scholarly journals Standing on the ice: experiences of women national ice hockey players in Turkey

2021 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Sena Nur Doğusan ◽  
Funda Koçak
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Symbolic Interaction ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Life Space ◽  
National Team ◽  
Hockey Players ◽  
Symbolic Meanings

AbstractThe purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine within the framework of symbolic interaction theory and field theory how women national ice hockey players understand ice hockey through their experiences. Semi-structured interviews were used to understand the experiences of 21 ice hockey players from the Turkish women’s national team, and themes were developed from the data using the thematic analysis methods. A total of three main themes and two sub-themes were created after the analysis. In this context, three main themes related to the theoretical framework were established: “Symbolic Meanings: A Strong Ice Hockey Player,” “Ice Hockey As a Life Space,” and “A Hard Fight On the Ice.” In addition, under the main theme of “Ice Hockey As a Life Space” are two sub-themes: “World of Emotions” and “Constraints.” Ice hockey is perceived by women players as a living space that expresses a firm stance towards life. Despite the presence of traces of the concept of gender, ice hockey is not seen as a fully gendered area by Turkish players. In general, women players reported the lack of financial and social support as limiting factors for participation in ice hockey, while moral support and high motivation were supporting factors.

scholarly journals Game Intensity Analysis of Elite Adolescent Ice Hockey Players

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Stanula ◽  
Robert Roczniok
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Uptake ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
Maximal Heart Rate ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
National Team ◽  
Hockey Players ◽  
Physiological Demands ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Uptake Test ◽  
Aerobic And Anaerobic

Abstract The purpose of this study was to determine ice-hockey players’ playing intensity based on their heart rates (HRs) recorded during a game and on the outcomes of an incremental maximum oxygen uptake test. Twenty ice-hockey players, members of the Polish junior national team (U18), performed an incremental test to assess their maximal oxygen uptake (V̇ O2max) in the two week’s period preceding 5 games they played at the World Championships. Players’ HRs at the first and second ventilatory thresholds obtained during the test were utilized to determine intensity zones (low, moderate, and high) that were subsequently used to classify HR values recorded during each of the games. For individual intensity zones, the following HRs expressed as mean values and as percentages of the maximal heart rate (HRmax) were obtained: forwards 148-158 b⋅min-1 (79.5-84.8% HRmax), 159-178 b⋅min-1 (85.4-95.6% HRmax), 179-186 b⋅min-1 (96.1-100.0% HRmax); defensemen 149-153 b⋅min-1 (80.0-82.1% HRmax), 154-175 b⋅min-1 (82.6- 94.0% HRmax), 176-186 b⋅min-1 (94.5-100.0% HRmax). The amount of time the forwards and defensemen spent in the three intensity zones expressed as percentages of the total time of the game were: 54.91 vs. 55.62% (low), 26.40 vs. 22.38% (moderate) and 18.68 vs. 22.00% (high). The forwards spent more time in the low intensity zone than the defensemen, however, the difference was not statistically significant. The results of the study indicate that using aerobic and anaerobic metabolism variables to determine intensity zones can significantly improve the reliability of evaluation of the physiological demands of the game, and can be a useful tool for coaches in managing the training process.

scholarly journals Perfectionism and achievement goals in young Finnish ice-hockey players aspiring to make the Under-16 national team

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Stoeber ◽  
Oliver Stoll ◽  
Olli Salmi ◽  
Jukka Tiikkaja
Keyword(s):  
Achievement Goals ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
National Team ◽  
Hockey Players

scholarly journals Exploring the Family Expectation of Patients Undergoing Surgery: A Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-148
Author(s):  
Ebrahim Nasiri ◽  
Sara Shabanzad
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Process ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Medical Condition ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Family Members ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Internal Conflicts ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological

Background and Objectives: Accompanying the patients' family members in hospital creates feeling of empathy, safety of and help with fulfilling their expectations. Because both the patients and careers suffer from high stress due to lack of awareness about medical condition and treatment process. It is important for health system to understsand the expectations of patients and family members to be responsive and fullfill it correctly. This study was conducted to discover the patients carers (family members) experiences and expectation of patients undergoing surgery. Material and Methods: This qualitative phenomenological study was performed on 15 family members of patients undergoing surgery by purposive sampling until complete saturation of information. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and recorded using word software. Items were extracted and qualitative content analysis method was used to analyze the data. Results: By analyzing the data, the main theme is "anxious minutes" and 5 main categories including "associated internal conflicts, behavioral changes while waiting, concerns about the prognosis of surgery, concerns about the outcome of the treatment process, and doubts about Hospital components" were extracted. Conclusion: While waiting for the end of the surgery, families experience many anxieties and worries about the patient's health and the treatment process. Considering the concerns of the patient's companions with principled planning, appropriate and practical interventions can improve the mental health of families and improve the quality of patient care.

