Reidar Säfvenbom
Biographic Data
| ID | 1840668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reidar Säfvenbom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reidar |
| FAMILY NAME | Säfvenbom |
| SIGNATURE | SÄFVENBOM R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian School of Sport Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3495-6516 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Students’ perception of dominant objectives in Physical Education: The Purpose of Physical Education Scale
Background Possible PE discourses and possible outcomes of such discourses are frequently debated in PE research. According to the literature instrumental and performance discourses, as well as more holistic, developmental discourses exist but there is reason to question how far into the PE teaching and thus PE students’ learning processes these discourses reach. At present, we do not know to what extent discourses identified in the discursive cl…
Inclusion in Motion: Promoting Equitable Physical Activity and Health in Childhood and Adolescence
Inclusion in play, physical education, outdoor life, organized sports, and other movement-based activities can promote resilience and support physical, emotional, and social well-being. These arenas are particularly important for reducing health disparities and preventing social marginalization across the lifespan. Yet, children and adolescents from vulnerable or disadvantaged backgrounds encounter persistent barriers to participation, rooted in …
Developmental Outcomes for Young People Participating in Informal and Lifestyle Sports: A Scoping Review of the Literature, 2000–2020
The aim of this study is to review the literature on lifestyle sports and lifestyle sport contexts with regard to the developmental potential they may represent in young people’s everyday lives. The review applies a relational developmental systems approach to youth development. The eligibility criteria are based on the phenomenon of interest and outcomes. Hence, we include studies examining the associations between young people performing lifest…
Effects of a school-based physical activity intervention on academic performance in 14-year old adolescents: A cluster randomized controlled trial – the School in Motion study
Retrospectively registered (25/01/2019): NCT03817047
A relational perspective on students' experiences of participation in an ‘Interest-based physical education’ programme
While many students participate autonomously in physical education (PE), research shows that students who do not participate in leisure sport are less likely to perceive PE positively. Attempting to optimise the reciprocal student (↔) PE relationship and secure equal opportunities for learning in PE, schools in a Norwegian county developed an ‘Interest-based PE’ programme offering students a choice of two PE approaches: a sports approach (SA), fo…
Trajectories of Physical Activity Among Adolescents in the Transition From Primary to Secondary School
Research on physical activity (PA) behavior reveals an overall decrease worldwide from early childhood and throughout adulthood. The ability to illuminate which factors promote activity for whom and in which phase of life, therefore, becomes a key concept in extending our understanding of individuals' physical activity trajectories. Accordingly, this study investigates latent trajectories of objectively measured PA in adolescents (n = 306) over 3…
Participation in Organized Sports and Self-Organized Physical Activity: Associations with Developmental Factors
Engagement in organized sports is associated with developmental factors, such as, healthy growth, cognitive abilities, psychological well-being and lower substance use. Research also suggest that the spontaneous free play that characterises self-organized physical activity (PA) provides young people with opportunities to learn social skills, such as self-regulation and conflict-resolution skills. We assessed associations between participation in …
Lifestyle sport contexts as self-organized epistemic cultures
Compared to traditional athletes and PE students, self-organized lifestyle sport practitioners usually have no podiums to reach or grades to earn. They have no authorized instructor available, but seem to treat this apparent deficiency as an opportunity to facilitate their own learning processes. However, from a traditional learning perspective, it can be challenging to understand how these processes unfold. Drawing on theoretical concepts from t…
Eagerness for Physical Activity Scale: Theoretical background and validation
The Eagerness for Physical Activity Scale (EPAS) validated in this study is based on the belief that eagerness for physical activity should be seen as a major outcome of interventions and physical activity contexts. The aim of the study was to introduce the concept of eagerness into physical activity research, to validate EPAS, and to explore its relationship with maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) and motivation. A multi-study validation approach wa…
Running with Dewey: Is it possible to learn to enjoy running in High School Physical Education
This study is based on an action research project labelled ‘Running with Dewey’ implemented in a second-year High School Physical Education (PE) class. The purpose of the project was to analyse students’ response to a running programme based on experiential learning. Eight students participated in alternative PE for 8 weeks. The action research project facilitated an autonomy supportive and reflection supportive climate, where students were indiv…
Issues and problems in the organization of children’s sport: A case study of Norway
