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The COVID-19 pandemic further threatens both mental and physical health through stress, PTSD risk, obesity, and sedentary behavior, particularly affecting children’s health and behavioral outcomes. 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Given the fact that the physical activity behaviors children developed during their childhood have a long-term impact on their lifelong physical activity habits and healthy development, the increased levels of sedentary behavior and obesity call for immediate actions, especially during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic (Sallis et al., 2020) .  \nThe COVID-19 pandemic can lead to mental health problems such as acute stress disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as well as other physical health problems such as obesity and a sedentary lifestyle (Margaritis et al., 2020) . Exposure to this traumatic COVID-19 pandemic especially impacts health and behavioral outcomes for school-aged children (Rundle et al., 2020) . Thus, youth sport programs should provide favorable environments that introduce school-aged children to beneficial lifestyle behaviors and encourage them to engage in regular physical activity with appropriate social distancing (Chen et al., 2020) . Furthermore, positive motivation in youth sport programs could prompt children to adopt physically active and healthy lifestyles as adults (Chen et al., 2020; Gu & Zhang, 2016; Shen et al., 2020) .  \nDespite the assertion that youth sport programs can play an important role in the promotion of children’s physical activity and health-related outcomes (i.e., physical health, mental health, social health, and cognitive health), to date scholars and researchers have not systematically investigated the environmental and psychosocial factors that influence physical activity and health-related outcomes within youth sport settings during the COVID-19 pandemic (Moore et al., 2020) . To encourage school-aged children to adopt a healthy and  \nphysically active lifestyle during the COVID-19 pandemic (Gu et al., 2018; Sallis et al., 2020), a clear understanding of the environmental and psychosocial factors that support children’s motivation becomes an important issue for promotion of physical activity and health-related outcomes such as health-related physical fitness, cognition, quality of life, and well-being (Gu et al., 2012) .  \nSelf-determination theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 1991; Ryan & Deci, 2000; Ryan et al., 2007) is a promising theoretical framework that is being used to explain children’s physical activity motivation and behavior. Deci and Ryan (1991, 1985) proposed a self-determination continuum, ranging from intrinsic motivation, integrated regulation, identified regulation, introjected regulation, external regulation, and amotivation. Three innate psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness are key concepts within SDT to understand the regulation of behavior (Deci & Ryan, 2000) . These three psychological needs have been combined into a composite variable named basic psychological needs (Deci, Ryan, & Williams, 1996; Ryan & Deci, 2002) . According to SDT, fulfilling these basis psychological needs is the mechanism through which children move toward more self-determined motivation and healthy behaviors.  \nVallerand (1997, 2000) has outlined the antecedentsand outcomes of the different types of motivation in his hierarchical model of motivation. This hierarchical model of motivation is framed in","cbCaisvhFX5enTNt","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisvhFX5enTNt","pdf",448636,"English","# Introduction\n## Physical activity, obesity, and sedentary risk during COVID-19\n## Youth sport programs and supportive motivational environments\n# Theoretical framework: Self-Determination Theory\n## Psychological needs and motivation regulation\n## Hierarchical motivation model and environment-to-outcomes pathway","[{\"question\":\"Why are youth sport programs considered important during the COVID-19 pandemic?\",\"answer\":\"Because they can provide favorable physical and social environments that encourage children to engage in regular physical activity while also supporting beneficial lifestyle behaviors under appropriate distancing.\"},{\"question\":\"What framework explains how environments influence children’s motivation in youth sports?\",\"answer\":\"Self-determination theory, which emphasizes the roles of competence, autonomy, and relatedness in shaping self-determined motivation and subsequent healthy behavior.\"},{\"question\":\"What gap in research motivates the focus on this topic?\",\"answer\":\"Prior studies have not systematically examined how environmental and psychosocial factors within youth sport settings during COVID-19 relate to physical activity and health-related outcomes through basic psychological needs and types of motivation.\"}]","Developing a Motivationally-Supportive Environment to Promote Children’ Physical Activity and Health in Youth Sports During the COVID-19 Pandemic | PDF",1792035337]