A Social Support Intervention to Reduce Intentions to Drop-out from Youth Sport: The GAA Super Games Centre

IF 3.6 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Psychosocial Intervention Pub Date : 2019-03-05 DOI:10.5093/PI2018A15

D. Lavallee, Daragh Sheridan, P. Coffee, Pat G. Daly

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Abstract

Research has highlighted that drop-out from youth sport has emerged to become a global trend with drop-out rates exceeding 30% in some countries. This study aimed to investigate the effect of a change in perceived support on intentions to drop out from youth sport at the end of a social support intervention. A pre-intervention examination of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in 2012 identified a 19.38% drop-out rate involving 3,491 participants between the ages of 12-16 years. A psychosocial intervention developed for the GAA called the Super Games Centre was delivered and evaluated over a 24-week period to 103 participants. The findings demonstrated that higher perceived available support was significantly associated with lower levels of intentions to drop out at the end of the intervention. Furthermore, social identity emerged as a significant mediating factor in explaining the association between changes in perceived support and intentions to drop out. A post-intervention examination in 2018 found that the GAA had established 95 Super Games Centres since 2015, and this has led to an increase in 7,012 new participants between the ages of 12-16 years. Future research and implications for social support intervention methodology are discussed.

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社会支持干预减少青少年体育运动的退学意向:GAA超级运动会中心

研究表明，青少年退出体育运动已成为一种全球趋势，一些国家的辍学率超过30%。本研究旨在探讨在社会支持干预结束时，感知支持对青少年退出体育运动意向的影响。2012年对盖尔体育协会(GAA)进行的干预前检查发现，涉及3,491名年龄在12-16岁之间的参与者的退学率为19.38%。为GAA开发的一种名为“超级游戏中心”的心理社会干预，在24周的时间里对103名参与者进行了交付和评估。研究结果表明，在干预结束时，较高的可获得支持与较低的退出意图水平显著相关。此外，社会认同在解释感知支持变化与退学意图之间的关联时，成为一个重要的中介因素。2018年的干预后检查发现，自2015年以来，GAA已经建立了95个超级游戏中心，这导致了7012名12-16岁的新参与者的增加。讨论了社会支持干预方法学的未来研究及其意义。

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Psychosocial Intervention PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

8.00

自引率

8.30%

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审稿时长

14 weeks

期刊介绍： Psychosocial Intervention is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes papers in all areas relevant to psychosocial intervention at the individual, family, social networks, organization, community, and population levels. The Journal emphasizes an evidence-based perspective and welcomes papers reporting original basic and applied research, program evaluation, and intervention results. The journal will also feature integrative reviews, and specialized papers on theoretical advances and methodological issues. Psychosocial Intervention is committed to advance knowledge, and to provide scientific evidence informing psychosocial interventions tackling social and community problems, and promoting social welfare and quality of life. Psychosocial Intervention welcomes contributions from all areas of psychology and allied disciplines, such as sociology, social work, social epidemiology, and public health. Psychosocial Intervention aims to be international in scope, and will publish papers both in Spanish and English.