Effect of Playing Venue on Hormonal Responses and Psychological State of Inter-University Volleyball Players

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
Yasmeen Tabassum ◽  
Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Butt ◽  
Nabila Roohi
Keyword(s):  
Psychological State ◽  
Hormonal Responses ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Psychological Measures ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Home Advantage ◽  
Volleyball Players ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Anxiety Levels

The home advantage is a powerful wonder that happens in the realm of amateur and professional games where most teams win more than 50% of matches. The present study compared the effects of playing venue on hormonal responses and psychological state of inter-university volleyball players at home and away ground. A total of 96 male players age, 18 to 24 years from eight different public and private universities were selected as the subject in this study. Matches were scheduled in such a manner so that each team would play one match on home ground and one on away ground. The results of this study showed that a 13% reduction in the testosterone level of players was seen on the opponent’s home ground before playing the match, whereas, 18% elevation in cortisol level of players was recorded on the opponent’s home ground before-match. Psychological measures indicated that players’ cognitive and somatic anxiety levels were increased on away ground (10% and 13%, respectively) whereas, their self-confidence level declined  by 17% on an opponent’s home ground before the commencement of the match. The present study supports the notion that there are differences in pre-competition hormonal and psychological states that may play a key role in ‘the home advantage’ which could affect players’ behavior and match outcomes.

scholarly journals Effect of Playing Venue on Hormonal Responses, Psychological State, and Perception of Effort in Inter-University Basketball Players

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmeen Tabassum ◽  
Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Butt ◽  
Nabila Roohi ◽  
Muhammad Abdul Jabar Adnan ◽  
Sitaram Khadka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological State ◽  
Basketball Players ◽  
Hormonal Responses ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Perception Of Effort ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Cortisol Levels ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
At Home

Abstract Background: Playing venue conditions is a prominent contributor to the performance of players in a competition. Hence, the present study was designed to evaluate the effect of playing venue on the hormonal responses, psychological state, and perception of effort in inter-university basketball players. Methods: A total of 96 male basketball players from eight different public and private sector universities were monitored during eight competitive matches played against each other on a home and away ground. Testosterone and cortisol levels were measured before and after each match. The psychological state test was conducted before each match and the perception of effort score was taken after the match. Results: Elevated testosterone levels, before playing a match, as evidenced at home ground, however, a 4% decline was recorded in testosterone level at away venue, even before playing the match. Both testosterone and cortisol levels depicted the same trend on home as well as away ground. Pre-match testosterone concentration and the percent changes in these hormones were related to self-confidence, especially when playing at home, and cortisol pre and post concentration related to cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety, and perception of effort.Conclusions: The playing influenced hormonal responses before the commencement of basketball matches at away ground. These hormonal responses were related to players' psychological state, which might contribute to players’ behavior and outcomes of matches.

scholarly journals Influence of Playing Venue on Testosterone and Cortisol Responses in Male Inter-University Volleyball Players

2020 ◽  
Vol V (IV) ◽  
pp. 93-101
Author(s):  
Yasmeen Tabassum ◽  
Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Butt ◽  
Nabila Roohi
Keyword(s):  
Cortisol Level ◽  
Testosterone Level ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Hormonal Responses ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Volleyball Players ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Cortisol Responses ◽  
At Home

The present study aimed to examine the effect of playing venue on testosterone and cortisol responses in male volleyball players. Ninety-six players from eight different public and private universities were monitored during eight competitive matches playing against each other on a home and opponent's home ground. The matches played at home were also won. Testosterone (ng/mL) and cortisol (ug/dL) levels were analyzed before and after each match. A significantly (p 0.0001) pre-match reduction was seen in the testosterone level of players on the opponent's home ground as evidence which indicates that playing venue affects the players' behavior even they did not play the match. Whereas, significantly (p 0.0001) higher pre-match cortisol level of players was observed on an opponent's home ground before the commencement of the match. The present study concluded that playing venue strongly influenced the players' hormonal responses, and they perceive more stress while playing on the opponent's ground.

scholarly journals Innovative Strategies of Training Mechanism of Higher Education for New Entrepreneurial Talents

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fengyun Wei
Keyword(s):  
Educational Level ◽  
New Ventures ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Shaanxi Province ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
High Educational Level ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ability ◽  
High Educational

