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EXPLORING YOUTH SPORT VALUES 
 
SOBIROVA L.B., The Uzbek State Institute of Physical culture 
As sport has become more intense, professional and commercialized so have the debates grown about what 
constitutes acceptable behavior and fair play, and how to encourage and develop ‗good‘ sporting behavior, particularly 
in children and young people. This article explores the nature and function of values in youth sport and establishes a 
framework through which coaches, teachers and researchers can develop an understanding of the decision-making 
processes of young athletes and how they choose between playing fairly or cheating to win. The traditional view of 
sport participation is that it has a beneficial effect on the social and moral development of children and young people 
and that it intrinsically promotes cultural values. This article argues that the research evidence is more subtle and 
nuanced. It examines the concept of values as central organizing constructs of human behavior that determine our 
priorities, guide our choices, and transfer across situations, and considers the value priorities and conflicts that are so 
useful in helping us to understand behavior in sport. The article argues that teachers and professionals working with 
children in sport are centrally important agents for value transmission and change and therefore need to develop a 
deeper understanding of how sport can be used to encourage pro-social values, and offers suggestions for developing a 
curriculum for teaching values through sport in differing social contexts. Spanning some of the fundamental areas of 
sport practice and research, including sport psychology, sport pedagogy, practice ethics and positive youth development 
through sport, and including useful values and attitudes questionnaires and guidance on their use and interpretation, this 
article is important reading for any student, researcher, coach or teacher with an interest in youth sport or physical 
education. This introduction is being written shortly after the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Game. The 
Olympic creed refers to taking part rather than winning, and the struggle rather than the triumph, which brings into 
sharp relief the often conflicting nature of values. As sport has become more professional and commercialized there is 
increasing pressure to win rather than simply to take part. The conflict often becomes a moral one between cheating to 
win and playing fairly. In the light of widespread examples of unethical behavior in adult sport there is a need to 
minimize the permeation of such behavior into youth sport. 
One purpose of this book is to present value theory as a new paradigm that is particularly appropriate for 
studying fair play and children‘s moral decision making in youth sport. Two inherent characteristics of values are 
particularly pertinent to the understanding of conflicts and dilemmas. First, whether or not young competitors will cheat 
is influenced by their value system the relative priorities they give to different values. Is winning or fairness more 
important to them, or are both equally important? Second, an understanding of value structure the extent to which 
different values are naturally compatible or conflicting helps to identify those situations in which values are most likely 
to conflict, and also the particular values that can be promoted to reduce conflict. Such information is needed by 
researchers and by an increasing range of sport professionals who are agents for value transmission and change. 
Across the social sciences, human values are regarded as the most important psychological variables. They are 
central beliefs about what is desirable in life. They guide decisions and behavior by prioritizing choices and providing 

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standards for our judgments and evaluations. They transfer across situations. They influence commitment and 
performance yet their study has been relatively neglected in sport. This article seeks to fill the gap by publishing initial 
information in this new field as a resource for others to build on. Thus we include a range of perspectives and 
sometimes refer to unpublished or ongoing studies to show how the field is developing. Given current debates regarding 
ethical behavior in sport and a need to develop the notion of ‗good‘ sporting behaviors early in the lives of children and 
young people, this seems a good time to publish work on a new paradigm.