Removing maturational influences from female youth swimming: the application of corrective adjustment procedures

This article explores the transition of youth from childcare institutions as young adults through the lens of youth identity and gender. The research revolves around rethinking the delicate boundaries of adolescence and adulthood for the ‘institutionalised’ youth that is already on the edge of the society. This research tries to understand and decode the experiences of youth, who have lived in the childcare institutions. The childcare institutions reinforce the gender roles through its practices and structure, enabling gaps and challenges for both male and female youth outside the childcare institutions. There is an absence of a strong mechanism, enabling the smooth transition of youth from childcare institutions to adulthood. This results in unprepared young adults for an unplanned transition, fostering several challenges on them as they exit the childcare system. This is a qualitative study. The research includes both male and female youth who have lived in childcare institutions situated in Delhi. The data was collected using semi-structured interviews with the youth. This study finds that youth leaving the childcare institutions are at higher risks of having negative adult outcomes in life. While there is an absolute absence of any body or mechanism to help the youth transit smoothly, childcare institutions reinforce the inferiority and exclusion on a child during the stay period, creating a foundation for youth to perceive the social factor outside the institutions.

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Relationship between internal and external load in elite female youth basketball players

Apunts Sports Medicine ◽

10.1016/j.apunsm.2021.100357 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 56 (211) ◽

pp. 100357

Author(s):

Javier Espasa Labrador ◽

Javier Peña ◽

Toni Caparrós Pons ◽

Michael Cook ◽

Azahara Fort Vanmeerhaeghe

Keyword(s):

External Load ◽

Basketball Players ◽

Female Youth

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Mirroring Empowerment: Exploring Structural Barriers to Volunteer Motivation Fulfillment in an All-Female Youth Sport Program

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly ◽

10.1177/08997640211034585 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 089976402110345

Author(s):

Alaina C. Zanin ◽

Katrina N. Hanna ◽

Laura V. Martinez

Keyword(s):

Youth Sport ◽

Structuration Theory ◽

Theoretical Concept ◽

Structural Barriers ◽

Organizational Mission ◽

Female Youth ◽

Sport Teams ◽

Field Notes ◽

Volunteer Coaches

This study utilizes structuration theory to reveal how volunteer coaches in an all-female youth sport program describe barriers and agency to their organizational mission of athlete empowerment. The dataset in this ethnographic case study comes from volunteer coaching experiences within two youth sport teams. Ethnographic data included field notes from four volunteer coaches, collaborative interviews, archival organizational documents, as well as athlete and parent interviews. A qualitative analysis, informed by structuration theory, revealed specific legitimate, dominant, and symbolic structures that enabled and constrained volunteer and youth athlete empowerment within the teams. The analysis also revealed a process of mirroring empowerment, a novel theoretical concept, which describes how athletes reflected back their own empowerment to empower volunteer coaches. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.

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