Growing pains: Positive growth following deselection in youth sport
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Abstract
Research on deselection suggests that certain coping strategies may provide an opportunity for athletes to experience psychological and emotional growth following deselection (Neely & Holt, 2015). The purpose of this study was to explore the potential for positive psychological and emotional growth following deselection from provincial sport teams by examining (a) former competitive female adolescent athletes' memories of deselection, and (b) how and what they learned from their experiences of deselection. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 young women (Mage = 22.73 years, SD = 1.35) who had competed in competitive youth sport as adolescents and were deselected from a provincial soccer (n=9), ice hockey (n=5), or volleyball (n=1) team between the ages of 14 and 17 years. Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis methodology (Smith, Flowers, & Larkin, 2009) was used. Findings demonstrated that athletes experienced positive growth in several domains of growth described by Tedeschi and Calhoun (1996). Deselection was remembered as a negative and often devastating experience that caused participants to question their ability and identity as an athlete. However, positive growth occurred for athletes through experiencing humility, re-establishing sport as their main priority, social support, gaining perspective, and being generally optimistic about future sport opportunities. Through these processes athletes developed compassion for others, gained motivation and perseverance, and learned how to cope with setbacks in other aspects of their lives. This study highlights some of the potential long-term implications of deselection in adolescent sport. Ways in which parents, sport psychology consultants, and coaches can potentially help support positive psychological and emotional growth in athletes following deselection are proposed.Acknowledgments: This research was supported by the Killam Trusts and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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