Implementing a scoping review to explore sport officials' mental health.

Introduction: Sport officials are tasked with applying rules, maintaining fairness, and ensuring athlete safety. However, sport officials experience anxiety, burnout, and non-accidental violence, with the incidence of these events increasing worldwide. This has led to rising attrition rates among sport officials, with many sport organizations concerned for their operational capacity.

Exploring the structure of relative age effects research using citation network analysis.

Since the 1980s, research on relative age effects (RAEs) consistently shows that relatively older individuals are advantaged in sport and other contexts. With the recent proliferation of studies on RAEs, periodic knowledge synthesis becomes imperative. Our purpose was to conduct a cross-disciplinary citation network analysis of RAEs literature to enhance our knowledge of RAEs citation structures and the interconnectivity of RAEs studies.

Sport officials' use of observational learning.

Introduction: Observational learning is a key tool for improving skilled performances. Sport officials (e.g.

Physical Educators' Perceptions and Experiences of Teaching Students With Mobility Disabilities.

Schools can support physical education (PE) among students with mobility disabilities (SMDs). However, previous research has indicated that people and resources in the school environment have served as facilitators and barriers to engaging SMDs in PE. Thus, the purpose of this pragmatic, qualitative study was to explore physical educators' perceptions and experiences of teaching SMDs to learn how to develop a PE environment supportive of SMDs.

The geography of talent development.

Geography (i.e., birthplace) is one of many factors that influence talent development.

Exploring Relative Age Effects in Youth Ice Hockey Through a Single Team Case Study and Composite Narratives.

Relative age effects (when birthdate influences participation or performance) in sport potentially influence the experiences of sport participants, including athletes, parents, and coaches. Nearly all existing literature on relative age effects adopts a quantitative approach, limiting our understanding of the phenomenon. Thus, the purpose of this unique study was to explore relative age effects using an instrumental, descriptive case study approach with one elite, youth, male ice hockey team.

An Analysis of Literature on Sport Officiating Research.

Sport officials are crucial members of sport. Researchers have studied their roles numerous times, with results often informing sport procedures (e.g.

Influences of population size and density on birthplace effects.

Contextual influences on talent development (e.g., birthplace effects) have become a topic of interest for sport scientists.

Examining Young Recreational Male Soccer Players' Experience in Adult- and Peer-Led Structures.

Purpose: Youth sport has the potential to be one of the healthiest and most beneficial activities in which children can partake. Participation in a combination of adult-led and peer-led sport structures appears to lead to favorable outcomes such as enhanced physical fitness, as well as social and emotional development. The purpose of the present study was to examine the subjective and objective experiences of 27 recreational male soccer players aged 10 to 12 years old (M = 10.

Describing strategies used by elite, intermediate, and novice ice hockey referees.

Unlabelled: Much is known about sport officials' decisions (e.g., anticipation, visual search, and prior experience).

A proposed theoretical model to explain relative age effects in sport.

Exemplary scientific methods describe concepts and provide theories for further testing. For the field of relative age effects (RAEs) in sport, the scientific method appears to be limited to description. The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical model to explain RAEs in sport, which researchers can use to test the effects, as well as to generate new hypotheses and recommendations.

Coach selections and the relative age effect in male youth ice hockey.

Unlabelled: Relative age effects (RAEs; when relatively older children possess participation and performance advantages over relatively younger children) are frequent in male team sports. One possible explanation is that coaches select players based on physical attributes, which are more likely witnessed in relatively older athletes.

Purpose: To determine if coach selections are responsible for RAEs by comparing RAEs in male players who played competitive versus noncompetitive ice hockey.

Effects of a rule change that eliminates body-checking on the relative age effect in Ontario minor ice hockey.

Relative age effects in sport reflect an over-representation of athletes born early in a selection year that lead to selection and performance advantages. These effects might be enhanced by rules that increase physicality. An opportunity to investigate these influences arose when Hockey Canada altered its body-checking rules.

The social support experiences of major junior ice hockey players in a physically removed region of Canada.

The present report from a larger project overviews the sources and types of social support resourced by 10 major junior athletes while they performed out of one physically removed Canadian region. Retrospective interviews and content analysis were conducted during three stages (3, 3, and 4 respondents). The data were segmented into meaning units, coded into a hierarchy of themes, and verified by each respondent and an expert panel (former athlete, coach, parent of former athlete).