The purpose of this paper was to contribute to the development of domestic health and sports science, by summarizing the trends in foreign research and systematically reviewing reviews of studies on physical activity and motivation over the last 10 years. A comprehensive literature search was conducted using electronic databases using search terms such as "motive" and "physical activity." In addition, we performed text mining of the identified abstracts and conducted a metaanalysis using the R

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... oftware. The main results were as follows: 1. We searched for articles on motivation in relation to physical activity, and the following studies (n = 6,562) met the inclusion criteria. The variables related to motivation and the number of studies were as follows: "enjoyment" (four studies), "perceived autonomy," "perceived competence," and "perceived relatedness" of basic psychological needs theory (three studies). Moreover, there were eight studies on "amotivation," "external regulation," "introduced regulation," "identified regulation," "integrated regulation," and "intrinsic motivation" of self-determination theory. There were two studies on "task" and "goal" of goal orientation theory, and one paper on "mastery" related to motivational climate. In addition, we included one paper each on "social status" and "other's expectations."