Social functions of high school athletics In the United States: a historical and comparative analysis

More than 7 million adolescents regularly compete in high school athletics each year in the United States.1 Most will undergo a limited, sports-oriented preparticipation evaluation before competition.2 This type of examination has been performed for many years to satisfy various legal, academic, and organizational requirements. However, the health care benefits to the teenagers themselves have not been analyzed objectively using direct comparison to the standard history and physical. At present, the value of the sports physical remains unproven and its efficacy has not been clearly established. In addition, the potential negative impact on delivery of comprehensive medical services to adolescents deserves further emphasis in the literature and, therefore, will be the focus of this commentary.

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The Effect of Psychological Factors on Athletic Injury and Recuperation

Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences ◽

10.33140/jhss.03.02.06 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

High School ◽

Incidence Rate ◽

Psychological Factors ◽

The United States ◽

Athletic Injury ◽

Health It ◽

High School Athletics ◽

Collegiate Sports ◽

Negative Role

In spite of the evident benefits of exercise on health, it is also an irrefutable fact that exercise and injury come together as well. Over a million injuries occur each year in the United States alone, and that only counts collegiate sports; should we factor in high school athletics, professional leagues, gyms and street athletes, the incidence rate would be astounding, affecting millions of Americans. Prior research shows that injury comes from training, more that from competition. It also shows that athletes keep on training in spite of their injuries because of the pressure to compete. This project shows that psychology plays a negative role in the rate and incidence of injury; but that a positive disposition on the part of the athlete goes on to contribute in the injured athlete’s recovery. Coaches and sports federations must address the psychological factors that adversely affect injury and positively affect recovery as much as they now focus on the medical aspects of injury and recovery.

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Two brands of moral orientations among adolescents in a Christian high school in Japan and the United States: Individualized vs. individualistic

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e570782013-189 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Hidetada Shimizu

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

High School ◽

The United States ◽

Moral Orientations

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Comparative analysis of the trade policy of Barack Obama and Donald Trump

Mezhdunarodnaja jekonomika (The World Economics) ◽

10.33920/vne-04-2003-06 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 59-71

Author(s):

V. Iordanova ◽

A. Ananev

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Economic Development ◽

Comparative Analysis ◽

Trade Policy ◽

World Economy ◽

The United States ◽

Barack Obama ◽

Scientific Article ◽

Donald Trump ◽

Entire World

The authors of this scientific article conducted a comparative analysis of the trade policy of US presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump. The article states that the tightening of trade policy by the current President is counterproductive and has a serious impact not only on the economic development of the United States, but also on the entire world economy as a whole.

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