Personal and Social Responsibility Development in a Volleyball Hybrid Positive Youth Development Program: A Mixed Methods Approach

Abstract

Positive Youth Development (PYD) programs are being used to foster holistic growth in children and adolescents. The hybridized application of two or more programs of this type has acquired special relevance in recent years. Although their application is common in the school context, there are few research studies that attempt their implementation in an extracurricular context. This study analyzed the effects of an intervention based on a hybrid PYD program on personal responsibility (PR) and social responsibility (SR) in youth volleyball players in an extracurricular context. A hybrid program was applied during the competitive season, with a total of 37 sessions with 30 girl students (15 experimental and 15 control) aged between 8 and 10 years (M = 8.87, SD = 0.82). A convergent mixed methods design was applied to integrate the following: (a) semi-structured interviews and field notes and (b) personal and social responsibility questionnaires. The results indicated that the implementation of the hybrid program appeared to yield a positive perception of learning in both the participants and the coach. Although there were no statistically significant intergroup or intragroup differences, the findings suggest that the hybrid program seems to be effective in fostering PR and SR in youth girl volleyball players.

Design of a Methodological Intervention for Developing Respect, Inclusion and Equality in Physical Education

“…In this work, guidelines and parameters from the literature have been followed, taking into account previously made research and interventions in order to design the present proposal [19,[22][23][24][25]34,59]. Furthermore, an expert with more than five years of expertise in TPSR reviewed the framework of the proposal.…”

“…For the development of the aforementioned values, various interventions have been carried out in the literature with the objective of promoting them separately [18][19][20][21][22][23]. However, the work of Hellison [24] and his teaching personal and social responsibility model (TPSR) must be highlighted, which, through physical activity and sport, aims to bring about significant changes in the values of the participants.…”

“…This research was based on Donald Hellison's TPSR [24], as well as on studies investigating its usefulness and its application with significant results, which can be worked on in PE classrooms with secondary school students [22,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38].…”

Influence of Hybrid Pedagogical Models on Learning Outcomes in Physical Education: A Systematic Literature Review

“…For example, previous studies have proved the feasibility of TPSR and SE hybridization by observing that the two models share the same learning theory [ 23 ], while SE and CL offer a situated learning context with meaningful activities [ 24 ]. Practical investigations have shown that TPSR and SE may be successfully combined as long as the implemented project intends to provide students with the opportunity to experience all five levels of responsibility in the framework season of SE [ 25 , 26 , 27 ]. In other words, hybridizations conducted among pedagogical models refer to extracting and merging the key features of two models or using one model as a foundation and adding other significant elements from the other.…”

Fostering Youth Female Athletes’ Decision-Making Skills through Competitive Volleyball: A Mixed Methods Design

“…This study is part of a larger research project, whose aim was to design a hybridized TPSR+SE program [ 51 ] and apply it to competitive youth volleyball players in order to assess its effects on peer leadership, personal and social responsibility [ 52 ], decision-making and atmosphere, as well as to analyze its implementation fidelity and the perception of the participants (i.e., players and coach) about the structure of the intervention.…”