#ForTheGame: Social Change and the Struggle to Professionalize Women’s Ice Hockey

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Courtney Szto ◽  
Ann Pegoraro ◽  
Erin Morris ◽  
Melanie Desrochers ◽  
Karell Emard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
Employee Benefits ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Hockey Players ◽  
Proper Training ◽  
Training Resources ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
Second Wave

Women’s professional hockey was hindered when the Canadian Women’s Hockey League announced its abrupt closure in March 2019. The action disrupted the opportunity for hundreds of elite women’s hockey players to continue pursuing competitive hockey after university. This study outlines the time period surrounding the Canadian Women’s Hockey League’s closure and the formation of the Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association. The Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association announced that its members would not play in any professional Canadian or American league until its players receive a living wage, proper training resources, and employee benefits, such as health care. Through semi-structured interviews and discourse analysis of media narratives, the authors situate the #ForTheGame movement within second-wave feminist tactics to create social change through collective action.

scholarly journals Assessment of sleep quality and daytime sleepiness in German national ice hockey players preparing for the world championship

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Hof zum Berge ◽  
Fabian Loch ◽  
Karl Schwarzenbrunner ◽  
Alexander Ferrauti ◽  
Tim Meyer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Daytime Sleepiness ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Subjective Sleep Quality ◽  
World Championship ◽  
National Team ◽  
Hockey Players ◽  
The World ◽  
National League

Abstract Objectives Objectives were to examine subjective sleep quality and daytime sleepiness of the German ice hockey junior national team prior to the world championship to identify athletes of concern and areas of optimization with the intention of equally preventing injury and enhancing performance. Methods Twenty-one athletes (Mage = 18.5 ± 0.6 years, Mheight = 181.7 ± 4.3 cm, Mweight = 81.4 ± 7.1 kg), playing for national (n = 13) and international (n = 8) home clubs, answered the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) before training camp (T1, day 1) and prior to tournament (T2, day 11). Results Overall, 9 players at T1 and 7 at T2 were identified as bad sleepers (PSQI > 5), while high sleepiness (ESS > 10) was found for 6 athletes at each measurement time. Group means and standard deviations reduced descriptively for PSQI (T1 = 5.38 ± 2.31, T2 = 4.57 ± 2.36) and ESS (T1 = 9.24 ± 3.74, T2 = 8.48 ± 3.28). Tendential differences were visible for PSQI in international-based players (Z = −1.7, p = 0.09) and ESS in first-national-league players (Z = −1.73, p = 0.08) over time. Higher PSQI values for international-based players (6.25 ± 2.6) were found compared to first-national-league (5.83 ± 1.60) and lower-league players (4.00 ± 2.08), with large effect sizes for lower-league compared to international (d = 0.95) and national players (d = 0.98) at T1 and small effect sizes compared to first-league players (d = 0.24) at T2. Conclusion Findings emphasize great vulnerability and individuality and underline the importance of intraindividual sleep monitoring to meet the requirements needed to equally obtain health and enhance overall performance.

scholarly journals Women on ice - gender equalization

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 137-145
Author(s):  
Piroska Béki ◽  
Gábor Géczi
Keyword(s):  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
Figure Skating ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Team Members ◽  
National Team ◽  
Figure Skaters ◽  
Jel Code

