The 4Cs of positive youth development (PYD; competence, confidence, connection, and
character) have been advocated as desirable athlete outcomes of sport participation, and in …

Life Span Motor Development, Eighth Edition With HKPropel Access, is a leading text for
hel** students understand a person's movement abilities as the interaction of the …

Our goal in this chapter is to comprehensively review the literature on motivation and sport
behavior. To do this, we describe theories or conceptual models of motivation that have …

The purposes of this study were to identify sources of self-confidence in athletes within the
sport-confidence framework of Vealey (1986, 1988), develop a reliable and valid measure of …

This work analyses the effects of gender and level of physical activity involvement on
physical self-perceptions in Spanish adolescents. Participants were 2,372 Spanish students …

For thousands of students this year alone, taking the physical fitness tests will be as much a
part of the annual school routine as is the first day of school, lunch, and standardized tests in …

Examined the interaction between perceptions of the motivational climate, goal orientations,
and perceived ability. 385 junior female volleyball players (aged 14–18 yrs) from 45 teams …

Despite the prevalence of youth sport participation worldwide (De Knop, Engstrom, Skirstad,
& Weiss, 1996), little research exists on peer group acceptance, friendships, and social …

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1 434 RQES: December 2008 Weiss Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport ©2008 by the …

Karin R. Boyd and Dennis W. Hrycaiko Page 1 THE EFFECT OF A PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
INTERVENTION PACKAGE ON THE SELF-ESTEEM OF PRE-ADOLESCENT AND …