This review is designed to summarize and critique current life skills through sport research.
In particular, life skills are defined, the conditions needed to examine life skills development …

Background Many primary school students encounter the educational system positively from
the outset. However, over the school years, students develop negative attitudes towards …

This seventh edition of the Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science
reflects the growing recognition that family and school are only two of the developmental …

The authors examined the relations between participation in a range of high school
extracurricular contexts and developmental outcomes in adolescence and young adulthood …

Although the gender gap has dramatically narrowed in recent decades, women remain
underrepresented in many science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) …

There is much agreement that positive youth development takes place in families, peer
groups, and out-home contexts, such as schools (Gilman, Huebner, & Buckman, 2008) …

There is increasing awareness that how young people spend their time outside of school
has consequences for their development. As part of this awareness, interest in organized …

The purpose of the current investigation was to examine the associations between a variety
of measures of extracurricular participation and indicators of youth development. We use …

After having attended a friendly football match between Chelsea FC and Dynamo Moscow to
mark the end of World War II, the novelist George Orwell (1945) famously remarked that …

The authors used data from Grades 5 through 7 of the longitudinal 4-H Study of Positive
Youth Development to assess relations among sports participation, other out-of-school-time …