Research Log #8

Date: 12/29/17
Name: RJ Walker
EQ: How and why are sports a metaphor towards life and career success?

Three Points to Prove: #1: Sports teach commitment, dedication, and responsibility.
#2: Sports emphasize the power of teamwork.
#3: Sports build respect towards authority/ coaches and enhance friendships/social skills
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Point that this Source/Information Proves: #1

Excerpts:
“Sport participation is often considered a vehicle for positive youth development”

“Indeed, researchers have consistently found a positive association between sport participation and psychological
variables such as identity development, initiative, social responsibility, teamwork, and social skills, and also better
psychological well-being”

“There may be a contextual variable mediating the relationship between psychological development and sport
participation of children, which, in turn, leads to healthy developmental outcomes during the adolescent years.”

“Coaches have a critical role in the psychological development of youth sport participants as they are often considered
a significant agent in shaping the character of the young people whom they coach and the environment that the young
people experience.”

“In the context of sport, Carreres Ponsoda noted that social responsibility could be affected by factors such as coaches’
leadership style.”

“We investigated the relationship between five types of coaching behavior and athletes’ level of social responsibility,
and whether or not that relationship was dependent on demographic variables.”

Analysis:
Sports teach commitment, dedication, and responsibility, which is great especially for youth development as it,
makes these characteristics/ traits that much better for themselves as a whole. This source is subjected under social
behavior and personality but specifically focuses on the relationship between coaching leadership style and young
athletes social responsibility. It states that sport participation is often considered a vehicle for positive youth
development, which basically means it is a great way to start off your childhood development.
Coaches have a critical role in the psychological development of youth sport participants as they are typically a
huge factor when it comes to the character’s traits. Carreres Ponsoda also noted that social responsibility could be
affected by factors such as coaches’ leadership style. Commitment, dedication, and responsibility are all great traits
that define you as a person and sports can help to enhance those skills that much better. These are traits that you carry
with you to your career path and future life as an adult. Having said that, researchers have consistently found a positive
association between sport participation and psychological variables such as identity development, initiative, social
responsibility, teamwork, and social skills, and also towards.better psychological well-being.

Work Cited:

YE HOON, LEE. "Relationship between Coaching Leadership Style and Young Athletes' Social Responsibility."
Social Behavior & Personality. EBSCOhost. Sept. 2017.
http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=13&sid=8396f58b-4c18-42c9-9294-
191fc0697d85%40sessionmgr4008. Accessed 29 December 2017