COMPETITIVE ANXIETY IN SPORTS. THE VIEW OF AN ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGIST

2021 ◽  
pp. 82-95
Author(s):  
Natalia Yu. Fedunina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Projective Identification ◽  
Muscle Stiffness ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Sports Activity ◽  
Competitive Situation ◽  
Target Orientation ◽  
Competitive Anxiety ◽  
Primitive Forms ◽  
Internal Reality ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

The success of sports activity in a competitive situation is largely determined by psychological readiness, how the athlete’s mental apparatus is configured, how much the athlete is able to cope with the challenges of a competitive situation, the mental mechanisms that the athlete uses to cope with anxiety. In the article, the situations of competitive difficulties are considered from the point of view of the theory of object relations, microdynamic shifts in the intrapsychic reality of an athlete. In a situation of increased anxiety and the difficulties of its processing, primitive mental defenses can be involved: splitting, idealization, projection, denial of external and internal reality, projective identification. Their most typical consequences are feelings of self-doubt, a decrease in the accuracy of understanding and anticipation of the opponent’s actions, a feeling of muscle stiffness, underestimation/ overestimation of the opponent, a decrease in the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of sports action. The article presents two cases of athletes of different sports qualifications, on the basis of which the manifestations and consequences of these primitive forms of protection are discussed. It also describes the specifics of the position of a psychologist in sports, the importance of understanding the mental reality of an athlete, the needs behind anxiety, as well as the need for help in integrating the “I”, despite the prevailing target orientation for a quick result.

scholarly journals The Multi-Dimensional Influence of a Sports Activity on the Process of Psycho-Social Rehabilitation and the Improvement in the Quality of Life of Persons with Physical Disabilities

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 68-85
Author(s):  
Jakub Niedbalski
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Sports Activity ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Major Subject ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Physically Handicapped

Purpose: The purpose of the research is to analyze the role that sport plays in the lives of persons with physical disabilities within the process of rehabilitation and the improvement of their quality of life.Background: The article raises the notions of changes that take place in the life of a physically handicapped person which is due to their engagement in a sports activity. In the article, I refer to the subjective perspective of those researched, rendering their own point of view into the major subject of analysis.Methods: Qualitative data are exploited in the research, collected through a technique of unstructured interviews and undisguised observations conducted among the disabled practicing sports.Findings: The role of sport practiced by the disabled has been determined within several contexts, which were distinguished within the course of the research as analytical categories.Conclusion: On the basis of the research it was found that getting involved in a sports activity is significant within the process of experiencing life satisfaction, personal development and the reconstruction of the ego, self-identity, and transformations in the manner of perceiving both themselves and others. Therefore, a sports activity of a disabled person supports the rehabilitation process effectively.

scholarly journals The use of ultrasound as a research tool in acupunture: a literature review

2019 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
pp. 082-082
Author(s):  
Sánchez Lorenzo M. ◽  
Seoane Pardo R.
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Data Extraction ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Extensor Tendon ◽  
Muscle Stiffness ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cochrane Library ◽  
Transverse Diameter ◽  
Invasive Test ◽  
Needle Position

Abstract Background and Aims Ultrasound is a non-invasive test which enables a fast real time exam, which is both dynamic and accessible. In contrast, the mechanisms of functioning of acupuncture have not been completely understood. The aim of this review was to determine the various uses assigned to ultrasound in acupuncture research. Material and Methods A literature search was performed in PubMed, Cochrane Library, PEDro and ScienceDirect databases. Manual searches were performed in the following journals: Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Acupuncture Medicine, Medical Acupuncture and The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. The search terms “ultrasonography” and “Acupuncture” were used, related with AND. Research studies in humans were included in which ultrasound was used to assess some aspect of the acupuncture intervention. No time limit was established and the languages were limited to Spanish, English, Galician or Portuguese. The data extraction was performed by two independently blinded evaluators. Results A total of 46 studies were included for the analysis. B Mode is the most used form of imaging, followed by Doppler and elastography. In total, 18 studies performed an analysis of vascular parameters. Doppler was commonly used, with a dominance of transcranial Doppler methods, although B mode was also used to measure the transverse diameter of blood vessels. In 11 studies, B mode was used alone or combined with Doppler to obtain measures of safety, precision, location of target structures and needle position regarding sensitive structures. Seven studies used elastography. Five studies quantified tissue movement and another quantified muscle stiffness using elastography and B mode. A further study also included Doppler for the measurement of blood flow. Six studies evaluated visceral conditions. One study evaluated gastric emptying and the five remaining studies focused on the genitourinary sphere such as the rate of pregnancy, fetal position, prostate characteristics, intrapelvic venous congestion and bladder emptying. From the musculoskeletal point of view, 4 studies were located. Two studies evaluated the thickness parameter of the common extensor tendon of the epicondyle and two layers of connective tissue, respectively. One study concluded that the application of acupuncture can influence the viscoelastic properties of the tendon and one remaining study informed of the positive association between ultrasound as an assessment tool and follow up tool in acupuncture treatments. Conclusions In this field of study, ultrasound has been used to obtain objective outcomes and adopt safety guidelines related to acupuncture procedures.

