Category: Advisory Council

Travis Dorsch – Concerted cultivation is a classed parenting approach whereby parents actively foster their children’s intellectual, social, and emotional skills in hopes of equipping their children for future success. Although the concept originates in sociology, it is relevant to youth sport psychology research given its focus on parents’ values, behaviors, and goals related to their children’s extracurricular activities.

Travis Dorsch – The public often places value on youth sport involvement in the United States due to its potential to foster positive outcomes for participants. Although sport parents are key socializers and provide access to appropriate participation opportunities for children, less is known about how their perceptions of their child’s motives influence their sport commitments.

Elizabeth Day – Four-day school weeks have become increasingly common in Oregon over the past two decades, even though they appear to worsen academic performance, attendance and graduation rates, according to a research review by the University of Oregon College of Education’s HEDCO Institute.

Travis Dorsch – Physical activity is well-established as beneficial for children’s physical and mental health, yet limited research has explored how different activity types impact psychosocial outcomes. This is a cross-sectional study that examined associations between youth participation in organized sport, unstructured physical activity, and land-use recreation and their psychosocial health.

Travis Dorsch – The influence of families on siblings’ experiences and outcomes has been well documented outside of sport, with research dedicated to topics such as socialization, relationship quality, adjustment, resource dilution, and behavioral genetics.

Travis Dorsch, associate professor in Human Development and Family Studies at USU, is passionate about the research he and his doctoral students, Kat Adams and Katie Alexander, have been conducting for a contract they were awarded from Lasso Safe, a nonprofit global coalition working towards the proactive assurance of athlete safety and wellness.

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