Journal of Sport Behavior articles from March 2008

Journal of Sport Behavior archives from March 2008

Coping styles following acute stress in sport among elite Chinese athletes: a test of trait and transactional coping theories.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Coping has been defined as "constantly changing cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage specific external and/or internal demands that are appraised as taxing or exceeding the resources of the person" (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984, p. 141). The...

College students' motivation toward weight training: a combined perspective.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Resent research documented poor student participation in sports and physical activity at the college level, leading to health problems such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes among college students (Centers of Disease Control and Prevention...

The relationship between organizational commitment, perceived relatedness, and intentions to continue in Canadian track and field officials.(Report)
March 1, 2008... There has been growing recognition for the importance of understanding the experiences of officials involved in sport settings (Rainey, 1995; 1999). One trend that has fuelled much of this research attention on sport officiating has been the...

Supported or pressured? An examination of agreement among parent's and children on parent's role in youth sports.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Parents enroll their children in sport for a variety of reasons. Similar to other life domains (i.e., school, peer relationships, eating habits) the goal is to manipulate an environment that would allow their children to develop and adopt...

Spiritual well-being and its influence on athletic coping profiles.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Recently, the hypothesis that spiritual well-being can have a positive influence on most aspects of health has been given increasing consideration in the social science literature (Carson, Soeken, & Grimm, 1988; Ellison & Smith, 1991;...