Articles

Gender Equity

Extracurricular activity involvement in Canada: Relationships with youth development and variations by age, gender and context

February 1, 2021

Anne Bowker

Project summary The purpose of this research was to study extra-curricular activity (ECA) involvement in a broad range of Canadian youth, and to examine how this might vary by age, gender and geographical context (e.g. rural vs. urban settings). Of...

Mental Health

Physical Literacy

Imagery use in children’s leisure time physical activities

January 25, 2021

Krista Chandler

Project summary Given the rate of children’s physical inactivity, it is important to identify strategies that assist individuals in self-regulating their physical activity behaviors. Imagery is one such strategy. Children’s use of imagery has been investigated in sport, but not...

Athlete Development

Program Design and Evaluation

Sport for Development

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Assessing youth sport programs’ facilitation of positive youth development

January 18, 2021

Jessica Fraser-Thomas

Background / Context / Objective With growing societal concern for youths’ healthy development, extensive literature suggests organized leisure activities serve as optimal contexts to foster positive youth development (Larson, 2000), and sport has consistently been found to be the most...

Community Sport

Recreation

Underserved Groups

Understanding barriers to sport in Hamilton, ON

January 11, 2021

Andrew Clark

Project summary This study uses a random group of adults in Hamilton, ON to determine what barriers to sport are preventing adults from being active through sport. The research using data from a questionnaire that was part of a larger...

Indigenous

Building meaningful programs for indigenous youth

January 4, 2021

Alexandra Arellano

Project summary The main purpose of this research program was to help build more meaningful and relevant sport and recreation-based programs for Indigenous youth through the examination of a series of multidisciplinary analyses and case studies (mainly the Promoting Life-skills...

Athlete Development

Olympic & Paralympic Games

Life Skills

Long-Term Development

School Sport

Trickle down effect? Exploring the influence of the Olympic Games on preschooler sport participation and development

December 28, 2020

Jessica Fraser-Thomas

Background / Context / Objective The benefits of sport participation among youth are well recognized, yet little work has focused on understanding sport participation among very young children, despite growing participation at increasingly early ages. The first objective of this...

School Sport

Matching Activities to Personal Style (MAPS): Developing a physical activity guidance system for high school students

December 21, 2020

James Gavin

Project Summary A series of investigations was designed to create building blocks for a process of guiding physical activity choices among high school students and young adults based on psychosocial information and experiential processes. The initial studies explored patterns of...

Officials and Referees

Sport for Social Development

Survey on participation in amateur soccer in Canada

December 14, 2020

Martin Gendron

Project abstract In general, sport is seen as a powerful contributor to social and personal development (Sport Canada, 2002). The benefits of physical activity and sport have been the subject of numerous studies (Gendron et al., 2005; Parfitt & Eston,...