Fostering Youth Female Athletes' Decision-Making Skills through Competitive Volleyball: A Mixed Methods Design

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 la...

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Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health 2022-10, Vol.19 (20), p.13261
Main Authors: Muñoz-Llerena, Antonio, Caballero-Blanco, Pablo, Hernández-Hernández, Elena
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Athletes
Coaches & managers
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Decision making
Design
Education
Empowerment
Female
Humans
Male
Mixed methods research
Pedagogy
Players
Qualitative analysis
Skill development
Skills
Social responsibility
Sports
Statistical analysis
Statistics
Team sports
Volleyball
Youth
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph192013261