Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity (MVPA), including sport participation, is an important component of a healthy lifestyle. Scholars have devoted considerable attention to understanding the impact of parenthood on MVPA, albeit only for women. As the impact of fatherhood on men's lives is drawing more and more scholarly and societal attention, the aim of the current article is to provide an ...

Examined the relationship between children‟s sports participation and emotional well-being including self-reported emotional and behavioural problems and multidimensional aspects of self-concept. Data was collected from 203 young adolescents using a multitraitmultimethod assessment methodology. Information was obtained using a sports questionnaire (Donaldson & Ronan, 1996) concerning participat...

The purpose of this research was to find out if there is any relationship between personality type and sport preference; why certain people choose a particular sport, why some people prefer a team sport, and others prefer an individual sport. In this research, athletes from four different sports (three individual and one team sport) and non-athletes took part in the study. The primary interest ...

National sport policy has a dual focus on population-based participation, and elite performance. There are various models depicting the pathway to elite, however, there not been participation model track, develop facilitate holistic policies in sport. The aim of this study is review trends, including new data retention drop-out across age groups community club-based sport, combine with evidence...

BACKGROUND Many factors influence participation in sport and Physical Activity (PA). It is well established that socio-economic status (SES) is a critical factor. There is also growing evidence that there are differences in participation patterns according to residential location. However, little is known more specifically about the relationship of PA participation and frequency of participatio...

the purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the participation motives of male and female older adults for sport activities. the subjects were 241 persons (121 men and 120 women ranged from 60 to 89 years old, m = 66.16, sd = 6.66) who were selected from 5 districts of tehran by relative portion method. data were collected using demographic questionnaire and participation motivation...

BACKGROUND Hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is known to produce excellent outcomes, yet some patients do not return to their preinjury level of sport participation. Much literature on return to sport has revolved around anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and even shoulder instability, but none to date have used qualitative, semistructured patient interviews on patie...

Exercise behavior, cardiorespiratory fitness, and obesity are strongly influenced by genetic factors. By studying young adult twins, we examined to what extent these interrelated traits have shared genetic and environmental etiologies. We studied 304 twin individuals selected from the population-based FinnTwin16 study. Physical activity was assessed with the Baecke questionnaire, yielding three...