Survey on Sport Motivation, Aggression, and Self-Regulation in 485 Undergraduates

485 students aged 18–25 from a public university completed validated scales measuring sport motivation, emotional intelligence, self-control, and aggression. The dataset supports a serial mediation analysis showing sport motivation is associated with lower aggression via emotional intelligence and self-control. The data was uploaded by Lili Wang on March 18, 2026, under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Testing serial mediation models based on the described relationships between sport motivation, emotional intelligence, self-control, and aggression.
• Analyzing associations between different types of sport motivation (e.g., autonomous vs. controlled) and psychological traits.
• Replicating or extending the cross-sectional analysis of self-regulatory resources in a student population.

Strengths

• Includes responses from 485 participants, providing a substantive sample for analysis.
• Uses validated psychological scales (Sport Motivation Scale II, Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale, Self-Control Scale, Brief Aggression Questionnaire).
• Analysis includes sensitivity tests with alternative operationalizations of key constructs.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is cross-sectional and self-reported, limiting causal and temporal inferences as noted in the description.
• The dataset is small at 56.1 KB, indicating limited scope and likely a single analysis table.

Provenance

Source

Lili Wang via figshare.

Collection Method

Cross-sectional survey administered to university students.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 07:42:12.

Geography

Data collected from a public university; specific location not stated.