The Relationship Between Adolescents’ Self-Directedness and Physical Education Class Engagement: The Mediating Role of Error Perception

Key Points

• This research analyzes the relationship between adolescents' self-directedness, error perception, and engagement in physical education classes.
• Surveyed 295 high school students using questionnaires on self-directedness, error perception, and class engagement.
• Utilized SPSS and Amos software for reliability analysis, descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and structural modeling.
• Verified mediation effects using the bootstrap method.
• Self-directedness positively influences error perception (β=0.672, p<.001).
• Self-directedness positively impacts physical education class engagement (β=0.202, p<.05).
• Error perception significantly enhances class engagement (β=0.599, p<.001).
• Error perception partially mediates the relationship between self-directedness and class engagement.