The DOI matches its Crossref record; 58 of the 58 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Meaningful Experiences in Physical Education and Youth Sport: A Review of the Literature
Open accessAbstract
The purpose of this research is to review the literature about young people’s meaningful experiences in physical education and youth sport. We reviewed 50 empirical peer-reviewed articles published in English since 1987. Five themes were identified as central influences to young people’s meaningful experiences in physical education and sport: social interaction, fun, challenge, motor competence, and personally relevant learning. These themes provide future direction for the design and implementation of meaningful physical education and youth sport experiences. We also highlight the need for the development of pedagogies that facilitate and promote meaningful engagement in physical education and youth sport settings.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Exercise, physical activity, and self-determination theory: A systematic review
Teixeira, P. J., Carraça, E. V., Markland, D., Silva, M. N., & Ryan, R. M. (2012) · International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity · doi:10.1186/1479-5868-9-78 · Cited by 2,963
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
(2010) · Wilderness & Environmental Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.wem.2010.09.015 · Cited by 2,950
U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, 2016
Curtis, K. M., Jatlaoui, T. C., Tepper, N. K., Zapata, L. B., Horton, L. G., Jamieson, D. J., & Whiteman, M. K. (2016) · MMWR. Recommendations and Reports · doi:10.15585/mmwr.rr6504a1 · Cited by 766
A systematic review of dropout from organized sport among children and youth
Crane, J., & Temple, V. (2015) · European Physical Education Review · doi:10.1177/1356336x14555294 · Cited by 502
We Hate Gym: Student Alienation from Physical Education
Carlson, T. B. (1995) · Journal of Teaching in Physical Education · doi:10.1123/jtpe.14.4.467 · Cited by 353
Effects of a Sport Education Intervention on Students’ Motivational Responses in Physical Education
Wallhead, T. L., & Ntoumanis, N. (2004) · Journal of Teaching in Physical Education · doi:10.1123/jtpe.23.1.4 · Cited by 314
Meaning in movement, sport, and physical education
Arnold, P. J. (1979) · Cited by 273
The Curriculum Process in Physical Education
Bressan, E. S. (1986) · Quest · doi:10.1080/00336297.1986.10483851 · Cited by 223
‘Can I do it in my pyjamas?’ Negotiating a physical education curriculum with teenage girls
Enright, E., & O'Sullivan, M. (2010) · European Physical Education Review · doi:10.1177/1356336x10382967 · Cited by 221
The curriculum process in physical education
Jewett, A. E., Bain, L. L., & Ennis, C. D. (1985) · Cited by 193
Cited by
Exploring a pedagogy for meaning-making in physical education
O’Connor, J. (2019) · European Physical Education Review · doi:10.1177/1356336x18802286 · Cited by 72
Garcia, M. B. (2025) · Journal of Teaching in Physical Education · doi:10.1123/jtpe.2024-0084 · Cited by 35
Metadata
- Authors
- Beni, S., Fletcher, T., & Ní Chróinín, D.
- Venue
- Quest
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2016-10-17
- Volume
- 69
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 291-312
- ISSN
- 0033-6297 (ISSN-L)
- 1543-2750
- OpenAlex
- W2539415305
- Cited by
- 423
- References
- 58
- FWCI
- 32.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Meaningful Experiences in Physical Education and Youth Sport: A Review of the Literature. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1080/00336297.2016.1224192
- The paper
- Beni, S., Fletcher, T., & Ní Chróinín, D. (2017). Meaningful Experiences in Physical Education and Youth Sport: A Review of the Literature. Quest. https://doi.org/10.1080/00336297.2016.1224192
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
