{"title":"Healthy ageing in the global pandemic","authors":"Karin Volkwein-Caplan","doi":"10.30819/iss.45-1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30819/iss.45-1.02","url":null,"abstract":"COVID-19 has altered our experiences over the last few years; it has put our lives and daily choices in a new light. This paper reflects on these challenges regarding healthy ageing and what we can do to contribute to our ageing process as well as the health of the planet. Physical activity and exercise have been proven to make people happy and healthy. Those same things also make the planet healthy. The basic assumption of this presentation is that the well-being of the individual and that of the earth can be improved through a sustainable, active lifestyle. While social science and medical research have addressed the importance of human movement in recent years, the social and environmental factors that help promote physical activity and healthy ageing remain insufficiently addressed. Some factors that lead to engaging in physical activity and sustainably continuing will be addressed. Finally, the interaction of some of the influences of personal circumstances and community, as well as the impacts of environmental support and constraints, will be highlighted, - especially as they relate to the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic.","PeriodicalId":40315,"journal":{"name":"International Sports Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134912835","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":"Participating in plogging as an eco-friendly physical activity: Motivations and reasons","authors":"Akbar Jaberi","doi":"10.30819/iss.45-1.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30819/iss.45-1.07","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of the present study was to identify the motivations of those participating in plogging. This growing eco-friendly physical activity started as an organised activity in Sweden around 2016 and spread to other countries in 2018. The unique feature of plogging is the combination of two significant concerns in the modern world: physical activity and environmental care. An exploratory study using content analysis was conducted. Seventeen ploggers from seven countries were interviewed via virtual spaces. The content analysis identified 497 codes, 34 Sub-themes, and five major themes from these in-depth interviews. Environmental, physical activity, social, psychological, and personal values were found to be the most prominent themes describing the motivation of ploggers to participate in the activity. This study seeks to identify motivations for plogging as an eco-friendly physical activity. Moreover, this study's motivational framework and the baseline data on plogging as a viable physical activity within an environmental care context advocate an agenda for future research on integrating physical activity and environmental initiatives.","PeriodicalId":40315,"journal":{"name":"International Sports Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134912645","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":"Well-being of university students during the Covid-19 pandemic: An Indonesian case study","authors":"Sapto Adi","doi":"10.30819/iss.45-1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30819/iss.45-1.03","url":null,"abstract":"The spread of COVID-19 worldwide challenged the foundations of many people's lives. This research aimed to investigate the impact of the pandemic and its associated lockdown restrictions on the physical activity behaviours and attitudes of a small group of sports science students in a provincial state university in Indonesia. The study results showed that most of the respondents (93%) believed in the importance of maintaining their physical activity during lockdown. However, the actual activity levels practised failed to match the international guidelines considered necessary for this age group. Only 23% practised daily physical activity, and 40% were active for three days or less. The intensity of the physical activity was only classified as light in over 80% of the cases, and 26% reported that their activity was less than 30 minutes. A further concern about mental health was identified in the finding that over 73% of the participants reported suffering significant boredom during the lockdown conditions imposed. Students reported carrying out exercise and a range of other activities aimed to reduce boredom and avoid more potentially dangerous feelings of stress and depression. Recommendations include maintaining and improving fitness through physical activity and participating in moderate activity between 70 - 80% with a maximum pulse rate of 150 - 300 minutes per week to high intensity between 80 - 90% maximum pulse with a frequency of at least 3 days or more per week, 75-150 minutes per week. All physical activities can be done gradually over time with the principle of progressive exercise. Meanwhile, to reduce boredom, apart from doing physical activity in the form of sports and exercise, other active daily physical activities such as washing vehicles, gardening, cleaning the house and environment, and pursuing hobbies may be considered.","PeriodicalId":40315,"journal":{"name":"International Sports Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134912646","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":"Ensuring satisfaction in rural youth soccer: The consequences of ageunbalanced teams, and suggested remedies","authors":"Christian Fischer","doi":"10.30819/iss.45-1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30819/iss.45-1.06","url":null,"abstract":"In rural areas, the formation of competitive youth soccer teams has become increasingly difficult due to declining numbers. Often, sport clubs are forced to pool children and adolescents into multi-age teams and must play with fewer (substitute) players than their opponents. This study quantifies the effects of average team age and size differences on match outcomes as measured by goal difference. Regression analyses were conducted using data from 82 matches of a rural recreational male youth soccer team (U-13 to U- 16) in northern Italy. Results show that teams’ average age differences begin to significantly affect match outcomes at a threshold of 90 days onwards. The effect was about one additional goal per 45 days of a team age difference. The influence of unequal substitute numbers depended on team age differences but averaged approximately 0.5 goals per additional substitute. The home-field effect was not significant. Based on the estimates, match outcomes corrected for differences in average team age and size were calculated. It is suggested that communicating corrected match outcomes might help reduce player frustrations, which could impact activity abandonment and stabilise countryside communities.","PeriodicalId":40315,"journal":{"name":"International Sports Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134912832","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":"Book Review: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Sport, by Ellen J. Staurowsky and Algerian Hart","authors":"Darlene A. Kluka","doi":"10.30819/iss.45-1.