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Global research trends in physical activity and motivation

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Abstract The purpose of this paper was to contribute to the development of domestic health and sports science, by summarizing the trends in foreign research and systematically reviewing reviews of studies on p...hysical activity and motivation over the last 10 years
A comprehensive literature search was conducted using electronic databases using search terms such as “motive” and “physical activity.” In addition, we performed text mining of the identified abstracts and conducted a metaanalysis using the R software.
The main results were as follows:
1. We searched for articles on motivation in relation to physical activity, and the following studies (n = 6,562) met the inclusion criteria. The variables related to motivation and the number of studies were as follows: “enjoyment” (four studies), “perceived autonomy,” “perceived competence,” and “perceived relatedness” of basic psychological needs theory (three studies). Moreover, there were eight studies on “amotivation,” “external regulation,” “introduced regulation,” “identified regulation,” “integrated regulation,” and “intrinsic motivation” of self-determination theory. There were two studies on “task” and “goal” of goal orientation theory, and one paper on “mastery” related to motivational climate. In addition, we included one paper each on “social status” and “other's expectations.”
2. We examined the correlations of the keyword “motive” by text mining, obtaining the following coefficients: “autonomy” (r = 0.54), “achieve” (r = 0.51), “intrinsic” (r = 0.50), and “amotivation” (r = 0.47). “Autonomy,” which appeared frequently and had a high correlation with motivation, was considered a particularly important term and was recognized as indispensable to explain motives for “competence,” “intent,” “achieve,” “intrinsic,” and “amotivation.”
3. We calculated the correlations for all variables in a meta-analysis and found that motivational variables tended to be significantly associated with physical activity variables (r = 0.22, 95% CI [0.16, 0.28]). Although the correlation coefficient was small, many findings so far have indicated that engagement in physical activity is related to motivation, and it is believed that the higher the motivation, the greater the level of the physical activity.
Although the heterogeneity indices were high because of differences in participants and measurement methods between the studies, there were positive correlations between each factor and physical activity, and the will to reach a goal was considered an important motivational factor.
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