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Beyond the game: The power of positive psychology in sport

In the world of elite sports, the focus has traditionally been on performance metrics, rigorous training regimens, and strategies for winning. But what if the secret to sustained success lies not just in physical prowess, but in the mind? Enter positive psychology, a field that seeks to unlock human potential by fostering mental resilience, well-being,…

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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...

Aging, Physical Activity and Men’s Health

January 22, 2020
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Jordan Deneau, Paula van Wyk, and Sean Horton
Regular, meaningful physical activity provides many benefits for older adults (Bangsbo et al., 2019). However, older men can be a particularly hard-to-reach group when it comes to public health promotion and disease prevention initiatives (Bottorff et al., 2015; Carroll et...

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...

Concussion Education Reaches the Community Sport Level

January 15, 2020
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Peter Morrow, SIRC
As awareness of the management and prevention of concussions in sport increases, Canadians have more resources at their fingertips: tools to recognize signs and symptoms, medical assessment letters, sport-specific concussion protocols, and more. Yet even with the proper tools in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

2019 Year in Review

December 18, 2019
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SIRC
As we ease ourselves into the year ahead, here is a round-up of the most popular SIRCuit articles and SIRC blogs from 2019! Top 5 SIRCuit Articles Gender Equity is Good Governance – Lessons from the Sport Sector Cannabis and...

How data informs Volleyball Canada’s concussion strategy

December 11, 2019
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Peter Morrow, SIRC
It might be surprising to hear concussions are a serious risk in the sport of volleyball. But data collection from Volleyball Canada—dating back to 2016—has revealed exactly that. “Our research has shown that about 1 in 10 youth athletes in...

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