"We're all about being together as a family": Community sports program fosters newcomer immigrant girls' academic achievement, resilience, and coping.
Drawing from a liberation psychology framework, this paper describes a community soccer program designed to address inequalities in education, health, and social inclusion among newcomer immigrant girls. The mixed‐methods study drew upon youth voices to explore how the program fostered resilience, e...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Community Psychology Vol. 75; no. 3/4; pp. 185 - 197 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=186343372&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 186343372 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00910562 CMP jtl: American Journal of Community Psychology issn: 00910562 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2025 vid: 75 iid: 3/4 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 186343372 10.1002/ajcp.12799 ppf: 185 ppct: 12 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.2MB tig: atl: "We're all about being together as a family": Community sports program fosters newcomer immigrant girls' academic achievement, resilience, and coping. aug: au: Tilzey, Sarah E. Cramer, Jordan J. Mushiana, Swapandeep S. Lin, Grace Portugal, Claudia Gucciardi, Ben Cortez, Eric Rodriguez, Christina Whitford, Lindsey Boston, Maddy Patel, Sita G. affil: Department of Clinical Psychology, Palo Alto University, Palo Alto California,, USA Soccer Without Borders, Oakland California,, USA su: Academic achievement Self-efficacy Women immigrants Social integration Psychological resilience Stress management Recreational sports Mixed methods research sug: subj: Academic achievement Self-efficacy Women immigrants Social integration Psychological resilience Stress management Recreational sports Mixed methods research keyword: community sports program coping immigrant girls mixed‐methods resilience community sports program coping immigrant girls mixed‐methods resilience ab: Drawing from a liberation psychology framework, this paper describes a community soccer program designed to address inequalities in education, health, and social inclusion among newcomer immigrant girls. The mixed‐methods study drew upon youth voices to explore how the program fostered resilience, effective coping, and academic achievement. The study included a quantitative sample (n = 20) and a qualitative sub‐sample (n = 13), as well as school‐wide comparison data (n = 431). Participants were from 13 countries of origin and spoke ten languages. Data collection involved community‐based participatory methods and a convergent parallel mixed‐methods design. Quantitative data included a demographic questionnaire, school records of grade point average (GPA), and program participation; qualitative data were gathered through semi‐structured interviews. A one‐sample t‐test determined that academic achievement (GPA) among program participants (M = 3.12; SD = 0.86) was significantly higher (p =.003; t [18] = 3.462) than the school's average (M = 2.44; SD = 1.42). Directed content analyses of qualitative data explored mechanisms for promoting achievement and empowerment through three distinct forms of resilience: academic, psychological, and social, and problem‐ and emotion‐focused coping strategies. This study offers a unique, sports‐based pathway to address inequalities among an understudied population of immigrant girls. Highlights: This study found that participation in a community soccer program fostered resilience and coping for immigrant girls.Soccer may serve as a culturally attuned vehicle for empowering immigrant girls to combat acculturative stress.Qualitative data provide first‐hand accounts of participant experiences building resilience through program participation. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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