Young adolescent psychological need profiles: Associations with classroom achievement and well-being by Stephen R. Earl, Ian Taylor, Carla Meijen, Louis Passfield

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The measurement, levels, and correlates of physical activity in a bi-ethnic population of young children by Daniel D. Bingham

“…Intra-class correlation models and the Spearman-Brown prophecy formula were used to calculate wear-time reliability. Aim 3) this study was undertaken by 196 parents completing a proxy report questionnaire on their child s PA and sedentary behaviour after seven days of their young child (mean age 3.2 ,SD: 0.8 years) wearing an accelerometer. …”
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Get out, get active final evaluation report by Janine Coates, Carolynne Mason

Subjects: “…Well-being…”
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Exercising their 'Right to Be Active'? Care experienced young people's perspectives on physical education and school sport by Rachel Sandford, Thomas Quarmby, Oliver Hooper, Rebecca Duncombe

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“Instead of being on a screen you can be more out there and enjoy your life”: Young people’s understandings of physical activity for health by Natasha Wilson, Lorraine Cale, Ashley Casey

“…Methods: In this study, fourteen young people (7 boys and 7 girls) in year 9 (13–14 years old) from two secondary schools in England participated in a digitally-based activity and semi-structured interviews which aimed to explore their conceptions of physical activity for health. …”
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Young carers in the UK: the 2004 report. by Chris Dearden, Saul Becker

“…The 2004 Report is based on data collected from 87 projects concerning a total of 6,178 young carers – the largest survey of its kind.…”
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Cumulative jeopardy: how professional responses to evidence of abuse and neglect further jeopardise children's life chances by being out of kilter with timeframes for early childho... by Rebecca Brown, Harriet Ward

“…Illustrations are drawn from a prospective longitudinal study of the decision-making processes influencing the life pathways and developmental progress of an English sample of very young children who were identified as suffering, or likely to suffer, significant harm before their first birthdays and have now been followed until they are five years old.…”
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Fear of failure among young elite athletes by Sam S. Sagar

“…This thesis focuses on investigating fear of failure in the sport domain, specifically among young elite athletes. The first study (chapter 4) examined young athletes' (n=9; ages 14-17 years) perceptions of the consequences of failure, the effects of fear of failure on them, and their coping responses to the effects of fear of failure. …”
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What motivates young athletes to play sport? by Christopher Spray, Victoria Warburton

“…Motivation is a key factor in young people choosing to play sport outside of school. …”
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Identification and development of talent in young female gymnasts by Joanna Prescott

“…A longitudinal study was conducted to examine the identification and development of talent within a mixed ability sample of 48 young female gymnasts. …”
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Staying home and getting on: Tackling the challenges facing low to middle income families where young adults live with their parents by Katherine Hill, Ruth Webber, Donald Hirsch

“…It is set in the context of the growing proportion of young people in the UK living with their parents – two in three single people aged 20-34 (without children), which is over 3.5 million young people – making it more of a life stage than stop gap. …”
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Right to Be Active Project Report (Young People's Version) by Rachel Sandford, Thomas Quarmby, Rebecca Duncombe, Oliver Hooper

“…We also wanted to explore how care experienced children and young people think and feel about sport and physical activity and what it means for them to take part in it.In order to do this, we identified three areas to explore:1. …”
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Children’s rights and the regulations on the transfer of young players in football by Serhat Yilmaz, James Esson, Paul Darby, Eleanor Drywood, Carolynne Mason

“…Children who interact with football’s recruitment and transfer processes encounter a complex web of regulations and practices. Debates over how to ensure that the interests and well-being of young football players are adequately protected, and that risks to their rights and welfare are identified and addressed, have become a topic of academic, political, and media concern. …”
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Correlates of hair cortisol concentrations in disadvantaged young children by Julian G. Simmons, Fran Azpitarte, Fatou Diallo Roost, Eric Dommers, Nicholas B. Allen, Sophie Havighurst, Nick Haslam

“…A sample of 60 children (26 males, mean = 4.25 years, SD = 1.68) and their mothers (mean = 34.18 years, SD = 7.11) from a low-income population took part in a single assessment. …”
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The ‘Mirrored Ceiling’: Young undergraduate student women’s expectations of gendered career opportunities and constraints by Emma Bates, Louise Holt

