Journal of Sport Behavior articles from December 1993

Journal of Sport Behavior archives from December 1993

Intellectual achievement responsibility of junior soccer players.
December 1, 1993... Professional sport is widely believed to be an effective means for upward mobility for individuals of disadvantaged socioeconomic and ethnic origin. Blalock (1967) and Edwards (1973) explain this popular belief by the lack of an inherent...

The relationship of task and ego orientation to performance-cognitive content, affect, and attributions in bowling.
December 1, 1993... Contemporary social cognitive theories of achievement motivation have focused on goal perspectives and their influence on achievement-related cognitions, affect, and behavior (Ames, 1984; Dweck & Elliott, 1983; Nicholls, 1984a, 1984b, 1989). The...

Relationship between locus of control and satisfaction with intercollegiate volleyball teams at different levels of competition.
December 1, 1993... How does an athlete's perception of the causes of team events relate to her feelings of satisfaction about her sport involvement? Social psychologists have identified locus of control as the basis by which individuals attribute the causes of life...

A profile of newspaper sports section readers and nonreaders.
December 1, 1993... The past two decades have witnessed a rapid expansion of interest in social and psychological analyses of human behavior as it relates to the topic of sport. Numerous journals, textbooks, and technical monographs are beginning to proliferate from...

The effects of relaxation with a warning cue on pain tolerance.
December 1, 1993... Ryan and Kovacic (1966) demonstrated that contact athletes have a higher level of pain tolerance than do noncontact athletes. Since then there has been a paucity of pain research using athletes. This is surprising given that contact athletes are...