Title of Dissertation: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN EMOTIONAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO TELEVISED SPORTS VIOLENCE: A TEST OF SENSATION SEEKING THEORY Shu-Chen Lee, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Dissertation Directed By: Professor Bradley D. Hatfield Department of Kinesiology Purpose: To test sensation-seeking theory as an explanation for individual differences in emotional and physiological resp...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the severity of sports injuries in relation to the severity of injuries due to other causes and in relation to type of sport, using generally applied measures of injury severity. SUBJECTS A total of 12403 patients, 4-50 years old, who were treated in the trauma department of the Groningen University Hospital for a sports injury, from January 1990 until January 1997. ME...

Channon, Alex and Phipps, Catherine. 2017. ‘Pink Gloves Still Give Black Eyes: Exploring ‘Alternative’ Femininity in Women’s Combat Sports’, Martial Arts Studies 3, 24-37. combat sports, femininity, gender, martial arts, women. Alex Channon is Senior Lecturer in Physical Education and Sport Studies at the University of Brighton, UK. His research explores various aspects of the relationship betw...

Violence among spectators at sports events has become a serious problem, not only for its evident impact on safety, but also from the perspective of environmental, cultural, economic and social sustainability. Although it could be considered a purely social problem, some solutions could come from a smart and efficient design and management of the lighting installations. Thus, the management of ...

SAVE IT is an European collaborative partnership project, which allows to several groups of stakeholders with different backgrounds on sports, education or computer engineering, to collaborate in this experience whose main goal is to support innovative and educational approaches to reduce and prevent violence and tackle racism, discrimination, and intolerance in grassroots sports as football. T...

This article analyses two recent English cases concerning the law on vicarious liability for acts of violence and considers their significance in respect of on-field acts of violence in sports participation. It provides an overview of how the law of negligence has developed in the specific context of sports injuries (including application of the volenti principle) and critiques the application ...

Aggressive male sports have been criticized as bastions of sexism and training grounds for aggression against women, but there have been few empirical demonstrations of these alleged relationships. The authors studied self-reported dating aggression and sexual coercion in 147 college men. Men who had participated in aggressive high school sports, as compared with other men, engaged in more psyc...

Using a national sample of adolescents, results of this study demonstrate the important role family and school social capital plays in protecting both White and selected nonWhite students against violent outcomes. For example, parent-child relationship was associated with reduced violence for Black and White adolescents but not for Hispanics. School affi liation was signifi cant in models for H...