Children’s experience of sport in Australia

McPherson, Lynne; Long, Maureen; Nicholson, Matthew; Cameron, Nadine; Atkins, Prue; Morris, Meg E.

doi:10.1177/1012690215608517

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“…It is virtually impossible to deny the existence of child maltreatment in sport (a universal term used hereafter to describe all levels, types and uses of sport). There is evidence of sexual abuse (Bjørnseth & Szabo, 2018;Fasting, Brackenridge & Sundgot-Borgen, 2004), emotional abuse (Rhind, McDermott, Lambert & Koleva, 2015;Gervis, Rhind & Luzar, 2016), physical abuse (Vertommen et al, 2016;Alexander, Stafford & Lewis, 2011) neglect (Rhind et al, 2015;McPherson et al, 2015), and bullying (Mishna, Kerr, McInroy & MacPherson, 2019;Evans, Adler, MacDonald & Côté, 2016). This evidence is from a variety of countries, sports, and competitive levels.…”

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Safeguarding culture: towards a new approach to preventing child maltreatment in sport

Owusu-Sekyere¹,

Rhind²,

Hills³

2021

Sport Management Review

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There is now undeniable evidence of child maltreatment in sport. This has provoked the gradual proliferation of safeguarding research aimed at protecting children from harm in sport. Such research recognises the need for a comprehensive and holistic approach that addresses individual, interpersonal and systemic contributors to child maltreatment in sport. This study sought to provide such an approach by applying the wellresearched concept of safety culture to safeguarding children in sport. The aim of this study was to conceptualise safety culture from a child safeguarding in sport perspective (i.e., safeguarding culture). To achieve this, 77 participants from five globally representative organisations took part in 45 Interviews and 7 focus groups. This produced 52 units of qualitative data which were analysed using thematic analysis.Findings suggested that safeguarding culture represents a holistic and integrated approach to prevent child maltreatment which comprises three first order themes; safety management systems, committed leadership and stakeholder engagement. These themes have dynamic and reciprocal relationships, with their ideal formation and application dependent on internal and external contextual factors. Based on these findings, the Safeguarding Culture in Sport Model is presented before practical implications, limitations and directions for future research are offered. By presenting a new approach and model to safeguarding children in sport, this study represents an important advancement of knowledge around safeguarding children in sport.

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Safeguarding culture: towards a new approach to preventing child maltreatment in sport

Owusu-Sekyere¹,

Rhind²,

Hills³

2021

Sport Management Review

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“…However, most of the research, the main purpose of which is to explain the phenomenon of bullying and harassment both in general terms and by separately analyzing the conditions and causes of its emergence, its manifestation, consequences, or management decisions, is constructed by choosing athletes themselves as a target group [5,13,25,26]. Often, this is related to the approach that the benefit of publicity for athletes is greater than the pain they experience as a result of violence [24].…”

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“…"The case for seeking to preserve the anonymity of people whose lives are the subject of community studies is well-known and easily understood: Sociologists do not have an automatic entitlement to reveal things to a wider public that the people themselves may regard as private" [44] (pp. [4][5]. According to Walford [45], the fact that researchers should give anonymity to research sites and to the individuals involved in research is usually taken as an ethical norm.…”

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“Omerta” in Organized Sport: Bullying and Harassment as Determinants of Threats of Social Sustainability at the Individual Level

2019

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The interpretation of the evolutionary theory prevailing in sport, based on the approach that the strongest survive, varies with the rules inherent in the criminal world, forbidding to "take out" negative information about interrelationships, in this case, outside the team or group. Such traditionally established culture puts pressure on athletes to suffer from bullying and follow the "silence law". In the long run, this turns into a precondition for unsafe environment for athletes, which, due to negative consequences for the individual, can be identified as threats to social sustainability at the individual level. Such a situation is also indirectly approved by the heads and coaches of organizations. The latter, who lack competencies to resolve conflict situations, are left to solve arising problems on their own and do not receive any support from the management of organizations. Therefore, the aim of this research is to reveal the factors determining the specificity, emergence, and development of bullying and harassment in sport as threats to social sustainability at the individual level. The research was conducted using a semi-structured interview method with eight coaches representing team, individual, and duel sport branches. Inductive content analysis served as the basis for the data analysis. Research results disclosed factors determining the specificity of emergence of bullying and harassment in sport and hindering the entrenchment of social sustainability in sport at the individual level. The results revealed the euphemisms distinguished by coaches, which, in sport, have a positive connotation, such as "combativeness" and "sports anger" instead of the term "aggression". It was identified that coaches named aggressors as "harder players", "confident players", "active persons", "players-torpedoes", "emotional players", and "competitive players". Sports competition is justified in various forms. The emergence of bullying and harassment is grounded on "mastery differences", it is stated that abusive actions are experienced by "physically weak" players, while physical actions used by athletes are called "mischief"; verbal actions are "raillery". In addition, inadequate preparation of Lithuanian coaches to respond to bullying and harassment in their trained teams or groups on time and appropriately was identified. It turned out that sports organizations are not particularly interested in organizing trainings for prevention of destructive interrelations and intervention. Such kind of in-service training is left to the coach's initiative.

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“…Notably, psychological abuse has been considered to be ‘at the core of all other forms [of abuse]’ (Mountjoy et al, 2016: 1021). In addition, peers have been shown to constitute a significant perpetrator group, particularly for sexual harassment and physical and emotional abuse (Alexander et al, 2011; McPherson et al, 2017a; Stafford et al, 2015).…”

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Faster, higher, stronger… safer? Safety concerns for young athletes in Zambia

Solstad

Strandbu

2017

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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This article draws attention to safety concerns affecting young people in the setting of organized sport in Zambia. Our primary aim is to explore ways in which aspects of sport culture may constitute a threat to athlete safety. Secondly, we try to understand sport-specific safety concerns in light of more general concerns for young people’s safety in Zambia. The study is based on interviews with athletes, coaches and sports leaders from Zambian sport. Although sport was mainly described as a positive recreational arena for youth, concerns were raised about unequal power relations and problematic ideals in the sport culture. Our findings suggest a need to discuss critically how glorification of toughness and resilience might contribute to normalize harmful practices in sport. Further, we indicate that divergent and elusive understandings of violence and abuse – in research and in practice – can influence athlete safety in significant ways. We conclude that safeguarding in sport continues to exist in the tension between protecting athletes from harm on the one hand and subscribing to a culture that promotes the ideals ‘faster, higher, stronger’ on the other.

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Children’s experience of sport in Australia

Cited by 10 publications

References 29 publications

Safeguarding culture: towards a new approach to preventing child maltreatment in sport

Safeguarding culture: towards a new approach to preventing child maltreatment in sport

“Omerta” in Organized Sport: Bullying and Harassment as Determinants of Threats of Social Sustainability at the Individual Level

Faster, higher, stronger… safer? Safety concerns for young athletes in Zambia

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