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“Going the Extra Mile”: Fostering Social Connections within After-school, Sport-based PYD Programs
DownloadFall 2024
Social relationships between staff and youth are often regarded as one of the most important mediums to achieving positive youth development (PYD) program aims (McDavid & McDonough, 2019). Despite the promising impacts of staff and youth relationships within sport-based PYD settings, little...
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How Women Varsity Athletes High in Self-Compassion Experience Unexpected Stressors Surrounding Competition
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Athletes appraise unexpected stressors as more threatening than expected stressors (Dugdale et al., 2002) and women varsity athletes have reported experiencing a high proportion of unexpected competition-related stressors (Holt et al., 2007). Self-compassion appears to promote adaptive appraisals...
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The Development and Evaluation of an Education and Support Program to Enhance Sport Parents' Emotional Intelligence
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The overall purpose of this dissertation was to develop and evaluate a web-based education and support program to enhance parents’ emotional intelligence (EI) in youth sport. This dissertation contains three projects which depict the development and evaluation of the program created. The first...