The eSports conundrum: is the sports sciences community ready to face them? A perspective

Author(s):  
Roberto Fiore ◽  
Domenico Zampaglione ◽  
Eleonora Murazzi ◽  
Fabio Bucchieri ◽  
Francesco Cappello ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 799-805
Author(s):  
Şükrü Bingöl ◽  

The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between school administrators’ transformational leadership behaviours and teachers’ perceptions of organizational justice. The sample of the study consists of 170 teachers working in high schools in Elazığ city center. In the study, the Transformational Leadership Scale was used to determine whether school administrators exhibit transformational leadership behaviours, and the Organizational Justice Scale was used to determine teachers' perceptions of organizational justice. Pearson moment two-correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis techniques were used in the analysis of the data. According to the research findings, it was observed that school administrators frequently exhibited transformational leadership behaviours and teachers' perceptions of organizational justice were at the level of “I agree”. In general, moderate, positive and significant relationships were found between transformational leadership and organizational justice. According to the results of the regression analysis, it was determined that the idealized influence dimension of transformational leadership positively and significantly predicted the formal procedures dimension of the organizational justice scale, and also idealized influence and individualized consideration dimensions of transformational leadership positively and significantly predicted the interactional justice dimension of the organizational justice scale. The research results were discussed in the relevant literature and recommendations were made.


2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 0038
Author(s):  
انور عبدالقادر ماشي

The research aims to know the executive attention and its relationship to psychological empowerment in the Faculties of Physical Education and Sports Sciences among the faculty members and in the variables of the study, the two researchers used the descriptive approach to suit it to the nature of the research. As for the research sample, it was represented by a group of male and female physical education teachers in four universities of (100) teaching staff And teaching The two researchers designed two measures (executive attention) and the scale (psychological empowerment) and distributed them to the sample electronically. The results were processed statistically through the Statistical Package Program (SPSS). The two researchers concluded that the teachers possessed the research sample both from executive attention and psychological empowerment. And its impact on shaping the student’s personality and developing it through the educational media and publications  


Author(s):  
Zeynep PALA ◽  
Hakan ÜNAL

Aim: This research is a cross sectional study which is designed to examine the factors that effect on the consumers’ purchasing behaviors of global sportswear brands. Method: By applying the simple random sampling method, the sample size was determined as (n) = 550 when the number of people in the population (N)=1500 (total number of students in the Faculty of Sports Sciences). The Socio-Demographic Characteristics Form and the 5-point Likert-type Consumer Purchasing Behavior Scale consisting of 7 sub-dimensions developed by Sproles and Kendall (1986) and adapted into Turkish by Bikari (2013) were applied to 550 students who made up the study group by the researcher. Results: The students prefer the most popular global brands which have the largest share in the market. The results also showed that the age, class and income do not affect the preferences. It has been found that there is a positive relationship between brand loyalty, purchasing preferences, perfectionism, fashion orientation, shopping attitude, brand awareness and quality orientation and purchasing styles. It has also found that according to the gender variable there is meaningful difference about the purchasing preferences, fashion orientation and brand awareness dimensions but there is not a meaningful difference for brand loyalty, perfectionism, attitude towards shopping and quality orientation. Conclusion: According to the results, It has been determined that purchasing styles do not differ according to sports brand preferences, there is a positive relationship between brand loyalty, purchasing preferences, perfectionism, fashion oriented, shopping attitude, brand awareness and quality orientation and purchasing styles.


2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1231-1240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuguy Esgin ◽  
Deborah Hersh ◽  
Kevin Rowley ◽  
John Gilroy ◽  
Robert U Newton

