Motivational Climate Effect on the Development of Anxiety and Body Image in Education Students: A Structural Equation Model Melguizo Ibáñez, Eduardo González Valero, Gabriel Puertas Molero, Pilar Motivation is one of the key factors a2ecting the achievement of a speci3c task. -erefore, the present research aims to identify and establish the existing relationships between sport motivation, the anxiety-related disorder, and the own body perception, divided into (a) developing an explanatory model of the motivational climate towards sport and its relationship with anxiety and physical self-concept and (b) contrasting the structural model through a multigroup analysis according to sex. A descriptive, nonexperimental (ex post facto), and cross-sectional study of young university students was carried out. -e Perceived Motivational Climate Questionnaire for Sport (PMCSQ-2), the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and the Self-Concept Form 5 (AF-5) were used for data collection. -e data reveal that males show higher scores in all the variables that make up the ego climate and in the physical self-concept, while females show higher scores in the variables that make up the task climate and higher levels of anxiety. 2023-03-24T08:08:33Z 2023-03-24T08:08:33Z 2023-02-13 journal article Eduardo Melguizo-Ibáñez... [et al.]. "Motivational Climate Effect on the Development of Anxiety and Body Image in Education Students: A Structural Equation Model", Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, vol. 2023, Article ID 2613717, 9 pages, 2023. [https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/2613717] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/80794 10.1155/2023/2613717 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional Hindawi