3rd Edition
Positive Youth Development through Sport
Cutting through the political rhetoric about the power of sport as a tool for social change and personal improvement, this book offers insight into how and why participating in sport can be good for children and young people.
Still the only book to focus on the role of sport in positive youth development (PYD), it brings together high-profile contributors from diverse disciplines to critically examine the ways in which sport can be used to promote youth development. Now in a fully updated, revised, and expanded third edition, Positive Youth Development through Sport covers a wider range of disciplines including sport psychology, development psychology, physical education, sport development, and sport sociology. With every chapter asking why, what, so what, and what next, the book introduces the theoretical basis and historical context of PYD, quantitative and qualitative methods for assessing PYD in sport, and the potential of PYD in sport across different ages and abilities. This edition includes brand-new chapters on PYD in schools, in Indigenous populations, and across the lifespan, as well as new material on evaluating PYD programs and new case studies of PYD around the world.
This is invaluable reading for all students, researchers, educators, practitioners, programmers, and policy makers with an interest in youth sport.
Introduction: The growth of positive youth development through sport
Nicholas L. Holt and Meghan H. McDonough
Part I: Concepts
1. Toward a transdisciplinary approach to sport for development: The place of positive youth development
Meredith A. Whitley
2. The importance of person–context fit: A relational developmental systems perspective on positive development in and through sport
Jennifer P. Agans
3. Exploring short-term youth athlete development through the personal assets framework: Unveiling the layers of sport development
Jean Côté, Mia KurtzFavero, Haley Smith, and Alex Murata
4. The challenges, advances, and opportunities with the study and promotion of life skills transfer
Scott Pierce, Jenn Jacobs, and Melvin Sangalang
Part II: Measurement
5. The quantitative measurement of positive youth development in sport: Methodological considerations as the field ponders its future
Dany J. MacDonald, Meredith Schertzinger, Mark W. Bruner, and Stewart A. Vella
6. The quantitative assessment of positive youth development through sport
Karl Erickson, Matthew Vierimaa, and Scott Pierce
7. Assessing the psychometric properties of life skills measures: What is best practice?
Lorcan Cronin and Gareth Mossman
8. Sport-based interventions for youth: Effectiveness and opportunities for growth
Mark W. Bruner, Stewart A. Vella, Colin McLaren, Jordan Sutcliffe, and Meredith Schertzinger
9. Qualitative research on positive youth development in sport
Katherine A. Tamminen and Rachel C. Dunn
Part III: Contexts
10. Transitioning from normative toward emancipatory positive youth development research and practice: Portugal as an exemplary case
Fernando Santos and Marta Ferreira
11. Sport-based life skills development in South Korea
Okseon Lee
12. Positive youth development and talent development: Pursuing dual intentions in a multilayered environment
Chris Harwood, Julie Johnston, and Svenja Wachsmuth
13. Posthumanist imaginaries for inquiring positive youth development through sport
Martin Camiré
14. Centering Indigenous voices and experiences to advance positive youth development in sport research
Leah J. Ferguson, Tara-Leigh F. McHugh, and Leisha Strachan
15. Positive development across the lifespan
Jessica Fraser-Thomas and Meghan Harlow
16. Addressing social vulnerability through sport-based positive youth development
Majidullah Shaikh and Tanya Forneris
17. Promoting mental health in organised youth sport
Stewart A. Vella, Matthew J. Schweickle, and Caitlin Liddelow
Part IV: Evaluation
18. An experiential approach to facilitative coaching and teaching social justice life skills
Tarkington J Newman, Levone Lee, and Anne Stauffer
19. How effective are afterschool physical-activity-based positive youth development programs? The need for more rigorous evaluation studies
Maureen R. Weiss
20. Community sport as a context for positive youth development
Dawn Anderson-Butcher, Samantha Bates, Rebecca Wade-Mdivanian, and Sydney Mack
21. Evaluation for positive youth development through sport
Corliss Bean and Majidullah Shaikh
Biography
Nicholas L. Holt is Dean and Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary, Canada. His research focuses on psychosocial aspects of sport and physical activity among children, adolescents, and their families.
Meghan H. McDonough is Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her research focuses on the role of social relationships in physical activity and well-being with a variety of populations across the lifespan. She has a long-standing line of research examining social processes in physical-activity-based positive youth development programs.
