The Relationship Between Involvement in Sports and Exposure to Violence Among Adolescents
Title | The Relationship Between Involvement in Sports and Exposure to Violence Among Adolescents PDF eBook |
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Release | 2008 |
Genre | Dissertations, Academic |
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The Relationship Between High School Sports Participation and Youth Violence
Title | The Relationship Between High School Sports Participation and Youth Violence PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer L. Smith |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
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Paradoxes of Youth and Sport
Title | Paradoxes of Youth and Sport PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Gatz |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2002-03-28 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780791453230 |
Highlights the practical benefits and the many problems of youth and sports in the United States.
Prevention of Adolescent Interpersonal Violence Victimization
Title | Prevention of Adolescent Interpersonal Violence Victimization PDF eBook |
Author | Kareema A. Hunter |
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Release | 2007 |
Genre | Dating violence |
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Youth violence is a major public health problem for US adolescents. Sports participation has been shown to decrease the likelihood of certain forms of youth violence, such as suicide. Using a national representative sample, the study seeks to determine the association of dating and sexual abuse victimization with sports participation. Analyses of data from the 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) suggest that sports participation is significantly associated with an increased likelihood of male dating abuse victimization. There was no significant association between sexual abuse victimization and sports participation for girls nor boys. These findings underscore the importance of evaluating contextual aspects of sports education and team dynamics that may have violence prevention potential. Primary recommendations include further research on the feasibility of disseminating youth violence prevention messaging via school and community sports, training for coaches, and rigorous evaluation of adolescent sports programs.
Exposure to Violence Among Urban Late Adolescents and Young Adults
Title | Exposure to Violence Among Urban Late Adolescents and Young Adults PDF eBook |
Author | Mytien T. Le |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Peer pressure in adolescence |
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Youths and young adults living in high-risk, urban areas are more likely to be exposed to violence than their counterparts living in lower-risk communities. Research has explored protective factors for youth who have experienced community and family violence. Less is known about the role that activity involvement, specifically extracurricular activities (EC) and civic engagement (CE), serve among late adolescents and young adults in high-crime, urban communities. In this study, I examined the relation of community and family violence to aggression/violent behaviors and post-traumatic stress symptoms among urban late adolescents and young adults, as well as the potential protective effects of engaging in extracurricular and civic activities. The data are part of a 5-wave longitudinal project known as the Flint-Weapons Violence Study, which examines predictors of aggression and weapon violence among a sample of 426 youth growing up in Flint, MI (Bushman, Huesmann, Anderson, Gentile, et al., 2006; Huesmann et al., 2021). Using data from the 4th wave when the sample was between 18-25 years of age, the results indicate: 1) community violence exposure (but not family violence exposure) was positively related to aggressive/violent behaviors and post-traumatic stress symptoms; 2) most of the sample reported engaging in at least one extracurricular and one civic activity in the past year; 3) activity involvement did not moderate the relation between violence exposure and behavioral or emotional outcomes; and 4) negative peer influences did not moderate the relation between activity involvement and aggressive/violent behaviors. Results are discussed in relation to the need to collect more nuanced and comprehensive measures of activity involvement, and to assess developmental differences in the role of engaging in these activities in high-risk urban communities.
The Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Sport Involvement Among Adolescents
Title | The Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Sport Involvement Among Adolescents PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Francis Black |
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Pages | 384 |
Release | 1987 |
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Sport in a Changing World
Title | Sport in a Changing World PDF eBook |
Author | Howard Nixon II |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 463 |
Release | 2015-07-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 131738377X |
This book shows how the dynamic interplay of a powerful "golden triangle" of sports, media, and business interests with social, cultural, economic, and political forces shapes sport in a changing world. This edition is a condensed and updated version of the first edition, with an emphasis on current social issues in sport. It also has more global content. The golden triangle concept is more developed and applied more extensively. Other key themes of the first edition—power, status, and inequality—are also more developed. New "Stop and Think Questions" have been added to challenge students to think about the meaning of what they have read. The book is now divided into five sections. The new sections highlight sociology and the sociology of sport; inequality and diversity; globalization and social deviance; major social contexts of sport, including the high school, college, and professional levels; and power, political economy, and global sports.