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Examining Adolescent Tennis Participation in Contemporary China Using an Ecological Framework
Physical activity and sport participation behaviors in children and adolescents are consistently shaped by surrounding ecological systems. Accumulating evidence highlights individual, family, peer, school and teacher, and macroenvironment elements such as policies that affect unstructured physical a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9141663/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35627525 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19105989 |
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author | Li, Longxi Rick, Oliver J. C. Mullin, Elizabeth M. Moosbrugger, Michelle E. |
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description | Physical activity and sport participation behaviors in children and adolescents are consistently shaped by surrounding ecological systems. Accumulating evidence highlights individual, family, peer, school and teacher, and macroenvironment elements such as policies that affect unstructured physical activity choices in youth populations. However, the reason for participation has not been fully interpreted from the perspective of the youth themselves, especially those from an Asian cultural background. In our study, we aimed to better understand the self-identified reasons for adolescents’ participation in non-organized or spontaneous tennis practice in contemporary China. Twenty-six adolescents and informants were recruited in mainland China and participated in semi-structured interviews to provide thick descriptions of their continued tennis participation behaviors. Data were coded and analyzed via NVivo 12. Four themes emerged: (a) Individual characteristics and self-interpretations of tennis culture; (b) microsystems mediating adolescents’ tennis participation; (c) barriers and obstacles impacting tennis participation; and (d) policies and macroenvironments. Adolescent tennis participation is a result of the integration effect of the sociocultural and ecological factors dominated by multifaceted ecological systems. As a particular vision of their physical activity experiences, adolescents’ interpretation of tennis and their broader worldview has been continuously reshaped by concurrent sport and educational policies. |
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spelling | pubmed-91416632022-05-28 Examining Adolescent Tennis Participation in Contemporary China Using an Ecological Framework Li, Longxi Rick, Oliver J. C. Mullin, Elizabeth M. Moosbrugger, Michelle E. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Physical activity and sport participation behaviors in children and adolescents are consistently shaped by surrounding ecological systems. Accumulating evidence highlights individual, family, peer, school and teacher, and macroenvironment elements such as policies that affect unstructured physical activity choices in youth populations. However, the reason for participation has not been fully interpreted from the perspective of the youth themselves, especially those from an Asian cultural background. In our study, we aimed to better understand the self-identified reasons for adolescents’ participation in non-organized or spontaneous tennis practice in contemporary China. Twenty-six adolescents and informants were recruited in mainland China and participated in semi-structured interviews to provide thick descriptions of their continued tennis participation behaviors. Data were coded and analyzed via NVivo 12. Four themes emerged: (a) Individual characteristics and self-interpretations of tennis culture; (b) microsystems mediating adolescents’ tennis participation; (c) barriers and obstacles impacting tennis participation; and (d) policies and macroenvironments. Adolescent tennis participation is a result of the integration effect of the sociocultural and ecological factors dominated by multifaceted ecological systems. As a particular vision of their physical activity experiences, adolescents’ interpretation of tennis and their broader worldview has been continuously reshaped by concurrent sport and educational policies. MDPI 2022-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9141663/ /pubmed/35627525 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19105989 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Li, Longxi Rick, Oliver J. C. Mullin, Elizabeth M. Moosbrugger, Michelle E. Examining Adolescent Tennis Participation in Contemporary China Using an Ecological Framework |
title | Examining Adolescent Tennis Participation in Contemporary China Using an Ecological Framework |
title_full | Examining Adolescent Tennis Participation in Contemporary China Using an Ecological Framework |
title_fullStr | Examining Adolescent Tennis Participation in Contemporary China Using an Ecological Framework |
title_full_unstemmed | Examining Adolescent Tennis Participation in Contemporary China Using an Ecological Framework |
title_short | Examining Adolescent Tennis Participation in Contemporary China Using an Ecological Framework |
title_sort | examining adolescent tennis participation in contemporary china using an ecological framework |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9141663/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35627525 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19105989 |
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