Physical Education and Sport Department, University of Seville, 41013 Seville, Spain.
Research Group "Social Inclusion, Physical Education and Sport, and European Policies in Research" (HUM-1061), University of Seville, 41013 Seville, Spain.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Oct 14;19(20):13261. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192013261.
Decision-making is one of the most important life skills for young athletes to succeed in their daily lives and can be improved through Positive Youth Development (PYD) programs. Although the application of this type of programs has increased within educational and recreational sports, there is a lack of research relating PYD through competitive sports. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine whether an intervention with competitive female youth players improves their decision-making. A hybrid PYD program was applied (37 trainings and 14 games) using convergent mixed methods. 15 girls (8-10 years) and a male coach participated in the study. Semi-structured interviews and field notes were used to collect qualitative data and the Decision-Making Style in Sport questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data. The results showed a positive perception of the improvement in decision-making in both the players and the coach; however, there was no statistical significance between the pretest and the posttest, and the integration between qualitative and quantitative data was mostly discrepant. Despite the lack of significance in the statistical analysis, the findings suggest that the intervention program appears to have beneficial effects on the development of decision-making skills in the players.
决策能力是年轻运动员在日常生活中取得成功的最重要的生活技能之一,可以通过积极青年发展(PYD)计划来提高。尽管这种类型的计划在教育和娱乐性体育中的应用有所增加,但在竞技体育中通过 PYD 的相关研究却很少。因此,本研究的目的是确定对有竞争意识的年轻女性运动员进行干预是否能提高她们的决策能力。采用了一种混合的 PYD 方案(37 次训练和 14 次比赛),使用了收敛混合方法。15 名女孩(8-10 岁)和一名男教练参与了这项研究。半结构化访谈和现场记录用于收集定性数据,而运动决策风格问卷用于收集定量数据。结果表明,运动员和教练都对决策能力的提高有积极的感知;然而,前测和后测之间没有统计学意义,定性和定量数据的整合大多存在差异。尽管统计分析没有显著意义,但研究结果表明,干预计划似乎对运动员决策技能的发展有有益的影响。