The aim of the present study was to determine the extent of skin hydration on beach athletes and whether the use of an SPF 30 sunscreen affects skin hydration. Materials and methods: We studied 40 (20 men and 20 women) active athletes aged 20 to 22 years who had sports activities on the Black Sea...

The principal objective of the study was to carry out a review of the most current studies on the role of sport in the development of an Eating Disorder (ED), investigating the risk and protective factors of sport in the development of this illness.. A comprehensive search of the Web Of Science...

Research question: According to past research, the effectiveness of athlete endorsements of advertised products is low on average and strongly depends on the context. This article extends the source attractiveness model to examine two research questions: (1) How do multiple unexplored types of an...

This paper examines the effect of spectators on women's football games. COVID-19 and related restrictions provide a unique opportunity with an adequate sample size to test the effect of lockdown on sports activities. Studies have recently exploited this opportunity for men's football to better...

The introduction of the video assistant referee (VAR) was a landmark in soccer history, yet it is not empirically examined whether the technology contributes to the most supreme value of the game: fair play. Because referees are said to be one driving cause of the home advantage (HA), the aim of...

Sport expertise has been shown to modulate the cognitive advantage in open-skill athletes, with evidence for a greater advantage for athletes practicing interceptive sports relative to strategic sports. However, this conclusion is solely based on central tendency measures such as accuracy or mean...

A good set of cognitive and psycho-behavioural skills are beneficial for young athletes to overcome and benefit from developmental challenges. Unfortunately, there is still a dearth of knowledge on how both these cognitive (i.e., executive functions; EF) and psycho-behavioural (i.e., psychological...

Framed in the Ecological-Intersectional Model and the Stages of Career Progression Model, the objective of this study was to explore how women coaching in high-performance settings advanced through the 'bottle-neck' path. In total 13 women coaches from Southern Europe between the age of 28 and 46...

Research recognises the existence of a dominant performance narrative in elite sport that values a 'win at all costs' attitude, prioritising sport over all other facets of life. This narrative commonly privileges dominant groups of men at the expense of marginalised men and many women. To...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between coaching efficacy (i.e. coaches' efficacy beliefs) regarding their competence, coaching effectiveness (i.e. athlete's perception regarding their coaches' efficacy), and the athletes' level of satisfaction with their sport experience. ...