Carlos Mayo-Rota

Biographic Data

ID6507914
NAMECarlos Mayo-Rota
GIVEN NAMESCarlos
FAMILY NAMEMayo-Rota
SIGNATUREMAYO-ROTA C
AFFILIATIONSUniversidad de Zaragoza
ORCID0000-0002-4869-6698
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Effects of Sport Education Model on Meaningful Experiences in Physical Education and (De)Motivating Teaching Approaches

    Open AccessZilia Villafaña-Samper, Diego Esteban-Torres et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2026

    This study aimed to examine the effects of a basketball teaching unit based on the Sport Education Model on students’ meaningful experiences in Physical Education and their perceptions of (de)motivating teaching approaches used by their Physical Education teachers. A total of 102 secondary school students (49 girls; Mage = 13.66, SD = 0.72) participated in a pre-experimental, single group pretest-posttest design. Students completed the Meaningful…

  • How Need-Thwarting Teaching Styles Are Combined for Physical Education Teachers

    Open AccessJavier García-Cazorla, Carlos Mayo-Rota et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2026

    Grounded in the circumplex model, this study examined how need-thwarting teaching styles, control and chaos, are combined by Physical Education teachers (as perceived by students) and how these combinations differ in relation to students’ basic psychological needs and motivational outcomes within (experiences and perceived learning) and outside (intention to be physically active) the Physical Education context. A total of 431 Spanish secondary sc…

  • Perfiles de preferencias de aprendizaje social y diferencias en comportamientos prosociales en estudiantes de Educación Física

    Open AccessJavier García-Cazorla, Carlos Mayo-Rota et al.ARTICLEApunts. Educacion Fisica y Deportes2026

    Desde hace mucho tiempo, se reconoce que las clases de Educación Física (EF) no solo promueven el desarrollo de las habilidades y conductas motoras de los estudiantes, sino que también brindan un valioso contexto para fomentar el aprendizaje social y emocional. A pesar de ello, existe poca investigación que haya explorado las preferencias de aprendizaje social de los estudiantes de EF y su relación con las conductas prosociales. Este estudio tení…

  • Transforming Physical Education teaching through “MotivaDosEF”

    Open AccessJavier García-Cazorla, Luis García-González et al.ARTICLETeaching and Teacher Education2026References: 2

  • Study protocol of a non-randomized controlled trial on a circumplex model-based motivational training program for pre-service physical education teachers

    Open AccessCarlos Mayo-Rota, Ángel Abós et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Physical Education Teacher Education is crucial, as it directly influences how pre-service Physical Education teachers will teach, motivate, and engage their future students. However, training programs that foster motivating teaching styles while minimizing demotivating ones remain scarce, particularly during initial teacher education. This study presents the protocol for a non-randomized controlled trial evaluating a motivational-based training …

  • How pre-service physical education teachers’ motivational profiles shape their (de)motivating teaching profiles

    Open AccessCarlos Mayo-Rota, Ángel Abós et al.ARTICLETeaching and Teacher Education2025References: 4

    Following a cross-sectional design with 554 pre-service physical education teachers ( M age = 25.03 years-old; SD = ± 4.31; 67.8 % male), this study aimed to identify their motivational and teaching profiles and examine the relationships between them. Four distinct motivational profiles and four teaching profiles emerged. More self-determined motivational profiles were associated with more adaptive teaching profiles. Conversely, less self-determi…