{"title":"Effects of Physical Activity on Memory Deficits Occurring Subsequent to Hypoxic Encephalopathy: a Single-Case Study*","authors":"Maki Kojima, Junji Nakamura, A. Nagano","doi":"10.5432/IJSHS.201908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5432/IJSHS.201908","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":341890,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport and Health Science","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126087742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessment of Causal Relationships Between Motivational Climates, Goal Orientations and “Zest for Living” in Junior High School Physical Education Classes*","authors":"Takumi Nakasuga, Shunsuke Sakata, Y. Sugiyama","doi":"10.5432/ijshs.17104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5432/ijshs.17104","url":null,"abstract":"Causal relationships among perceived motivational climates in physical education classes, goal orientations, and ‘‘ Zest for Living ’’ (ZL) were investigated reciprocally in junior high school students. This longitudinal study involved 1045 junior high school students (mean age=13.9+0.8 years) who completed questionnaires on 5 occasions at 2-month intervals throughout the academic year. The measures used included a questionnaire on motivational climates in physical education (mastery climate, cooperative climate, and performance cli-mate), a scale assessing goal orientations (student task orientation and student ego orienta-tion), and a scale assessing ZL. The validity of the 5-wave cross-lagged effect model was veri fied using structural equation modeling. The results of the study suggested the following processes: (1) The mastery climate and cooperative climate had positive causal effects on ZL. (2) The mastery climate and cooperative climate had positive causal effects on ZL through mediation of task orientation, and exhibited a positive cycle. (3) The performance cli mate had positive causal effects on ego orientation, but negative causal effects on task orientation. In conclusion, to enhance ZL in junior high school students, it is important for teachers to cultivate a mastery climate and cooperation climate in physical education classes. In addition, the performance climate in physical education classes has an indirect negative impact on ZL.","PeriodicalId":341890,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport and Health Science","volume":"158 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114240533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Studies on Physical Education Promotion Policy for Young Men’s Association in the Taisho Era: Focusing on the Administrative Process in Tokyo Prefecture*","authors":"Y. Ono, Hidenori Tomozoe","doi":"10.5432/IJSHS.201811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5432/IJSHS.201811","url":null,"abstract":"The Young Men's Association (YMA) was an education institute that provided programs and further education for young men. It aimed to train both mind and body, and valued physical education. However, in preceding studies, emphasis was placed on the consideration of the national stance that physical education should be promoted in the YMA, or on the consideration of the implementation status of physical education in the YMA in the local community. Speciˆc considerations on the policy and process of the local government liaising between national aim and region implementation were insu‹cient. This study aims to clarify the development process of the physical education promotion policy of the YMA, taking as an example the Tokyo Prefecture administration during the Taisho Era. As a result, the following points were clariˆed: 1) In the Local Governor Conference, no instruction on the speciˆc development method concerning physical education promotion of the YMA was given. Therefore, in each prefectural administration, policies needed to be formulated and implemented, taking into account the regional situation within the jurisdiction. 2) Prefectural Governor Tomoichi Inoue who spearheaded the YMA policy in Tokyo Prefecture, had set as the main objective of the YMA, the implementation of civil education and labor education for the working young men. He placed physical education as ``prerequisite for all'' activities of the YMA. In so doing, the aim was to train ``young men who contribute to labor'' through physical education. 3) As a specialized institution reviewing physical education policies of the YMA in Tokyo Prefecture, Governor Inoue established ``Tokyo Prefecture Physical Education Council.'' The council members consisted, not only of Tokyo prefectural workers, but also of external ``education and physical education experts.'' 4) The Physical Education Council raised as speciˆc issues, ``improvement of the physique and strength of young men'' and ``popularization method of physical education,'' and held repeated discussions thereof. In resolving the above issues, the Physical Education Council cooperated and collaborated with companies within Tokyo Prefecture, and further held ``workshops'' and ``lectures'' in the YMA'' at a local level. 