Patterns of personal and social adjustment among sport-involved and noninvolved urban middle-school children.
By J. McHale, Penelope G. Vinden, Loren M. Bush, D. Richer, David Shaw, Brittanni Smith. 2005
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This article examines patterns of adjustment among urban middle-school children as a function of involvement in organized team sports. Four hundred twenty-three seventh-grade students (216 boys and 207 girls) reported on their involvement in sport, self-esteem, delinquent activity, and drug use during the year preceding the survey. Physical education teachers rated social competence, shyness/withdrawal, and disinhibition/aggression. Compared with noninvolved children, sport-involved youth reported higher self-esteem and were rated by teachers as more socially competent and less shy and withdrawn. Sport-involved youth, including those in contact sports, were not rated as more aggressive than noninvolved children. And though sport-involved youth reported a slightly broader range of delinquent activities than noninvolved youth, sport-involved boys were actually less likely than noninvolved boys to have experimented with marijuana.
Subfields: Safety Research, Social Psychology
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- Extra-curricular sport participation: A potential buffer against social anxiety symptoms in primary school children☆ (2011, background): “Raglin, 1997; Wipfli, Rethorst, & Landers, 2008), improved mood and self-esteem (McHale et al., 2005; Sonstroem, 1997) and enhanced mental well-being (Fox, 1999; Röthlisberger & Seiler, 1999).”