With the development of the social economy, more and more talents are required in economic construction and innovation. The study aims to cultivate new entrepreneurial talents and promote the overall development of new ventures. First, the entrepreneurial ability of new entrepreneurial talents is analyzed, and the feasibility of improving the entrepreneurial ability of new entrepreneurial talents is verified. Second, the architecture is designed for improving the entrepreneurial ability of new entrepreneurial talents. About 350 employees in 20 ventures in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province are randomly selected as the subjects for a questionnaire survey (QS). Three-fifty questionnaires are distributed and 300 are collected. Descriptive statistics are used to analyze the 300 valid questionnaires. Then, the relationship between the psychological states of new entrepreneurial talents and their entrepreneurial ability is explored, and the influencing factors in the development of new entrepreneurial talents are analyzed. The results show that the number of employees in most ventures is between 250 and 400 and the age of the employees in the tested new ventures is between 35 and 40. More than one-third of employees are managers and over 86% of them have a degree of bachelor or above. The scores of the scale of the psychological state of new entrepreneurs are high. This shows that most of the new entrepreneurs have a high educational level, strong motivation for entrepreneurial success, and great self-confidence, which are essential in the process of innovative training. Therefore, the talent training of new entrepreneurial talents should be based on a high educational level and focused on practice.

Fluctuation in Psychological State during Two Encounter-Group Weekends

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 267-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. J. Long ◽  
J. M. Schuerger ◽  
D. A. Bosshart ◽  
R. J. Menges
Keyword(s):  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Statistical Technique ◽  
The Other ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Encounter Group ◽  
Group Experiences ◽  
Anxiety Levels

Two independent studies are combined and reported here. The Cattell-Curran Psychological State Battery (seven factors) was administered on three occasions to two separate samples. One met for an encounter-group weekend in March and the other in August, 1969. On both occasions the same questions were being asked (1) do anxiety levels fluctuate in a predicted manner during encounter group experiences and (2) is it possible to detect systematic fluctuations in several, measured psychological states during these experiences? Both questions required a statement of the probability of data over occasions, so the appropriate statistical technique was judged to be analysis of variance for repeated measures. The data did not support the hypothesis that anxiery, as measured, fluctuates systematically during weekend encounter-group experiences. But, there were significant fluctuations in some of the other psychological factors.

Seeming to Seem

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Mental States ◽  
Order Theory ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Intentional Stance ◽  
First Person ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Higher Order Theory ◽  
The Third Person

Dennett’s account of consciousness starts from third-person considerations. I argue this is wise, since beginning with first-person access precludes accommodating the third-person access we have to others’ mental states. But Dennett’s first-person operationalism, which seeks to save the first person in third-person, operationalist terms, denies the occurrence of folk-psychological states that one doesn’t believe oneself to be in, and so the occurrence of folk-psychological states that aren’t conscious. This conflicts with Dennett’s intentional-stance approach to the mental, on which we discern others’ mental states independently of those states’ being conscious. We can avoid this conflict with a higher-order theory of consciousness, which saves the spirit of Dennett’s approach, but enables us to distinguish conscious folk-psychological states from nonconscious ones. The intentional stance by itself can’t do this, since it can’t discern a higher-order awareness of a psychological state. But we can supplement the intentional stance with the higher-order theoretical apparatus.

scholarly journals Integrative and Complementary Health Practices Building a New Health Paradigm

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
T Gemeli ◽  
H Silva ◽  
M Kato
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Professional Service ◽  
Health It ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Perspective

Abstract This work arose from the need to broaden the therapeutic approach and offer a differentiated health intervention proposal based on the understanding that the illness process has repercussions on all integrated systems of Being. Since 2019, the Health Center for the Elderly in Blumenau (SC-Brasil), specialized multi-professional service, offering support for biopsychoenergetic transformation with the practice of Yoga and Meditation, through a holistic and comprehensive view of health. It begins with the Multidimensional Assessment of the Elderly, with a guideline in welcoming and qualified listening, which considers the subject and all subjectivity. From there, the expanded diagnosis and the Singular Therapeutic Project are built and the consultations with the team and the 'Re-Conhecer group' begin. The activity is weekly, aimed at the elderly and their family, takes place in an appropriate place and lasts two hours. Welcoming, pranayama, mantras, kriyas and meditation are made, as well as reflections on free themes. The professionals who conduct the practice are the dentist, trained in yoga, and the social worker, the welcoming process continues individually after the activity. Due to subjectivity, results are routinely collected in a qualitative way from the participants' report. There is a perception on the part of the participants, therapists and members of the multidisciplinary team that this work provides improvement in cognitive abilities, self-care, well-being, self-confidence, creativity, improved sleep, autonomy, balance, strengthening bonds, joy, vitality. Key messages This initiative builds new models of health care, transcending the traditional biomedical model, according to the operational guideline for comprehensiveness, universal access and equity. Provokes reflections and builds a new perspective of life with quality and participation of the elderly as subjects of their health.