Scheduling of Commercial Air Movements: The Airline Point of View

1965 ◽  
Vol 69 (652) ◽  
pp. 216-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Watts
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Consumer Expenditure ◽  
Competitive Situation ◽  
Popular Opinion

The Airline is satisfying a demand, a demand for transportation. Such transportation is not something in itself—people do not simply go for the ride—but is part of a bigger demand. The airline attempts to create, stimulate and, to some extent, change this demand by tariff and other means but nevertheless it is attempting to satisfy a naked demand as it arises. If the demand is for 8 a.m. out of Glasgow, we as an airline—contrary to popular opinion— attempt to satisfy the demand at that time within the overall context of profitability. In a competitive situation—and this includes competition with other forms of transport, not simply air, as well as other forms of consumer expenditure—the airline's ability to take of this demand what suits it and ignore the rest, is strictly limited. The success of an airline depends upon the efficiency with which it satisfies this demand.

scholarly journals Measuring the Quality of the Interim Financial Reports Using the Qualitative Characteristics of the Accounting Information and its Effect on the Investment Decisions According to the “IAS 34”

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Hasan Mahmoud AL-Shatnawi
Keyword(s):  
Investment Decision ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
The One ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

This study aimed at measuring the quality of the interim financial reports using the quality characteristics of the accounting information and its effect on the investment decisions according to IAS 34 from the point of view of a category of the financial information users working in the brokerage companies. To achieve the objectives of the study, a questionnaire was designed that contains three constructs related to the primary qualitative characteristics, the enhancing qualitative characteristics, and quality of the interim financial reports. The questionnaire was distributed to a sample consisting of 72 individuals. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the study sample such as the frequencies, arithmetic mean, and standard deviation. In addition, the one-sample t-test and simple linear regression analysis were employed to test the study hypotheses at the 0.05 level of significance. Of the main results which the study reached to are that (i) there is effect of the qualitative characteristics of both the primary and enhancing aspects on the quality of the interim financial reports, and (ii) there is effect of the interim financial reports on the investment decision taking. The study provided a number of recommendations, most important of which is directing the prepares of the interim financial reports to pay attention to providing the qualitative characteristics for the accounting information in the interim financial reports for their positive effect on the quality of these reports to help the decision takers in predicting the economical events and building the future plans.

scholarly journals Identification of the characteristics of the competitive environment of grain producers` target markets

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Concentration Coefficient ◽  
Competitive Situation ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Market Shares ◽  
Competitive Relations ◽  
Competitive Model ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Intensity Of Competition

The article substantiates the feasibility of conducting a systematic analysis of the competitive environment of the grain market, provides examples of applying the results of such analysis to ensure fair and effective competitive relations. The criteria for determining the product and geographical boundaries of the product market, as well as factors taken into account when determining the territorial boundaries of such a market, are given. The essence of the methodological basis for analysing the competitive situation in the market is revealed. As part of this analysis, the algorithm for conducting research on the state of competitive market relations is generalized based on: calculating and comparing the size of market shares of individual operators; determining the overall picture of market attractiveness from the point of view of the entry of new players by calculating aggregate coefficients of competition dynamics, competitive activity, and profitability of sales in the market; comparing market shares using a variance analysis and determining the intensity of competition in the market by calculating the coefficient of variation of shares of enterprises; research of the level of market monopolization using the calculation of the market concentration coefficient, which makes it possible to determine the level of monopolization of the market of commodity producers in relation to consumers and suppliers, as well as the Herfindahl-Hirschman index, as a concentration coefficient for the three most common scientifically based types of market. The method has been tested in a market whose product boundaries are defined as a market for commercial grain that represents all possible species and quality categories and does not have substitute products. At the same time, the geographical boundaries of the market under consideration are determined by three administrative districts of Kharkiv region. Based on calculations, conclusions regarding the intensity of competition, concentration direct participants’ distribution of commodity grain and promising trends of the development and regulation of competitive relations on the current market. The results of the research carried out in the article should be used for predicting a promising competitive model.

