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Background:The Active Healthy Kids 2014 England Report Card aims to provide a systematic assessment of how England is performing in relation to engaging and facilitating physical activity (PA) in children and young people.Methods:The systematic methods and processes that underpin the Active Healthy Kids Canada Report Card were used and adapted. Data and evidence were consolidated, reviewed by a panel of content experts, and used to inform the assignment of letter grades (A, B, C, D, F) to 9 core indicators related to PA.Results:Children’s Overall Physical Activity received a grade of C/D. Active Transportation and Organized Sport Participation received grades of C and C-, respectively. The indicators of School and Community and the Built Environment were graded favorable with grades of A- and B, respectively. Active Play, Sedentary Behaviors, Family and Peers, and Government Strategies and Investments were graded as INC (incomplete) due to a lack of nationally representative data and/or as a result of data not mapping onto the benchmarks used to assign the grades.Conclusions:Substantial provision for PA opportunities in England exists. Yet more effort is required to maximize use of these resources to increase PA participation.

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The Perceived Legitimacy of Rule Violating Behavior in Sport

Journal of Sport Psychology ◽

10.1123/jsp.5.4.438 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 438-448 ◽

Cited By ~ 40

Author(s):

John M. Silva

Keyword(s):

Sport Participation ◽

Female Athletes ◽

The Other ◽

Physical Contact ◽

Levels Of Analysis ◽

Categorical Variables ◽

Socialization Process ◽

Organized Sport ◽

Male And Female ◽

Polynomial Regressions

Some sport scientists have suggested that various rule violating behaviors (including aggressive player behavior) are normative behaviors perceived to be “legitimate violations” by participants (e.g., Silva, 1981; Vaz, 1979). In an attempt to determine if sport socialization influences the degree of perceived legitimacy of rule violating sport behavior, 203 male and female athletes and nonathletes were shown a series of eight slides. Seven of these slides clearly depicted rule violating behavior. The subjects rated the unacceptability-acceptability of the behavior shown on each slide on a scale of 1 to 4 (totally unacceptable-totally acceptable). Subjects were categorized according to: (a) gender, (b) amount of physical contact, (c) highest level of organized sport participation, and (d) years of participation. Regression and polynomial regressions indicated that male respondents rated rule violating behavior significantly more acceptable than females. Trend analyses on the other categorical variables indicated support for an in-sport socialization process that legitimizes rule violating behavior. This perceived legitimacy was considerably more pronounced for males than for females at all levels of analysis.

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Sports drink consumption and diet of children involved in organized sport

Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition ◽

10.1186/1550-2783-10-38 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 38 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Dona L Tomlin ◽

Shannon K Clarke ◽

Meghan Day ◽

Heather A McKay ◽

Patti-Jean Naylor

Keyword(s):

Organized Sport ◽

Sports Drink

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Correlates of Participation in Physical Activity for Adolescent Girls: A Systematic Review of Recent Literature

Journal of Physical Activity and Health ◽

10.1123/jpah.2.4.423 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 423-434 ◽

Cited By ~ 131

Author(s):

Stuart J.H. Biddle ◽

Sarah H. Whitehead ◽

Toni M. O’Donovan ◽

Mary E. Nevill

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Systematic Review ◽

Adolescent Girls ◽

Economic Status ◽

Female Gender ◽

Behavioral Correlates ◽

Organized Sport ◽

White Ethnicity ◽

The Family ◽

Low Levels

Background:Many adolescent girls have low levels of physical activity and participation declines with age. This review identifies recent correlates of physical activity in adolescent girls.Methods:Systematic review of papers published 1999 to mid-2003. Papers (k = 51) reporting a measure of physical activity and at least one potential correlate of physical activity in adolescent girls were analyzed.Results:Demographics related to physical activity were female gender (–), non-white ethnicity (–), age (–), and socio-economic status (+). Psychological correlates positively associated with physical activity were enjoyment, perceived competence, self-efficacy, and physical self-perceptions. Behavioral correlates showed that smoking was associated with lower and organized sport involvement with greater activity. Physical activity was associated with parental and family support but we found no consistent trends for environmental variables. Effects were small-to-moderate.Conclusions:Modifiable correlates for adolescent girls clustered around “positive psychology,” organized sport involvement, and the family.

