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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

As a mode of business, sports promotion in the West has improved consummate business's model, but in China can be said to remain in the initial phase. A new mode has been searched for to link the Chinese sports industry to international's after the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. It is a golden...

Significant financial investments in organizing sport mega-events (SME) and training SME volunteers are frequently justified on the basis that local organizations can benefit from a larger pool of experienced volunteers following the event. By employing social exchange theory as a theoretical...

Building on a three-dimensional cultural competence model and treating customer-employee exchange as a vital form of social exchange, this study examines how different dimensions of cultural competence of service providers and their social investment impact event attendees' perceived destination...