Abstract To design a questionnaire that would determine an Indigenous individual’s perceptions of the barriers and motivators to aerobic and anabolic exercise with a series of questions designed to elicit the factors that impact uptake and retention of regular physical activity. For this purpose, a questionnaire was designed to capture information relating to motivators and barriers, traditional physical activities, preferred exercise environments, exercise goals and levels of commitment to physical activity. This article does not report the results of the questionnaire itself but the preparation that was required in order to develop it. Indigenous standpoint theory. Participatory Action Research. A series of consultation meetings were arranged between the first author, a Noongar Aboriginal researcher, with a range of people from the same Noongar community as the author to discuss priorities and develop questions. The drafted questionnaire was shaped with continuous Noongar community feedback to ensure the language, length and appropriateness of questions. Questionnaire reliability was assessed using interclass correlation. Most questions had excellent internal consistency. A consensus was reached on the utility of the questionnaire. The personal contacts of the first author and nature of community involvement in the development of this questionnaire were helpful in assuring that it would be an acceptable tool for the Noongar community. The piloting of the questionnaire was also important in confirming its community acceptability. This article provides a model and suggestions for researching physical activity and exercise in a culturally safe manner.


2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 154-155
Author(s):  
Anne Sorrentino
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2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (27) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
María Esther Prados Megías ◽  
Bella Aurelia Maldonado Mora

ResumenLas experiencias que tienen jóvenes deportistas a lo largo de su trayectoria deportiva y educativa van dando sentido y significado al modo en cómo éstos, como futuros profesionales del campo de las ciencias de la actividad física y el deporte, van construyendo diferentes concepciones de la motricidad humana. Desde el enfoque de la investigación biográfica narrativa profundizamos en el relato de Glissade, alumna en formación inicial que ha desarrollado su trayectoria deportiva en el mundo de la Gimnasia Rítmica. El objetivo de este trabajo es indagar en algunas de las representaciones del modelo corporal y los aspectos emocionales-relacionales que constituyen la identidad deportiva de esta mujer y cómo ello está presente en su formación inicial. El relato de Glissade nos acerca a dos cuestiones: las tensiones entre su cuerpo de mujer y las exigencias del deporte que practica, ambos sujetos a cánones tradicionales sobre lo bello/estético y los aprendizajes emocionales que están presentes en su práctica deportiva. Este trabajo evidencia la importancia de visibilizar y conocer la experiencia de las personas desde su propia voz, ya que ello permite reflexionar sobre creencias, pensamientos y modelos que persisten en los procesos de formación inicial de futuros profesionales de la educación física y el deporte.AbstractThe experiences that young sportsmen and women have throughout their sporting and educational careers are giving meaning and significance to the way in how they, as future professionals in the field of physical activity and sports sciences, are building different conceptions of human motricity. From the focus of biographical narrative research, we delved into the story of Glissade, a student in initial training who has developed her sports career in the world of Rhythmic Gymnastics. The aim of this work is to investigate the representations of the body model and the emotional-relational aspects that constitute the sports identity of this woman and how this is present in her initial training. Glissade´s story brings us closer to two questions: the tensions between her body as a woman and the demands of a sport she plays, both are subject to traditional canons of beauty/aesthetics and the emotional learnings that are present in their sports practice. This work shows the importance of making visible and knowing the experience of people from their own voice, since this allows reflection on beliefs, thoughts and models that persist in the processes of initial training of future professionals in physical education and sport.


2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Krawczyk

Theoretical Conceptions in Sport Social SciencesIn the presented study we assume, after Piotr Sztompka that a sociological theory is every set of ontological, epistemological and methodological assumptions, abstract notions and general propositions concerning social reality which is to provide with explanation of existing descriptive knowledge about it and orient future research (Sztompka 1985, p. 12). In the discussed theory there have developed hitherto the following orientations: the systemic-functional one, the ethnomethodological one, symbolic interactionism, theory of conflict, socio-historical theory and positivist theory. They have together shaped theoretical conceptions in sociology of sport and — indirectly — in other social physical culture sciences.Interpreting the issue in a prospective way, it can be assumed that in the future there will appear other theories, such as the theory of behaviour, the theory of rational choice, the sociobiological theory, the theory of power, the theory of neo-institutionalism and others.Sociology, however, need not to be the only source of inspiration for sociohumane sports sciences. An equally important role can be played there by philosophy and psychology. Moreover, that thesis can be referred to other humanities, especially to history and pedagogy, as well as to philosophical, sociological and pedagogical versions of theory of physical culture — or to multidisciplinary theories, as e.g. postmodernist and globalist ones.


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