The focus of this article is on the organization of children’s sport in Norway. More specifically, the paper sets out to examine (i) the changing pattern of relationships, and in particular the changing balance of conflict and cooperation, between the several organizations with responsibility for children’s sport, and (ii) how sport for children is regulated in order to protect children against the dangers associated with competitive pressures, o…
Leisure for youth in residential care: An important context for intervention
Compared with non‐institutionalized youth, adolescents under the protection of a social welfare agency have somewhat differing patterns of free‐time activity. However, little is known about the contexts in which meaningful free time activity occurs. Data on this topic were collected from a sample of adolescents (n = 20) under the care of the Child Welfare Organization (Oslo, Norway) and a comparison group of non‐institutionalized adolescents (n =…
Involvement in and perception of the free-time context for adolescents in youth protection institutions
What adolescents do, with whom, and at which arenas, represent the contextual dimensions of adolescents' daily free-time. Since free-time may be particularly significant for many developmental processes in adolescence, it is important to understand the impact free-time may have on vulnerable youth. This study used the Experience Sampling Method to examine the free time of adolescents who are taken care of by the Child Welfare Organization (Oslo, …
Issues and problems in the organization of children’s sport: A case study of Norway
The focus of this article is on the organization of children’s sport in Norway. More specifically, the paper sets out to examine (i) the changing pattern of relationships, and in particular the changing balance of conflict and cooperation, between the several organizations with responsibility for children’s sport, and (ii) how sport for children is regulated in order to protect children against the dangers associated with competitive pressures, o…
Leisure for youth in residential care: An important context for intervention
Compared with non‐institutionalized youth, adolescents under the protection of a social welfare agency have somewhat differing patterns of free‐time activity. However, little is known about the contexts in which meaningful free time activity occurs. Data on this topic were collected from a sample of adolescents (n = 20) under the care of the Child Welfare Organization (Oslo, Norway) and a comparison group of non‐institutionalized adolescents (n =…
Involvement in and perception of the free-time context for adolescents in youth protection institutions
What adolescents do, with whom, and at which arenas, represent the contextual dimensions of adolescents' daily free-time. Since free-time may be particularly significant for many developmental processes in adolescence, it is important to understand the impact free-time may have on vulnerable youth. This study used the Experience Sampling Method to examine the free time of adolescents who are taken care of by the Child Welfare Organization (Oslo, …
Lifestyle sport contexts as self-organized epistemic cultures
Compared to traditional athletes and PE students, self-organized lifestyle sport practitioners usually have no podiums to reach or grades to earn. They have no authorized instructor available, but seem to treat this apparent deficiency as an opportunity to facilitate their own learning processes. However, from a traditional learning perspective, it can be challenging to understand how these processes unfold. Drawing on theoretical concepts from t…
A relational perspective on students' experiences of participation in an ‘Interest-based physical education’ programme
While many students participate autonomously in physical education (PE), research shows that students who do not participate in leisure sport are less likely to perceive PE positively. Attempting to optimise the reciprocal student (↔) PE relationship and secure equal opportunities for learning in PE, schools in a Norwegian county developed an ‘Interest-based PE’ programme offering students a choice of two PE approaches: a sports approach (SA), fo…
Trajectories of Physical Activity Among Adolescents in the Transition From Primary to Secondary School
Research on physical activity (PA) behavior reveals an overall decrease worldwide from early childhood and throughout adulthood. The ability to illuminate which factors promote activity for whom and in which phase of life, therefore, becomes a key concept in extending our understanding of individuals' physical activity trajectories. Accordingly, this study investigates latent trajectories of objectively measured PA in adolescents (n = 306) over 3…
Involvement in and perception of the free-time context for adolescents in youth protection institutions
What adolescents do, with whom, and at which arenas, represent the contextual dimensions of adolescents' daily free-time. Since free-time may be particularly significant for many developmental processes in adolescence, it is important to understand the impact free-time may have on vulnerable youth. This study used the Experience Sampling Method to examine the free time of adolescents who are taken care of by the Child Welfare Organization (Oslo, …
Leisure for youth in residential care: An important context for intervention
Compared with non‐institutionalized youth, adolescents under the protection of a social welfare agency have somewhat differing patterns of free‐time activity. However, little is known about the contexts in which meaningful free time activity occurs. Data on this topic were collected from a sample of adolescents (n = 20) under the care of the Child Welfare Organization (Oslo, Norway) and a comparison group of non‐institutionalized adolescents (n =…
Issues and problems in the organization of children’s sport: A case study of Norway
