@article{ref1,
title="Who wants to play? Sport motivation trajectories, sport participation, and the development of depressive symptoms",
journal="Journal of youth and adolescence",
year="2017",
author="Wang, Ming-Te and Chow, Angela and Amemiya, Jamie",
volume="46",
number="9",
pages="1982-1998",
abstract="Although sport involvement has the potential to enhance psychological wellbeing, studies have suggested that motivation to participate in sports activities declines across childhood and adolescence. This study incorporated expectancy-value theory to model children's sport ability self-concept and subjective task values trajectories from first to twelfth grade. Additionally, it examined if sport motivation trajectories predicted individual and team-based sport participation and whether sport participation in turn reduced the development of depressive symptoms. Data were drawn from the Childhood and Beyond Study, a cross-sequential longitudinal study comprised of three cohorts (N = 1065; 49% male; 92% European American; M ages for youngest, middle, and oldest cohorts at the first wave were 6.42, 7.39, and 9.36 years, respectively). <br><br>RESULTS revealed four trajectories of students' co-development of sport self-concept and task values: congruent stable high, incongruent stable high, middle school decreasing, and decreasing. Trajectory membership predicted individual and team-based sports participation, but only team-based sport participation predicted faster declines in depressive symptoms. The use of a person-centered approach enabled us to identify heterogeneity in trajectories of sport motivation that can aid in the development of nuanced strategies to increase students' motivation to participate in sports.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0047-2891",
doi="10.1007/s10964-017-0649-9",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-017-0649-9"
}