Anxiety in sport has received a great deal of attention from practitioners and researchers alike. Coaches need to know if there are recurring situations in their sport which exacerbate the anxiety levels of their athletes. The purpose of this study was to identify competitive situations which,...
Author(s)
Dunn, J.; Nielsen, B.
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.102
The fanfare of traditional rivalries in college athletics and society's persistent fascination with accumulated win-loss records has obscured any interest in the important sociological and psychological properties and implications associated with team sport participation such as group formation,...
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Furia, M. L. de; Oliver, B.; Bacharach, D.
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.115
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
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...
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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
The purpose of this study was to examine Soviet methods of recruiting and selecting athletes. Administrators, teachers, coaches, and emigrant coaches were interviewed in the USSR, USA and Israel. Although the government sport authorities are responsible for ensuring the development of a qualified...
Author(s)
Jefferies, S. 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.114
There continues to be disagreement about the potential role conflict experienced by women who, having chosen to participate in the traditionally defined male domain of competitive athletics, must balance the roles of female and athlete (Desertrain and Weiss, 1988; Jackson and Marsh, 1986; Watson,...
Author(s)
Goldberg, A. D.; Chandler, T. J. 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.112
Previous research has found that mildly mentally handicapped (MMH) persons typically posses higher levels of situational (state) anxiety in a competitive sport setting as compared to non-handicapped persons (Levine & Langness, 1983). The purpose of this study was to further explore situational...
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Porretta, D. L.; Moore, W.; Sappenfield, 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.58
An important function of US health and physical education programmes is to prepare students to lead healthy, productive lives. Understanding the current state of students' knowledge concerning the basic facts and principles necessary for making wise health decisions is essential in evaluating the...
Author(s)
Edwards, W. H.; Spencer, 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.251
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
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