Introduction: Inactivity and lack of movement have been increasing significantly in children and adolescents in recent decades and have exposed people to the risk of contracting various diseases and discomforts in the short and long term. One of the influencing factors on physical activity is perceived motor competence, which is a subset of self-perception and plays an important role in the active and healthy lifestyle of children. The purpose of this research was to investigate the The Relationship Between Perceived Motor Competence with Sports Participation Motivation and Physical Activity Enjoyment among 10-12 year old students in Yazd city.
Methodology: The current research method was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population consisted of all boys and girls aged 10 to 12 years old in Yazd city, from which 60 male and female students of the fourth to sixth grades with a range of 10 to 12 years were selected using available sampling. In order to collect information, the questionnaires of perceived motor competence of Dreiskaemper et al. (2018), physical activity enjoyment by Moore et al. (2009) and the of sports participation motivation by Gill et al. (1983) were used. The research results were conducted using Pearson's correlation test in SPSS software version 24.
Results: The findings of the research showed that the perceived motor competence has a positive and significant relationship with the sports participation motivation (r=0.48) and the physical activity enjoyment (r=0.24) of students aged 10 to 12 years.
Conclusion: According to the findings of the present study, it can be said that the higher the perceived motor competence among 10-12-year-old children, the sports participation motivation and physical activity enjoyment will be greater. According to the results, it is suggested that the physical educators and coaches should pay special attention to the students' perceived motor competence in order to increase the sports participation motivation and physical activity enjoyment