Exploring the relationship between the relative age effect and youth development among male house league ice hockey players

Chittle, Laura; Horton, Sean; Weir, Patti; Dixon, Jess C.

doi:10.17161/jas.v0i0.5884

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“…The primary purpose of this research project was to explore the influence of relative age on positive and negative developmental experiences among post-adolescent competitive female ice hockey players. Our results indicated that competitive female ice hockey players are experiencing the sport in a similar manner, regardless of their quartile of birth, supporting the work of Chittle et al (2017) and Wattie et al (2018). These null results may be positive findings when considering the reports of greater dropout rates among relatively younger athletes (e.g., Canadian population OHF Observed Lemez et al, 2014) and qualitative anecdotes of more negative sporting experiences among the relatively youngest (Edwards & O'Donoghue, 2014).…”

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“…Like Chittle et al (2017), the sample was delimited to include participants who answered a minimum of 80% of the YES-S items and who provided their date of birth to ensure their relative ages could be determined. Four participants were removed from our sample because they did not provide their date of birth, resulting in our final sample comprising 264 participants.…”

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“…Edwards and O'Donoghue (2014) similar experiences to their older peers (e.g., making friends, parental support), but also more negative sporting experiences. To the best of our knowledge, Chittle, Horton, Weir, and Dixon (2017) were the first to investigate if developmental sporting experiences (as measured by the YES-S) differed by quartile of birth among male house league ice hockey players. Their findings suggested that players' experiences did not differ by relative age.…”

Section: Relative Age Effects and Developmental Experiences In Sportmentioning

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“…Despite the large body of literature exploring the existence of RAEs in sport, there have been comparatively few studies targeting the implication of relative age on psychosocial outcomes (e.g., PYD, leadership). Chittle et al (2017) expanded this line of inquiry by investigating differences in youth developmental experiences across quartile of birth, but only utilized a male sample. While Wattie et al (2018) conducted similar work in this area, there is merit in targeting one sport, given that developmental experiences may be vastly different across activities.…”

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“…Items were modified slightly to ensure appropriate comprehension by participants. The YES-S has been used to measure developmental experiences in youth samples (e.g., Chittle et al, 2017;Cronin & Allen, 2015) and has been reported to have acceptable internal consistency values (e.g., Bruner et al, 2017;Cronin & Allen, 2015). Furthermore, the model has been found to have adequate fit among nine-to 19year-old athletes from various recreational and competitive sports (MacDonald et al, 2012).…”

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Youth Developmental Experiences Among Female Hockey Players: The Role of Relative Age

Chittle

Dixon

Horton

2019

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Relative age differences can lead to varying sport participation opportunities; however, scant research has focused on the impact of relative age on experiences within sport. This study explored if youth developmental experiences differed by relative age among competitive female ice hockey players. Players within Ontario (n = 264) completed an online survey that contained the Youth Experience Survey for Sport (YES-S) along with additional demographic questions. The YES-S measures 5 dimensions of positive (i.e., personal and social skills, cognitive skills, goal setting, and initiative) and negative developmental experiences in sport. The results of the multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) suggested that the developmental experiences reported by athletes did not differ across birth quartiles (Wilks’ Lambda = 0.940, F (15, 707.105) = 1.061, p = .390). Although there was a relative age effect (RAE) trend within this sample of competitive female ice hockey players, the differences across birth quartiles were not statistically significant. It appears that relative age does not result in youth having different positive and negative sporting experiences. Exploring the characteristics of sport environments (e.g., coaches, practices) and personality traits of competitive athletes to better understand how relatively younger athletes continue their participation in sport despite being at a perceived disadvantage warrants further investigation.

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Youth Developmental Experiences Among Female Hockey Players: The Role of Relative Age

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2019

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Anthropometric and Physical Performance of Youth Handball Players: The Role of the Relative Age

Camacho-Cardeñosa

González-Custodio

et al. 2018

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Background: The relative age effect is essential throughout all of the talent selection processes in sports, especially during adolescence, which leaves fewer athletes within each cohort that are born late in the selected year. The aim of the present study was to examine the role of relative age in anthropometric and physical performance characteristics of youth handball players by gender. Methods: The sample that was selected included 47 participants (male n = 23, female n = 24). The data collection included anthropometric, body compositions parameters, and physical performance levels. Results: There was a significantly higher representation of players in the first semester in comparison with the second semester, for all of the gender groups, except for the selected male players. In males, statistically significant differences were found in height, sitting height, weight, wingspan, arm and leg circumferences, and in throws speed (in support and in suspension) between those players that were born in the first and second semester. Conclusion: The results confirmed an effect of relative age in the players born in 2002 that were selected to participate in the Spanish Championship, which was different for males and females. In spite of this effect, which only appeared in females, significant differences in the anthropometric and physical conditions appeared in the male players.

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Pattern Recognition on Anthropometric and Fitness Components Relative Birth-month Quartiles among Malaysian Boys and Girls

Mat-Rasid*,

Abdullah,

Juahir

et al. 2019

IJRTE

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Biasness selection during talent identification program in sports may occurred due to the chronological age system applied nowadays. The aim of this study is to recognize pattern on anthropometric and fitness components relative birth-month quartiles among studied population. A total of 39372 boys (aged 7.36 ± 0.29 year) and 33723 girls aged (7.34 ± 0.29 year) were classified into four chronological birth-month groups which is first quartile (Q1 - Jan to March), second quartile (Q2-Apr to June), third quartile (Q3 - July to Sept) and fourth quartile (Q4 - Oct to Dec) involved in this study. Multiple analysis of variance (MANOVA) revealed significant difference of F(18, 111336), p < 0.0001, p < 0.05 and F (18, 95358), p-value < 0.0001, alpha=0.05 between four birth-month quartiles for boy and girl participants, respectively. Tukey (HSD) follow up test of analysis of variance revealed that studied population are significantly difference in body weight, standing height, explosive leg power, hand-eye coordination and speed for all the contrast with p-value < 0.0001, alpha=0.05. However, result found no significant different for flexibility within all the contrast for boys and girls. Present study also revelaed a stronger influence of RAE among boys as compared to girls. The information of evidence-based of anthropometric and fitness performance according birth-month quartile would able to reduce RAE that may cause bias and subjective decision making for talent identification in sports.

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Exploring the relationship between the relative age effect and youth development among male house league ice hockey players

Cited by 3 publications

References 42 publications

Youth Developmental Experiences Among Female Hockey Players: The Role of Relative Age

Youth Developmental Experiences Among Female Hockey Players: The Role of Relative Age

Anthropometric and Physical Performance of Youth Handball Players: The Role of the Relative Age

Pattern Recognition on Anthropometric and Fitness Components Relative Birth-month Quartiles among Malaysian Boys and Girls

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