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“Going the Extra Mile”: Fostering Social Connections within After-school, Sport-based PYD Programs
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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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An Exploration of Connections with the Land in an Urban Sport Context among Indigenous Youth
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The purpose of this participatory research was to explore connections with the land in an urban sport context among Indigenous youth. Two research questions guided this study: (a) What does a connection with the land look like in an urban sport context?, and (b) How can connections with the land...
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Fall 2019
Athlete-centred coaching is a relatively recent development in sport psychology which aims to empower athletes in an effort to improve their engagement, decision making skills, and performance (Kidman & Lombardo, 2010; Miller & Kerr, 2002). While research emerging from youth sport and...
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Exploring the Relative Contributions of Training Patterns and Training Contexts to Burnout and Dropout in Swimming
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Millions of children participate in youth sport, which has been associated with both potential benefits and harms. The promotion of positive, beneficial experiences in youth sport and the reduction of harmful, negative experiences requires discerning those factors which could be decisive in a...
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Fall 2018
Abstract Despite the commonness for coaching courses, manuals and websites to heavily emphasize conventional sport science concepts (such as physiology, biomechanics and sport psychology), sport scholars have suggested that coaches could benefit from learning about, and utilizing, social...
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Identity Regulation in the North American Field of Men’s Professional Ice Hockey: An Examination of Organizational Control and Preparedness for Athletic Career Retirement
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Following a significant commitment of time, energy, and role identification, athletes retiring from sport may experience any number of difficulties, including emotional distress, diminished subjective well-being, and identity disruption. These difficulties may be particularly acute for those who...
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It Might Be ‘Us’ Not ‘Them’: An Autoethnographic Reflexion of Ableist Practices in Adapted Physical Activity
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Adapted physical activity (APA) is an area of scholarship and professional practice situated across the medical, social, and most recently, resistance and radical models of disability. As APA scholars begin to shift towards more critical and social justice lenses of disability and movement...
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Fall 2020
Background: Current evidence suggests that athletes may be susceptible to subsequent injury after returning to play following a sport-related concussion (SRC). It is hypothesized that this increased risk may be due in part to residual postural control deficits that are not detectable with common...