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 ...

the evaluation and comparison of somatotype with elite athletes is a method to predict the chances of success in sports particularly in the olympic sport of wrestling. the aim of the present study was to describe the somatotypic profile of 9-13-year-old boys in northern, mountainous and desert areas with a territorial planning approach and an emphasis on the geographical areas potential for wre...

Management ofMeloidogyne incognita by chemigation with fenamiphos was studied in an infested field planted to M. incognita-suscepfible yellow summer squash cv. Dixie Hybrid. Fenamiphos (VL 73.1% a.i. manufacturing concentrate in propylene glycol) was mixed with Unitol DSR-90 or used as fenamiphos 3 SC (spray concentrate). Both formulations, applied with 63.5 kl irrigation water per hectare, dec...

PURPOSE This study examined the validity of a squash-specific test designed to assess endurance capability and aerobic power. METHODS Eight squash players and eight runners performed, in a counterbalanced order, incremental treadmill (TT) and squash-specific (ST) tests to volitional exhaustion. Breath-by-breath oxygen uptake was determined by a portable analyzer and heart rate was assessed te...

The present study investigated the heart rate response to playing tennis with special reference to the skill levels and ages of the participants. Data obtained in a similar manner during earlier studies of badminton and squash players were compared with that obtained during tennis. The number of rallies, mean rally time and actual playing time in 30 minutes of play was also compared for the dif...

The aim of the paper is to study the relationship of individuals’ sport goods consumption to personal income and relative sport price in Hungary in the period 1992-2006. It is shown, that the trend of the real sport goods consumption in conjunction with real income decreased till 2000 and it has been increasing since then. Income and price elasticity figures for both periods show, that sport go...

the aim of this study was to examine dimensions of tax exemptions in iran sport from viewpoints of managers of sport clubs and sport experts. the research method was descriptive and correlation. statistical population included the managers of sport clubs and sport experts in three provinces of tehran, isfahan and fars. sample of managers were equal to the statistical population (n=n=25) and the...

the aim of this study was to examine sport commitment model in women participating in sport activities. the population of this study consisted of all women (n=6000) who participated in sport activities in mashhad municipality. 526 subjects were studied as the sample. the demographic and sport commitment model (scanlan, 1993) questionnaires were used to collect the data. findings indicated that ...

the safety of sport halls in physical education faculties is important from two perspectives: first, students spend a long time in these sport halls to learn a sport filed; second, they should learn sport safety standards as the future experts. the aim of this research was to study physical education students’ viewpoints on safety in sport halls of physical education faculties of universities i...

The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Korean version of the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) based on the Competing Values Framework (CVF). More specially, cultural equivalence between the Korean version and the original English version of the OCAI was evaluated using 39 bilingual Koreans. Next, a field test was conducted to examine scale...