The relationship between physical education teachers' competence support and middle school students' participation in sports: a chain mediation model of perceived competence and exercise persistence

This study explores the relationship between physical education teachers' support and middle school students' participation in sports. It also clarifies this relationship's mediating roles of perceived competence and exercise persistence. A questionnaire survey involved 879 Chinese middle school students, consisting of 434 males and 445 females. The results indicate a significant positive correlation between teachers' competence support and students' participation in sports (p < 0.01).Perceived competence and exercise persistence as important mediators between teachers' competence support and students' involvement in sports, with the mediation effect comprising independent mediation by perceived competence and exercise persistence and a chain mediation effect involving both. The effect value was 0.156, with contributions of 60.4%, 43.6%, and 73.1% to the total mediating effect, respectively. In physical education courses, teachers should enhance their competence to support students, ..., This study utilized a stratified cluster sampling method to conduct a survey of 1,400 students from ten middle schools in Kaifeng City, from March 10 to April 10, 2024. The survey questionnaires were distributed and collected on-site, resulting in 1,400 issued questionnaires and 1,120 returned., , # The relationship between physical education teachers' competence support and middle school students' participation in sports: a chain mediation model of perceived competence and exercise persistence

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.brv15dvkd](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.brv15dvkd)

## Description of the data and file structure

Description: This study data utilized a stratified cluster sampling method to conduct a survey of 1,400 students from ten middle schools in Kaifeng City, from March 10 to April 10, 2024. The survey questionnaires were distributed and collected on-site, resulting in 1,400 issued questionnaires and 1,120 returned. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Henan University on March 1, 2024 (approval number: HUSOM 2024-139).

### Files and variables

File list : PLOSONE.sav

Variables : JSZC is student perceived physical education teacher competence support data, form 1 to 15. YDJC is exercise persistence and effort data, from 1 to 4. YDLQ is the joy of sp...