the aim of this study was to examine the relationship of coaches’ servant leadership style with team efficacy and male athlete satisfaction in iran handball super league. the research method was descriptive-correlation conducted by standard questionnaires of servant leadership, team efficacy and athlete satisfaction. the population of this study consisted of male players of 12 handball super le...

This study examined trends in stimulant use and attitudes toward use among American collegiate hockey athletes. All 139 players in one college hockey conference completed a comprehensive questionnaire. Over half of the athletes (51.8%) confirmed stimulant use before a hockey game or practice. About half of the respondents (48.5%) reported having used ephedra at least one time to improve athleti...

We construct a directed social network of coaches based on tutelage, from which we examine community structure based upon connections in the network given by community-detection algorithms. We use this approach to investigate communities of coaches from the National Football League for American football and Major League Baseball, both sports leagues in the United States. We analyse patterns amo...

Background: The goals of participation youth sports are primarily concerned with the facilitation of positive youth development as opposed to outright success. Consequently, there are strong theoretical and empirical links between sports coaching and athlete development. Transformational leadership behaviours, in particular, have been theoretically linked to positive developmental outcomes with...

This article examines the earnings gap between male and female National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) head basketball coaches. Within women’s basketball, female head coaches earn base salaries 9% higher than males. Estimates from a human capital earnings model suggest that differences in job performance and institution-specific gender segregation explain this earnings gap. The base sal...

The purpose of the present study is to increase action efficiency center players in Arcada Galaţi Club by using ”Data Volley” Software, analysing attack and defense our own players, as well analysis opponent centre participating national senior voleyball championships. As coaches team it was possible for us access tracking statistics 24 2018 National Senior Volleyball Championships evaluate rel...

Team identification, the degree to which an individual feels psychologi­ cally linked to a team, has been a focal point in studies of sport fans and sport spectatorship (e.g. Fink et al., 2002; Jones, 1997; Wann & Branscombe, 1993; Wann & Dolan, 1994; Wann & Schrader, 1997). Although the development of team identification has been examined extensively in established sport markets, the purpose o...

In the present study, based on a doctorate thesis, data obtained from practitioners was evaluated to determine role of CODA sign-language interpreters in Deaf sports. The study includes multifaceted analysis played by sign language com-munication hearing national team coaches working with athletes who are deaf Turk-ish Sports Federation (TIESF). For this purpose, semi-structured telephone inter...

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the empathic accuracy of coach–athlete dyads participating in team and individual sports. Method: An adaptation of Ickes’s [2001. Measuring empathic accuracy. In J. A. Hall & F. J. Bernieri (Eds.), Interpersonal sensitivity (pp. 219–242). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates] unstructured dyadic interaction paradigm was used to a...

T eam volleyball is an Olympic sport played professionally in many countries around the world. Despite the increasing professionalization of coaches and athletes, there is little research data concerning performance in professional volleyball players. Two major reasons for this are suggested. Some coaches adopt traditional methodologies in resistance training (RT) programs for team volleyball, ...