Annotated Bibliography Prichard, Alison and Joe Deutsch. "The Effects of Motivational Climate on Youth Sport Participants." Physical Educator, vol. 72, 2015 Special Issue, pp. 200-214. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&AN=111081523&site=ehost-live. Alison Prichard and Joe Deutsch’s article over the “Effects of Motivational Climate on Youth Sport Participants” from the database EBSCOHost, highlights the viewpoints of the impact that motivation has on younger athletes. The article explains that there are both pros and cons surrounding the issue of rewarding young athletes based solely on participation. It starts off with getting into detail with the technicality of the issue by explaining the health benefits as well …show more content…
"The Effect of Achievement Goals on Moral Attitudes in Young Athletes." Journal of Sports Science & Medicine, vol. 9, no. 4, Dec. 2010, pp. 605-611. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&AN=70083591&site=ehost-live. The second article by author Carloc E. Gonçalves discusses “The effect of achievement goals on moral attitudes in young athletes” from the database Ebscohost purpose to access the hypothesis that achievement goal orientations will predict sportsmanship attitudes among young athletes. For the introduction, the article tells the readers that regular participation in physical activities is considered to be rudimentary expansion of desirable levels of motor and metabolic …show more content…
"The Effect of Peer Interaction on Sport Confidence and Achievement Goal Orientation in Youth Sport." Social Behavior & Personality: An International Journal, vol. 45, no. 6, July 2017, pp. 1007-1018. EBSCOhost, doi:10.2224/sbp.6149. The third article by Hwang Seunghyun titled “the effect of peer interaction on sport confidence and achievement goal orientation in youth sports” from the database EBSCOhost helps the reader understand that youth sport participation is highly valued in North American
Dr. Daniel Gould, director of the Institute for the Study of Youth Sports, in his essay “Are High School Sports Good For Kids?” argues that problems with high school sports are beginning to outway the benefits.. He supports his claim by providing evidence of how sports are beneficial to kids, explaining the problems within sports, and extending the importance of what creates a positive response from sports. Gould’s purpose is to inform coaches, principals, and parents about what makes sports beneficial and how to prevent the problems in order to allow kids to learn and become better citizens. He establishes an informative tone for coaches, principals, and parents.
Summary In “children need to play, not compete” writer Jessica Statsky stresses upon the negative effects of organized sports on children. She claims that when all the “adult standards” are imposed on the children they are not valuable. She also states that these sports are developmentally inappropriate for the growing bodies of the children and also affects them phycology. These sports emphasize on the winning aspect that is pushed further by the parents and the team coaches who expect more from the children in the result of which children are pressurized.in most of the cases the children who lack self-confidence are neglected and are left behind because of the coaches preferring the children with more developed skills.
They still have a long life to live. The second peice of evidence supports the idea that young athletes should get and award just for participating in a sport because, connecting to the first piece of evidence, children still have hopefully long lives to live, and it feels good to get an award. They still have much to learn about the competition world, but right no the focus of thier sport is building life - long skills that will hep them in important
This notion is supported by Dr. Daniel Gould, who believes that “Children who participate in sports have increased educational aspirations, closer ties to school and increased occupational aspirations in youth” (1). People against the funding of high school sports think that parents and society are placing more emphasis than ever before and, “[P]ressures athletic personnel to deviate on winning from the athlete- centered educational and personal development mission” (Gould 1). However, athletes strive to do better in class. Michael Lorenc, a high school basketball coach believes that “those who seem to have an overwhelming schedule where they’re playing maybe multiple sports, and high academic schedules, they tend to do better than those who don’t do anything extracurricularly” (Gray). Balancing sports and school makes athletes put more effort into keeping up grades while playing the sport they love.
Of the 11 dimensions’: positive team dynamics, trying hard, and positive coaching were listed as the three most important factors of fun. Another figure that was calculated was the importance of playing time and this resulted in “80% of players, 93% of parents, and 94% of coaches indicated that playing time was very-to-extremely important to youth sport competition” (Visek 4). On page 6 and 7 of the article, they list the 11 dimensions and the 81 fun-determinals, and under the category of trying hard; competing, working hard, and setting and achieving goals were highly chosen by the subjects of the survey. The study establishes a fundamental point of enjoyment in youth sport, but also reveals how competition is important in the development of a child. The results contribute to both my and Klosterman’s arguments on competition in youth sports.
