Sports and structured leisure as sites of victimization for children and young people in Finland

Looking at the significance of gender and ethnicity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2378393
AutoresMaija Peltola (0000-0001-9991-6518, Finnish Youth Research Network, Finland, autor correspondente), Marja Peltola (Finnish Youth Research Network, Finland), Antti Kivijärvi (0000-0003-3931-4069, Finnish Youth Research Network, Finland)
Ano2017
Volume52
Fascículo8
Páginas955-971
Data de publicação2017-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1012690216636607
OpenAlexW2339579016
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas21

Availability and access have been central worries that are discussed related to children's and young people's sport and other structured leisure activities. In this article, we shift the focus towards children's and young people's experiences of violence perpetrated by coaches or leaders within such activities in Finland. We use a large-scale survey on children's and young people's experiences of violence in different spheres of life (Finnish Child Victim Survey 2013) as the data, and concentrate on the significance of gender and ethnicity for the experiences of violence within structured leisure. The results show that boys report significantly higher levels of emotional, physical and sexual violence perpetrated by a coach or a leader within leisure activities than girls; and immigrant background seems also to increase the risk of being victimized. With the help of logistic regression analysis, we assess the role of other background factors in experiencing violence within structured activities, but conclude that the significance of gender and ethnicity persists even when factors related to the family background are taken into consideration

Developmental psychology · Ethnic group · Focus group · Immigration · Poison control · Political science · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Gender Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society · Youth Development and Social Support