5) The Physical Education Council compiled the information obtained through discussions and through the ``workshops'' and ``lectures,'' and therefrom established and issued the ``Tokyo Prefecture Regulations for Young Men's Physical Education.'' Regulations for Young Men's Physical Education Promotion played an important role in the origin of physical education of the YMA in Tokyo Prefecture in the years to follow.","PeriodicalId":341890,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport and Health Science","volume":"09 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115164020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technique Types of Preparatory and Take-off Motions for Elite Male Long Jumpers","authors":"Y. Shimizu, M. Ae, N. Fujii, H. Koyama","doi":"10.5432/IJSHS.201817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5432/IJSHS.201817","url":null,"abstract":"1Faculty of Human Sciences, Shimane University 1060 Nishi-Kawatsu, Matsue, Shimane 690-8504, Japan shimizu@hmn.shimane-u.ac.jp 2Faculty of Sport Culture, Nippon Sport Science University 7-1-1 Fukasawa, Setagaya-ward, Tokyo 158-8508, Japan 3Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8574, Japan 4Faculty of Education, Kyoto University of Education 1 Fukakusafujinomori, Kyoto Fushimi, Kyoto 612-0863, Japan [Received April 4, 2018; Accepted October 1, 2018; Published online October 25, 2018]","PeriodicalId":341890,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport and Health Science","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131641672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influence of the Relative Age Effect on the Competitive Level and Playing Position of Male Japanese Elementary School Baseball Players","authors":"Y. Katsumata","doi":"10.5432/IJSHS.201805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5432/IJSHS.201805","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the in‰uence of the relative age eŠect (RAE) on the competitive level and playing position of male elementary school Japanese baseball players. The sample comprised the following: (1) 506 general male baseball players (BP) who were aged 11-12 (sixth grade) and who had not competed at the prefectural level and (2) 189 regionally selected players (SP) who were aged 11-12 (sixth grade) and who had been selected to compete at the prefectural level or a higher level. The subjects were divided into two groups based on their birth months (Semester 1 (S1): April-September and Semester 2 (S2): October-March). Prevalence ratio for each semester was calculated. Pearson's chi-square test was employed to examine the RAE of each group and each playing position. Results of a chi-square test at each competitive level showed that the SP group was statistically signiˆcant (S1>S2) but the BP group was not. The chi-square test for the pitcher and the ˆelder (catcher, inˆelder, and outˆelder) positions revealed statistical signiˆcance in the SP group (S1>S2), with only the pitcher position showing statistical signiˆcance in the BP group (S1>S2). The results indicated that the RAE was higher in more competitive level junior baseball players and that the RAE exerted a stronger in‰uence on the pitcher position than on the ˆelder positions.","PeriodicalId":341890,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport and Health Science","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121180600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heat-induced Body Fluid Loss Causes Muscle Cramp during Maximal Voluntary Contraction for the Knee Flexors","authors":"Masato Ohno, A. Lavender, Asuka Sawai","doi":"10.5432/IJSHS.201729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5432/IJSHS.201729","url":null,"abstract":"1Department of Liberal Arts, National Institute of Technology, Yonago College 4448 Hikona-cho, Yonago, Tottori, 683-8502, Japan ohno@yonago-k.ac.jp 2School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, Curtin University Kent Street, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia, 6102, Australia 3Kanagawa Institute of Technology Graduate School of Engineering 4Department of Nutrition and Life Science, Kanagawa Institute of Technology 1030 Shimo-ogino, Atsugi, Kanagawa, 243-0292, Japan [Received September 11, 2017; Accepted July 26, 2018; Published online August 28, 2018]","PeriodicalId":341890,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport and Health Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121462656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A study on the Formation Process of Sports Recommendation Admissions to Universities in Japan","authors":"Y. Ono, Hidenori Tomozoe, So Nemoto","doi":"10.5432/IJSHS.201810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5432/IJSHS.201810","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":341890,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport and Health Science","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115417048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constraints and Constraint Negotiation when Participating in Domestic and International Masters Games","authors":"E. Ito, Kei Hikoji","doi":"10.5432/IJSHS.201734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5432/IJSHS.201734","url":null,"abstract":"Japan will host the Rugby World Cup 2019, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and the World Masters Games 2021 Kansai. A total of 30,000 domestic and 20,000 international athletes are expected to participate in the World Masters Games 2021 Kansai. However, little is known about constraints and constraint negotiation among such sport tourists (i.e., masters athletes). Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the constraints and constraint negotiation experienced when Japanese masters athletes participate in domestic and international masters games. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ˆve Japanese masters athletes who had participated in both domestic and international (outside of Japan) masters athletic games and who belonged to the prefectural Masters Athletics Association. Thematic analysis of the transcribed data was conducted in an inductive manner. Our results indicated that: (a) time, physiological, and masters-game-speciˆc constraints exist in both domestic and international contexts, while ˆnancial and travel constraints exist only in international contexts; (b) family, time, ˆnancial, and psychological negotiation exist in both domestic and international contexts; and (c) constraints and constraint negotiation may diŠer depending upon the nature of participation in the masters games (i.e., the level of involvement and social orientation).","PeriodicalId":341890,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport and Health Science","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128584799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effectiveness of the Heads Up Tackling (HUT) program on tackling safety and performance in American football","authors":"Hirokazu Matsuo, Yukio Yamada, Katsuyuki Masuchi, Tsuyoshi Matsumoto","doi":"10.5432/IJSHS.201804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5432/IJSHS.201804","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to verify the eŠectiveness of the Heads Up Tackling program by defensive players and its in‰uence on safety and performance. Head impacts in football players are directly associated with brain and spine injury, and have been proposed to be associated with chronic injuries such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Therefore, improving safety has been a challenge for football, from the perspective of injury prevention. In 2012, USA Football, the national governing body for amateur American football in the U.S. developed the Heads Up Football (HUF) program which included ``Heads Up Tackling (HUT)'', a new instruction of tackling technique. HUT has been attracting attention as an eŠort to enhance the safety of tackling through a new coaching methodology. Although in Japan, there has been no reports of football related chronic injuries caused by head impacts so far, many concussions occur in football games. Therefore, identifying a methodology to teach tackling techniques to reduce the risks of head and neck injuries seem necessary. There has been studies of coaching intervention related with safety and to reduce head impact exposure and injuries, however there has been no reports relating these eŠorts with the athletes' performance during a game. If this study can indicate that HUT reduces the risks of injuries in a football game without decreasing athlete performances, it will become a useful resource for the instruction of tackling skills. Four matches of the Japan top league (X-league) 2014 and 2015 season were analyzed, before and after HUT intervention was executed in the preseason of 2015. A total of 166 coded tackles were compared in terms of ``characteristics of tackling'', ``amount of injuries'', ``eŠectiveness of tackling'', and ``loss of yards'' to examine the eŠect of HUT techniques on ``safety'' and ``eŠectiveness''. The results showed the following. (1) Head ``down'' tackling was signiˆcantly lower after HUT intervention. (2) ``Amount of injuries'' was reduced after HUT intervention. (3) No eŠect was observed on the ``eŠectiveness of tackling'' in the games. (4) ``Loss of yards'' was reduced after HUT intervention. (5) The investigation implies that HUT may have reduced the risks of injuries in the game of football, without decreasing athletes' tackle performances.","PeriodicalId":341890,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport and Health Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114103784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Study of an Instructional Model (ASKS Model) in Physical Education to Improve Social Skills: Focusing on Team Organization*","authors":"Akemi Umegaki, S. Otomo, Kenji Ueta, Naohiro Fukada, Takehito Yoshii, Natsuki Miyao","doi":"10.5432/IJSHS.201905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5432/IJSHS.201905","url":null,"abstract":"In school education, it is important to encourage students to improve their social skills. Umegaki et al. (2016b) have developed an instructional model known as the Acquisition of Social Knowledge in Sport (ASKS) Model for facilitating improvement in social skills in the context of physical education. They consider that the ASKS Model with heterogeneous team organization would improve social skills that would be applicable to daily life outside of physical education classes and help students to maintain these social skills. However, no previous study has examined whether the ASKS Model would be effective for homogeneously organized teams. Therefore, the present study was designed to examine the type of team organization that would be most effective for the ASKS Model by comparing physical education classes with the ASKS Model based on homogeneous teams and heterogeneous teams. The study focused on physical education classes for male students in the second year of junior high school. The classes included those without the ASKS Model, those with the ASKS Model based on homogeneous teams, and those with the ASKS Model based on heterogeneous teams. A formative evaluation of friendship-building and the KiSS-18 questionnaire on paper were administered before and after each class. The study confirmed two points: First, the ASKS Model appeared to be effective when heterogeneous teams were organized. Second, the effectiveness was suggested to be improved when heterogeneity of motor skill was maintained rather than heterogeneity of social skills.","PeriodicalId":341890,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport and Health Science","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122540228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}