Effects of a sport programme (Box'Tag^®) on disadvantaged youth participants

A Systematic Review of Life Skill Development Through Sports Programs Serving Socially Vulnerable Youth

“…Some of these programs included PYD principles by building upon the teaching personal and social responsibility (TPSR) model, which is based on the idea that youth can develop effort and teamwork skills, self-direction and goal setting, leadership and helping skills, and respect for others if they play an active role in coaching the sports activities (Hellison, 2003). Other PYD principles included in the sports programs were a mastery sports climate (e.g., Beaulac et al, 2011), a positive peer and coach-youth relationship (e.g., E. Ullrich-French et al, 2012), and facilitation of positive sports experiences (e.g., Holt, Sehn, Spence, Newton, & Ball, 2012;Terry et al, 2014). In addition to the sports programs based on PYD principles, four programs included principles that should empower youth to engage in program development and in decisionmaking processes in the sports activities.…”

“…Although the researchers reported a growth in prosocial involvement in African American and Latina girls who participated in weekly sports sessions and life skills sessions, they only provided a few examples of improvements in behavioral competencies (Bruening et al, 2009). Terry et al (2014) reported no positive findings on social skills either, as they found that behavioral problems in youth who participated in school-based boxing sessions did not decrease. A final observation was that the studies on the sports programs based on PYD principles reported improvements in social life skills, whereas none of the studies on non-PYD-based sports programs reported or assessed improvements in social life skills.…”

“…First, to our knowledge, additional quantitative studies that have examined life skill developments in sports programs serving socially vulnerable youth have been published since Lubans et al's review (e.g., D'Andrea, Bergholz, Fortunato, & Spinazzola, 2013;and Terry, Hahn, & Simjanovic, 2014). Second, it is useful to expand on Lubans et al's work with qualitative studies that have described sports coaches', parents', and youth's perceptions of life skill development in these programs, such as the studies by Beaulac, Kristjansson, and Calhoun (2011) and Riley and Anderson-Butcher (2012).…”

Intersectoral action for positive youth development through sport : A mixed method study on collaboration between youth-care organisations and community sports clubs

“…Some of these programs included PYD principles by building upon the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility (TPSR) Model, which is based on the idea that youths can develop effort and teamwork skills, self-direction and goal setting, leadership and helping skills, and respect for others if they play an active role in coaching the sports activities (Hellison, 2003). Other PYD principles included in the sports programs were a mastery sports climate (e.g., Beaulac et al, 2011), a positive peer and coach-youth relationship (e.g., Bean E. et al, 2014;Ullrich-French, et al, 2012), and facilitating positive sports experiences (e.g., Holt et al, 2012;Terry et al, 2014). In…”

“…It is useful to expand Lubans, et al (2012) work with more recent studies for several reasons. First, to our knowledge, additional quantitative studies that examined life skill developments in sports programs serving socially vulnerable youth have been published since Lubans et al's review (e.g., (D'Andrea, Bergholz, Fortunato, & Spinazzola, 2013) and (Terry, Hahn, & Simjanovic, 2014)). Second, it is useful to expand Lubans, et al (2012)work with qualitative studies that have described sports coaches', parents', and youths' perceptions of life skill development in these programs, such as the studies by (Beaulac, Kristjansson, & Calhoun, 2011) and (Riley & Anderson-Butcher, 2012).…”