Relations Between Students' Self-Directedness and Their Academic Engagement and Creative Performance in Physical Education Classes

This study aims to investigate the extent to which students' self-directedness affects their academic engagement and creative performance in physical education classes. For this purpose, the study set middle and high school students in Gyeonggi Province as its population and selected 338 through convenience sampling. Collected data was analyzed in multiple regression with the SPSS Win Ver 23.0 statistical program. The findings were as follows: First, students' self-directedness had statistically significant effects on their academic engagement in PE classes. Second, their academic engagement had statistically significant impacts on their creative performance, but vitality, one of academic engagement's subfactors, had no impact on it. Finally, their self-directedness had statistically significant influences on their creative performance in PE classes.