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The illusion of equality: Why gender parity in Canadian sport remains a distant goal 

When Dr. Guylaine Demers talks about gender equality in Canadian sport, she does so with the precision of an academic, the passion of an advocate, and the realism of someone who has spent more than 3 decades inside the system.  Demers, a professor at Laval University and one of Canada’s leading researchers on equity in…

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Health and Wellbeing
High Performance
Sport Participation Research Initiative

The Social Determinants of Athletes’ Health: Understanding the Relationship Between Health and High Performance Sport
February 24, 2020
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Parissa Safai
Project Summary Researchers are beginning to pay greater attention to the connections and contradictions between sport, health and healthcare. Despite the conventional wisdom that greater participation in sport and physical activity enhances health and the quality of life, more and...
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Children and Youth
Recreation
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Understanding Parents’ Experiences in Facilitating Physically Active Leisure for their Children who are Overweight or Obese
February 17, 2020
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Charlene Shannon-McCallum
Project Summary Parents are key influencers of their children’s leisure behaviours. They identify and create opportunities for their child’s continued participation in leisure activities including sport. There are a number of factors that affect a parent’s ability to support his/her...
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Children and Youth
Coaching
Sport Participation
Sport Participation Research Initiative

The Effect of Coaching in Youth Sport in Canada
February 10, 2020
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Philip Sullivan
Project Summary This project was designed to examine the impact of coaching on athlete outcomes in youth sport. The research focused on both the perceptions and behaviors of the coach, and assessed sporting and non-sporting (i.e., positive youth development) outcomes...
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Athlete Development
Children and Youth
High Performance
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Examining Positive Youth Development in Elite Sport Contexts Using Photo Elicitation
February 3, 2020
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Leisha Strachan
Project Summary Previous research in the field of positive youth development has highlighted the importance of extracurricular activities, such as sport, in developing healthy youth (Larson, 2000, Petitpas et al., 2005). Further, the National Research Council Institute of Medicine (NRIM,...
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Children and Youth
Health and Wellbeing
Mental Skills
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Understanding and coping among adolescent athletes
January 27, 2020
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Katherine Tamminen
View the summary of this research here. Project summary Research Objectives: Participation in youth sport is associated with a variety of positive developmental outcomes among adolescents, however studies of recreational and competitive youth sport contexts have revealed stressors which include...
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Athlete Development
Long-Term Development
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Factors in Adopting Long-term Athlete Development
January 20, 2020
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François Trudeau
Project Summary Purpose: Several studies have reported an age-related decline of physical activity (PA). We examined the impact of four transitional periods—adolescence, the beginning of post-secondary education, entry into the labour market, and parenthood—on the PA of participants in the...
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Children and Youth
Life Skills
School Sport
Sport Participation Research Initiative

An Analysis of High School Sport
January 13, 2020
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Pierre Trudel
Project Summary Among the various opportunities young people have to practise sports, school sports are of particular interest because the ultimate goal of schools is to shape our future citizens. Although school sport has become increasingly popular in Canada, there...
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Athlete Development
Children and Youth
Recreation
Sport Participation
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Relative Age, Recreation Sport Participation and Youth Development
January 6, 2020
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Nick Wattie
Project Summary In both youth sport and education, children and adolescents are grouped into cohorts by using annual age grouping policies, whereby a child must be a certain age by a specified selection date (e.g., December 315). Relative age describes...
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Children and Youth
Sport for Social Development
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Organized youth sport, parenthood ideologies and gender relations: Parents’ and children’s experiences and the construction of “team family”
January 6, 2020
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Dawn Trussell
Project Summary This study sought to understand how family relationships, interactions, and values are shaped by children’s sport involvement, and the social and cultural context in which their sport participation occurs. The themes that emerged from this study reflect the...
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Health and Wellbeing
Masters Sport
Sport Participation
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Lifespan Analyses of Social Influence on the Sport Commitment and Participation of Masters Athletes
January 6, 2020
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Bradley Young
Project Summary This research aimed to identify the nature of various social influences determining increased commitment to continue sport involvement among middle-aged and older sport participants. Research was conducted among samples from international-, national-, and regional-level masters sport (> 35...
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