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Measurement of Multidimensional Sport Performance Anxiety in Children and Adults: The Sport Anxiety Scale-2

This article describes the development and validation of the Sport Anxiety Scale-2 (SAS-2), a multidimensional measure of cognitive and somatic trait anxiety in sport performance settings. Scale…
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Maturity-associated variation in the growth and functional capacities of youth football (soccer) players 13–15 years

Biological maturity status significantly influences the functional capacity of adolescent football players 13–15 years of age, whereas training is a significant contributor to aerobic resistance, whereas weight and height are significant contributors to the sprint and vertical jump, respectively.
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Effects of a motivational climate inntervention for coaches on young athletes' sport performance anxiety.

The mastery approach to coaching is a cognitive-behavioral intervention designed to promote a mastery-involving motivational climate, shown to be related to lower anxiety in athletes and to have equally positive effects on boys and girls teams.
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Biological maturation of youth athletes: assessment and implications

Commonly used methods for assessing status and estimating timing and two relatively recent anthropometric (non-invasive) methods (status—percentage of predicted near adult height attained at observation, timing—predicted maturity offset/age at PHV) are described and evaluated.
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Maturity-associated variation in sport-specific skills of youth soccer players aged 13 – 15 years

Age, experience, body size and stage of puberty contributed relatively little to variation in performance in four of the six soccer-specific skill tests in adolescent footballers aged 13 – 15 years.
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Characteristics of youth soccer players aged 13–15 years classified by skill level

Adolescent soccer players aged 13–15 years classified by skill do not differ in age, experience, body size, speed and power, but differ in aerobic endurance, specifically at the extremes of skill.
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Bio-banding in Sport: Applications to Competition, Talent Identification, and Strength and Conditioning of Youth Athletes

This article was published in Strength & Conditioning Journal on 01 April 2017 available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1519/SSC.0000000000000281
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Adolescent biological maturity and physical activity: biology meets behavior.

The limited number of studies which examine the relationship between timing of biological maturity and PA are reviewed to highlight the complexity of relationships between biological maturation and behavior and to provide future research directions.
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Development and Validation of the Motivational Climate Scale for Youth Sports

The Motivational Climate Scale for Youth Sports (MCSYS) provides an age-appropriate measure of coach-initiated motivational climates in youth sports. Items have a readability level of grade 4.0 or…
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Development and validation of the Achievement Goal Scale for Youth Sports

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