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Adolescence & Sports (Hardcover, New)
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Adolescence & Sports (Hardcover, New)
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Sports participation by adolescents is considered a rite of passage
in Western society. Adolescents participate in sports for many
reasons. Most play sports for fun. Other reasons include, personal
motivation, enhance fitness, socialisation, economic benefits,
status symbol, parental or societal pressures, and media influence.
Approximately 40 million children and adolescents participate in
organised sports in the United States alone and many more
world-wide. Many start at a very young age, as young as three years
and specialise in a single sport with intensive participation,
spending many hours in practices, games, and travel. In some cases
this level of commitment to sports, whether a personal choice or
because of societal or parental pressure, can lead to social
isolation, burnout, and adverse impact on normal psychosocial
development. Sport participation experience can be positive or
negative depending up on the motivation, goals, and expectations of
the adolescent, his or her parents or other adults in life, and the
society at large. Many adolescents quit or are left out of
participating in sports. The potential benefits of sport
participation by adolescents include improve self-esteem, enhanced
personal coping abilities, enhanced social competence, and
fostering teamwork and healthy competitiveness. In addition to many
psychosocial and developmental benefits of healthy sports
participation, it can have life-long positive impact in prevention
and control of major diseases that have enormous personal and
public health implications. In this book the editors have explored
selected topics to exemplify some of the many facets of sport
participation by adolescents that have implications for individual
and public health.
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