Supplementary file 1_What students pursue matters: longitudinal associations between goal contents and life skills in university physical education.docx

This study examined the prospective and possible reverse-direction associations between intrinsic and extrinsic goal contents and five life skills among students in university physical education.</p>Methods<p>A two-wave cross-lagged panel design was employed over one academic semester with 347 students nested within 26 university physical education class sections.

Participants completed self-report measures of intrinsic and extrinsic goals and five domains of life skills (teamwork, goal setting, time management, social skills, and leadership) at the beginning (T1) and end (T2) of the semester.</p>Results<p>After accounting for prior levels of the study variables and sex, T1 intrinsic goals showed prospective associations with T2 time management and leadership in the unadjusted results, but only the association with time management remained statistically significant after the Holm correction.