Elite hockey moms: Examining mental and physical health impacts of the demands of competitive minor hockey
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Research has begun to examine the impact of the youth sport experience on parents; however, there has been limited research conducted solely on mothers of youth athletes exploring their mental and physical health. The purpose of this study was to investigate the various impacts of the demands of the youth sport experience, specifically boys' elite hockey, on mothers' mental and physical health including their physical activity (PA) participation and healthy eating practices. Thirteen mothers of male competitive hockey players participated in an online questionnaire and a semi-structured interview, which included questions about mental and physical health during the hockey season and the off-season. Results indicated that some mothers' mental health was impacted by the hockey season, while others indicated little impact. Furthermore, some mothers found it more difficult to be active during the hockey season due to the busy schedule, while other mothers were consistently active throughout the entire year. Various strategies for maintaining PA levels and incorporating PA in their daily lives were identified including being physically active with their friends/partners and working around their son's hockey schedule. The mothers also indicated that they tended to eat more junk food and ate together as a family less during the hockey season. While this research identified preliminary results, more research in this area would be beneficial. Findings from this study can provide practical recommendations for hockey mothers to incorporate PA and healthy eating strategies during the hockey season in addition to opening discussion about the positive and negative mental health impacts.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".