The social perception of risk is considered a multidimensional task, yet little attention has been paid to the cognitive components that organize sources of risk, despite their having been discovered in various research studies. This study attempts to concretely analyze the cultural dimension involved in those processes. In the first phase, we tried to discover to what extent sources of risk ar...

Hurling in Cornwall, la soule in Britanny, Shrovetide football in England: Popular games have normally been treated as forerunners of modern sport, sport having regulated the space and the time of the game, the (non-) violence of behaviour, the control of results, the planning, strategy, tactics, techniques and evaluation of the competitive action. This is told as a story of social improvement ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between sports participation and health-related behaviors among high school students. DESIGN Cross-sectional design using data from the 1997 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Youth Risk Behavior Survey. PARTICIPANTS A nationally representative sample of 14,221 US high school students. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Prevalence of sports participation a...

Abstract According to the United Nations Convention on Rights of Child (CRC), every child has a right practise sports in healthy, safe environment (art. 19). However, research indicates that athletes experience various forms violence sports. Violence is particularly harmful children, as effects may be significant and long lasting. In addition, children often have difficulty identifying reacting...

BACKGROUND Emerging research highlights the promise of community- and policy-level strategies in preventing youth violence. Large-scale economic developments, such as sports and entertainment arenas and casinos, may improve the living conditions, economics, public health, and overall wellbeing of area residents and may influence rates of violence within communities. OBJECTIVE To assess the ef...

Coaching harassment, which includes physical violence (corporal punishment), psychological violence, and other inappropriate coaching behaviors such as unfair treatment favoritism, is known to occur in junior sports. Previous studies have primarily focused on the effects qualitative characteristics of harassment. Moreover, a scale for convenient appropriate assessment harassment experiences not...