Goal perspective theory assumes that personal goals serve as organizing principles, influencing the meaning of activities and how individuals respond to achievement experiences (Nicholls, 1989). This study examined the link between an individual's personal goals, wider views about how sport operates, and trait anxiety level prior to or during competition. This investigation also determined the ...

Sport-for-development (SFD) is a growing phenomenon involving engagement in sport activities to achieve international development goals. Kicking AIDS Out is one sport for development initiative that raises HIV/AIDS awareness through sport. Despite sport-for-development’s global prevalence, there is a paucity of literature exploring how activities are selected for use in differing contexts. An o...

The vast majority of research on sport consumers fails to utilize a theoretical understanding of motivation to examine behaviour. Self-Determination Theory was used to develop a new understanding of sport consumer motivation. Sport consumer motivation is conceptualized as representing autonomy and control orientations that energize a desire to engage in sport goal directed behaviour to acquire ...

abstract the aim of the present research was to study the objective dimensions of security and the role of sport organizations in providing and developing security from the viewpoint of foreign sport tourists. the research was a descriptive survey. the statistical population (equal to the sample) consisted of foreign sport tourists participating in fajr international sport event (n=394). a rese...

The aim of this study was to design a development Strategy for the Public Sport in Mazandaran province. A sample of 73 individuals who were the physical education teachers of higher education institutions, senior managers of the department of the youth and sports, senior experts, heads of the state offices, provincial and municipal authorities and bodies of sports participated in this study. ...

A method based on computer vision technologies is presented to achieve the function that the simulated motion in sport simulation system and the motion in sport video are presented on the same screen and at the same view point. The proposed method first applies the camera self-calibration theory to obtaining camera intrinsic parameters in sport video according to the 2D video features correspon...