Reverdito Riller S, Galatti Larissa R, Carvalho Humberto M, Scaglia Alcides J, Côté Jean, Gonçalves Carlos E, Paes Roberto R
1 Faculty of Health Sciences, State University of Mato Grosso, Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
2 Faculty of Physical Education, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
Percept Mot Skills. 2017 Oct;124(5):946-960. doi: 10.1177/0031512517724657. Epub 2017 Aug 9.
Youth sporting activities have been explored as a way to impact positive personal transformation and development, glaringly demonstrated by world-wide investments in public policies, programs, and projects. We studied positive effects of participation in sports on the developmental assets of 614 adolescents (13.1 ± 1.7 years) actively engaged in extracurricular sport programs targeted at socially disadvantaged youths, from five municipalities across five states of the southern, south-eastern and north-eastern regions of Brazil. Participants responded to a developmental assets questionnaire designed to capture sociodemographic and human development data. Multilevel logistic regression was used to explore associations between years of participation in sport and human development indicators, controlling for age and sex. Our results showed that the quality of the young people's support network and duration of program participation positively influenced sport participation, which, in turn, was associated with willingness to learn. A strong association was also observed between sport participation and developmental assets. Thus, we offer new evidence of a relationship between positive development and environmental factors in which individual and contextual forces can be aligned, and we provide new reference data for developing countries.
青少年体育活动已被视为一种促进积极个人转变和发展的方式，全球对公共政策、计划和项目的投资就明显体现了这一点。我们研究了参与体育运动对614名青少年（13.1±1.7岁）发展资产的积极影响，这些青少年积极参与针对社会弱势青年的课外体育项目，来自巴西南部、东南部和东北部五个州的五个城市。参与者回答了一份旨在收集社会人口统计学和人类发展数据的发展资产问卷。采用多水平逻辑回归来探讨体育参与年限与人类发展指标之间的关联，并控制年龄和性别。我们的结果表明，年轻人支持网络的质量和项目参与时长对体育参与有积极影响，而这又与学习意愿相关。在体育参与和发展资产之间也观察到了很强的关联。因此，我们提供了新的证据，证明积极发展与环境因素之间存在关系，在这种关系中，个人和背景力量可以相互协调，并且我们为发展中国家提供了新的参考数据。
