Sport professionals declare a significant interest increase of females about classes which are considered "male" sports traditionally: weightlifting and various combat sports. The investigation of gender-specific features of female's motivation to classes of masculine sports is an actual problem of ...

This study investigates how the rate of doing sports, the sports that are done, the sports that are desired to be done and the aims of doing sports differ in relation to education level. The study was carried out in Istanbul. The data were collected through a questionnaire created by the researcher ...

Playing sports occupies an important place in the life of elementary school children. Community sport clubs can provide children with adequate opportunities to exercise. However, researchers have indicated certain problems faced by such clubs, due to their status of being volunteer associations....

The current investigation examined sport type differences in eight fan motives: escape, economic (i.e., gambling), eustress (i.e., positive arousal), self-esteem, group affiliation, entertainment, family, and aesthetics. Participants (final sample N=886) completed a questionnaire packet assessing...

The present study aims to investigate the reasons for and expectations from boxing participation of male athletes who participated in the 2018 School Sports Young Adults B Category Boxing Turkey Championship held in Erzincan. Method: The present study enrolled the licensed athletes who...

This study evaluates the psychological characteristics in sports performance according to gender and sports modality practiced in school sports. In addition, the possible correlations between the variables of the questionnaire of Psychological Characteristics related to Sports Performance (CPRD) ...

Aim: To ascertain how talented young British swimmers, gymnasts, tennis and soccer players are introduced to their sport, and to identify how they are encouraged into intensive systematic training. Methods: Two hundred and eighty-two elite young athletes (aged 8 to 17 yrs) and their parents were...

The purpose of the study was to analyze collegiate athletes' achievement motivation for sport participation. Participants included 64 male (n=28) and female (n=36) athletes at a Division I institution in the Southeastern United States. Volunteer participants were current members of the baseball,...

The impact of the COVID-19 crisis and its related measures on how people practice and experience leisure continues to be significant. In the current study, a survey measuring sport participation during the third week of the first lockdown, that started on the 18th of March 2020 and has been...

The academic interest in analyzing the correlates of sports participation in several countries has increased recently. Nevertheless, in developing countries, which do not monitor sportive data, this type of investigation is still scarce. This study aims to analyze socioeconomic, motivational, and...