What They Want and What They Get: Self-Reported Motives, Perceived Competence, and Relatedness in Adolescent Leisure Activities

Table 1

Descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation (SD), number (n)), and t-test of differences between boys and girls.

Descriptives
Study variables	Boys			Girls
	Mean	SD	𝑛	Mean	SD	𝑛	𝑡-test	Cohen’s 𝑑
Competence motives	2.61	.41	1557	2.59	.39	1502	1.68	.06
Social motives	2.53	.47	1545	2.58	.41	1504	−3.32^**	.13
Team sport participation	1.14	1.31	1408	.65	1.09	1365	10.63^***	.41
Individual sport participation	1.87	1.88	1335	1.30	1.49	1295	8.72^***	.34
Music and art participation	.54	1.28	1341	1.06	1.56	1336	−9.5^***	.38
Civic activity participation	.27	.68	1348	.29	.69	1345	–.90	.04
Perceived competence	4.02	.74	1581	3.92	.71	1493	3.55^***	.17
Perceived relatedness	4.19	.72	1564	4.21	.73	1496	−.71	.03

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