The Sport Behavior of Youth, Parents, And Coaches

By D. Shields, B. L. Bredemeier, N. LaVoi, F. Power. Journal of Research in Character Education, 2005

120 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This study assessed the frequency of good and poor sport behaviors as perceived by young athletes, parents, and coaches. A secondary goal was to examine related sportspersonship attitudes. A total of 803 young athletes in the fifth through eighth grades, representing 10 different sports, completed a behavioral and attitudinal survey, as did 189 of their parents and 61 of their coaches. The sample was drawn from three regions of the United States. Specific behavioral and attitudinal frequency data suggest that there are significant ethical problems occurring in many youth sport programs. Results are discussed in relation to the concepts of collective norms and moral atmosphere.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Safety Research, Social Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Camilla J. Knight
2. N. Holt
3. Martin Camiré
4. P. Trudel
5. M. Kavussanu
6. C. Harwood
7. J. Côté
8. M. Drummond

In Safety Research

1. N. Holt
2. Martin Camiré
3. Camilla J. Knight
4. P. Trudel
5. M. Kavussanu
6. T. Forneris
7. Aleksandar E. Chinkov
8. C. Bean

In Social Psychology

1. N. Holt
2. Martin Camiré
3. Camilla J. Knight
4. P. Trudel
5. M. Kavussanu
6. Kacey C. Neely
7. C. Harwood
8. J. Côté

Citations in the corpus

• Moral behaviour in sport: a critical review of the literature (2008, background): “The focus on behaviour by several researchers, and in particular positive behaviour, is an emergent trend in the literature (e.g., Hassandra et al., 2007; Kavussanu et al., 2006; Sage et al., 2006; Shields et al., 2005).”
• Parental Behaviors in Team Sports: How do Female Athletes Want Parents to Behave? (2011, background): “For example, a self-report survey of 189 sports parents identified that 13% of parents had criticized their child's performance ( Shields, Bredemeier, LaVoi, & Power, 2005 ).”
• High school athletes’ perspectives on character development through sport participation (2010, background): “(2005) found that sport might not be well suited for the development of character considering that 9% of athletes in grades five to eight acknowledged cheating in sport and 13% intentionally tried to hurt an opponent.”