YOUTH INVOLVEMENT Flashcards

(32 cards)

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What percentage of children aged 5-14 regularly take part in organized sport?

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  • 51%

- or two million children

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What are the three main objectives of youth sports?

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  • participation provides opportunities to be physically active to enhance health
  • important for personal development, providing opportunities to learn life skills (co-operation, discipline, self-control etc.)
  • critical for performance of motor skills.
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In short, what are the three P’s of youth sports?

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  • participation
  • personal development
  • performance
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What should be the main focuses in youth sport?

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  • fun, skill development, and maximum participation

- 3 p’s

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What are developmental assists?

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  • “building blocks” for human development
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What are external assets?

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  • comprise support, empowerment, boundaries and expectation

- constructive time use, empowerment, social relationships

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What are internal assets?

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  • commitment to learning, positive values, social competencies, and positive identity
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What are the two categories of constructive activity and initiative?

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  • relaxed leisure activities

- constructive leisure activities

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What is initiative?

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  • core quality of positive physical, psychological, and social development in children
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How can we foster initiative through constructive activities?

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  • intrinsically motivated
  • concerted attention towards goals
  • occurs over extended period of time
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What are the five C’s of positive youth development?

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  1. competence
  2. character
  3. connection
  4. confidence
  5. caring/compassion
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What should youth athletic programs support?

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  • 3’ps

- consider implications of deliberate play, deliberate practice and early specialization

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What is deliberate play?

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  • designed to maximize enjoyment
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What is deliberate practice?

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  • motivated by improving performance rather than enjoyment
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What is early specialization?

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  • high amounts of deliberate practice and low amounts of deliberate play
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What are some things to consider when implementing early specialization & deliberate practice?

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  • may lead to dropout, injury, and developing transferable skills
  • early specialization often has harmful emotional and psychological development
  • may lead to decreased enjoyment, disappointment, discouragement & burnout
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How do coaches influence youth?

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  • influence competence beliefs, shape youth’s performance, participation and personal development
  • influence athletes’ enjoyment, and intrinsic motivation
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What is coaching effectiveness?

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  • the consistent application of integrated professional, interpersonal, and intrapersonal knowledge to improve athletes’ competence, confidence, connection and character in specific coaching contexts
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What are three aspects effective coaches require?

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  • professional knowledge (sport specific skills)
  • interpersonal knowledge (create and maintain relationships)
  • intrapersonal knowledge (learn from one’s own practice)
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How do peers have a positive influence on youth in sport?

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  • enhance performance, participation & personal development
  • increases sense of belonging, self-esteem, competence and intrinsic motivation
  • facilitates development of personal & social skills
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How do peers have a potential negative influence on youth in sport?

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  • may detrimentally affect relationship dynamics.
  • interactions may emphasize athlete’s poor performance, engage in awkward competition, showing off, and demonstrating rivalry
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How can siblings influence youth in sport?

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  • emotional support and informational support

- comparison, jealousy, disappointment, annoyance, anxiety

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What is true competition?

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  • understand competition serves interest of all participants to focus and concentrate towards goal
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What is decomposition?

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  • occurs when athletes seek to demonstrate superiority over opponents and only serves interests of winners
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What are the three different types of parents?
- under-involved: lack of emotional, financial, or functional investment - moderately involved: allows athlete decision-making involvement - over-involved: excessive amount of involvement
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What is emotional support?
- comforting gestures during stress and anxiety
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What is informational support?
- provision of advice or guidance in problematic situations
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What is tangible support?
- assistance or resources to help children cope
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How do parental expectations effect youth?
- powerful effect on children’s emotion & motivation - either a positive (success and enjoyment) or negative (stress and pressure) effect - inflated expectations a source of stress & anxiety
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What are some features of positive development settings?
- physical and psychological safety - appropriate structure - supportive relationships - opportunities to belong - positive social norms - support for efficacy and mattering - skill building opportunities - integration of family, school, and community efforts
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What are the three sport participation trajectories?
- recreational participation through sampling - elite performance through sampling - elite performance through early specialization
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What are the five "best practices"?
1. adopt inclusive focus instead of exclusive selection policy based on performance 2. promote a true competition climate 3. allow children to take initiative in fundamental motor skill development 4. provide opportunities for fun and low-organization games 5. promote psychosocial development