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

Table 3

Results from the linear regression analyses testing the contribution of competence motive and social motive on the outcome variables (perceptions of competence and relatedness) by gender.

Predictors	Perceived competence
	Boys			Girls
	𝛽	𝑡	𝑅^2	𝛽	𝑡	𝑅^2
Competence motive	.27	9.08^***		.23	7.83^***
Social motive	.09	2.91^**	.10	.07	2.24^*	.07
Predictors	Perceived relatedness
	Boys			Girls
	𝛽	𝑡	𝑅^2	𝛽	𝑡	𝑅^2
Competence motive	.16	5.36^***		–.02	–.65
Social motive	.21	6.95^***	.10	.26	8.82^***	.06

^*𝑃≤.05, ^**𝑃≤.01, ^***𝑃≤.001.