discrimination can have negative effects on sport teams' performance. identification of processes, contexts and contributing factors of discrimination can be a useful method to improve sport teams' performance. the aim of this study was to design a model of discrimination in sport teams which was conducted through qualitative research method with an exploratory-fundamental nature. dat...

Psychophysiological responses of two rival sport fan groups were assessed within the context of Lang’s biphasic theory of emotion. Twenty-four participants, placed in two groups based on their identification with local sport teams, viewed 6 pictures from 6 categories: team-relevant pleasant sport, team-irrelevant sport, team-relevant unpleasant sport, erotica, household objects, and mutilation....

Conceptualized as a process intervention, team building strategies have been used in sport to enhance the cohesion or unity of a team through the development of task and social aspects. To date, team building has been utilized in various settings such as physical education classes, exercise settings, recreational sport, and elite sport. Team building interventions have demonstrated improved per...

The purpose of this research was to find out if there is any relationship between personality type and sport preference; why certain people choose a particular sport, why some people prefer a team sport, and others prefer an individual sport. In this research, athletes from four different sports (three individual and one team sport) and non-athletes took part in the study. The primary interest ...

Team sports are increasingly popular, with millions of participants worldwide. Athletes engaged in these sports are required to repeatedly produce skilful actions and maximal or near-maximal efforts (eg, accelerations, changes in pace and direction, sprints, jumps and kicks), interspersed with brief recovery intervals (consisting of rest or low-intensity to moderate-intensity activity), over an...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between sport orientation and competitive anxiety in male and female athletes of team and individual sports who participated in 10th student sport olympiad (1389). the present study was descriptive and correlation method was used. for this purpose, 688 subjects (337 females and 351 males) were selected as the sample by simple random samp...

the aim of this research was to explain the difference in the dimensions of learning organization between federations of team and individual sports. this research was a comparative survey. the statistical population consisted of 795 fulltime employees of iran sport federations. out of 212 returned questionnaires, 158 questioners were from individual sport federations and 54 from team sport fede...

Sport provides a context in which mate choice can be facilitated by the display of athletic prowess. Previous work has shown that, for females, team sport athletes are more desirable as mates than individual sport athletes and non-participants. In the present study, the perceptions of males and females were examined regarding potential mates based on sport participation. It was predicted that t...

INTRODUCTION Sporting activities differ in their ability to promote moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). To assess adolescents' engagement in sport under field conditions we used accelerometers to measure their MVPA levels during sport. We pay special attention to differences between team and individual sport and between common sports. METHODS Diary data and 7-day accelerometry from...

Automatic and interactive data analysis is instrumental in making use of increasing amounts of complex data. Owing to novel sensor modalities, analysis of data generated in professional team sport leagues such as soccer, baseball, and basketball has recently become of concern, with potentially high commercial and research interest. The analysis of team ball games can serve many goals, e.g., in ...