Questions. Research in Youth Sports: Critical Issues Status

1. What did the Citizenship Through Sport Alliance commission the Institute for the Study of Youth Sports at Michigan State University to conduct?

2. According to Seefeldt, Ewing, and Walk (1992), what are four potential outcomes of youth sport involvement?

3. What other possible benefits were outlined by Malina and Cumming (2003)?

4. Dworkin, Larson, and Hansen (2003) reported social-psychological benefits associated with youth sports involvement, what were their findings?

5. What is CET? What has been the attrition rate of players receiving coaching from CET coaches versus non CET coaches?

6. What are the findings of Patel and Nelson (2000) regarding occurrence of physical injuries in youth sports?

7. What are the findings of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1999) regarding physical activity among youth?

8. What has been the effect of ethnicity and gender as predictors of physical activity?

9. In a comprehensive study of 8000 youth, what were the five reasons that youth cited for their interest in getting involved with sport?

10.What were the four reasons cited for dropping out of youth sport (Seefeldt, Ewing, and Walk, 1992)?

11.Identify six findings regarding the effect of parental influence on youth sport involvement.

12.What has been found as the five leading problems associated with parent-child interaction in youth sport?

13.What were the three phases that Cote(1999) found in parental involvement in developing elite athletes?