Children’s Development Through Sports Competition: Derivative, Adjustive, Generative, and Maladaptive Approaches

Choi, Hong Suk; Johnson, Britton; Kim, Young K.

doi:10.1080/00336297.2013.861757

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“…A study, by Dionigi, Baker, and Horton (2011), on masters level sport participants found that such events can have a transformational impact on a person's identity, sense of volition as well as mental framework towards motivation. This along with other findings that relate to competition (Choi, Johnson, & Kim, 2014), personal growth and improved health outcomes (Eime, Young, Harvey, Charity, & Payne, 2013), and moral development (Rudd & Stoll, 2004) demonstrate a propensity to support the practitioners' assumptions of athletes making better employees.…”

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Do Athletic Experiences Lead to Desirable Workplace Motivation? A Proposed Exploratory Framework

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2019

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With an increasing level of attention given to the concept of motivation in the workforce, anecdotal evidence suggests that many employers have a preference towards hiring individuals with athletic backgrounds. While only limited research, at best, has studied this phenomenon to demonstrate any empirically supported framework of why former high school or college athletes may be perceived as more ideal employees, the following proposes a logical path forward to begin to empirically test the accuracy of the belief that sport participants and athletes could make better employees by specifically studying the transfer of a person’s motivational outlook from the athletic experience to the workplace.

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Do Athletic Experiences Lead to Desirable Workplace Motivation? A Proposed Exploratory Framework

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2019

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“…This indicates that there may be factors related to the competitive aspect of sports performance that are especially strongly related to good mental health. We can only speculate as to why there is a difference between participating in noncompetitive sports and participating in competitive ones, but it may be possible that, through competition, adolescents learn the process of setting goals, and pursue excellence, which involves taking more risks, reducing the fear of failure (32,33). It may also be that a sense of mastery and self-esteem is further developed in this group, although this needs to be examined further.…”

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Association Between Participating in Noncompetitive or Competitive Sports and Mental Health among Adolescents – a Norwegian Population-based Cross-sectional Study

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Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology

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Background: Mental health problems in adolescents have become a major public health challenge in many western countries. Many adolescents participate in noncompetitive or competitive sports for leisure. The aim of this study was to examine the association between participation in noncompetitive or competitive sports and mental health problems among Norwegian adolescents. Method: Data from a cross-sectional survey conducted among Norwegian junior high (N=9414) and high school students (N=10,571) aged 13 to 22 years were examined. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) was used for measuring mental health problems, in the form of total symptom scores and impact on daily life. Participation in sports was categorized as follows: 1) not participating; 2) participating in noncompetitive sports; and 3) participating in competitive sports. Sports were divided into individual and team sports. Weekly exercise, healthy diet, and number of friends were investigated as mediating factors, and age, gender, and perceived economic status were controlled for in the analysis. Results: Adolescents participating in either noncompetitive or competitive sports had fewer total symptoms and less impact of problems on their daily life compared with those not participating in sports. In particular, participation in team sports as opposed to participation in individual sports seemed to be associated with fewer mental health problems. Weekly exercise, healthy diet, and number of friends were found to be partially mediating factors, explaining some, but not all, of the association between participation in either sports group. Participation in competitive sports, especially, was associated with fewer mental health problems. Conclusions: Participation in sports, either noncompetitive or competitive, is associated with fewer mental health problems in adolescents. This negative association is strongest for those participating in competitive sports. Further research is needed to explore the mechanisms underlying this relationship.

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“…Competitive experiences can empower youth. Understanding the conditions under which young people can grow through competition is necessary to identify how to optimally support youth as engaged participants and people (Choi et al, 2014;Passer, 1988). Thus, this paper serves as a novel integration of previous research aimed toward practitioners.…”

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“…competition and perceive competitive contexts accurately capture its developmental impact (Choi et al, 2014;Passer, 1988). Thus, competitive readiness refers to a young person's capacity to meet the demands of participation and learn values and skills (Aicinena, 1992;Harris, 2000).…”

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Competitive Readiness: Developmental Considerations to Promote Positive Youth Development in Competitive Activities

Kochanek

Matthews

Wright

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Competitive experiences have the potential to empower youth. Understanding the conditions under which young people can grow through competition is necessary to identify how competitive experiences can optimally support youth as engaged participants and people. This paper serves as a novel integration of previous research aimed toward practitioners. The purpose of this paper is to provide adult (and youth) leaders with empirically-based, practically meaningful guidance to integrate practices that support competitive readiness for youth development. To clarify the youth competitive readiness debate, this paper adopts a process-oriented, developmental perspective. We first define and provide background on youth development. Second, we put forth guiding postulates and their application to practice for organized competitive experiences for positive youth development promotion. We argue that youth are “ready” to compete not just when they can survive competitive experiences, but thrive through them. Interactions between individual, contextual, and developmental factors over time influence fluctuations in a young person’s state of competitive readiness. In this way, competitive readiness is an ongoing process that encompasses the individual needs of the child in relation to the environment.

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Children’s Development Through Sports Competition: Derivative, Adjustive, Generative, and Maladaptive Approaches

Cited by 28 publications

References 32 publications

Do Athletic Experiences Lead to Desirable Workplace Motivation? A Proposed Exploratory Framework

Do Athletic Experiences Lead to Desirable Workplace Motivation? A Proposed Exploratory Framework

Association Between Participating in Noncompetitive or Competitive Sports and Mental Health among Adolescents – a Norwegian Population-based Cross-sectional Study

Competitive Readiness: Developmental Considerations to Promote Positive Youth Development in Competitive Activities

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