Cuando La Actividad Física Promueve La Inactividad: ExperiEncias Negativas En La Educación Física , En adolescEntes Españoles

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When Physical Activity Participation Promotes Inactivity: Negative Experiences of Spanish Adolescents in Physical Education and Sport
Vicente J. Beltrán-Carrillo, José Devís-Devís, Carmen Peiró-Velert and David H.K. Brown Youth Society published online 1 December 2010 DOI: 10.1177/0044118X10388262 The online version of this article can be found at:http://yas.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/11/20/0044118X10388262

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When Physical Activity Participation Promotes Inactivity: Negative Experiences of Spanish Adolescents in Physical Education and Sport

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Vicente J. Beltrán-Carrillo1, José Devís-Devís2, Carmen Peiró-Velert2, and David H.K. Brown3

Abstract This article analyses negative experiences in physical education and sport reported during qualitative interviews of a group of inactiveadolescent Spanish boys and girls. The purpose of this analysis is twofold. First and most important, it seeks to give voice to these young people reporting negative experiences and connect them to contexts of physical activity and sport in which they occurred in order to show how, ironically, inactivity is an unintended consequence. Second, the authors attempt to connect inactivity through negativeexperiences by drawing on conceptual notions of a gendered performativity culture, and symbolic violence. The authors conclude by commenting on how these insights may be useful to critically reflect on physical activity programs, which are too often considered an unquestionable good for all pupils who experience them. Keywords adolescence inactivity, performativity culture, symbolic violence
1 2Centro de Investigación del Deporte. Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain 3 Cardiff School of Sport, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, United Kingdom Corresponding Author: José Devís-Devís, Departamento de Educación Física y Deportiva, Facultad de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y el Deporte, Universitat de València, C/Gascó Oliag, 3.Valencia, 46010, Spain. Email: jose.devis@uv.es

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Introduction
Physical inactivity in Western industrialized societies is giving rise to considerable concern due to its direct connection with public health and well-being (Department of Health, Physical Activity, Health Improvement andPrevention, 2004; Sallis & Owen, 1999; World Health Organization, 2002). Children and adolescents in these societies are the focus of particular concern due to the relevance of the youth period for acquiring and consolidating an active lifestyle (Biddle, Sallis, & Cavill, 1998; Boreham & Riddoch, 2001; Cavill, 2001). For this reason, public health officials in these societies have widely acknowledgedthe importance of youth physical activity and sport (hereafter PAS) programs as an important medium for achieving this public health goal (Welk, Eisenmann, & Dollman, 2006). Unsurprisingly, research studies that describe the PAS patterns of young people and identify factors related to participation are seen as a very important step to PAS promotion (Sallis & Owen, 1999). Most of these studies are...