Deep Multi-Stage Approach For Emotional Body Gesture Recognition In Job Interview

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Intissar Khalifa ◽  
Ridha Ejbali ◽  
Raimondo Schettini ◽  
Mourad Zaied
Keyword(s):  
Gesture Recognition ◽  
Affective Computing ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Emotion Classification ◽  
Convolutional Network ◽  
Job Interview ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Representation Technique ◽  
The Subject

Abstract Affective computing is a key research topic in artificial intelligence which is applied to psychology and machines. It consists of the estimation and measurement of human emotions. A person’s body language is one of the most significant sources of information during job interview, and it reflects a deep psychological state that is often missing from other data sources. In our work, we combine two tasks of pose estimation and emotion classification for emotional body gesture recognition to propose a deep multi-stage architecture that is able to deal with both tasks. Our deep pose decoding method detects and tracks the candidate’s skeleton in a video using a combination of depthwise convolutional network and detection-based method for 2D pose reconstruction. Moreover, we propose a representation technique based on the superposition of skeletons to generate for each video sequence a single image synthesizing the different poses of the subject. We call this image: ‘history pose image’, and it is used as input to the convolutional neural network model based on the Visual Geometry Group architecture. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in comparison with other methods in the state of the art on the standard Common Object in Context keypoint dataset and Face and Body gesture video database.

Applied Anthropology in 1860

1942 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
H. Barnett
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Long Life

Much has been written of William Duncan, "the Apostle of Alaska", who came to the coast of northern British Columbia in 1857 as a missionary to the Tsimshian Indians. Although he deplored it, in the course of his sixty years' residence in this area controversy raged around him as a result of his clashes with church and state, and his work has been the subject of numerous investigations, both public and private. His enemies have called him a tyrant and a ruthless exploiter of the Indians under his control; and there are men still living who find a disproportionate amount of evil in the good that he did, especially during the declining years of his long life. On the other hand, he has had ardent and articulate supporters who have written numerous articles and no less than three books in praise of his self-sacrificing ideals and the soundness of his program for civilizing the Indian.

Sex of Subject, Sex of Opponent, and Opponent Ability as Factors Affecting Self-confidence in a competitive situation

1981 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles B. Corbin
Keyword(s):  
Performance Assessments ◽  
Performance Expectations ◽  
Competitive Situation ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Confidence Levels ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Mixed Factorial Design ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sex Orientation

Male and female subjects (N = 80), ranging in age from 17 to 25 years, participated in a study designed to determine if the sex of the sex of the subject, the sex of the subject's opponent, or the perceived ability of the subject's opponent, (good vs. poor ability) affected subjects' self confidence after competing at a task (TV Pong Game) of “neutral” sex orientation. a 2 x 2 x 2 mixed factorial design, with 10 subjects assigned to each cell, was used. All subjects competed in five games against a confederate and in all cases subjects lost all but the second of the five games. Data were treated using an ANCOVA, with preperformance confidence being used as the covariate. Ragardless of sex of the opponent, females expressed postperformance confidence levels equal to males after performing against an opponent thought to be poor in ability, but they were significantly less cofident after performing against opponents perceived to be good in ability. These findings are consistent with those of Argote, Fisher, McDonald, and O'Neal (1976), who note that the performance expectations of females tend to be unstable and change with single encounters, whereas males are less likely to allow one failure to affect performance assessments.

Public Domain

PMLA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 124 (5) ◽  
pp. 1800-1805
Author(s):  
Diamela Eltit
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Private Practice ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Subject

Violence as a public and private practice is a constant. Furthermore, it belongs in the political axis since political institutions measure, plan, and distribute it, inscribing and administering it according to their productive and programmatic interests.Violence is adaptable and acquires different forms and formats, which range from the most concrete corporeal reality to the infliction of punishment on the symbolic and emotional registers of the subject. It is mobile but enduring, adjusting to the emergence of new social subjects. The enduring struggle against violence resituates and changes it, bringing about the penalization of practices considered abusive, such as long workdays, certain school regulations, or the beating of women.

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