ2 (S.E.)

School-level variance

3 712.82 (4 501.84)

5 858.29 (4 095.83)

4 360.46 (3 835.24)

4 343.75 (3 958.93)

Class-level variance

11 240.89 (5 295.85)*

7 318.49 (4 011.82)

8 408.89 (4 135.84)*

9 040.08 (4 321.37)*

Pupil-level variance

151 314.31 (6 796.73)*** 136 386.27 (6 125.50)*** 124 771.37 (5 604.52)*** 125 725.64 (5 647.62)***

Deviance test model

15 545.97

15 434.61***

15 344.24***

15 353.79***

χ2 (df)

 

11.36 (5)

90.37 (12)

80.18 (8)

  1. Note. Values in parentheses are standard errors.
  2. *p < .05; **p < .01, ***p < .001.
  3. Reference category = 0; a0 = low and medium SES, 1 = high SES; b0 = boy, 1 = girl; c0 = no participation in extracurricular school-based sports in the current school year, 1 = participation in extracurricular school-based sports in the current school year; d0 = no participation in community sports in the current school year, 1 = participation in community sports in the current school year.
  4. Model 1b and 1c were both compared to model 1a to calculate χ2.