Jennifer Turnnidge

• Queen's University

Purpose This study explores the partnership experiences of patient and health care professional (HCP) subject matter experts (SMEs) in cocreating educational content and examines their reflections on how to better support educational partnerships in future initiatives. Method In this qualitative, exploratory study, semistructured interviews of pat...

Qualitative researchers have underscored the value and importance of being reflexive in the research process, yet existing guidelines or checklists on how to practically address reflexivity are often scant and scattered across studies. In this scholarly perspective, we review, analyse, and present an overview of conceptions of reflexivity. Further,...

Introduction Learning and growth in postgraduate medical education (PGME) often require vulnerability, defined as a state of openness to uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. However, vulnerability can threaten a resident's credibility and professional identity. Despite this tension, studies examining vulnerability in PGME are limited. As such...

The pathway towards senior professional status in sport is affected by a multitude of factors. An abductive examination of the talent identification and development processes at an English Premiership rugby union (RU) club was undertaken for the present study. Part one examined the perspectives on the selection and development processes of senior a...

The effectiveness of transformational leadership (TFL) on various outcomes is well known. Accordingly, researchers have developed training programs to enhance TFL behaviours of leaders. Yet, no reviews summarizing the characteristics of TFL training programs exist. The purpose of this review was to examine the characteristics, reporting, and applic...

The personal assets framework offers a lens to better understand the relationship between leadership in sport environments and the resultant (athlete) developmental outcomes. This investigation aimed to explore how leadership behaviors and the broader environment of a Super League netball club represented an effective context for athletes to flouri...

Social factors and psychological characteristics can influence participation and development in talent pathways. However, the interaction between these two factors is relatively unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate the implications of socioeconomic status and psychological characteristics in English academy soccer players (n=58; aged 1...

Despite recent advancements for women in leadership roles, women remain underrepresented in sport coaching contexts. Mentorship has been advocated as a potential avenue for advancing and sustaining the careers of women coaches. In line with this, national sporting bodies have implemented mentorship programs to pair new and aspiring women coaches wi...

This Participatory and Appreciative Action and Reflection (PAAR) investigation illustrates a leader's first steps in a "values-to-action" journey. Drawing on the interface between transformational leadership and organizational culture, this study focused on the birth of the Severn Stars-a professional netball club in the United Kingdom. In particul...

COVID-19 represents an unprecedented challenge for the youth sport sector. Due to public health policies designed to slow down the transmission of this highly infectious disease and mitigate secondary impacts, youth sport programs around the world have experienced sudden interruptions to their activities. In this commentary, we put forward the Pers...

The evaluation of Multisport Service Organization (MSO) initiatives can result in a greater understanding of factors related to their success. The RE-AIM framework is an evidence-informed framework for comprehensive evaluations but has not been employed in MSO contexts. The purpose of this study was to develop a template of operationalized RE-AIM i...

This chapter examines the role that early developmental experiences play in the realization of exceptional performance in sport. It focuses on a contentious topic of expertise development in sport: early specialization and early sampling, and also on the outcomes associated with early specialization and early sampling. The chapter also examines the...

Whilst recent work recognises a need for coach education to place greater emphasis on interpersonal knowledge when developing coaching expertise, it is our position that coach educators (CEs) must follow a similar trajectory in embracing the interpersonal knowledge requisite of their role, and move beyond a reliance on content and professional know...

To maximize the effectiveness of coach development, educational programs should target coaches’ interpersonal behaviors, be informed by behavior-change techniques, and incorporate comprehensive evaluation procedures. Thus, informed by the full-range leadership model (see Bass and Riggio in 2006) and the Behaviour Change Wheel (see Michie et al. in...

There is an extensive body of literature highlighting the important role that coaches play in facilitating positive youth development (PYD; Côté, Turnnidge, & Evans, 2014; Côté, Turnnidge, & Vierimaa, 2016). As such, researchers and practitioners have recognized that coach development programs represent a valuable avenue for enhancing the quality o...

The purpose of this study was to examine coach leadership behaviours within the full-range leadership model using systematic observation. Seven male head coaches of youth soccer teams were observed over two training sessions and one competition, resulting in 9,760 recorded behaviours. Descriptive data revealed that the majority of coach behaviours...

