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Youth Can! Grow Their Community: Qualitative Evaluation Of A Gardening-Enhanced Positive Youth Development Program, Marissa Black
Youth Can! Grow Their Community: Qualitative Evaluation Of A Gardening-Enhanced Positive Youth Development Program, Marissa Black
Masters Theses
Background: Rates of obesity and overweight for children and adolescents have remained above objectives and disproportionately affect minority youth. Diet quality is one factor related to overweight and obesity and is suboptimal for American youth. Nutrition education programs with additional components including gardening have targeted factors related to diet quality such as increasing fruit and vegetable intake and youth development strategies have been used to empower youth to make healthy changes. This study, in which participants engaged in a nutrition education and gardening program with a focus on improving the health of their community, evaluated the participants’ perceived ability to …
Athletes’ Perceptions Of Their High School Sport Ecology And Life Skills Development, Kylee Jo Ault
Athletes’ Perceptions Of Their High School Sport Ecology And Life Skills Development, Kylee Jo Ault
Masters Theses
Sport psychology researchers have examined the degree to which youth sport participation leads to positive developmental outcomes. Contemporary findings suggest that these outcomes are more likely to occur when adults intentionally design environments that foster life skills development. However, many of these studies have only examined one adult relationship (e.g. Camiré, Trudel, & Bernard, 2013; Gould, Collins, Lauer, & Chung, 2007; Turnnidge, Côté, & Hancock, 2014) without acknowledging the larger context surrounding interscholastic sport. The purpose of this study was to examine high school student-athletes’ perceptions of how stakeholders in their high school sport-ecosystem influence their life skills development and …