Bilingualism and Culture: Psycholinguistic Aspect

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronika Viktorovna Katermina
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Bilingual Child ◽  
The World ◽  
Family Language ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

The development of bilingualism of a bilingual child is inextricably linked with the formation of an individual folklore-linguistic picture of the world. In this regard, proverbs, sayings, riddles and folk phraseology as universal phenomena of folklore of the Russian and Greek languages, which have important linguistic and cultural potential, are of particular interest from the point of view of their presence in the bilingual speech and thought activity.The quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the functioning of paremiological and phraseological units in a bilingual speech determine the content of folklore language worldview and directly depend on the type of formation of the child’s early bilingualism. Phraseological and paremiological composition of the folklore picture of the world of natural Russian-Greek bilinguals is asymmetric and directly depends on the type of early bilingualism –  in bilinguals who learn two languages on the principle of “one-person-one-language ”, asymmetry prevails in favor of the Greek language, children from Russian-speaking families whose bilingualism develops according to the principle “family language is the language of society ” exhibit better knowledge of Russian folklore elements compared to Greek

Literary Primitivism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Etherington
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Aime Cesaire ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Claude Mckay ◽  
Alain Locke ◽  
Primitive Forms ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Carl Einstein

This book comprehensively redefines literary primitivism, arguing that it was an aesthetic project formed in reaction to the high point of imperialist expansion at the start of the twentieth century. As those spaces in which “primitive” forms of existence were imagined to be possible were either directly colonized or otherwise forcibly integrated into a geographically totalized capitalist world-system, so dissenting writers responded by trying to reawaken primitive experience by means of literary practice. This thesis breaks with the orthodox understanding of primitivism as a transhistorical tendency according to which the “civilized” idealize the “primitive,” something that is usually thought to correspond to a binary of the “West” and its “Others.” Adopting the “point of view of totality,” Literary Primitivism argues that it was artists from peripheral societies who most energetically pursued primitivism’s project of immediacy as it was they who most keenly felt the loss of unalienated social worlds. The major debates are reviewed concerning primitivism and the thinkers, artists, and concept--including expressionism, modernism, surrealism, Rousseau, Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, Luxemburg, the writers of négritude, Carl Einstein, the Frankfurt School, and Alain Locke. In close studies of the work of Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, D. H. Lawrence, and Claude McKay the book identifies a morphology of literary primitivism that centers on the literary activation of the primitive remnant. Along the way, the book reassesses the politics of primitivism, especially with regard to its decolonial horizon, and the prospects for understanding literary primitivism as an event of world literature.

Modeling individual participation in sports activities

2021 ◽  
pp. 123-138
Author(s):  
K. N. Makshanchikov
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Sports Activity ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Urgent Task ◽  
Sport Industry ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sports Activities

The article presents a classification of approaches to the analysis of sports activities at the individual level. Economists are interested in studying sports because of the growing importance of the sport industry in the economy. In this regard, it becomes an urgent task to identify motivations that encourage people to engage in sports. The main purpose of the paper is to discuss the differences in approaches to the study of sports activity of individuals depending on the dominant motives. The author considers the main motives for sports, such as professional activities, leisure, and investments in human capital. The article systematizes approaches to the analysis of people’s sports activities and offers a classification of approaches. The article discusses the relationship between motives and the problem of empirical assessment of individuals’ decision-making about sports from an economist’s point of view.

Boroscopy Application in Assurance of Technological Equipment Operational Capability

2014 ◽  
Vol 616 ◽  
pp. 69-76
Author(s):  
Jozef Žarnovský ◽  
Róbert Drlička ◽  
Juraj Ružbarský ◽  
Ján Žitňanský
Keyword(s):  
Axial Compressor ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Combined Cycle ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Technical Diagnostics ◽  
Technological Equipment ◽  
Safe Operation ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics ◽  
Inner Parts

This paper is focused on an emphasis of the preventive maintenance effect on reliable and safe operation of technological equipment, in view of technical diagnostics. Problems of the boroscopy as a diagnostics method providing fast information acquiring of inner parts of technological equipment turbomachinery RB211 DLE assembled in combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) in selected company [. Observations were focused on high pressure axial compressor, being the main part of monitored technological system. From quality point of view the paper provides new perspective of internal inspection of technological equipment covering possible damages locating and qualifying of qualitative characteristics of equipment inner parts. The problems solved were based on particular practice demands and it reflects state-of-art in concerned scientific field [.

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