Coaches' leadership behavior is a key element that affects athletes' psychological quality and competitive level. It is important to clarify the relationship between coaches' leadership behaviors and athletes' sports performance, which is significant to promote scientific and systematic training...

Background: With industrialization, urbanization, and modernization, mass sports have entered people's daily lives to maintain their health status. However, less attention has been paid to the heterogeneity and inequality of access to mass sports, especially in developing countries. This study aims ...

In recent years, mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have been widely applied in competition sports with respect to athletic performance and mental health promotion, whereas evidence of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) has not been well summarized. Therefore, this study aimed to...

Objective: To analyze the epidemiological characteristics of a measles outbreak in international schools in Minhang district of Shanghai during May-June in 2019. Methods: An epidemiological investigation was conducted in all the suspected measles cases detected in the outbreak. Blood samples and...

This research examines a phenomenon the authors have entitled "directional-contamination," which is a consumer's response to advertising branded with a rival team after advertising branded with the home team has been shown. Utilizing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the authors exposed ...

Purpose: With the rapid economic development, China has been increasingly paying special attention to its sports and health industries. In October 2014, the State Council raised the goal to upscale the sports industry to the net worth of 5 trillion yuan by 2025. To gain further insights into the...

Functional training has become a popular training method in different sports, yet limited studies have focused on paddle sports. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of functional training on functional movement and athletic performance in college dragon boat athletes. A total of...

In recent years, cities have shown an interest in using the hosting of sport mega-events as a leverageable resource in realizing long-term impacts for individual volunteers. However, previous research has provided limited evidence of the realization of anticipated impacts in the post-event period....

Experiential avoidance, a personality trait that refers to individuals' tendency to avoid negative experiences, can have a negative impact on athletes' goal achievement. For this reason, it is crucial to identify the factors that can mitigate such a tendency. Drawing on self-determination theory...

FIFA11+ Kids is a warm-up program specially designed to prevent football injuries in children. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to summarize the effects of FIFA11+ Kids on injury prevention in young football players. PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, Cochrane Library, and China National ...