Perseverance In Sports

Past researches have looked for the relationship between sport participation and development of particular life skills such as leadership, teamwork, respect, responsibility, communication, goal setting, time management, and perseverance in youth athletes (eg. Camiré, et al. 2009, Holt et al, 2009, Jones and Lavallee. 2009, Camire and Trudel. 2013). For example, Holt, Tink, Minadigo, and Fox (2008) conducted a case study of a Canadian high school male soccer team about the way and the type of life skills that youth learned through their involvement in the team. The result indicated that three life skills (initiative, respect, and teamwork were learned through playing soccer. And youth reported that the life skills were not directly taught by their coach but those life skills were developed by their own sport experiences. …show more content…
(2015) also interviews 29 high school athletes at three international high schools to explore the impact of school-based sport teams on life skill development. The sport teams included soccer, basketball, volleyall, track, and martial arts. The result showed that students identified using sport for social, emotional, and academic self-improvement. Moreover student reported that sport helped them develop an ability to work well with others. Although reserchers explicitly addressed a positive connection between sport participation and life skill development, most of the reseraches had been carried out in Western culture. Therefore, it leaves a gap in the litarature related to life skill development through sport participation in Chinese