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Young female basketball players develop life skills like teamwork and leadership through sports. Athletic identity significantly influences this growth, suggesting targeted programs can enhance youth development.

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Area of Science:

  • Sports Psychology
  • Youth Development
  • Skill Acquisition

Background:

  • Participation in sports offers potential for life skill development.
  • Understanding factors influencing skill transfer is crucial for youth programs.
  • Athletic identity and self-perceived competence may impact skill development in athletes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess life skill development in young female basketball players.
  • To investigate the influence of athletic identity, coach support, and self-perceived competence on skill development and transfer.
  • To examine the transfer of life skills to school and everyday life.

Main Methods:

  • Survey administered to 206 U.S. female high school basketball players (aged 14-19).
  • Utilized modified Life Skills Scale for Sport (LSSS), Life Skills Transfer Scale (LSSS-TS), and Athletic Identity Measurement Scale (AIMS).
  • Employed descriptive statistics, repeated measures ANOVAs, and Pearson correlations for analysis.

Main Results:

  • Participants reported highest development in interpersonal skills, teamwork, leadership, and social skills.
  • Life skills transferred more readily to everyday life than to school settings.
  • Positive correlations found between athletic identity and all six measured life skills.
  • Self-perceived competence in a life skill predicted its development through basketball.

Conclusions:

  • Basketball participation provides a valuable context for young girls to develop essential life skills.
  • Athletic identity is a key factor influencing young athletes' experience of life skill growth.
  • Findings support creating intentional, sport-based programs to foster positive youth development.