The study examines moderating role of gender in the relationship between athletics’ self-efficacy and their athletic performance. sample comprised adolescent 30 male athletes female aged 16 to 18 years. Research tools included Self-efficacy measure performance measure. Results revealed significant effect influencing performance, favouring superiority. Boosting morale is needed disregarding cult...

the aim of this study was to model the effect of athletic identity on sport orientation in athletes participating in 11th sport olympiad of male students in iran. 400 students were selected as the sample of this study from 2130 students of population. sport orientation questionnaire (soq, gill et al., 1988, α=0.87) and the athletic identity questionnaire (cieslak, 2004, α=0.82) were used. the s...

To examine the relationship between students’ athletic ability and their psychological skills in the athletic club and the school life setting, 99 players from high school soccer teams were administered with the Psychological Skills Inventory for Athletic Clubs and the Psychological Skills Inventory for School Life. Five coaches of the soccer teams evaluated the players’ athletic ability, using...

background athletes present a different category of the population. trivial complaints may mask more serious illness, especially when the athlete is undergoing intensive training, and the function of his immune system may be sub-optimal. case presentation a triathlete presented a few days after completing an ironman race, complaining of lethargy, pleuritic chest pain and loss of appetite. on ex...

OBJECTIVE To identify and describe critical helpful and hindering clinical teaching behaviors of supervising athletic trainers, as perceived by student athletic trainers, and to provide a better understanding of the student athletic training experience. DESIGN AND SETTING The critical incident technique was used to identify critical behaviors of supervising athletic trainers as perceived by s...

OBJECTIVES To investigate associations between nurse work practice environment measured at department level and individual level work-family conflict on burnout, measured as emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and personal accomplishment among Swedish RNs. METHODS A multilevel model was fit with the individual RN at the 1st, and the hospital department at the 2nd level using cross-section...

background: regarding the close and continuous interaction of infertility staff with hopeless infertile couples and in the contrary the atmosphere of happiness especially in obstetric wards make a sense that considering anxiety and depression it would be a difference between these two wards. objective: the objective of this study is the comparison of the rate of depression and anxiety between t...

In this brief report, we provide an initial account of the association between love and athletic performance from the perspective of Olympic athletes. We posit that Romantic Passionate Love (RPL) and athletic performance may both involve the reward-motivation system of the brain. Based on this premise, we explored whether activation in one domain (love) might influence the other (sport). Our in...

The objectives of the present study were to determine whether differences in usual physical activity affect BMR, sleeping energy expenditure (EE), and EE during seated activities between athletic and non-athletic adolescents, and to establish individual relationships between heart rate and EE. Adolescents (n 49, four groups of eleven to fifteen boys or girls aged 16-19 years) participated in th...