Gender stereotypes, self, and sport dropout: a one-year prospective study in adolescents

Plaza, Mélissa; Boiché, Julie

doi:10.1051/sm/2017018

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“…Meanwhile, VPA is generally preferred by male adults, but in contrast to females, the proportion preferring VPA generally decreases with age 57 . No preference of MPA or VPA is found among older adults (65 years or older), those with less than high school education, retirees, and those who do not participate in sport 13 , 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63…”

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“…Females, particularly adults, typically prefer MPA, with the proportion preferring MPA generally increasing with increasing age 55 . MPA is also preferred by females with lower PA levels, retirees, and those who do not participate in sport 56 . Meanwhile, VPA is generally preferred by male adults, but in contrast to females, the proportion preferring VPA generally decreases with age 57 .…”

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“…Males prefer more competitive activities (exclusively) compared to females, with the proportion with this preference generally decreasing with age and higher among those with low education 54 . On the other hand, non-competitive activities only are preferred by females, retirees, and those who do not participate in sport, with the proportion with this preference increasing with age (highest among women aged over 45 and men over 65) 56 …”

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Associations between adolescents’ preference for fitness activities and achieving the recommended weekly level of physical activity

Kudláček

Frömel

Groffik

2020

Journal of Exercise Science & Fitness

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Background/ObjectiveThis study aimed to explore differences in rates of achieving the weekly physical activity (PA) recommendation between adolescents who preferred fitness PA and those who did not. Furthermore, we investigated the types of PA practiced by adolescents.MethodsIn total, 9513 participants from the Czech Republic and Poland, aged 15–18 years took part in the study between 2009 and 2016. Out of this source sample, 4977 self-reported their weekly PA using the IPAQ-Long Form, and 1348 objectively monitored their weekly PA using pedometers and recorded the type of PA.ResultsBoys ranked fitness PA third, after team and individual sports. For girls, the preference for fitness PA grew at the expense of dance and outdoor PA. Among Czech and Polish boys as well as Czech girls, those who preferred fitness PA were more likely to achieve the recommended weekly PA level than those who did not prefer fitness PA. We did not find a significant difference in other types of PA and rates of achieving the recommendation of 11,000 steps/day. Preference for fitness PA was associated with an increased likelihood (OR = 1.30; 95% CI = 1.12–1.52; p < 0.001) of achieving the recommendation for PA.ConclusionsWhen promoting adolescents’ PA, it is necessary to consider preferred PA types. The PA recommendation was met by almost 33% of adolescents who indicated a preference for fitness PA, but only by 22% of those not preferring fitness activities. Organized PA is also important for meeting PA recommendations.

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Associations between adolescents’ preference for fitness activities and achieving the recommended weekly level of physical activity

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Groffik

2020

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“…We offer a rich contextualized account of how transition to paid employment for the first time provides unique opportunities and constraints for sports that have to date been men dominant. Whereas much past research has focused on gender under-representation 'masculine' sports (Joncheray, Level and Richard, 2016;Plaza and Boiché, 2017;Willson et.al., 2017), or how sport can challenge the hegemonic masculine approaches to competition (Antunovic and Hardin, 2015), the investigation we undertook highlights the key role of sociocultural aspects and industry-specific challenges and cultural barriers where social considerations are particularly salient. Our findings reveal novel insights about how women's experiences of the hegemonic masculinity of sport (Connell, 2009) Income protection in the event of injuries up to $1500 per week.…”

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“…Challenges and stereotypes associated with women's sport participation (Knight and Giuliano, 2003) continue to shape and influence the professionalisation of women's sport. Universally, women and girls participate in sport at lower levels than men and boys (Hall and Oglesby, 2016), drop out at higher levels during adolescence -especially in 'masculine' sports (Plaza and Boiché, 2017) (Hancock and Hums, 2016), in leadership roles (Burton, 2015), as coaches (Norman, Rankin-Wright and Allison, 2018) and/or as professional athletes (Agergaard, 2017).…”

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Contestation, disruption and legitimization in women’s rugby league

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Frozen Out: Audiences, Affect and Women’s Hockey

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2021

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Every four years, millions of Canadians watch women play hockey during the Olympics. Yet when it comes to regularly scheduled professional games, that audience dramatically decreases. In 2019, low audience numbers led to the closure of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League and put the future of professional women’s hockey in jeopardy. As with many women’s sports, broadcasters argue the cost of production is too great, the value of airtime minutes too high to take the financial risk of televising the women’s game without guaranteeing viewers for advertisers. Activists and athletes argue that the audience must be built through broadcaster investment. While scholars have examined hockey for its representational power to define national and gendered identities, there has been shockingly little research into the hockey audience. This mixed method audience reception study seeks to explore the viewing inconsistencies of the audience for women’s hockey. Quantitative results from an online survey (n =685) provided data about viewing habits, perceptions and knowledge. This data informed qualitative focus groups (n = 25) that in turn provided contextualization and reasoning for the quantitative data. Mixed method analysis intersected grounded theory with audience reception, sport media, feminist studies and affect theory to identify a persistent discursive strategy framing women’s hockey as “pure” for resisting the crass commercialization, incessant violence and individualistic star system of professional men’s hockey. I argue that women’s hockey becomes the manifestation of the Canadian myth of hockey; men’s hockey as it used to be. As a nostalgic placeholder devoid of context, contemporary women’s hockey functions within a double bind; virtuous and elevated yet non-viable as a commercial enterprise. This ensures that the sport remains precarious at best. “Pure” women’s hockey also functions as a postfeminist essentializing discourse that solves the gender risk of hockey’s hypermasculinity while disavowing women’s physically aggressive play and sport media’s affective currency. Whereas Olympic women’s hockey relies on patriotic pride for audience affective engagement, professional women’s hockey is framed by cognitive contradictions, “pure” but commercial, gender normative but transgressive. Confused and disconnected from the game and players, audiences are left unaffected.

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Gender stereotypes, self, and sport dropout: a one-year prospective study in adolescents

Cited by 4 publications

References 30 publications

Associations between adolescents’ preference for fitness activities and achieving the recommended weekly level of physical activity

Associations between adolescents’ preference for fitness activities and achieving the recommended weekly level of physical activity

Contestation, disruption and legitimization in women’s rugby league

Frozen Out: Audiences, Affect and Women’s Hockey

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