In the last decades the women started to do sports which were originally masculine (Pfister, 1990). The parity led to the slow transformation of the old-school thinking about the traditional roles of sexes (Hall, 1996). The main questions of our investigation were whether the athletes’ thought of the figure skating and the ice hockey are different according to their sport or to the existing stereotypes in the Hungarian sport society. We used semi-structured interviews to gather opinions of two different gender type icy sports’ top women athletes (figure skating and ice hockey) to see their viewpoints about the gender equalization. We can verify Metheny (1965) findings, that the social acceptance or refusal of women in sports on the basis of traditional features is changing slightly. Research questions were: Are there differences in the childhood sport socialization processes of the representatives of the two sports? What was the motivation behind their choice of sports? Are there differences in the gender identities of female athletes? What is the athletes’ opinion on one another and the representatives of the other sport? Method was semi-structured in-depth interviews and the samples were the members of the Hungarian women ice hockey and figure skating national team. According to our results family and siblings were decisive in the childhood socialization process. Early age patterns do not seem to have much influence on the selection of sport. Although among water polo/ice hockey girls there were a few tomboys. Among the ice hockey team members there were girlish girls and boyish girls as well, but among the figure skaters there were no one who was boyish. No differences can be observed in their views on gender roles concerning for example employment or housework. JEL Code: Z29

Fitness Tests and Match Performance in a Male Ice Hockey National League

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Thomas Haugen ◽  
Will Hopkins ◽  
Felix Breitschädel ◽  
Gøran Paulsen ◽  
Paul Solberg
Keyword(s):  
Performance Measures ◽  
Bench Press ◽  
Marginal Utility ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
Countermovement Jump ◽  
Repetition Maximum ◽  
National Team ◽  
Hockey Players ◽  
Fitness Tests ◽  
National League

Purpose: To determine if generic off-ice physical fitness tests can provide useful predictions of ice hockey players’ match performance. Methods: Approximately 40 to 60 defenders and 70 to 100 forwards from the Norwegian male upper ice hockey league were tested for strength (1-repetition maximum in squat and bench press), power (40-m sprint and countermovement jump), and endurance (hanging sit-ups, chins, and 3000-m run) annually at the end of every preseason period between 2008 and 2017. Measures of match performance were each player’s season mean counts per match of assists, points, goals, penalty minutes, and plus-minus score. Results: Overall, match performance measures displayed trivial to small correlations with the fitness tests. More specifically, points per game had at most small correlations with measures of strength (range, approximately −0.2 to 0.3), speed (approximately −0.2 to 0.3), and endurance (approximately −0.1 to 0.3). After adjustments for age that showed moderate to large correlations with player match performance, multiple-regression analyses of each test measure still provided some predictability among players of the same age. However, players selected for the national team had substantially better mean scores for most tests and match performance measures than those not selected, with a moderate to large difference for age, 1-repetition maximum squat, and 1-repetition maximum bench press. Conclusions: Fitness tests had only marginal utility for predicting match performance in Norwegian hockey players, but those selected into the national team had better general fitness.

scholarly journals Being Black in a Sea of Color: A Phenomenological Study Exploring Black Students’ Racial Experiences at an AANAPISI and Emerging HSI

JCSCORE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Lu ◽  
Ajhanai Channel Inez Newton
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Black Students ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Symbolic Interaction ◽  
Black College ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Cultural Mismatch ◽  
Racial Experiences ◽  
Hispanic Serving

This phenomenological study used semi-structured interviews with 13 Black college students attending a university that is both an Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI) and emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) to explore their racial experiences using symbolic interaction theory.  Findings demonstrate that despite attending a minority-serving institution, Black students felt a cultural mismatch with their Asian and Latinx peers and the values of their campus.  Being a minority within a minority-serving institution, they also experienced being invisible and hypervisible simultaneously.

CHARACTER OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOMATIC COEFFICIENTS AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS THE 15-17 YEAR OLD ICE-HOCKEY PLAYERS

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 293-303
Author(s):  
Urszula Barbara Szmatlan-Gabrys ◽  
Tomasz Tytus Gabrys ◽  
Arkadiusz Stanula
Keyword(s):  
Motor Preparation ◽  
Significant Degree ◽  
Physiological Parameters ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
National Team ◽  
Hockey Players ◽  
Aerobic And Anaerobic

The somatic structure in the significant degree determines the possibilities of applying definite tactical solutions, he can limit or stimulate unreeling the competitor individual technique. Somatic conditions can be the limiter of the motor preparation and coordination. The aim of investigations was qualification of dependence between coefficients of the somatic parameters and coefficients of aerobic and anaerobic efficiency. In investigations participated hockey players of National Team Poland in the age from 15 to 17 years. Essential dependences stepped out between the coefficients of aerobic and anaerobic efficiency, and the coefficients of the somatic conditions counted from the value of mass and the length of the body. The number of appointed dependences is higher in hockey players team U18 in the comparison with hockey players team U15.

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