The focus of this article is on the organization of children’s sport in Norway. More specifically, the paper sets out to examine (i) the changing pattern of relationships, and in particular the changing balance of conflict and cooperation, between the several organizations with responsibility for children’s sport, and (ii) how sport for children is regulated in order to protect children against the dangers associated with competitive pressures, o…
Running with Dewey: Is it possible to learn to enjoy running in High School Physical Education
This study is based on an action research project labelled ‘Running with Dewey’ implemented in a second-year High School Physical Education (PE) class. The purpose of the project was to analyse students’ response to a running programme based on experiential learning. Eight students participated in alternative PE for 8 weeks. The action research project facilitated an autonomy supportive and reflection supportive climate, where students were indiv…
Eagerness for Physical Activity Scale: Theoretical background and validation
The Eagerness for Physical Activity Scale (EPAS) validated in this study is based on the belief that eagerness for physical activity should be seen as a major outcome of interventions and physical activity contexts. The aim of the study was to introduce the concept of eagerness into physical activity research, to validate EPAS, and to explore its relationship with maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) and motivation. A multi-study validation approach wa…
Participation in Organized Sports and Self-Organized Physical Activity: Associations with Developmental Factors
Engagement in organized sports is associated with developmental factors, such as, healthy growth, cognitive abilities, psychological well-being and lower substance use. Research also suggest that the spontaneous free play that characterises self-organized physical activity (PA) provides young people with opportunities to learn social skills, such as self-regulation and conflict-resolution skills. We assessed associations between participation in …
Lifestyle sport contexts as self-organized epistemic cultures
Compared to traditional athletes and PE students, self-organized lifestyle sport practitioners usually have no podiums to reach or grades to earn. They have no authorized instructor available, but seem to treat this apparent deficiency as an opportunity to facilitate their own learning processes. However, from a traditional learning perspective, it can be challenging to understand how these processes unfold. Drawing on theoretical concepts from t…
Trajectories of Physical Activity Among Adolescents in the Transition From Primary to Secondary School
Research on physical activity (PA) behavior reveals an overall decrease worldwide from early childhood and throughout adulthood. The ability to illuminate which factors promote activity for whom and in which phase of life, therefore, becomes a key concept in extending our understanding of individuals' physical activity trajectories. Accordingly, this study investigates latent trajectories of objectively measured PA in adolescents (n = 306) over 3…
Effects of a school-based physical activity intervention on academic performance in 14-year old adolescents: A cluster randomized controlled trial – the School in Motion study
Retrospectively registered (25/01/2019): NCT03817047
A relational perspective on students' experiences of participation in an ‘Interest-based physical education’ programme
While many students participate autonomously in physical education (PE), research shows that students who do not participate in leisure sport are less likely to perceive PE positively. Attempting to optimise the reciprocal student (↔) PE relationship and secure equal opportunities for learning in PE, schools in a Norwegian county developed an ‘Interest-based PE’ programme offering students a choice of two PE approaches: a sports approach (SA), fo…
Developmental Outcomes for Young People Participating in Informal and Lifestyle Sports: A Scoping Review of the Literature, 2000–2020
The aim of this study is to review the literature on lifestyle sports and lifestyle sport contexts with regard to the developmental potential they may represent in young people’s everyday lives. The review applies a relational developmental systems approach to youth development. The eligibility criteria are based on the phenomenon of interest and outcomes. Hence, we include studies examining the associations between young people performing lifest…
Students’ perception of dominant objectives in Physical Education: The Purpose of Physical Education Scale
Background Possible PE discourses and possible outcomes of such discourses are frequently debated in PE research. According to the literature instrumental and performance discourses, as well as more holistic, developmental discourses exist but there is reason to question how far into the PE teaching and thus PE students’ learning processes these discourses reach. At present, we do not know to what extent discourses identified in the discursive cl…
Inclusion in Motion: Promoting Equitable Physical Activity and Health in Childhood and Adolescence
Inclusion in play, physical education, outdoor life, organized sports, and other movement-based activities can promote resilience and support physical, emotional, and social well-being. These arenas are particularly important for reducing health disparities and preventing social marginalization across the lifespan. Yet, children and adolescents from vulnerable or disadvantaged backgrounds encounter persistent barriers to participation, rooted in …
Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Physical activity (6 works) · Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)