What is it About Organized Sports? Understanding the Associations Between Experiences in Youth Sport and Positive Youth Development
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Abstract
Research indicates that participation in sport is associated with positive youth development (PYD), yet little is known about the mechanisms within sport that foster these positive outcomes.Existing measures of PYD in sport that are focused on outcomes, represent a mix of causal and outcome factors, and/or are missing potentially valuable experiences.Using the Sport-Based Model of Positive Youth Development (Holt et al., 2017) as a framework, this thesis sought to develop and test a measure of youth experience in sport.Three studies were conducted to achieve this objective.In Study One, N = 9 individuals (aged 13 to 38) participated in interviews about their experiences playing organized youth sports.Using findings from these interviews, literature, and expert review, a three-factor measure of youth experience in sport was developed to assess experiences of goal setting, adversity, and skill development.The factor structure of the Experience in Sport Scale for Youth (ESSY) was then evaluated using exploratory factor analysis in Study Two.With a sample of N = 334 adolescents (Mage = 17.36), a 19-item, threefactor model was retained.In Study Three, experience in sport, as assessed by the ESSY, was incorporated into the Sport-Based Model of PYD and tested as a mediating and a moderating factor in the association between PYD climate and PYD outcomes.A total of N = 453 undergraduate students (Mage = 18.46) completed measures of coach relationships, peer relationships, experiences in sport, and the 5 Cs of PYD.The overall model failed to converge.However, results indicated a significant association between goal setting and PYD outcomes of competence, confidence, character, caring, and connection.Furthermore, skill development was significantly associated with character and caring.Contrary to expectations, adversity was not significantly associated with any of the PYD outcomes.Implications for PYD research and future directions are discussed.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".