Rotta Katarina, Li Anita, Poling Alan
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI USA.
Department of Psychology, Western Michigan University, Wood Hall, 1903 West Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 USA.
Behav Anal Pract. 2020 Sep 21;13(4):820-825. doi: 10.1007/s40617-020-00477-0. eCollection 2020 Dec.
Participating in athletics confers a wide range of benefits, regardless of participants' gender or disability status. Our review of 95 behavior-analytic sports-performance articles revealed that over half of them included at least 1 female participant, but only 5 included at least 1 participant with a reported developmental disability. Given that females are often underrepresented as research participants, and that female athletes face unique barriers, it is heartening that so many articles involved female participants. Moreover, there were more female than male participants overall. However, it is surprising and distressing that so few articles involved participants with a developmental disability. Participating in sports can be a lifelong source of fitness, friends, and fun. Practitioners should encourage people of all ages, races, and genders, and from all disability categories, to find a sport they like, to learn to do it well enough to enjoy it, and to do it regularly. Researchers should give them the tools necessary to make those efforts as easy, and as fruitful, as possible. Nothing but good can come from these efforts.
参与体育运动能带来广泛的益处，无论参与者的性别或残疾状况如何。我们对95篇行为分析体育表现文章的综述发现，其中超过一半的文章至少包含1名女性参与者，但只有5篇文章至少包含1名报告有发育障碍的参与者。鉴于女性作为研究参与者的比例往往较低，而且女性运动员面临独特的障碍，这么多文章涉及女性参与者令人鼓舞。此外，总体上女性参与者比男性参与者更多。然而，如此少的文章涉及发育障碍参与者令人惊讶且痛心。参与体育运动可以成为终身健康、交友和娱乐的源泉。从业者应鼓励所有年龄、种族、性别的人，以及所有残疾类别的人，找到一项他们喜欢的运动，学会把它做得足够好以享受其中，并定期参与。研究人员应给予他们必要的工具，使这些努力尽可能轻松且富有成效。这些努力只会带来好处。
