motivation is one of those factors affecting the success and quality of athletic performance. however, limited research has been conducted on the motivational traits of iranian athletes. this study aimed at describing the motivational traits of skilled and novice athletes of team and individual sports in some selected sports fields. players of national teams of the individual sports of karate, ...

in the last decades an increasing number of clubs, associations, and partnerships behind professional team sports have become business enterprises as well; as regards their income and number of employees, there are numerous companies managing sports clubs in the medium sized enterprise sector. by nature of being businesses that manage sports, successful performance is usually the number one str...

emotions and the intelligence dominant over them play an important role in interpersonal situations. the aim of this study was to examine the effect of emotional intelligence on team effectiveness. the population consisted of those sport teams participating in the 11th sports olympiad (2012) (n=1952). 322 athletes were selected according to morgan table. emotional intelligence questionnaire (sy...

One of the most interesting aspects of sports fans is their degree of involvement and affiliation with their favorite sports team. Indeed, perusal of the popular press suggests that sports fans reveal their connection to a favorite team in interesting ways, including wearing team apparel, displaying bumper stickers on their cars, and engaging in celebratory behaviors that range from fairly pass...

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...

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BACKGROUND Previous studies have found that higher physical activity levels are associated with greater academic achievement among students. However, it remains unclear whether associations are due to the physical activity itself or sports team participation, which may involve requirements for maintaining certain grades, for example. The purpose of this study is to examine the associations betw...

Visual has always been recognized as one of the most important sensory systems involved in the implementation of many athletic skills because of the close and necessary relationship with performing the movements, and it is considered particularly important by specialists in learning and motor control. Today, in addition to assessing the key indices in athletic performance (physical, medical, ps...