The purpose of the present study was to develop an observational coding system that examines coaches’ leadership behaviours in sport. Drawing from an integration of the dimensions emphasized within the full-range leadership model, and particularly, transformational leadership (TFL), the Coach Leadership Assessment System (CLAS) was designed to exam...

Previous research highlights that coaches’ leadership behaviours influence the quality of athletes’ sport experiences (Fraser-Thomas & Côté, 2009). However, there is a need to better understand both how and why coaches apply leadership behaviours in youth sport. Thus, this study paired observation with stimulated-recall interviewing to describe con...

Purpose: This study explored the contribution of a behavioural observation methodology by investigating coach leadership behaviours in an English football academy. Background: Coaches’ leadership behaviours are important for facilitating quality sport experiences. However, there is recognition that the questionnaires most commonly used to assess co...

Athletes' social interactions represent an important context through which positive development can be fostered (Fraser-Thomas & Côté, 2009). However, the existing literature has relied primarily on the use of retrospective or self-report measures that may not fully capture the complexity of athletes' behaviours (Meredith, Dicks, Noel, & Wagstaff,...

The social identities formed through membership on extracurricular activity groups may contribute to the frequency with which youth engage in prosocial and antisocial behavior. However, researchers have yet to disentangle the individual- and group-level processes social identification effects operate through; sex and perceived norms may also modera...

It is well established that coach learning and athlete outcomes can be enhanced through participation in Coach Development Programs (CDPs). Researchers advocate that the quality of CDPs can be improved by: (a) placing a greater emphasis on facilitating coaches’ interpersonal behaviours (Lefebvre, Evans, et al., 2016), (b) using appropriate and syst...

Background: A growing body of research has studied sport as a vehicle for positive youth development (PYD). While much of this research has investigated the developmental outcomes associated with sport participation, less is known about the mechanisms through which PYD occurs in a sport context. Further, much of the research on PYD in sport has stu...

The potential of physical activity and sport programs to promote positive youth development (PYD) is well-recognized among youth sport researchers and practitioners. More recently, physical literacy has gained traction among sport organizations as an important component of long-term athlete development. With conceptual roots in academic writing, tw...

Current research on emotions in sport focuses heavily on athletes’ intrapersonal emotion regulation; however, interpersonal consequences of emotion regulation are garnering recent attention. As leaders in sport, coaches have the opportunity to regulate not only their own emotions, but also those of athletes, officials, and spectators. As such, the...

Coach development, coach development programmes are conducted to change coach behavior in a specific domain. To facilitate understanding of this growing field, the current synthesis review of coaching literature was conducted to generate classifications of coach development programme types. To identify coach development programmes described within...

There is growing recognition that Transformational Leadership theory (TFL) holds significant potential for coaching research in youth sport. While the existing literature offers insight into the types of athlete outcomes that are associated with TFL, studies evaluating how these outcomes can be acquired are limited. The purpose of the present study...

While previous studies indicate that participation in sport has the potential to facilitate positive developmental outcomes, there is a lack of consensus regarding the possible transfer of these outcomes to other environments (i.e., school or work). An important issue within the positive development literature concerns how sport programs should app...

Previous research highlights the critical role that contextual factors play in shaping athlete development. The purpose of the present study was to investigate two of these contextual factors: birth date (known as the relative age effect, RAE) and city of development as determinants of participation in a sample of youth ice hockey players. The samp...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the coach-athlete interactions in a successful sport program for athletes with disabilities and their able-bodied siblings. The coach and 24 athletes were observed over multiple practice sessions. Measures of interaction content and structure were derived using state space grid (SSG) analysis. Results indica...

While previous research highlights the important benefits that sport participation can have for youth development , limited research has examined the sport experiences of athletes with disabilities (Martin, 2006). The purpose of this study was to describe the sport experiences of athletes with physical disabilities in a model swim program that has...

The fourth edition of Advances in Sport and Exercise Psychology retains the book’s sterling reputation in the field and provides advanced psychology students with a thorough examination and critical analysis of the current research in the psychology of physical activity. This revitalized text, known in its first three editions as Advances in Sport...