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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Athletic ability"”.
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Effect of environment on athletic ability
<p>There have bean many arguments, pro and con, about which boys make the best athletes. One very well known college coach, so the legend goes, would do his recruiting of football players in the following manner. He would drive around the country and every time he saw a prospective football player …
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"Celtic Pride": White Nostalgia and Working-Class Masculinity in 1970s Professional Basketball
… greedy, and blessed with a supposedly "natural" athletic ability they had done nothing to earn. There are striking similarities between how the media framed the Celtics, its players, and opposing teams and the rhetoric used to articulate white, working-class anxieties that came to dominate the …
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Predicting athletic performance: the effects of judgment and motivation
… and judgment on the relationship between athletic ability and athletic performance. Much existing empirical literature has focused on motivation and cognitive ability in relation to athletic performance, but athlete judgment has received relatively little research attention. It was …
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The Relationship Between Trait Anxiety, Perfectionism, and Burnout in Collegiate Basketball Players
… participants (41 men, 35 women): the Eades Athletic Burnout Inventory (EABI; Eades, 1990), the Sport Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT; Martens, Gill, Scanlan, & Simon, 1990), and the Almost Perfect Scale-Revised (APS-R; Slaney, Rice, Mobley, Trippi, & Ashby, 2001). Participants were from three …
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Genetic factors associated with performance and exercise-associated weight loss in Ironman triathletes
… responses (body weight changes) and athletic ability between athletes during participation in a 226 km Ironman triathlon. A genetic association approach was used in case-control studies to identify specific sequence variants within selected candidate genes. These candidate genes …
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Big Ben: The Gentle Rebel
… never had issues because of his personality and athletic ability.
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Racism in Sports in Southeast Georgia High Schools.
… a part of the hidden curriculum in high school athletics in Southeast Georgia Schools? How and why are student-athletes racially discriminated against in Southeast Georgia high schools? This inquiry is qualitative based and interviews with student athletes of the six high schools were performed …
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Genetic Parameters of Foal Inspection Scores in the International Sporthorse Registry and Oldenburg Registry North America
… traits include type and conformation (TC), athletic ability of movement (AM), overall development as related to age (OD), and total score (TS) calculated as a weighted average of TC, AM, and OD. Premium status (PS) was analyzed as a binary trait. Preliminary statistical analysis determined …
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Correlates of learning disabled students' social acceptance in mainstream classrooms
… nominations (multiple R square=.50), whereas athletic ability was found to predict 85% of the variance in friendship ratings. Social information processing deficits were not predictive of social acceptance. Results suggest that special skills or attributes appear to provide a boost needed for …
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Does cognitive control affect successful "sandbagging" of concussion symptoms?
… cognitive control is related to their ability to fake poor performance on SportGait. Forty-four participants completed two cognitive control tasks, were randomly assigned to “sandbag” or do their best and completed the SportGait baseline concussion assessment. Results revealed that …
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Self-esteem, victimisation and perception of peer relationships in obese children and adolescents
… of social acceptance, physical appearance, athletic ability and global self-esteem. They showed greater body dissatisfaction. Social relationships were poorer for obese males than non-obese males, and the obese children and adolescents percieved themselves to be less popular than non-obese …
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The use of self-reports and peer reports as measures of self-esteem in middle school students
… Some studies have shown academic achievement, athletic ability, and socioeconomic status to correlate with sociometric status. Sociometric measures allow teachers to gather a wealth of information about their students quickly and easily. One purpose of this study was to determine the degree of …
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Physiological performance characteristics of Universal Tennis Rating (UTR)
1 PDF file (viii, 48 pages)
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Athletic Identity, Need Satisfaction, and Burnout in Collegiate Athletes
… but studies of the relationship between athletic identity and burnout have produced varying results. The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that may contribute to burnout in athletes by determining the direction and strength of a relationship between burnout, athletic …
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Implicit Theories of Weight Management: A Social Cognitive Approach to Motivation
… as intelligence, personality, and athletic ability. These theories, unlike scientist's theories, are not explicitly articulated or documented, and so they are termed implicit theories. Implicit theories, in achievement motivation, distinguish between the belief that human attributes …
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Bonds away : baseball mythology and the 2007 home run chase
… of many contradictions. Most commonly, Bonds' athletic ability and career achievements were contrasted with unflattering descriptions of his character, including discussions of his alleged use of performance-enhancing substances. However, some coverage portrayed Bonds as embodying baseball …
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The Process of Team Selection in Children's Self-Directed and Adult-Directed Games (Play, Socialization)
… the selection of captains, and of teams, was athletic ability with friendship as an interrelated factor. In physical education classes teachers generally chose the teams themselves most often using a system of counting by number. They were reluctant to involve the children in the process of …
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Load Optimization on the Wingate Anaerobic Test With College-Aged Females
1 PDF file (46 leaves)
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Assessment of the correlates of sociometric status in children: behavioral, cognitive, peer perception and age differences
… skills as well as personal attributes such as athletic ability and physical attractiveness. The direction of these relationships remains unanswered. Exemplary of this causal confusion is the finding from this and other studies of a positive relationship between various cognitive social skills …
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