Open AccessExploring the relationship between the relative age effect and youth development among male house league ice hockey players
Author(s) -
Laura Chittle,
Sean Horton,
Patti Weir,
Jess C. Dixon
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of amateur sport
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2372-8078
DOI - 10.17161/jas.v0i0.5884
Subject(s) - league , ice hockey , multivariate analysis of variance , psychology , demography , medicine , sociology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , physics , astronomy , machine learning , computer science
The current study examined if relative age influences the youth developmental experiences of male house league ice hockey players. Participants completed an on-line survey that solicited their date of birth and responses to the Youth Experience Survey for Sport (YES-S). Our analysis revealed no relative age effect among the house league hockey players. The MANOVA results revealed no significant multivariate differences between quartile of birth and the five YES-S dimensions (p = .493). It is reassuring that the experiences of the house league ice hockey players in our sample do not differ in their developmental experiences as a consequence of when they were born throughout the selection year.