Grounded in the job demands-resources model, this study examines the moderating role of supervisor support and the mediating role of sports coaches' work engagement in the relationship between proactive personality and perceived work competence. A total of 261 school sports coaches in Taiwan...

The effect of store atmosphere on consumer behavior has been extensively examined. However, literature investigating sport stadium atmosphere (SSA) in spectator sporting events remains limited. This research aims to develop a SSA scale in order to measure the elements that contribute to SSA in...

In Taiwan, the historical development of traditional Chinese martial arts, or kuoshu and wushu as they are called today, has been quite diverse. This paper examines the development of Chinese martial arts from 1949 to 2017 in the context of Taiwan based on available historical evidence and in-depth ...

The eight papers in this special section on sport events address issues such as: the post-event utilization of venues built for major events; event leveraging; perceptions of sport event impacts; age differences in Olympic volunteering experiences; Olympic volunteering as serious leisure; and the ...

This study developed and tested a scale for measuring antecedents of public acceptance of elite sport policy and explored the discrepancy between policy decision-maker concerns and public opinion in Taiwan according to stakeholder theory. Results of exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory...

We draw on the concept of the shared mental model to explain the cross-level direct and moderating effects of team trust on the relationship between coach transformational leadership and cohesion. Using hierarchical linear modelling, we analysed 597 national level high school and university ...

To date, it remains very challenging for managers to combine different features of sports events into compelling product/service offerings that meet visitors' expectations. Yet, there is a scarcity of research that demonstrates how sport event managers can overcome this challenge, thereby leaving ...

Objectives: In this paper, we explore the relationship between the psychological capital, sport anxiety, and sport performance of collegiate judo athletes. Methods: The research object is the collegiate first-division judo athletes in Taiwan. Convenience sampling was used to conduct an online...

This research aims to determine and find the significance level of the difference of self respect of handicapped national team level athletes and people who are not involved in sports activities. The relationships of self respects of handicapped national team level athletes and people who are not...

Drawing on social cognitive theory, we examine the relationship between coaches' transformational leadership and athletes' evaluations of coaches' coaching competency. We also investigate how coaching competency can mediate the positive effect of coaches' transformational leadership on athletes'...