A Qualitative Investigation of a Personal-Disclosure Mutual-Sharing Team Building Activity

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
John G.H. Dunn ◽  
Nicholas L. Holt
Keyword(s):  
Life Experience ◽  
Team Building ◽  
Evaluation Research ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
Hockey Players ◽  
Significant Life Experience ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Building Activity ◽  
Significant Life ◽  
Personal Disclosure

This study examined 27 male intercollegiate ice hockey players’ subjective responses to a personal-disclosure mutual-sharing team building activity (cf. Crace & Hardy, 1997; Yukelson, 1997) delivered at a national championship tournament. Athletes participated in semistructured interviews 2 to 4 weeks after the team building meetings. Results revealed that the meetings were emotionally intense, and some participants described their involvement in these meetings as a significant life experience. Participants perceived certain benefits associated with the meetings including enhanced understanding (of self and others), increased cohesion (closeness and playing for each other), and improved confidence (confidence in teammates and feelings of invincibility). Results are discussed in terms of their potential to guide future applied evaluation research of team building programs in sport.

A New Circle of Hell: The Postwar Gulag and the Rise of the Special Camps

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven A. Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Social World ◽  
Political Institution ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Social ◽  
Significant Life Experience ◽  
Red Army ◽  
Significant Life

This chapter takes the Gulag into the postwar era when authorities used the institution in an attempt to reassert social control. At the same time, arrivals from the newly annexed western territories and former Red Army soldiers dramatically altered the social world of the Gulag prisoner. New prisoner populations of war veterans, nationalist guerrillas, and peoples with significant life experience outside the Soviet Union provided a potentially combustible mix. The isolation and concentration of many of these prisoners in a small number of special camps raised even further the potential explosiveness of the population. The Gulag was a political institution, though, and it was only the death of the system's founder that would set off the explosions.

scholarly journals An Examination of the Challenges Experienced by Canadian Ice-Hockey Players in the National Hockey League

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randy C. Battochio ◽  
Robert J. Schinke ◽  
Mark A. Eys ◽  
Danny L. Battochio ◽  
Wayne Halliwell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Expert Panel ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
National Hockey League ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Hockey Players ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Team Trust

Semistructured interviews were used in this study to learn about the challenges experienced by four groups of National Hockey League (NHL) players (N= 11): prospects (n= 3), rookies (n= 3), veterans (n= 2), and retirees (n= 3). The database is comprised of 757 meaning units grouped into 11 contextual challenges. From an additional quantitative analysis, the prospects and rookies emphasized challenges pertaining to scouting demands, training camp, increased athletic demands, team expectations, and earning team trust. The veterans spoke mostly of challenges including scouting demands, athletic demands, and team expectations. Retirees considered mostly challenges pertaining to team expectations, athletic demands, lifestyle, media demands, transactions, cross-cultural encounters, and playoffs. An expert panel ensured that the interview guide, data analysis, and the findings represented the participants’ experiences in the NHL. Recommendations for practitioners and researchers working with NHL players are proposed.

The Sport Experience of Athletes with Intellectual Disabilities: A National Survey of Special Olympics Athletes and Their Families

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Coreen M. Harada ◽  
Gary N. Siperstein
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Special Olympics ◽  
Significant Life Experience ◽  
Significant Life ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The U.S

The purpose of this study was to examine the sport experience for athletes with intellectual disabilities (ID) who participate in Special Olympics (SO). This study included a nationally representative sample of 1,307 families and 579 athletes in the U.S., focusing on sport involvement over the lifespan and motives for participating and for leaving SO. Athletes with ID are similar to athletes without disabilities in that sport is a significant life experience. They participate in sport for fun (54%) and social interaction (21%). Like athletes without disabilities, SO athletes leave sport because of changes in interest (38%) but also because of program availability (33%). These findings suggest that we continue to document the involvement of people with ID in sports and work to expand the sport opportunities available.

scholarly journals Youth Ice Hockey Coaches’ Perceptions of a Team-Building Intervention Program

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Newin ◽  
Gordon A. Bloom ◽  
Todd M. Loughead
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Team Building ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Building Activity ◽  
Building Activities

The purpose of the current study was to explain youth ice hockey coaches’ perceptions of the effectiveness of a team-building intervention program. Eight Peewee-level hockey coaches implemented the same team-building activities with their teams throughout the regular season. Data were gathered using 3 methods. Specifically, coaches answered questions on a pre- and post-intervention form after each team-building activity, coaches’ behaviors were observed by members of the research team, and each coach completed a semistructured exit interview after the completion of the regular season. Results highlighted the benefits of the team-building intervention program. Specifically, coaches felt athletes enjoyed this experience and improved or acquired a variety of important life skills and abilities. Coaches also felt that athletes bonded during activities and improved their abilities to work together as a group. Finally, coaches felt that their own personal communication skills improved.

Collegiate Ice Hockey Players’ Perceptions of the Delivery of an Applied Sport Psychology Program

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
John G.H. Dunn ◽  
Nicholas L. Holt
Keyword(s):  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Program Delivery ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Hockey Players ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Psychology Program

This study examined collegiate male ice hockey players’ (N = 27, mean age = 22.4 years) perceptions of factors associated with the delivery of a sport psychology program. Participants were engaged in semistructured interviews. Interview data were transcribed verbatim and inductively analyzed. Results revealed that in terms of program delivery, the athletes had favorable perceptions of the absence of the (technical) coaching staff from sport psychology meetings and raised time demand issues. The sport psychology consultant was perceived to fulfill multiple roles (e.g., teammate, liaison, co-coach), and as being socially and emotionally involved with the team. Other results pertaining to the consultant reflected the importance of respect and communication skills. Implications for practitioners working in team settings are discussed.

Empirical Evidence for Assumptions Underlying Time Orientation in Undergraduates

1992 ◽  
Vol 74 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1171-1180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Fidler ◽  
Kim A. Dawson ◽  
Roy Gallant
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Distant Future ◽  
Unidirectional Flow ◽  
Significant Life Experience ◽  
Significant Life ◽  
Past Experiences

282 undergraduate students between 17 and 68 years of age were asked to list the 5 most significant experiences of their lives, to assign time zones to these experiences, and to provide estimates of emotional valence corresponding to each significant life experience they listed. Subjects also provided judgements of time perspective on a Life Line. The sample showed a near-past orientation and a positive emotional valence across the experiences reported. However, the first experiences reported were distant past experiences significantly more frequently than expected by chance, while the last experiences in the Experiential Inventory were significantly more often located in the distant future. While this result validates the prevailing assumption of a unidirectional flow of past to future, empirical evidence was also found for the larger magnitude and variability of future as compared with past perspective. This suggests a bidirectional model of time should be invoked to explain the differing character of the opponent temporal processes of recall and anticipation in human experience.

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