Middle School Football, Sense of School Membership, and Student Delinquency

Autor/inn/en	Caldas, Stephen J.; Caldas, Stephanie V.; Kurrus, Kevin
Titel	Middle School Football, Sense of School Membership, and Student Delinquency
Quelle	In: Middle Grades Research Journal, 12 (2018) 1, S.51-66 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1937-0814
Schlagwörter	Middle School Students; Sense of Community; Group Membership; Student School Relationship; Team Sports; Correlation; Middle Schools; Middle School Teachers; Grade 7; Grade 8; Males; Student Participation; Youth; Health Behavior; High School Students; Risk; National Surveys; Delinquency; Extramural Athletics; New York; Youth Risk Behavior Survey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Gruppenzugehörigkeit; Schüler-Lehrer-Beziehung; Mannschaftssport; Korrelation; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studentin; Risiko; Kriminalität; Außerunterrichtlicher Schulsport
Abstract	There are currently mixed findings on the social and academic benefits of youth participation in school sponsored sports, such as football. While some research suggests positive outcomes through increased sense of school belongingness, other studies link participation in football to increased delinquent behavior. Social control theory informed the development of a structural model that maps the association of middle school students' football participation with student belongingness and student delinquency. We administered a survey to 292 male middle school students in two diverse suburban New York middle schools that measured school belongingness, delinquent behavior, and background characteristics. We then tested a model which mapped the relationships between participation in school-sponsored football, level of belongingness, and delinquency. Participation in football did not increase student sense of belongingness but was associated with increased delinquent behavior. Level of student belongingness was associated with markedly less delinquency. Although causality cannot be inferred, the present study provides evidence that participating in school-sponsored football is linked to conformity to deviant subgroup norms which include a greater prosperity toward school-specific delinquent behavior. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01