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Pierre de Coubertin: sport and ideology in the Third Republic, 1870–1914

European Review ◽

10.1017/s1062798700004737 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 167-171

Author(s):

H. L. Wesseling

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Public Schools ◽

Olympic Games ◽

Third Republic ◽

Fin De Siecle ◽

Organized Sport ◽

The Public ◽

The Third ◽

Fin De Siècle

Organized sport was first developed in Germany in the form of the so-called Turnvereine, and in England at the public schools. It came to France later, at the end of the nineteenth century. Despite this, the modern Olympic Games was a French invention, the result of the ambitions and efforts of an aristocratic admirer of England, Baron Pierre de Coubertin. His ideas and attitudes were in many ways characteristic of fin-de-siècle France.

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Child Athletes and Athletic Objectification

Journal of Sport and Social Issues ◽

10.1177/0193723517705544 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 41 (3) ◽

pp. 175-190 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nadine Cameron ◽

Lynne McPherson ◽

Prue Atkins ◽

Matthew Nicholson ◽

Maureen Long

Keyword(s):

Best Interests ◽

Western Society ◽

Psychosocial Needs ◽

Short Term ◽

Research Project ◽

Organized Sport ◽

Beliefs And Values ◽

Males And Females ◽

Good For ◽

Gendered Expectations

This article examines the risks associated with conceptualizing the child athlete’s body primarily in aesthetic terms and as an instrument of sporting victory, and develops a concept of “athletic objectification.” It draws on a recent research project involving Australian males and females aged between 18 and 25 who participated in organized sport as children. It identifies socially prevalent beliefs and values to which the athletic objectification of children may be partially attributed. These include the orthodoxy that sport is inherently good for children’s development, and the particular valorization of sporting success and gendered expectations that characterize Western society. It concludes with the argument that serving children’s best interests in sport requires that their broader psychosocial needs are given priority above the short-term development of their athletic capacity.

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Mental Health and Organized Youth Sport

Kinesiology Review ◽

10.1123/kr.2019-0025 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 229-236 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Stewart A. Vella

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Best Practice ◽

Sport Participation ◽

Mental Health Problems ◽

Youth Sports ◽

Youth Sport ◽

Health Problems ◽

Childhood And Adolescence ◽

Theoretical Frameworks ◽

Organized Sport

Mental health is one of the most prominent global burdens of disease among young people, while organized youth sport is one of the most popular activities for children and adolescents worldwide. Organized sport can be an engaging vehicle for the promotion of mental health, but participation also brings several meaningful risks and detriments for young people’s mental health. This paper contains a review of the evidence underpinning the relationships between sport participation and mental health during childhood and adolescence and also outlines the key areas of risk for mental health problems. Relevant theoretical frameworks are discussed, as are the key concepts underpinning 2 exemplar sport-based interventions to promote mental health and reduce the risk of mental health problems. Recommendations for best practice in organized youth sport are not available. However, relevant frameworks are outlined, from which administrators, coaches, and athletes can base the design and delivery of sport programs to be consistent with relevant theoretical and philosophical approaches such as the athlete-centered approach to youth sports.

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Physical activity and bone health

10.1093/med/9780198757672.003.0018 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Han CG Kemper ◽

Rômulo A Fernandes

Keyword(s):

Bone Health ◽

Bone Growth ◽

Growth Parameters ◽

Weight Bearing ◽

Later Life ◽

Childhood And Adolescence ◽

Organized Sport ◽

Available Technology ◽

Daily Physical Activities

The growth and development of the skeleton during childhood and adolescence is an important determinant of the development of osteoporosis in later life. Therefore healthy behaviours adopted in early life are crucial in the promotion of bone health in adulthood. In the last decades, the available technology to monitor bone growth parameters has become more accurate and cheaper, improving the quality of longitudinal studies undertaken over the last few years. In childhood, the engagement in daily physical activities has a relevant impact on bone formation, mainly if weight-bearing activities are incorporated into it. The physical exercise-related osteogenic effects improve the bone health of boys and girls in different maturational stages. Moreover, the practice of organized sport incorporates osteogenic aspects, while well-structured physical education classes also seem relevant to improving bone health.

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