Estilo de liderazgo transformacional, necesidades psicológicas básicas, motivación autónoma e intención de ser físicamente activo del alumnado de Educación Física

The main objective of the study was to analysethe predictive power of transformational leadership style of the Physical Education (PE) teachers, support for basic psychological needs, satisfaction of the three psychological needs and autonomous motivation on students' intention to be physically active. To this end, a structural equation model was tested with 619 PE students with a mean age of 14.37 years (SD= 1.57). Results indicatedthat transformational leadership style positively predicted students' perceptionsof strategies to support basic psychological needs (β= .86). In turn, need support predicted the satisfaction of needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness. Competence and relatedness satisfaction predicted autonomous motivation,explaining 68% of its variance. Finally, students' autonomous motivation predicted their intention to be physically active outside of school.These findings highlight the importance of the PE teacher's leadership style and its relationship with other motivational variables in predicting students' intention to be physically active.