This study arose as a result of two squash players, one male one female, seeking advice on how to improve their mental approach to playing. They both felt that their game suffered badly through too much anxiety. After preliminary interviews it was decided to use a programme of stress inoculation training to help them learn to control their anxiety. In order to obtain baseline measures of anxiet...

The focus of researchers, media and policy on doping in cycling is often limited to the professional level of the sport. However, anti-doping test results since 2001 demonstrate that banned substances are also used by US cyclists at lower levels of the sport, necessitating a broader view of the patterns and motivations of substance use within the sport. In this article, we describe and explain ...

in order to achieve educational purposes and having better spiritual power in an education institute, the authorities must try to keep and support their human recourses. this study is conducted to determine the affective motivation factors on retension of faculty members at hormozgan university of medical sciences (hums). for this purpose, the view points of 71 faculty member’s (hums) through a...

This article discusses substances/techniques that target the brain in order to enhance sports performance (known as “neurodoping”). It considers whether neurodoping mind sports, such chess, is unethical and it should be a crime. Rather than focusing on widely discussed objections against doping based harm/risk health, this focuses specifically objection neurodoping, even if safe, would undermin...

background: timely notification is of great importance in health emergencies. so identifying the most important sources of information used by people in emergencies seems necessary. the objective of this study was to assess peoples’ level of awareness concerning the symptoms, routes of transmission, prevention, and treatment of h1n1 at the time of the pandemic and also to identify their most im...

The main focus of swimming in the first half of the nineteenth century was simply for enjoyment and pleasure, plus its endorsement by society as a wholesome rational recreation. It was pursued at popular river sites, at the seaside, at private baths clubs or at the newly emerging municipal baths. The formation of swimming clubs, during the middle years of the century, was the beginning of a cha...

the purpose of this study was to survey iran football situation and to determine iran football strategic position. this study was descriptive (survey) and a questionnaire was used to collect the data. a sample of 96 subjects including football executives, sport managers and experts was surveyed. in order to analyze the data, friedman test and swot matrix were used. results showed that iran foot...

Digital games can be used not only for fun and entertainment. The term ‘serious games’ denotes digital games serving serious purposes like education, training, advertising, research, and health. In the contribution the chances and challenges of serious games for computer science in sport will be discussed. Serious games, particularly adventure and shooter games, already play an important role i...