Toward an Integrated Understanding of the Youth Sport System

Dorsch, Travis E.; Smith, Alan L.; Blazo, Jordan A.; Coakley, Jay; Côté, Jean; Wagstaff, Christopher; Warner, Stacy; King, Michael

doi:10.1080/02701367.2020.1810847

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“…It will also assist in shaping policies that support introduction, transition across, and retention in sport. Such scientific inquiries also support recent calls for more comprehensive examinations about the interconnectedness organised youth sport systems that are comprised of parents, siblings, peers, coaches, organisations, communities, and societies (Dorsch et al, 2020). Therefore the main aim of this study was to examine the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and environmental influences on community sporting pathways for girls and young women in Adelaide, South Australia.…”

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Girls and Young Women in Community Sport: A South Australian Perspective

Drummond

Elliott

et al. 2022

Front. Sports Act. Living

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Girls' and young women's engagement and disengagement in physical activity has been well documented in Western culture. Sport plays a pivotal role in the development of behaviours that promote physical activity, particularly through commitment to team and individual goal attainment, socialisation, and feelings of belonging and self-identity. Community sport in Australia is the dominant pathway into state, national, and elite international competition. The importance of community sport in the lives of girls and young women cannot be overstated, irrespective of individual long-term sporting goals. Indeed, the dropout rate of girls in sports, like many other western cultures is significant and is certainly disproportionate to the numbers of boys who drop out. The present study aims to examine the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and environmental influences on community sporting pathways for girls and young women. Using a mixed-methods design, we include survey data from 2,189 high-school students (aged 12–18 years) and focus group and individual interview data from a subset of 37 high-school students, parents, and teachers, across metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia. The study included an examination of sporting practises and insights of male sport participants from the same age groups to juxtapose the findings and provide a more comprehensive understanding of girls' and young women's community sporting involvement. Parents and teachers were also included within the participant cohort to provide a comprehensive perspective. The results highlight the challenges that girls face with respect to engagement and disengagement in sport and particular points throughout their adolescent years. Recommendations are provided to help mitigate potential attrition of girls in sport in the future.

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Girls and Young Women in Community Sport: A South Australian Perspective

Drummond

Elliott

et al. 2022

Front. Sports Act. Living

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“…We have productively used stress-based (e.g., Smith, 1986) and motivation (e.g., Deci & Ryan, 1985) frameworks to study athlete burnout. These perspectives incorporate social constructs; yet, as a developmental sport psychologist, I see room to consider broader understandings of the youth sport system that emphasize the collective examination of persons and contexts that surround an athlete (Côté, 1999;Dorsch et al, 2020;Holt et al, 2016;Smith et al, 2019a). Models that consider social development, pathways of sport participation, and other developmental concerns could orient us toward new research questions and approaches that deepen our understanding of athlete burnout.…”

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Perspectives on the Future of Burnout in Sport

Madigan

Gustafsson

Hill

et al. 2022

Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology

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The present editorial provides a series of perspectives on the future of burnout in sport. Specifically, for the first time, seven burnout researchers have offered their opinions and suggestions for how, as a field, we can progress our understanding of this important topic. A broad range of ideas are discussed, including the relevance of the social context, the value of theory and collaboration, and the use of public health frameworks in future work. It is hoped that these perspectives will help stimulate debate, reinforce and renew priorities, and guide research in this area over the coming years.

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“…The contemporary period began by addressing the need to move beyond unidimensional perceptions of parent involvement to consider multiple perspectives. For example, Lauer et al (2010aLauer et al ( , 2010b) triangulated players', coaches', and parents' perceptions of parent influence on athlete talent development which was especially valuable because it offered triadic insights and thus reflected the overarching ideas forwarded by a family systems perspective (Minuchin, 1974)an approach that has received more attention in the sport parent literature (Dorsch et al, 2020;Grimm et al, 2017;Newhouse-Bailey et al, 2015;Wright, Gould, et al, 2019). Research that followed primarily focused on individual perspectives of coaches and league administrators (e.g., Bean et al, 2016;Knight & Holt, 2014;Ross et al, 2015), providing insight into the value of considering perceptions of parent involvement beyond the athlete.…”

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“…For instance, in the early decades, motivation theories dominated, while more recently work has increasingly drawn on systems-level thinking. Specific models of sport parenting have also been proposed and recent calls for a systems approach (e.g., Dorsch et al, 2020) have the potential to shape research moving forward.…”

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“…This will equip parents to best help their children enjoy their participation and fulfill their athletic and human potential. Because previous contributions have lacked a holistic approach, future investigations should tackle methodological challenges and aim to apply broader theoretical frameworks such as a family systems theory lens, and include parents, siblings, children, coaches, and peers (Dorsch et al, 2020). Future research should also continue to account for limitations related to the implementation of parent education, by addressing low levels of parent attendance/adherence, the difficulty in engaging in long-term interventions, and the dangers of applying a one-size-fits-all approach to sport parent education initiatives.…”

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A history of parent involvement in organized youth sport: A scoping review.

Dorsch¹,

Wright²,

Eckardt³

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Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology

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A fundamental step in describing a research field is the review and synthesis of accumulated knowledge. Multiple qualitative reviews have been conducted over the last decade to provide a summary and commentary on the growing literature in the area of youth sport parenting.However, these reviews have focused on contemporary findings in the field, largely ignoring work in the area that began in the late 1960s. In light of this under-discussed history, there remains a need to highlight the historical foundations of the youth sport parenting literature, the transitions that shaped the trajectory of work, as well as the contemporary research that informs our current understanding. The purpose of this scoping review was to provide an historical analysis of the literature on parent involvement in organized youth sport. In conducting the analysis, we identified key concepts and trajectories that define the field's foundational (1968-1981), transitional (1982-1998), and contemporary (1999-2020) periods. Specifically, this review not only sought to define and summarize these periods of research, but also to use the synthesized knowledge to frame remaining gaps and potential future directions for the field. Keywords: Youth sport, parent involvement, scoping review, historical trends organizational "white papers" in this scoping review. Article RetrievalArticles were sought via general (PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar) and specific (PsycINFO, SportDiscus) electronic databases. Databases were searched using 12 combinations of keywords at three levels. The first level (n = four keywords) included "families," "parents," "fathers," and "mothers." The second level (n = three keywords) included "children," "athletes,"and "adolescents." The third level included the keyword "sport." During an initial search conducted in December 2019, 1003 English-language articles were identified for review.Removal of duplicates resulted in 691 articles being retained for consideration. A three-step filtering approach (Jones, 2004;Meade & Richardson, 1997) was used to consolidate the article population. First, article titles were reviewed, which yielded 377 articles that fit the inclusion criteria. Second, article abstracts were reviewed, yielding 253 articles. Finally, full texts were reviewed, leaving 208 articles in the final article population (see Figure 1).A second search was conducted in March 2020, whereby the references cited in these 208 articles were examined. An additional twenty-seven articles were identified and subjected to the same title, abstract, and full-text screening procedures in line with the established inclusion criteria. Consequently, 19 new articles were retained in the final article population (Figure 1). A third search was conducted in September 2020, prior to initial submission of this manuscript, to document recently published articles that fit the study's inclusion criteria. Twelve articles were identified and subjected to the same screening procedures as detailed above. Subsequently, eight new articles that w...

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Toward an Integrated Understanding of the Youth Sport System

Cited by 106 publications

References 95 publications

Girls and Young Women in Community Sport: A South Australian Perspective

Girls and Young Women in Community Sport: A South Australian Perspective

Perspectives on the Future of Burnout in Sport

A history of parent involvement in organized youth sport: A scoping review.

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