Towards the development of a quality youth sport experience measure: Understanding participant and stakeholder perspectives.

Autor: Brown DMY; Department of Psychology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America.; Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada., Cairney J; School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, Queensland, Australia., Azimi S; Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada., Vandenborn E; Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada., Bruner MW; School of Physical and Health Education, Nipissing University, Nipissing, Ontario, Canada., Tamminen KA; Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada., Kwan MYW; Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.; Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2023 Jul 07; Vol. 18 (7), pp. e0287387. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 07 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287387
Abstrakt: Quality sport experiences may be a key underlying mechanism through which continued sport participation may facilitate positive youth development. However, what constitutes a quality sport experience for youth is poorly understood due to a lack of comprehensiveness among existing measures. This study aimed to identify the salient factors that constitute quality sport experience for youth by capturing athletes and stakeholder perspectives with a broader goal of developing a more robust quality sport experiences measure. A total of 53 youth athletes and stakeholders (i.e., parents, coaches, and sport administrators) completed semi-structured interviews or focus groups about what they felt were important aspects of a quality sport experience for youth. Inductive content analysis of the data identified four themes representing important indicators for a quality sport experience for youth: fun and enjoyment, opportunity for sport skill development and progress, social support and sense of belonging, and open and effective communication. These higher order themes were found among each of the groups that have important interpersonal relationships with athletes, as well as among athletes themselves. Each of these themes were also related to one another. Collectively, findings outline a framework to understand what constitutes a quality sport experience for youth. The Quality Sport Experience Framework for Youth will help in the development of a quantitative tool to assess this construct and enable researchers to examine how these experiences contribute to continued engagement in sport and positive developmental outcomes among youth sport participants.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2023 Brown et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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