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

Table 5 Relationship between sex, extracurricular school-based sports participation, community sports participation and autonomous motivation towards sports

	Autonomous motivation towards sports (Model 2)
Parameter	Null model 2	Model 2a	Model 2b
Fixed part	β (S.E.)	β (S.E.)	β (S.E.)
Intercept	4.15 (0.04)	4.13 (0.03)	3.38 (0.10)
Age		0.03 (0.03)	0.03 (0.03)
SES (high)^a		0.05 (0.04)	−0.02 (0.04)
Controlled motivation		0.30 (0.03)***	0.26 (0.03)***
Amotivation		−0.64 (0.03)***	−0.55 (0.03)***
Pupil sex (girl)^b			0.32 (0.13)**
Extracurricular school-based sports participation (yes)^c			0.58 (0.12)***
Community sports participation (yes)^d			0.90 (0.13)***
Girl x extracurricular school-based sports			−0.55 (0.16)***
Girl x community sports			−0.45 (0.16)**
Extracurricular school-based sports x community sports			−0.49 (0.14)***
Girl x extracurricular school-based sports x community sports			0.58 (0.19)**
Random part	σ² (S.E.)	σ² (S.E.)	σ² (S.E.)
School-level variance	0.02 (0.01)*	0.00 (0.01)	0.01 (0.01)
Class-level variance	0.01 (0.01)	0.01 (0.01)	0.01 (0.01)
Pupil-level variance	0.66 (0.03)***	0.43 (0.02)***	0.36 (0.02)***
Deviance test model	2 556.76	2 116.65***	1947.14***
Χ² (df)		440.11 (4)	169.51 (11)

Note. Values in parentheses are standard errors.
*p < .05; **p < .01, ***p < .001.
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.

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