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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Women's Sports"”.
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Evaluating Attitudes toward Women's Sports: A scale development and validation study
… to develop a survey instrument Attitude toward Women's Sports (ATWS) Scale' to measure attitude toward women's sports, and seek various validity and reliability evidences for the instrument. First, item pool of ATWS scale was reviewed by subject matter experts to collect evidence on content …
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Impact of Team Citizenship Behaviors on Performance in Women's Sports Teams
… explored the actual relationship between OCB and sports team performance (individual- and team-level), nor has research investigated potential moderators of this relationship. The current study examined the relationship between OCB and sports team performance and whether this OCB-performance …
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Through The Eyes of Former NCAA Division II Female Student-Athletes: Gender Preferences In College Head Coaches
… of females serving as head coaches for women's sports teams has been especially low. This topic is often studied through the lens of hiring practices and issues affecting the growth and advancement of female coaches. This dissertation in practice study took a different approach and …
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Wilderness Women: Embodiment in Nature
… This statement extends to all endeavors by women, including sport. The gap between men and women's sports is not bridged by monetary compensation. The domination of women exists in conceptual ideals and how those are expressed through our roles in this world. I use Val Plumwood's ecological …
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Play Like You Mean It: Motivational Predictors of Female Student Athletes' Practice and Game Performance
… for goals influence athletic performance on a women's basketball team. The purpose of the current study was to expand on past research associated with fluctuation of motivation in practice and game performance throughout a season. Participants (n = 15) in the current study were female …
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Effects of college athletic participation on job satisfaction and life satisfaction
… and the structural differences in men's and women's sports, the long-term effects of sports participation may be different for men and women athletes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of competition through college sports participation on job satisfaction and life …
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A comparison of the perceptions of NCAA Division III athletic administrators, coaches, and athletes regarding compliance with Title IX
… athletic administrators, coaches of men's and women's basketball, coaches of men's and women's tennis, coaches of men's baseball and women's softball, and athletes in those same sport regarding perceptions of gender equity in athletics at their own institution. Data on individual perceptions of …
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Breaking the Stereotypes: Exploring Traits of Female Athletes
<p>Despite the growing acceptance of women's sports and the increasing number of women and girls who are participating in sports, a number of negative stereotypes still exist concerning female athletes. Because the competitive, masculine nature of sports has been viewed as the antithesis of …
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Babes, Balls, and Babies: A Working Ethnography of Motherhood
"Women's professional athletics in America---part business venture, part self-help group, part sociological movement---has become an intriguing site for exploring the relationship of women to the global socio-cultural matrix. In American women's sports, particularly team sports, women's bodies and …
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Training Bodies: Performances of Ethos in 21st Century Sportswomen
… A consideration of how ethos is performed in women's sports is particularly important because elite female athletes represent a bit of a tension in feminist scholarship: by caring for and developing their bodies through athletic training, they are able to assert their presence in a …
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'Ladies' football': Gender and the socialisation of women football players in Lancashire c.1916-1960
… roles and the socialisation of working - class women c. 1916 - 1960. The thesis will focus on ladies' football in Lancashire and surrounding districts from the end of the First World War, to the beginnings of the second wave of feminism, which marked the end of an era for the sport. Firstly, it …
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"""Circle more before you land"": An ethnography of feminist leader Dr. Charlotte West"
… through the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators (NACWAA) she has retained her drive and passion for protecting and extending opportunities for women in sport and athletics. Her humble approach to life is recounted through her actions and stories; over the course of …