Satisfaction of basic psychological needs in secondary and high school physical education students during the Covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

Basic psychological needs play an important role in the process and formation of students. The objective of this study was to analyze the satisfaction of basic psychological needs in middle and high school physical education students during the Covid-19 pandemic. A descriptive, comparative and correlational study was carried out with the participation of 2003 secondary and high school students from the central and northern states of Mexico, with an average age of 14.80 years (SD= 1.68). The KMO test (.935) and Bartlett's sphericity test obtained adequate and significant values (p