This article examines patterns of adjustment among urban middle-school children as a function of involvement in organized team sports. Four hundred twenty-three seventh-grade students (216 boys and 207 girls) reported on their involvement in sport, self-esteem, delinquent activity, and drug use during the year preceding the survey. Physical Education teachers rated social competence, shyness/withdrawal, and disinhibition/aggression. Compared with noninvolved children, sport-involved youth reported higher self-esteem and were rated by teachers as more socially competent and less shy and withdrawn. Sport-involved youth, including those in contact sports, were not rated as more aggressive than noninvolved children. And though sport-involved youth reported a slightly broader range of delinquent activities than noninvolved youth, sport-involved boys were actually less likely than noninvolved boys to have experimented with marijuana.
Article
Patterns of personal and social adjustment among sport-involved and noninvolved urban middle-school children.
USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2005
Disciplines
Abstract
Language
en_US
Publisher
Human Kinetics Publishers
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0
Citation Information
McHale, J.P., Vinden, P.G., Bush, L. Richer, D., Shaw, D. & Smith, B. (2005). Patterns of personal and social adjustment among sport-involved and noninvolved urban middle-school children. Sociology of Sport Journal, 22, 119-136.
Abstract only. Full-text article is available only through licensed access provided by the publisher. Published in Sociology of Sport Journal, 22, 119-136. Members of the USF System may access the full-text of the article through the authenticated link provided.