A survey of contextual factors and psychological needs satisfaction as correlates of youth athletes’ developmental outcomes in the Ethiopian sports academy context

Table 4 Summary of the 2-step hierarchical regression model predicting gains in higher-order cognitive skills (n = 257)

Dependent variable	Independent variable	B	SE^a	t value	p	β	F value	Adj.R²
Step one
Gains in higher-order cognitive skills	Autonomy	− 0.17	0.14	− 1.27	0.207	− 0.18	67.21***	.44
	Competence	0.43	0.22	1.97	0.050	0.41^ms
	Relatedness	0.48	0.14	1.22	0.001	0.43***
Step two
Gains in higher-order cognitive skills	Gender	0.00	0.07	0.00	0.997	0.00	26.62***	.46
	Sport type	− 0.08	0.06	− 1.41	0.160	− 0.07
	Readiness	0.05	0.06	0.90	0.371	0.04
	Attendance rate	0.05	0.03	1.83	0.068	0.09
	Personal training hours	0.05	0.03	1.42	0.156	0.07
	Autonomy	− 0.19	0.14	− 1.40	0.163	− 0.20
	Competence	0.43	0.22	1.93	0.055	0.40^ms
	Relatedness	0.46	0.14	3.16	0.002	0.41**
							Δ Adj R²	.02

^aStandard Error, readiness, readiness for academic sports education; B, unstandardized beta coefficient; β, standardized beta coefficient; t value, the size of the difference relative to the variation; F value, a value on the F distribution; R², the goodness of fit of a model
p < .10 = marginally significant (ms), *p < .05. **p < .01. ***p < .001

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