Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Concepts
  • Toward a transdisciplinary approach to sport for development: the place of positive youth development / Meredith A. Whitley
  • The importance of person-context fit: a relational developmental systems
  • Perspective on positive development in and through sport / Jennifer P. Agans
  • Exploring short-term youth athlete development through the personal assets
  • Framework: unveiling the layers of sport development / Jean Côté, Mia KurtzFavero, Haley Smith and Alex Murata
  • The challenges, advances, and opportunities with the study and promotion of life skills transfer / Scott Pierce, Jenn Jacobs and Melvin Sangalang
  • Part 2. Measurement
  • Quantitative measurement of positive youth development in sport: methodological
  • Considerations as the field ponders its future / Dany J. MacDonald, Meredith Schertzinger, Mark W. Bruner and Stewart A. Vella
  • Quantitative assessment of positive youth development through sport / Karl Erickson, Matthew Vierimaa and Scott Pierce
  • Assessing the psychometric properties of life skills measures: what is best practice? / Lorcan Cronin and Gareth Mossman
  • Sport-based interventions for youth: effectiveness, and opportunities for growth / Mark Bruner, Stewart Vella, Colin McLaren, Jordan Sutcliffe and Meredith
  • Schertzinger
  • Qualitative research on positive youth development in sport / Katherine A. Tamminen and Rachel C. Dunn
  • Part 3. Contexts
  • Transitioning from normative towards emancipatory positive youth development
  • Research and practice: Portugal as an exemplary case / Fernando Santos and Marta Ferreira
  • Sport-based life skills development in South Korea / Okseon Lee
  • Positive youth development and talent development: pursuing dual intentions in a multi-layered environment / Chris Harwood, Julie Johnston and Svenja Wachsmuth
  • Posthumanist imaginaries for inquiring positive youth development through sport / Martin Camiré
  • Centring Indigenous voices and experiences to advance positive youth development in sport research / Leah J. Ferguson, Tara-Leigh F. McHugh and Leisha Strachan
  • Positive development across the lifespan / Jessica Fraser-Thomas and Meghan Harlow
  • Addressing social vulnerability through sport-based positive youth development / Majidullah Shaikh and Tanya Forneris
  • Promoting mental health in organized youth sport / Stewart A. Vella, Matthew J. Schweickle and Caitlin Liddelow
  • Part 4. Evaluation
  • An experiential approach to facilitative coaching and teaching social justice life skills / Tarkington J. Newman, Levone Lee and Anne Stauffer
  • How effective are after school physical activity-based positive youth development programs? the need for more rigorous evaluation studies / Maureen R. Weiss
  • Community sport as a context for positive youth development / Dawn Anderson-Butcher, Samantha Bates, Rebecca Wade-Mdivanian and Sydney Mack
  • Evaluation for positive youth development through sport / Corliss Bean and Majidullah Shaikh.