Search results for "TAPs"

Transnational athletic career and cultural transition

2020

Transnational movement of sports participants is an important dimension of the internationalization and globalization processes in sports industry and also has become a crucial element of athlete professional development in the 21st century. Since Bale and Maguire’s (1994) pioneering work on athletic talent migration, sports sociology and human geography scholars have made strides in mapping international movement flows of skilled sports migrants. Furthermore, with a recent shift in sports labour migration studies from macro- to microsociological perspectives, there has been an increased interest in the agency and multidimensionality of migrant professionals’ life and work experiences acros…

Esa Rovio 1972-2013 : In Memoriam

2014

Mapping knowledge and experience about sport psychology consulting among Finnish premier football coaches

2016

Mikola, Noora 2016. "Mapping knowledge and experience about sport psychology consulting among Finnish premier football coaches” Sport and Exercise Psychology master's thesis. The Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä. 50 p. Background: Perceptions of sport psychology consulting in Finnish premier football have not been studied before. The current study was inspired by two earlier studies made in England by Pain and Hardwood (2004) and in Sweden by Johnson, Andersson and Fallby (2011) and was done in co-operation with the Football Association of Finland. The purpose of the study was to examine knowledge and experience about sport psychology consulting among Finnish pr…

Performance-related emotions in highly skilled soccer players : a longitudinal study based on the IZOF model

2000

Subjective Well-Being in Sports Coaches

2022

<p>The purpose of the study is to analyze the structure of the psychological determinants of subjective well-being and identify the most significant set of determinants that form the resources of the psychological well-being in sports coaches. This parameter is important due to objective conditions, which significantly increases stress and reduces the quality of life of subjects of professional sport. The participants were 200 professional sports coaches (89 women, 111 men), M<sub>age</sub>=39 years, M<sub>exprience</sub>=12 years. The psychological determinants were measured with the Brief Differential Perfectionism Inventory (Zolotareva et al, 2021), the Gene…

Autonomy support, basic needs satisfaction, motivation regulation, and well-being among elite level ballet dancers in Russian speaking countries

2010

Puettavat mittarit vähensivät fyysistä aktiivisuutta

2023

Luulot ja vapaa-ajan fyysisen aktiivisuuden todellisuus kaksi eri maailmaa

2022

Psychological factors affecting the participation of pregnant women in physical activities in Uganda

2016

Winfred Nakazibwe, 2016. A qualitative research, exploring the psychological factors affecting the participation of pregnant women in physical activities in Uganda. University of Jyvaskyla. 97 pages. Pregnancy is a time of social, psychological, behavioral and biological change. As such, it is not surprising that it has been identified as a contributing factor to the decline in exercise behavior among women. Psychological factors are among the major factors that affect pregnant women. This is brought about by the conditions related to conception, the experience of two people in one body, a change in physical appearance, doubts about maternal abilities, the capacity of the fetus to mature, a…

"Successful and feminine athlete" and "natural-born fighter" : a discursive exploration of female judoka's identities in Greece and Finland

2018

Despite feminist concerns about the asymmetrical distribution of power in martial arts and combat sports (MACS), sport psychology research has overlooked issues of inequality and socio-cultural difference, as well as their effects on athletes’ experiences and identity negotiation. The present doctoral dissertation explores the intersection of gender, culture, and identity in judo through the lens of cultural praxis and feminist poststructuralist frameworks. The aim was to explore in what ways the cultural context shapes the experiences and identities of female judoka (judo athletes). Two specific objectives were set: to trace the discourses (systems of knowledge) through which female judoka…