Journal of Sport Behavior articles from December 1998

Journal of Sport Behavior archives from December 1998

Coping with acute stress in sport as a function of gender: an exploratory study.
December 1, 1998... Acute stress, a persistent and inherent feature of competitive sport, consists of time-limited and short-term events (e.g., making an error or receiving a penalty from the official during the contest) can unfavorably affect performance. Typical...

Influence of psychogenic factors during a prolonged maximal run.
December 1, 1998... Several researchers (Benson, Dryer, & Hartley, 1978; Hatfield, Spalding, Mahon, Slater, Brody, & Vaccaro, 1992; Morgan, 1985; Williams, Krahenbuhl, & Morgan, 1991) have demonstrated that psychogenic factors (e.g., hypnosis, meditation, mental...

Leader Member Exchange Theory and sport: possible applications.
December 1, 1998... During the past thirty years, a number of leadership studies have been completed in sport settings. These studies have, for the most part, utilized and tested existing leadership theories and models. Despite these efforts, the study of...

Gender bias: a study of high school track & field athletes' perceptions of hypothetical male and female head coaches.
December 1, 1998... Since the introduction of Title IX by Congress in 1972, the number of female high school athletes has risen dramatically. Unexpectedly, during that same period, the number of female coaches at the high school level has actually decreased in...

Personality characteristics of competitive and recreational cyclists.
December 1, 1998... The psychological characteristics of athletes have been of tremendous interest in the field of sports psychology for the past 20 years (Cratty, 1989). A number of studies have investigated the contribution of psychological variables to athletic...

The influence of physical activity and theoretically relevant variables in the use of drugs: the deterrence hypothesis revisited.
December 1, 1998... Although empirical studies of the association between physical activity and delinquent behavior have produced equivocal results, a widely held belief regarding the salacious effects of sport participation is that it is a deterrent to deviant...

Fan or fanatic: refining a measure of sports involvement.
December 1, 1998... Sports fans are a unique group of individuals to study because many are highly involved and have an emotional attachment to sport. While there have been many studies that have examined the importance of sports to people (e.g., Wann, 1995),...

Expectations and coaching experience: is more better?
December 1, 1998... Expectancy theory, also referred to as the self-fulfilling prophecy effect, originated as an intriguing axiom about teachers' influences on students' performances. This phenomenon explains a situation in which one's perception of an individual...

Predictors of performance in the National Hockey League.
December 1, 1998... Over the past three decades, interest in the sport of ice hockey has grown at a substantial rate, Evidence of this phenomenon is ubiquitous: the National Hockey League (NHL) - the universally acknowledged top professional league in the world...

The relationship between goal orientation and perceived purposes of sport among youth sport participants.
December 1, 1998... One contemporary framework for examining motivational processes among youth sport participants has been to adopt a goal perspective approach (Duda, 1989; 1992). This theory emphasizes the motivational significance of differences in goal...