Conclusions
In closing, we implemented a change-sensitive methodology to better understand youth athletes' sport experiences. The current research provides insight into youth athletes' cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses to prosocial and antisocial behaviors from teammates. Supporting previous work on the value of examining proactive (e.g., engaging in prosocial behaviors) and inhibitive moral acts (e.g., refraining from antisocial behaviors) when evaluating moral conduct (Bandura, 1999; Kavussanu et al., 2006), it appears to be equally important to recognize how experiencing prosocial and antisocial behaviors jointly contribute to athletes’ sport experiences. Our findings show that daily prosocial and antisocial behaviors from teammates are systematically related to the ways that athletes behave toward their teammates as well as the strength with which they identify with their sport team.