An interpretive analysis of life skills associated with sport participation

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Definition and model of life skills transfer (2017, background): “For instance, Holt et al. (2009) interviewed 40 young adults who had taken part in competitive sport as adolescents and found that many of the social skills developed through peer interactions had ‘retained meaning in adulthood’ (p. 167).”
Fostering Life Skills Development in High School and Community Sport: A Comparative Analysis of the Coach’s Role (2014, background): “Gould et al. (2007), Fraser-Thomas and Côté (2009), and Holt, Tamminen, Tink, and Black (2009) found that the coaches in their respective studies asked the athletes to surpass themselves.”
Resilience in Youth Sport: A Qualitative Investigation of Gymnastics Coach and Athlete Perceptions (2015, background): “The social interactions that occur between peers also exposes them to life skill development in the form of communication, cooperation, and responsibility [20-21].”
Implicit Transfer of Life Skills Through Participation in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (2016, methodology): “…the implicit transfer approach is possible if life skills are part of coaches’ underlying philosophies (Camiré et al., 2012; Gould, Collins, Lauer, & Chung, 2007) and the sport environment encourages participants to be active agents in their own development (Holt et al., 2009; Holt et al., 2008).”