“…This is also a key moment in time and space when careers services, and specific industries could intervene in proactive ways to demonstrate how gender inequalities are being challenged. …”
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Objectively-measured sedentary time and physical activity in a bi-ethnic sample of young children: variation by socio-demographic, temporal and perinatal factors by Paul J Collings, Sufyan A Dogra, Silvia Costa, Daniel D Bingham, Sally E Barber

“…Methods: This observational study included 202 South Asian and 140 white British children aged 1.5 to 5y, who provided 3181 valid days of triaxial accelerometry (Actigraph GT3X+). …”
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Working with trauma-affected young people in secondary schools: exploring ‘self-care’ with pre-service physical education teachers by Thomas Quarmby, Rachel Sandford, Shirley Gray, Oliver Hooper

“…Through an online professional learning programme, we worked with three distinct groups of pre-service PE teachers (n = 22). …”
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Emotional and behavioural difficulties of children and young people at entry into care by Joe Sempik, Harriet Ward, Iain T. Darker

“…Emotional and behavioural difficulties of a sample of children and young people were identified at the point of entry to local authority care by analysis of social work case files. …”
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Parentification: counselling talk on a helpline for children and young people by Susan Danby, Jakob Cromdal, Johanna Rendle-Short, Carly Butler, Karin Osvaldsson, Michael Emmison

“…Parentification is used in the counselling literature as a clinician/researcher term, which we ‘respecify’ (Garfinkel, 1991) the term by beginning with an investigation of young clients’ own accounts of being an adult or parent and how counsellors orient to these accounts. …”
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Physical activity, sedentary behaviour and mental health in young people by Mavis Asare

“…Results from 37 independent studies (n=373, 512) showed a small but significant effect size (r=-0.30, 95% CI= -0.20, -0.45, p…”
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Pre-competition achievement goals within young sports performers by Chris Harwood

“…Specifically, the first two investigations which comprised Study 1 adopted a quantitative research methodology; Study 2 incorporated qualitative techniques; and the final investigation addressed the research question on an idiographic basis via a single subject design study. …”
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Young people and contemporary politics: committed scepticism or engaged cynicism? by Dominic Wring, Matt Henn, Mark Weinstein

“…There is a perception that young people are increasingly seen as being politically important. …”
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Embodying policy? Young people, health education and obesity discourse by Laura De Pian

“…In pursuit of this key finding, this PhD study departs from the aforementioned project through detailed case study exploration of the emplacement , enactment and embodiment of health policy in three of the eight UK schools from the ESRC-funded study, focusing specifically on the class and cultural mediations of health imperatives in each setting and the various ways these can affect a young person s developing sense of self (particularly the relationships they develop with their own weight/size). …”
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The developmental socialisation of young people in club sport: an ethnographic account by Martin R. Toms

“…This follows the acknowledgement that club sport is a key site for participation by young people away from school but that very little is known or understood about how this sports experience actually works (MacPhail et al, 2003). …”
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Youth Justice Sport Fund External Evaluation Report by Carolynne Mason, Caron Walpole, Haydn Morgan, Rosie Meek

“…In the financial year ending March 2023, the Ministry of Justice invested £5m supporting projects across England and Wales to use sport to enhance positive outcomes for vulnerable young people through the Youth Justice Sport Fund. …”
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Developing aspirations through social assemblages: towards a conceptual model by Amalia Sabiescu

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The role of conscious processing of movements during balance by young and older adults by L Uiga, JM Poolton, CM Capio, MR Wilson, Donghyun Ryu, RSW Masters

“…© 2019 Elsevier B.V. We examined the effect of verbalization of a phylogenetic motor skill, balance, in older and young adults with a low or a high propensity for conscious verbal engagement in their movements (reinvestment). …”
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The complex ecology of young people's community engagement and the call for community pedagogues by Paul Warwick, Hilary Cremin, Tom Harrison, Carolynne Mason

“…As a consequence of processes of globalisation, social change and technological advancement it is being increasingly recognised that young citizens face unprecedented challenges in the 21st century. …”
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Diversity and divergence: inclusion through sport for ethnic minority young people by Julie Fimusanmi

“…The adults demonstrated a range in levels of knowledge and understanding of exclusion and how it may affect young people. …”
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