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Sports Participation and Self-Esteem: Variations as a Function of Gender and Gender Role Orientation
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This paper examined the role of gender, sports participation, and gender orientation in predicting individuals' domain-specific and global self-esteem, and found that participants' gender orientation and the type of sports in which they participate are moderating factors.Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of gender, sports participation, and gender orientation in predicting individuals' domain-specific and global self-esteem. A sample of 100 Grade 11 students completed measures of self-perception, body image, gender orientation, and sports participation. The results showed that although boys reported greater satisfaction with weight and appearance, there were no gender differences in general self-worth. In addition, more feminine individuals who participated in competitive sports reported lower levels of perceived athletic competence and global self-worth, but reported higher self-esteem when they participated in more noncompetitive sports. Although sports participation does predict self-esteem, participants' gender orientation and the type of sports in which they participate are moderating factors.read more
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Toward a Distinctive Sport Management Discipline
TL;DR: The most common current legitimations for sport are health, salubrious socialization, economic development, community development, and national pride as discussed by the authors, which are useful starting points for research that is sport focused.
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Organized youth sport as a predictor of physical activity in adulthood.
TL;DR: Joining organized youth sports at an early age and continuing through adolescence appear to increase the likelihood for a physically active lifestyle in young adulthood, and organized youth sport during childhood and adolescence was positively related to frequency of leisure‐time PA in young adults.
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Breadth and Intensity of Youth Activity Involvement as Contexts for Positive Development
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used self-reports from 7430 high school students to assess whether breadth and intensity dimensions were related to each other, to a typical aggregate measure of involvement, and to various indicators of positive development.
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Come out and play: Shyness in childhood and the benefits of organized sports participation.
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of sport participation as a moderator of the links between shyness and psychosocial maladjustment in childhood was examined and it was found that sport participation was positively related to indices of positive adjustment (e.g., social skills, self-esteem).
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Gender roles, eating pathology, and body dissatisfaction in men: a meta-analysis.
TL;DR: The current study reviewed relationships between gender roles and eating pathology, body dissatisfaction, and muscle dissatisfaction among men via meta-analysis and found the salience of masculinity in men's eating and body concerns.
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