Human Studies, Laurentian University, Ontario , Canada.
J Sports Sci Med. 2012 Mar 1;11(1):39-50. eCollection 2012.
Early adolescence is a time when a transition away from sport and physical activity participation is at its highest level among female youth (Hedstrom & Gould, 2004). This has led to the identification of barriers and facilitators of physical activity participation for adolescent females. Consequently there have been calls to overcome barriers and augment facilitators via the creation of gender-relevant programming. Despite these calls and efforts, a gender disparity remains, and a detailed understanding of how girls experience and interpret physical activity within the context of their lives is still lacking. The current project aimed to gain further insight into the foregoing using tenets of Interpretive Phenomenology to further understand the lived physical activity experiences of females during early adolescence, delineating their barriers to participation and the factors enabling participation. Five themes were identified and made into vignettes to facilitate understanding from adolescent females' perspectives: friends or don't know anyone, good or not good enough, fun or not fun; good feeling or gross; and peer support or peer pressure. The physical activity promotion implications for female youth are discussed within the context of these themes.
青少年早期是一个从运动和体育活动参与中过渡的时期，女性青少年的参与率达到最高水平（Hedstrom & Gould，2004）。这导致了识别青少年女性参与体育活动的障碍和促进因素。因此，有人呼吁通过创建与性别相关的方案来克服障碍和增强促进因素。尽管有这些呼吁和努力，但性别差距仍然存在，对于女孩如何在生活背景下体验和解释体育活动，我们仍缺乏详细的了解。本项目旨在利用解释现象学的原则进一步深入了解上述问题，从而进一步了解少女在青少年早期的体育活动体验，描述她们参与的障碍和促进因素。确定了五个主题，并将其制作成小插曲，以便从少女的角度理解：有朋友或不认识任何人、好或不够好、有趣或无趣；感觉良好或感觉很糟糕；同伴支持或同伴压力。在这些主题的背景下讨论了女性青年的体育活动促进意义。
