TY - JOUR
T1 - Peer motivational climate and character development
T2 - Testing a practitioner-developed youth sport model
AU - Agans, Jennifer P.
AU - Su, Shaobing
AU - Ettekal, Andrea Vest
N1 - Funding Information:
This research reported in this article was supported in part by a grant ( #52490 ) from the John Templeton Foundation to Richard M. Lerner at Tufts University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Foundation for Professionals in Services for Adolescents
PY - 2018/1
Y1 - 2018/1
N2 - Youth sport is a key developmental context for many reasons, including the opportunities it provides for building relationships with peers and its potential to support character development. Peers can influence adolescent sport experiences and shape their motivations, and different peer motivational climates may differentially support athlete character. Established models identify different dimensions of peer motivational climate, yet these models do not describe how aspects of peer climate may align with character. We therefore assess profiles of peer motivational climate in relation to a multi-dimensional practitioner-developed theoretical model for character development through sport. Participants were 655 adolescent athletes from the greater Boston area, in the United States. Athletes perceiving a mastery-involved peer climate, even with high intra-team competition, were most likely to exhibit positive character attributes at the three levels of character assessed: themselves, their teammates, and the game. This study also demonstrates the utility of practitioner-developed models for adolescent research.
AB - Youth sport is a key developmental context for many reasons, including the opportunities it provides for building relationships with peers and its potential to support character development. Peers can influence adolescent sport experiences and shape their motivations, and different peer motivational climates may differentially support athlete character. Established models identify different dimensions of peer motivational climate, yet these models do not describe how aspects of peer climate may align with character. We therefore assess profiles of peer motivational climate in relation to a multi-dimensional practitioner-developed theoretical model for character development through sport. Participants were 655 adolescent athletes from the greater Boston area, in the United States. Athletes perceiving a mastery-involved peer climate, even with high intra-team competition, were most likely to exhibit positive character attributes at the three levels of character assessed: themselves, their teammates, and the game. This study also demonstrates the utility of practitioner-developed models for adolescent research.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.11.008
DO - 10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.11.008
M3 - Article
C2 - 29179125
AN - SCOPUS:85034834060
SN - 0140-1971
VL - 62
SP - 108
EP - 115
JO - Journal of Adolescence
JF - Journal of Adolescence
ER -
