Sport and sport events provide a significant source of volunteering opportunities for a wide range of individuals and especially for young people. Organisers of major sport events often target the youth market to source volunteers due to the apparent high level of interest in sport by this group. Consequently, it is suggested that sport may act as a nursery for volunteering and therefore the ex...

Objectives: The purposes of this study were to investigate adult sport novices’ use of the functions of observational learning and to examine its relationship to their self-efficacy beliefs to learn sport-related skills and strategies, and to regulate mental states during the learning process. Method: Adults enrolled in beginner level sport classes completed the Functions of Observational Learn...

The relationship between sport participation and BMI in children and adolescents is unclear, with some studies showing no association at all and others suggesting that sport is linked to lower BMI. Another possibility, however, is that this relationship is bidirectional, with sport leading to lower BMI but BMI also influencing sport participation. Here, we examine the direction of this associat...

Computer science has become an important partner for sport science. Although many cases for the successful application of computers in sport exist, only a few meta-theoretical mediations on this research field can be found. To fill this gap, this paper looks at the genesis of sport informatics in Germany, discusses the interdisciplinary relation between computer science and sport science and fo...

Purpose: To examine the association between overweight or obesity and sport injury in a population-based sample of Canadian adolescents. Methods: Cross-sectional analyses were performed using the Canadian Community Health Survey (2009-2010), a nationally representative sample (n=12,407) of adolescents aged 12-19 years. Body composition was quantified using BMI, grouping participants into health...

1 Department of Theory of Sport and Kinesiology, Academy of Physical Education in Cracow, Poland. 2 Department of Team Sport Games, Academy of Physical Education in Katowice, Poland. 3 Department of Sports Theory and Technology of Sports Training, University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport in Biała Podlaska, Poland. 4 Institute of Physical Education, Tou...

the aim of this study was to identify sport marketing barriers in iran from sport managers’ perspectives. the statistical population involved top managers of sport and youth ministry, national olympic committee and sport federations (n=80). sample was equal to the population and 67 questionnaires were returned correctly. a researcher-made questionnaire (with 40 items) was used to measure sport ...

Background Sport specialization has been associated with overuse injuries and is more common in larger high schools, which are often located in more urban/suburban settings. However, sport participation characteristics have not been compared between suburban and rural high schools. Purpose/Hypothesis The purpose of this study was to examine the differences in sport participation characteristi...

This paper explores the former Eastern Bloc’s (primarily the GDR and the Soviet Union) supremacy in developing elite sporting excellence and traces the ‘ow’ of elements of such systems to selected Western nation-states. The national elite sport development systems discussed in the West are: Europe (UK, France and Spain), North America (Canada, United States) and Australia. A tentative conceptu...