Hopwood M J, Farrow D, MacMahon C, Baker J
Australian Canoeing, Silverwater, New South Wales, Australia.
School of Sport and Exercise Science, Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2015 Oct;25(5):724-33. doi: 10.1111/sms.12387. Epub 2015 Jan 31.
Family members are known to be highly influential in the development of sport expertise. To date, much of the research in this area has focused on parents, with less known about sibling influences on expertise. This investigation explored associations between sport expertise, sibling characteristics, and sibling participation in sport and physical activity. Athletes representing three skill levels provided details of sibling characteristics and participation in sport and physical activity via the Developmental History of Athletes Questionnaire. Elite athletes were more likely to be later-born children, while pre-elite and non-elite athletes were more likely to be first-born. Compared with siblings of non-elite athletes, siblings of elite athletes were more likely to have participated in regular physical activity and were more likely to have participated in sport at the pre-elite and elite levels. These results suggest siblings may play a key role in sport expertise development.
众所周知，家庭成员在运动专长的发展中具有很大影响力。迄今为止，该领域的许多研究都集中在父母身上，而对于兄弟姐妹对专长的影响则了解较少。本调查探讨了运动专长、兄弟姐妹特征以及兄弟姐妹参与运动和体育活动之间的关联。代表三个技能水平的运动员通过《运动员发展历史问卷》提供了兄弟姐妹特征以及参与运动和体育活动的详细信息。精英运动员更有可能是晚出生的孩子，而准精英和非精英运动员更有可能是头胎出生。与非精英运动员的兄弟姐妹相比,精英运动员的兄弟姐妹更有可能参加定期体育活动，并且更有可能参加准精英和精英级别的运动。这些结果表明，兄弟姐妹可能在运动专长发展中发挥关键作用。
