Journal of Sport Behavior articles from March 2009

Journal of Sport Behavior archives from March 2009

Parents behaving badly? The relationship between the sportsmanship behaviors of adults and athletes in youth basketball games.(Report)
March 1, 2009... Sport can be an important and healthy component of youth development. In fact, based on participation statistics, youth sport appears to be one of the most important activities in a child's life (Brustad, 1993; Gould, 1987). It is also...

The sports inventory for pain: empirical and confirmatory factorial validity.(Report)
March 1, 2009... The response of an athlete to injury has received much attention from the sport research community. For example, in the past few years, most if not all of the sport psychology textbooks have devoted an entire chapter or more to the psychology...

Sources of acute stress among Chinese College athletes as a function of gender and skill level.(Report)
March 1, 2009... Acute stress is typically defined as a situation or event that suddenly occurs and is perceived by an individual as unpleasant or undesirable (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984). According to Lazarus and Folkman, common features of stressors are taxing...

Achievement goals, thoughts about intense physical activity, and exerted effort: a mediational analysis.
March 1, 2009... Achievement behavior is defined as exerted effort or behavioral intensity, persistence of such effort, choice of actions (e.g., choosing task difficulty level), and performance-based outcomes (Ames, 1992; Dweck, 1986; Nicholls, 1984a; Roberts,...

Sport-related identities and the "toxic jock".(Report)
March 1, 2009... Recognition is growing that engagement with sport is a multidimensional experience and should be measured as such (e.g., Lantz & Schroeder, 1999). Although several researchers (Barber, Eccles, & Stone, 2001; Miller, Melnick, Barnes, Farrell, &...

An exploratory examination of the effects of coaches' pre-game speeches on athletes' perceptions of self-efficacy and emotion.(Report)
March 1, 2009... Throughout all team sports, players are gathered together to hear their coach's final thoughts immediately prior to the start of a game. These speeches often contain information about opponents, reminders of team strategy, and may also include...

Testing the team identification-social psychological health model: examining non-marquee sports, seasonal differences, and multiple teams.(Report)
March 1, 2009... Within the last decade or so, the field of psychology has begun to experience a paradigm shift. This new vision, referred to as positive psychology, reflects the belief that the field of psychology has devoted too much empirical and theoretical...