The study explores the extent to which media coverage of men's and women's sport reflects the broader gender ideology of society. This question is of particular significance given both the increase in media coverage of women's sport and the assumed role the media plays in shaping images and...
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Blinde, E. M.; Sankner, R.; Han, L.; Greendorfer, S. L.
Publisher
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Reston, VA, USA
Citation
Abstracts of research papers presented at the San Francisco, California Convention of American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance in the Research Consortium Meetings, 1991., 1991, pp p.111
Arthritis is the most common crippling disease in the USA. More than 37 000 000 people have some form of the disease. To date, research has not focused on the relationship of leisure concepts (e.g. freedom and enjoyment) to the psychological effects of a physically limiting disease. This study...
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Yoshioka, C. F.; Smith, S.
Publisher
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Reston, VA, USA
Citation
Abstracts of research papers presented at the San Francisco, California Convention of American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance in the Research Consortium Meetings, 1991., 1991, pp p.246
Wellness has become highly valued in our society. Although 'health' and 'wellness' are commonly believed to be beneficial, there are indications that our current societal health focus may not, in some ways, be entirely healthy. This study proposes a model of wellness that is represented by a...
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Steinhardt, M. A.; Bates, L. F.
Publisher
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Reston, VA, USA
Citation
Abstracts of research papers presented at the San Francisco, California Convention of American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance in the Research Consortium Meetings, 1991., 1991, pp p.119
Research had documented the fact that women in the sport leadership roles of coaching, officiating, and administrating have declined quite drastically since the passage and implementation of Title IX in the USA. This study investigated the employment trends of high school physical education...
Author(s)
Hultstrand, B. J.
Publisher
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Reston, VA, USA
Citation
Abstracts of research papers presented at the San Francisco, California Convention of American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance in the Research Consortium Meetings, 1991., 1991, pp p.123
The purpose of the study was to determine if the first generation of American women Olympians calculated their entry into the Olympic movement or if their presence in the 1900 Paris Olympic Games was a coincidence. Furthermore, an explanation of the presence of American women at the 1900 Olympics...
Publisher
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Reston, VA, USA
Citation
Abstracts of research papers presented at the San Francisco, California Convention of American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance in the Research Consortium Meetings, 1991., 1991, pp p.121
Differences in attitudes and perceptions toward senior high school physical education curricula among students, parents, teachers, and administrators were determined by soliciting responses to a questionnaire administered to 381 randomly selected students (N=155), parents (N=108), teachers (N=78),...
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Friesen, R. L.; Mawson, L. M.; Church, C. J. C.
Publisher
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Reston, VA, USA
Citation
Abstracts of research papers presented at the San Francisco, California Convention of American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance in the Research Consortium Meetings, 1991., 1991, pp p.88
The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of a year-long regularly scheduled fitness workout on selected health related fitness components of middle school boys and girls, and whether there were differences between boys and girls. The subjects for this study were 75 middle school...
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Johnson, D. J.; Lynn, S. K.; Hogan, J.; Blizzard, A.
Publisher
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Reston, VA, USA
Citation
Abstracts of research papers presented at the San Francisco, California Convention of American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance in the Research Consortium Meetings, 1991., 1991, pp p.22
A review of pertinent literature suggests that student teachers have the capacity to improve teaching effectiveness through the development of self-assessment skills (Siedentop, 1981; Paese, 1984; van der mars, 1987; DeVoe, 1990). The purpose of this study was to investigate the capacity of...
Author(s)
Berkey, D. S.; Cool, R. T.
Publisher
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Reston, VA, USA
Citation
Abstracts of research papers presented at the San Francisco, California Convention of American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance in the Research Consortium Meetings, 1991., 1991, pp p.72
Concern about the knowledge base for effective teaching has become a focal point in recent educational reform movements (Shulman, 1986). The effect of content knowledge in teaching physical education was the focus of this study. Specifically, the questions guiding this inquiry were (a) how teachers ...
Author(s)
Solmon, M. A.; Lee, A. M.; Hill, K.
Publisher
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Reston, VA, USA
Citation
Abstracts of research papers presented at the San Francisco, California Convention of American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance in the Research Consortium Meetings, 1991., 1991, pp p.81
Two major goal perspectives are assumed to relate to how people iterpret their level of athletic competence, i.e., task and ego involvement. Duda and Nicholls (1990) have developed the Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire (TEOSQ) to assess individual differences in goal orientation or...
Author(s)
White, S. A.; Duda, J. L.; Sullivan, C. M.
Publisher
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Reston, VA, USA
Citation
Abstracts of research papers presented at the San Francisco, California Convention of American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance in the Research Consortium Meetings, 1991., 1991, pp p.95