IF YOU LET ME PLAY SPORTS: How Might Sport Participation Influence the Self-Esteem of Adolescent Females?

By Erin L. Richman, D. R. Shaffer. 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Social Psychology

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Team Sports Achievement and Self-Esteem Development Among Urban Adolescent Girls (2004, background): “Further, Richman and Shaffer (2000) found evidence to suggest that athletic engagement is positively associated with self-esteem development among adolescent girls.”
A Longitudinal Investigation of Sport Participation, Peer Acceptance, and Self-esteem among Adolescent Girls and Boys (2006, background): “Our results build on the work of Richman and Shaffer (2000) who also found domainspecific aspects of self-concept mediated the association between sport participation and self-esteem.”
Breadth and Intensity of Youth Activity Involvement as Contexts for Positive Development (2006, background): “(Larson, 2000), sense of self-directedness and empowerment (McMahon et al., 2004), and higher self-esteem (e.g., Richman and Shaffer, 2000 ; S mollet al., 1993).”
An interpretive analysis of life skills associated with sport participation (2009, background): “…smoking (Melnick et al. 2001, Audrain-McGovern et al. 2006), educational attainment (Eccles and Barber 1999, Barber et al. 2003, Marsh and Kleitman 2003), and psychosocial factors such as self-esteem (Richman and Shaffer 2000) and mediation of depressive symptoms (Boone and Leadbeater 2006).”
High School Sport Participation and Subsequent Psychological Well-Being and Physical Activity: The Mediating Influences of Body Image, Physical Competence, and Instrumentality (2009, methodology): “It must be noted, though, that both Richman and Shaffer (2000) and Shaffer and Wittes (2006) suggested that pre-college sport participation may have no, or perhaps even a negative, effect on subsequent selfesteem without the development of these psychological”
Sports Participation and Self-Esteem: Variations as a Function of Gender and Gender Role Orientation (2003, background): “Recent research by Richman and Shaffer (2000)”
The Relationship of Participation in Sports and Physical Activity to Body Objectification, Instrumentality, and Locus of Control Among Young Women (2001, background): “Richman and Shaffer (2000) reported a small, although statistically significant, correlation of .24 between pre-college sports participation and body image, but they also stress the need for research focusing on specific kinds of sports, for example, those varying along the dimension of…”