As a part of our book club for Sport Ethics, my group read Why Johnny Hates Sports. In this book, Fred Engh examines the various reasons why more and more youth are dropping out of sport at a younger age. He dives deep into detail examining why this happens blaming it on overeager parents, the win-at-all-costs mentality, coaches, administrators, and even the media. In addition, he proposes changes to youth sport to stop this issue from continuing and calls for a return to fair play, teamwork, and true enjoyment of the game. This is non-fictional book written by Fred Engh.
Participation trophies diminish the meaning of winning and produce a lack of motivation among our youth today. Though rewarding all players with a trophy is counteractive, positive reinforcement is not. Positive reinforcement is key in the process of encouraging adolescents to continue to pursue the sport they are playing. The winners should receive a trophy to endorse their hard work and accomplishment; those who lost, but kept playing, should receive a non-materialistic item such as a pizza party or ice cream to acknowledge their determination when playing the game. Without loss, there is no motive to
During an Institute for the Study of Youth Sports analysis, studies showed that, “outstanding high school coaches who were recognized for the character and citizenship building contributions to players we found that these individuals were highly successful (winning over 70% of their games)” (Gould). While students centered on playing hard and showing sportsmanship, they were able to win a majority of their games, instead of just focusing on winning. Thus, students can grow in character when playing high school sports. To emphasize this, youth athletes develop goal-oriented mindsets during the season. These goals do not have to include winning or outperforming everyone else on the team, but can be set for an athlete to simply improve their performance in one specific area.
Children experience more harmful negative impacts, rather than beneficial positive ones, such as being at a constant risk of severe injury, wanting to opt out of sports early, and being under high levels of stress and anxiety. These impacts could lead to children being injured for an extended amount of time, children being inactive and unfit later in life, children dropping out of school, and many other catastrophic circumstances that children should not have to put up with. The opposing side suggests that children who participate in competitive sports experience positive impacts, such as staying healthy and in shape, and having positive psychological benefits. In some instances, these impacts may be true, however families with a child athlete opted for fast food, ready-made meals more than those of families who did not have a child athlete. Also, while competitive sports provide some psychological benefits, it has also been proven that they can cause stress, anxiety, and ultimately, attrition for the young athlete.
On my trophy shelf inside my bedroom, there are two participation awards. The rest are awards that I or my team have won. I’m not saying this because I want you to think I am some superstar athlete, but I’m showcasing that times have changed, and it might not be for the better. Studies have shown that handing out participation medals or trophies can actually have negative effects on young athletes. Dr. John Fader, Sport Psychologist for the New York Mets, firmly believes that “giving trophies for participation, unless
One article about the pros and cons of youth sports states that many athletes are pressured overly about their sport performance, when young athletes step on the field to play a sport, their coach, parents, team and school pressurize them to perform well and succeed in the game and due to this sports psychologists are in great need (Lindholm). This evidence suggests that young athletes receive undue pressure about performing well and might have to go to a psychologist about their anxiety as an athlete. In the same article Lindholm reminds parents that coaches may not pay attention to a young athlete’s mental well being, “it would be naïve to expect all coaches to have your child’s psychological interests at heart. Too often, a win-at-all-costs mentality devastates young athletes” (Lindholm).
Competitive sports provide a community which kids can work with and beat other teams with. “Playing a sport helps children develop social skills which would benefit them even when they grow older. Playing sports teaches them about teamwork and cooperating with others. They learn to interact with people from different ages” (Mahaseth). When these kids grow up, they can use these skills to be able to cooperate and talk with their colleagues.
In this day and age with professional athletes being at the top of the social spectrum, youth sports have gotten very popular. “More than 26 million children ages 6 to 17 played team sports in 2014(Rosenwald).” Youth sports are very popular because it brings the great feeling of being on a team. When you are on a team you feel like you can do anything together, and nothing is stopping you. There are also many flaws in youth sports.
INTRODUCTION: Attention Step: According to the article “Exercise Makes You Younger,” “Research shows that physical inactivity can cause premature death as well as chronic disease and disability" (54). Establish Need/Relevance: Nowadays technology and busy work schedules have prevented many people from including exercise into their daily activities. Many people think that it is too time consuming and rather not work
The text “Are High School Sports Good for Kids?” stated “The general public, parents and society is placing more emphasis on winning than ever before which, at times, pressures athletic personnel to deviate from the athlete-centered educational and personal development mission.” This pressure that is mentioned can really deplete a child’s moral and mentality. However, there is still