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- Title
Physical Self-Concept Changes in a Selective Sport High School: A Longitudinal Cohort-Sequence Analysis of the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect.
- Authors
Marsh, Herbert W.; Morin, Alexandre J. S.; Parker, Philip D.
- Abstract
Elite athletes and nonathletes (N = 1,268) attending the same selective sport high school (4 high school age cohorts, grades 7-10, mean ages varying from 10.9 to 14.1) completed the same physical self-concept instrument 4 times over a 2-year period (multiple waves). We introduce a latent cohort-sequence analysis that provides a stronger basis for assessing developmental stability/change than either cross-sectional (multicohort, single occasion) or longitudinal (single-cohort, multiple occasion) designs, allowing us to evaluate latent means across 10 waves spanning a 5-year period (grades 7-11), although each participant contributed data for only 4 waves, spanning 2 of the 5 years. Consistent with the frame-of-reference effects embodied in the big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE), physical self-concepts at the start of high school were much higher for elite athletes than for nonathlete classmates, but the differences declined over time so that by the end of high school there were no differences in the 2 groups. Gender differences in favor of males had a negative linear and quadratic trajectory over time, but the consistently smaller gender differences for athletes than for nonathletes did not vary with time.
- Subjects
SELF-perception -- Social aspects; SELF-perception; DOUBLE consciousness (Sociology); THOUGHT &; thinking; CRITICAL thinking; COHORT analysis; MATHEMATICAL models of economic development
- Publication
Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 2015, Vol 37, Issue 2, p150
- ISSN
0895-2779
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1123/jsep.2014-0224