title: Understanding how organized youth sport maybe harming individual players within the family unit: a literature review.
abstract: Within the United States, close to 45 million youths between the ages of 6 and 18 participate in some form of organized sports. While recent reviews have shown the positive effects of youth sport participation on youth health, there are also several negative factors surrounding the youth sport environment. To date, a comprehensive review of the negative physical and psychological effects of organized sport on youth has not been done and little to date has documented the effect organized sport has on other players within a family, particularly on parents and siblings. Therefore the purpose of this paper is to conduct a review of papers on the negative effects of organized sport on the youth athlete and their parents and siblings. Articles were found by searching multiple databases (Physical Education Index and Sociology, Psychology databases (Proquest), SPORTDiscus and Health, History, Management databases (EBSCOhost), Science, Social Science, Arts and Humanities on Web of Science (ISI), SCOPUS and Scirus (Elsevier). Results show the darker side of organized sport for actors within the family unit. Ideas for future research are drawn and recommendations are made to optimize the youth sport experience and family health.
authors.affiliation: School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, 125 University Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada. cbean@uottawa.ca.
authors.forename: Corliss N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Bean
authors.affiliation: School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, 125 University Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada. mfortier@uottawa.ca.
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fortier
authors.affiliation: School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, 125 University Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada. cpost015@uottawa.ca.
authors.forename: Courtney
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Post
authors.affiliation: School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, 125 University Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada. kchima@rogers.com.
authors.forename: Karam
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chima
mesh_terms: D001265:Athletic Injuries; D002170:Canada; D004032:Diet; D006801:Humans; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D035781:Siblings / Q000523:psychology; D013177:Sports / Q000191:economics / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders; D014481:United States