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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 21.
Published in final edited form as: J Sport Exerc Psychol. 2020 May 21;42(3):201–218. doi: 10.1123/jsep.2019-0235

Table 1.

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria

Component Inclusion Exclusion
Date range From inception of database to October 2018
Language English
Sample Youth-sport participants with mean ages of 12–18 years Participants younger than 8 or older than 20 years
Mental-health outcome measure (i.e., anxiety or depression) Studies measuring self-reported symptoms of anxiety and depression
Sport-participation measure Studies contrasting youth in relation to whether or not they were involved, sport volume, sport frequency, etc. Nonsport forms of physical activity, vigorous exercise, and recreational activity
Organized sport (setting) Participants completing sport-participation measures in relation to organized sport in the school or community Any nonorganized sport participation (e.g., recess, free play, physical education)
Study design Quantitative studies comparing sport participation to a different activity, to no sport participation, or to other level of sport participation; study designs including correlational (i.e., cross-sectional and prospective) cohort and experimental designs Qualitative research, case studies, literature reviews