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Investigating Sport Stakeholders' Understanding of Behaviour Management within a Competitive Youth Baseball Team
Joseph John Gurgis1, Gretchen Kerr1, Anthony Battaglia1
1Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2W6, Canada.
Sports (Basel, Switzerland)
|March 28, 2023
Summary
Youth baseball stakeholders often confuse discipline and punishment, using tactics like yelling, exercise, and benching. This highlights a need for education on age-appropriate behavioral management in youth sports.
Area of Science:
- Sports Psychology
- Youth Development
- Behavioral Science
Background:
- Behavioral management in youth sports is critical for athlete development.
- Understanding stakeholder perceptions of discipline vs. punishment is underexplored.
- Competitive youth sports environments present unique behavioral challenges.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate sport stakeholders' understanding of behavioral management strategies in youth baseball.
- To identify common strategies and their interpretations as punishment or discipline.
- To assess awareness of developmentally appropriate behavioral management.
Main Methods:
- Instrumental case study design.
- Individual semi-structured interviews with 21 participants (coaches, players, parents).
- Reflexive thematic analysis of interview data.
Main Results:
- Exercise, benching, and yelling negative comments were common behavioral management tactics.
- Excessive exercise and benching were viewed as punitive and/or disciplinary.
- Yelling was consistently perceived as punitive, indicating confusion between punishment and discipline.
Conclusions:
- A lack of awareness regarding developmentally appropriate strategies exists among youth sport stakeholders.
- Punitive tactics are normalized in youth baseball.
- Education on age-appropriate behavioral interventions is necessary to promote positive youth athletic experiences.
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