Psychology, 2018, 9, 179-203 http://www.scirp.org/journal/psych ISSN Online: 2152-7199 ISSN Print: 2152-7180 DOI: 10.4236/psych.2018.92012 Feb. 12, 2018 179 Psychology Multi-Parametric Analysis of Aggressive Communication and Motivation Climate in Physical Education Stergiani Deliligka, Alexandra Bekiari Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Science, University of Thessaly, Trikala, Greece Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine verbal aggressiveness, argumenta- tiveness and motivation climate in a multi-parametric context. Nine hundred and three (903) students (448 males, 455 females), whose age varied from 10 to 17 years old (M = 13.8, SD = 2.3), participated in this study. The findings revealed that instructors’ verbal aggressiveness was positively related to per- formance climate and negatively to argumentativeness and mastery climate, while argumentativeness was positively related to mastery climate. Addition- ally, the multiple regression analysis presented that argumentativeness and the created motivational climate were negative predictors of verbal aggressiveness. High school students perceive their instructor more argumentative and re- ported the lower score on performance climate. Urban schools presented higher levels on verbal aggressiveness and performance climate. Students from 9 th grade proved to have higher score in verbal aggressiveness, 7 th grade in argumentativeness and mastery climate. Finally, students from 6 th grade perceived that their instructors created performance climate in higher levels. Furthermore, Mancova indicated that the covariates, mastery and perfor- mance climate explained a statistically significant proportion of variance of verbal aggressiveness and argumentativeness between classes. Moreover, in- structors who use low level of verbal aggressiveness proved to have higher score in argumentativeness and mastery climate. Also, high level of verbal ag- gressiveness was presented in performance climate. Finally, Ancova reported that argumentativeness was a significant covariate of verbal aggressiveness on performance climate. Keywords Verbal Aggressiveness, Argumentativeness, Motivational Climate, Perceptions, PE Teachers, Students How to cite this paper: Deliligka, S., & Bekiari , A. (2018). Multi-Parametric Analysis of Aggressive Communication and Motiva- tion Climate in Physical Education. Psychol- ogy, 9, 179-203. https://doi.org/10.4236/psych.2018.92012 Received: December 28, 2017 Accepted: February 9, 2018 Published: February 12, 2018 Copyright © 2018 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access