Journal of Sport Behavior articles from September 1994

Journal of Sport Behavior archives from September 1994

Managerial change and organizational effectiveness in major league baseball: findings for the eighties.
September 1, 1994... Managerial replacement is common in professional baseball. It occurs between or during seasons and frequently attracts much media attention. Research on the effect of managerial change on organizational effectiveness, as measured by tea...

Assaults on umpires: a statewide survey.
September 1, 1994... Investigators mailed surveys containing questions about assaults on umpires to 1500 members of randomly selected umpire associations. Surveys were returned by 782 umpires. Their average age was 43 years, and their average umpiring experience was...

Mood and psychological skills of world-ranked female tennis players.
September 1, 1994... Early sport studies have addressed personality characteristics of various athletic groups noting distinct differences among sport samples (Booth, 1958; Johnson, Hutton & Johnson, 1954). Later research by Morgan (1984) identified psychological...

The influence of race/ethnicity in salary arbitration.
September 1, 1994... This study focuses upon an area of the sociology of sport that has been ignored in empirical investigations: the role of race/ethnicity in salary arbitration hearings. The central research question was to find out what influence, if any,...

Injured athletes: a study of emotional responses.
September 1, 1994... It is important for the athlete, coach, athletic therapist and sport psychologist to understand the emotional feelings an athlete may experience during an athletic injury and during the subsequent stages of recovery. In the last decade, theories...

The effects of exercise withdrawal on mood states in runners.
September 1, 1994... Runners (and runners' spouses) commonly report that the runner experiences mood changes when a workout is missed. Thaxton (1982) measured these mood difference between runners who abstain and those who are permitted to run and found even slight...