Alana Shoff

Professor Lowe
R_C-1000
3 March 2016
Is It Worth It? Appalachian Athletes
Dubuc-Charbonneau, Nicole, and Natalie Durand-Bush. "Moving To Action: The Effects
Of A Self- Regulation Intervention On The Stress, Burnout, Well-Being, And SelfRegulation Capacity Levels Of University Student-Athletes." Journal Of Clinical
Sport Psychology 9.2 (2015): 173-192. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. Web. 2 Mar.
2016.
This article talks about the tremendous stress that athletes are put through in
participating in their collegiate sports. The study discusses that student athletes are more
likely to burn out of their sport and quit if they dont know how to take care of their
wellbeing by managing their time and stress. In the study, several student athletes were
given a test to gauge their beginning state of mind. After this they were given four of the
same test throughout the trial to track their progress. The intervention offered to the
athletes highlighted the value of taking care of self-regulation and wellbeing. As a result
of this intervention trial the student athletes test results showed, that stress and burnout
levels significantly decreased, and well-being and self-regulation capacity levels
significantly increased as the intervention progressed.
This academic journal is going to be very helpful in my argument. It is a well
planned and executed study of student athletes. The organization and thoroughness of the
journal make it comparable to other articles in quality and reliability. The article didnt

feel like it had bias in it. There was no claim of a miracle fix of athletes, it found a
problem and suggested a solution that seemed to have a gradual positive effect on the
athletes it was tested on.
This source is going to be very useful in my argument about the benefits of
participating in athletics because it shows that student athletes deal with an amount of
stress that students who dont participate in university sponsored sports dont experience.
This study teaches those students who dont handle the stress very well, how to manage
their tasks and emotions. The student athletes who already know how to do this and those
who dont who learn to with this intervention program are able to deal with stress that
others dont understand making them more successful in the classroom and in the
workforce because they can handle more than their peers.

Forrester, Scott. "Benefits Of Collegiate Recreational Sports Participation: Results From

The 2013 NASPA Assessment And Knowledge Consortium Study." Recreational
Sports Journal 39.2 (2015): 2-15. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. Web. 3 Mar.
2016.
The National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, or NASPA,
performed a study called the Recreation and Wellness Benchmark instrument under the
Assessment and Knowledge Consortium. This study was tested on over 30,000 students
from 38 selected colleges and universities from across the nation. Participants responded
to whether they considered themselves heavy, moderate, light, or non-users of campus
recreational sport facilities and programs and were asked to assess how they thought their
performance in the class was. Students who marked that they were heavy users tended to

consistently have felt they had increased or improved every health and wellness
and student learning outcome from their participation in campus recreation significantly
more when compared with Moderate, Light, and Non-Users. The findings of this study
show the importance of collegiate sport participation to enhance the performance of a
universities student population.
This source is going to be useful because of the wider span of students tested,
athletic and nonathletic. This information is very valuable in comparison to my other
studies because while those prove specifically my point of university athletes being more
successful in the classroom and afterwards in the workplace because of their participation
in sports, this shows that these are not just unattainable skills reserved for athletes, but
that anyone on campus can expand their skills.
Because of the more broad test subjects chosen in this study I think this article
weighs even more in proving the importance of sports enhancing the lives of students on
campus, whether on the universitys sponsored team or just playing at the recreation
center on campus. This proves a larger point than just my narrowed thesis, that whether
university sponsored or just in the campus recreation center, sports make students sharper
and make them perform better in the classroom. The creative thinking, flexibility, stress
management, and teamwork skills can be learned by anyone participation in the sports
and these skills are corner stone for success.

Isidori, Emanuele. "The Dual Career Of Student Athletes: A Pedagogical

Challenge." Cultura, Ciencia Y Deporte 10.29 (2015): 99-101. SPORTDiscus
with Full Text. Web. 2 Mar. 2016.

This article doesnt have any tests performed on athletes for support of my
argument, but does discuss the importance of athletes receiving support in learning to be
adaptable to different situations thrown at them and receiving support in managing stress.
The article talks about how the learning of these valuable skills in the hands of athletes
lead to more flexible and creative minds that help them find innovative solutions to
problems that others dont see. This helps them in the classroom and in the workplace
later to solve problems and find different creative remedies to challenges.
This academic journal is going to be useful to my argument. Unlike some of my
other sources this isnt a study or test performed on student athletes, it is observations and
outcomes of watching these traits and how student athletes handle being flexible and
thinking creatively. This research is reliable, having a publishing date of just last year.
This keeps my information in my article current and up to date. This journal doesnt seem
to have a bias. It is more watching and reporting what make athletes successful as far as
stress management.
In this journal they talk about how athletes have more flexible and creative minds
because of the challenges and obstacles they must over come. These mental skills
translate on and off the court in usage. On the court the athletes have to make split second
decisions under stress and fatigue. In the classroom student are able to handle the
pressure of time restraints or large grades on assignments because they know how to
handle stress and be flexible in their thinking to help them organize their work and power
through it one piece at a time.

Poux, Kiira N., and Mary D. Fry. "Athletes' Perceptions Of Their Team Motivational
Climate, Career Exploration And Engagement, And Athletic Identity." Journal Of
Clinical Sport Psychology 9.4 (2015): 360. Publisher Provided Full Text
Searching File. Web. 3 Mar. 2016.
In this academic journal, the designed purpose was to examine a student-athletes
perception of the relationship between the motivational climate on their sport teams and
their own career exploration and engagement and athletic identity. For this study over
one hundred student athletes from various NCAA Division 1 colleges and universities
were asked to fill out an online survey. The themes of the questions ranged from
inquiring about climate variables in the gym (i.e. caring, task, ego), athletic identity,
career self-efficacy, and career exploration and engagement. Better scores in these areas
were found to also come from athletes who reported a high task-involving climate and
[a] moderate caring climate.
The academic journal supports my argument well because it shows that athletes
who are a part of supportive team and are in a thriving environment are very successful.
This information is useful in backing my argument and aligns with what the other articles
I have reviewed for this project have said. It is not bias, like one of my other articles, it is
more of an observation and report of what they saw or what the athletes felt. This article
is very reliable since it was published only last year. This makes the data and the
responses of the athletes accurate and not outdated.
This article supports my argument of student athletes gaining important skills and
values in participating in sports because it shows that through the team an athlete has a
support system that helps them stay grounded. Through the team, each athlete feels

pushed to become the best that they can, to perform at a high level at all times, and to not
quit. When a level of motivation and caring from the team and the coaches is added the
athlete feels safe to discover new depths to their will power and skills. The article talks
about how through the 4 years of being an athlete, in a good environment a student
athlete can not only survive but thrive throughout college which prepares then for their
lives after college and sports.