This article examines participatory sport event (PSE) organizers' perceptions of, and interactions with, the communities in which they host events. Internationally, PSEs are burgeoning popularity may be strategically leveraged to promote positive economic social development locations. Yet little is known about who organizes such events, or how PSE organizers approach their with hosting communit...

The goal of this study was to describe patterns in the dynamics of families of talented junior athletes throughout their development. Parents, athletes, and siblings from four families were interviewed. The interviews focused on how family members adapted to the motivation, effort, and resource demands that often constrain the development of talent in sport. The results permitted the identifica...

Research on event leveraging has revealed that certain constraints inhibit the realisation of desired benefits from hosting. Using qualitative action research methods, this study examined to regular season professional sport team events for tourism. The potential been largely ignored – both by researchers and practitioners. This presented an ideal opportunity examine pre-leveraging phase with a...

We examined the relationships among trait and state psychological variables and performance in male high school distance runners using the Sport Orientation Questionnaire (SOQ; Gill & Deeter, 1988), the Competitive Orientation Inventory (COI; Vealey, 1986), the Trait Sport-Confidence Inventory (TSCI; Vealey, 1986), the State Sport-Confidence Inventory (SSCI; Vealey, 1986), the Competitive State...