title: Influence of involvement in the girls on track program on early adolescent girls' self-perceptions.
abstract: The Model of Competence Motivation (Harteg 1978) higlights how self-perceptions are influenced by individual and socialization fac tors. Using this model the present study investigated, quantitatively with a pretest and posttest design (N=34) and qualitatively via individual interviews (N=8), how involvement in the Girls on Track pogram (GOT) influenced the perceived competence and self-worth of sixth-grade girls. GOT is a program that uses training for a 5-km race as a means to teach life skills. The self-perceptions of the particapants showed increasing trends from pre- to posttest. Interviewed girls discussed their acquisition of interpersonal skills and ofpositive feelings about themselves. The discussion emphasizes how program involvement can influence the development of self-perceptions in early adolescent girls.
authors.affiliation: School of Health, Physical Education, and Leisure Services, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls 50614-0241, USA. jennifer.waldron@uni.edu
authors.forename: Jennifer J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Waldron
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D015146:Midwestern United States; D012420:Running; D012649:Self Concept; D013177:Sports / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires