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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"elite sport"”.
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Super-strengths in elite sport
… termed super-strengths can be delivered by Sport Psychology practitioners, and to investigate the effects of the approach. The rationale for exploring this particular strengths-based approach (super-strengths) was that although this way of working has scarcely featured in the sport …
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Creating pressurised training environments in elite sport
… create pressurised training environments in sport. This notion suggested that PT was being practiced in elite sport in the absence of comprehensive theoretical underpinnings. To address this, study one explored how 11 elite coaches systematically created and exposed athletes to PT …
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Elite sport, identity and mental health: a narrative inquiry
The issue of mental health in elite sport has been gaining prominence in recent years. As the demand for welfare support for athletes increases, psychotherapists and counselling psychologists are likely to be increasingly called upon to work in sports contexts. However, there is limited research …
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The nature and rate of injury in elite sport aerobics athletes
This study investigated the injuries sustained by elite Australian sport aerobic athletes in the 12 months prior to the FISAF world's sport aerobics championships in May/June 2004. Data was collected using a retrospective questionnaire developed from published research in similar areas. This study …
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Delivering culture change in elite sport performance teams: A first exploration
… However, while a major modern-day industry, elite sport organisations have seen limited development of their change management practices; particularly those deployed in the department responsible their core product: on field performance. Reflecting growing awareness of the need for elite …
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Understanding Burnout and Self-Regulation Capacity in Canadian Developmental and Elite Sport Coaches
… from a sample of 260 Canadian developmental and elite sport coaches to assess associations between the variables of interest (i.e., burnout, well-being, self-regulation capacity, and perceived stress). Selected based on data from Phase 1, five coaches experiencing moderate to high levels of …
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Anticipation and visual search in elite sport; the effects of anxiety, training and expertise
… on perceptual-cognitive skills in the sport of badminton. First, the coupling between observed badminton serves, visual search behaviour and anticipation judgements of athletes ranging in expertise was investigated. Expert players produced more accurate anticipation judgements compared …
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Does the Relative Age Effect Exist in Elite Sport? An Analysis of Olympic Competition
Studies have concluded that youth sports programs have a bias selection process in identifying player talent. Athletes that are identified as talented are more likely to be born in the first three months after the eligibility cut-off for a program's particular age group. This is referred to as the …
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A comparative and historical analysis of elite sport programs in Australia and Pakistan, 1947-2007
… of academic studies compare the development of sport systems, a formal comparison of the elite sport programs of Pakistan with any other nation has yet to be undertaken. As a response to this gap in the literature, this thesis provides the first detailed comparison of elite sport programs in …
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A comparative study of national government elite sport systems in Australia and Taiwan: A model for Olympic success
… facing the Taiwanese Government in promoting elite sport and pursuing sporting achievement at the Olympic Games. The main purpose of the study was to explore and compare the national government elite sports systems (NGESS) of Australia and Taiwan and make recommendations for Taiwan to improve …
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Disability and participation in physical activity and non-elite sport environments: a critical investigation of persons with disabilities experiences
Sport is often praised for its capacity to alleviate social exclusion. However, for many persons with disabilities and people trapped within the poverty cycle, sport remains elusive in terms of accessible process and practice. To better understand sport's wider inclusionary and exclusionary …
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Hivatásos sport a társadalmi jóllét szolgálatában: A fenntartható (slow) sport koncepciója = Elite sport for social wellbeing: The concept of sustainable (slow) sport
… nyelvezete közérthetőbb. Ilyen alrendszer a sport, ezen belül a hivatásos sport, amely nagy érdeklődés mellett zajlik, a sikerek komoly publicitást kapnak, működési logikája pedig megfeleltethető a növekedésorientált gazdasági logika összefüggéseinek, sok esetben letisztultabban is megmutatja …
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Physical activity for health: the impact of exercise on the human gut microbiota and pro-inflammatory cytokines
… favourable microbial profiles are evident in the elite athlete in comparison to healthy controls. It is apparent that short-term increases in physical activity are not sufficient to induce major changes in physically inactive individuals. Furthermore, we unearth a relationship between whey protein …
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Performance analysis in sport and leisure management
… both financial and non-financial, in sport and leisure. Use of performance analysis in the sport and leisure sectors was found to be lacking by the Audit Commission and therefore provided considerable research opportunities. The research presented was carried out in: professional …
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Development and application of expertise in elite-level coaches
… purpose of this thesis was to investigate how elite-level coaches developed and used expertise. Twenty successful coaches working with Australian junior, elite sport participants were purposefully sampled to cover a diversity of sports (team and individual) and to provide a gender balance.
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'Active Sports' The First Step to Sporting Excellence?
Graham Victor Cook Title: ‘Active Sports’: The First Step to Sporting Excellence? Abstract The aim of this research was to establish whether the Active Sports initiative (Sport England, 1999a) was an effective vehicle to facilitate progression in young children’s involvement in sport from grass …
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Coping strategies used by Indonesian elite badminton players
… was to identify strategies used by Indonesian elite badminton players to cope with stressful situations they had experienced as elite athletes. Participants were 16 current Indonesian elite badminton players who had experienced playing in the Olympic Games. Each participant was interviewed …
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Using imagery to predict self-confidence and anxiety in young elite athletes
As elite sport participation by children is growing (Smoll & Smith, 1996), it is important to study the psychological development of these athletes. Imagery is one strategy that may be used by young athletes in controlling arousal levels in competition (Weiss, 1991). Although there has been a great …
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The Coach-Athlete Dyad and the Basic Psychological Needs In American Collegiate Athletics
… American collegiate coaches and athletes where elite sport plays an important role in American culture and economics. Capturing the degree of congruence between coaches and their athletes in terms of the quality of the coach-athlete dyad (CAD), autonomy supportive climates (ASC), and basic …
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