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To examine the relationship between physical education teachers' transformational leadership and college students' exercise adherence, testing physical self-efficacy and exercise motivation as serial mediators.

March 6, 2025Acta PsychologicaOpen Access

Effects of college students' perceived transformational leadership of physical education teachers on their exercise adherence: Serial-mediated roles of physical self-efficacy and exercise motivation

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WKWei KeMacao Polytechnic University LPLei PengZhejiang Chinese Medical University LWLingjie WangHengshui University

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Cross-sectional study reveals PE teacher transformational leadership boosts exercise adherence in college students, indicating self-efficacy and motivation drive physical activity habits.

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To examine the relationship between physical education teachers' transformational leadership and college students' exercise adherence, testing physical self-efficacy and exercise motivation as serial mediators.
Surveyed college students using validated measurement instruments (N=868 valid questionnaires).
Evaluated responses across the Transformational Teaching Questionnaire, Physical Self-Efficacy Scale, Exercise Motivation Scale, and Exercise Adherence Scale.
Conducted mediation analyses to test direct and indirect serial pathways connecting leadership style to exercise persistence.
College students' perception of physical education teachers' transformational leadership had a significant positive direct impact on exercise adherence.
Physical self-efficacy and exercise motivation each independently served as significant partial mediators between perceived transformational leadership and exercise adherence.
Physical self-efficacy and exercise motivation formed a significant serial mediating chain, wherein teacher leadership increased self-efficacy, which in turn amplified motivation and adherence.

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Ke et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d7769fef4aa71f97f31625 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104878

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Cross-sectional study reveals PE teacher transformational leadership boosts exercise adherence in college students, indicating self-efficacy and motivation drive physical activity habits.

Effects of college students' perceived transformational leadership of physical education teachers on their exercise adherence: Serial-mediated roles of physical self-efficacy and exercise motivation

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Effects of college students' perceived transformational leadership of physical education teachers on their exercise adherence: Serial-mediated roles of physical self-efficacy and exercise motivation

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