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30819/iss.45-1.08","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>\u0000\t\u0000 </jats:p>","PeriodicalId":40315,"journal":{"name":"International Sports Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134912399","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":"Home advantage in elimination games and the NBA play-in tournament","authors":"Timothy L. Urban","doi":"10.30819/iss.45-1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30819/iss.45-1.05","url":null,"abstract":"Some of the most exciting contests in US professional basketball are the win-or-gohome, game seven’s in the playoffs. The National Basketball Association has instituted a play-in tournament for the 2021 and 2022 playoffs consisting solely of one-game series, which has sparked considerable controversy among the league’s executives and players. To understand the effect of the play-in tournament on playoff participation, we developed a model to determine the home-court advantage in elimination games. Various solution techniques—including the log-binomial and robust Poisson regression models—are used to estimate the model parameters using elimination-game data from the 1955–2019 playoffs. These models are appropriate alternatives to logistic regression as probabilistic classifiers with dichotomous response variables and provide risk ratios (in terms of probabilities) that are easier to interpret for someone unfamiliar with odds ratios. Results indicate that the home-court advantage for equally matched teams would be in the 0.50 to 0.55 range; when considering the games are played at the home arena of the team with the better regular-season record, the home team is expected to win 65 per cent of elimination playoff games. These models can be used to estimate the likelihood of each play-in participant making the playoffs.","PeriodicalId":40315,"journal":{"name":"International Sports Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134912647","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":"Perceptions of current support systems leading to international sporting success for South Africans","authors":"Solomon Mthombeni, Y. Coopoo, H. Noorbhai","doi":"10.30819/iss.44-2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30819/iss.44-2.03","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The purpose of the study was to examine the availability of elite sport support systems\u0000of South African National Sports Federations (NSFs) and their accessibility to athletes\u0000from historically disadvantaged areas (HDA). Twenty-one NSFs from Olympic sports\u0000participated in the study whereby they responded to a questionnaire on sports policy\u0000factors leading to sporting success (SPLISS). Descriptive statistical analyses were\u0000conducted using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS version 27.0, IBM).\u0000Informed consent was obtained from all participants before the study commenced. The\u0000majority of the NSF’s respondents reported that there was an insufficiency of financial\u0000resources, scientific and research support services, and post-sport career support. They\u0000also reported overall moderate-to-high availability of governance, organisation and\u0000sport policy structure, sport facilities, and opportunities for international\u0000competitions/exposure. Financial resources, post-career and scientific support were the\u0000most frequently reported insufficiencies, with poorer support in HDAs for all of the nine\u0000pillars of support. Additional provision is required to ensure that support systems are\u0000inclusive of athletes from HDAs. Future research needs to continue the focus on\u0000providing more detailed data on the support systems accessible to elite athletes and\u0000coaches.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":40315,"journal":{"name":"International Sports Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44034928","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":"Views of Turkish football stakeholders on video assistant referee technology","authors":"Hüseyin Aycan, Zeynep Onağ","doi":"10.30819/iss.44-2.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30819/iss.44-2.06","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The purpose of this study was to carry out an in-depth examination of the views of\u0000Turkish football stakeholders on \"video assistant referee\" technology. The stakeholder\u0000sample consisted of 18 male participants, comprising a referee board member, referees,\u0000observers, club managers, footballers, coaches, press members and fans. Semistructured\u0000interviews provided the data. A descriptive analysis of the data was then\u0000undertaken. In the participants' opinions, the main purpose of the VAR Technology is\u0000greater fairness, increased objectivity, referee development, reduction in errors,\u0000prevention of critical mistakes, and to avoid spoiling the nature of football. The\u0000participants' views on the implementation of the VAR Technology were divided into two\u0000components the effect on referee behaviour and the impact on the match performance.\u0000While the positive effects regarding referee behaviours were referees' making correct\u0000decisions, preventing the unfair loss of points, reducing referee mistakes, improvement\u0000of the referees, the negative outcome was an increased discussion of referees. The\u0000impact on match performance was evaluated negatively by the participants. The\u0000reasons were loss of time, loss of naturalness, getting distanced from the match, a\u0000decrease in excitement, and loss of motivation. Lastly, the participants’ opinion about\u0000the future for VAR Technology was that the use of this technology will continue develop\u0000in the coming years and should be supported.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":40315,"journal":{"name":"International Sports Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48991028","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}
Luiz Uehara, K. Davids, G. Pepping, Rob Gray, C. Button
{"title":"The role of family and football academy in developing","authors":"Luiz Uehara, K. Davids, G. Pepping, Rob Gray, C. Button","doi":"10.30819/iss.44-2.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30819/iss.44-2.02","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study aimed to examine the influence of families and football academies on the\u0000pathway to football expertise of Brazilian players. Built on the ‘contextualised skill\u0000acquisition research’ framework, data were generated through the triangulation of\u0000three methods: contextual analysis; participant-observation, and; interviews, with the\u0000latter providing substantial information for the present study. Data were organised\u0000according to the mesosystemic context of Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological model of\u0000human development, thematically analysed, and explained through the perspective of\u0000the framework of the ecological dynamics. The findings highlight how players navigate\u0000through their environment in relation to the social, emotional, psychological, and\u0000educational support they receive, as well as in relation to the clubs' supply of quality\u0000football training programmes. The findings provide the basis for practical\u0000recommendations to help clubs and their coaches in the task of developing and\u0000nurturing their human talent.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":40315,"journal":{"name":"International Sports Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41633008","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}
Ingo Wagner, Sabine Rayling, T. Geissler, D. Jekauc
{"title":"Relationships between emotions and disruptive behaviour in physical education - a systematic literature review","authors":"Ingo Wagner, Sabine Rayling, T. Geissler, D. Jekauc","doi":"10.30819/iss.44-2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30819/iss.44-2.04","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Classroom disruptions and disruptive behaviour occur frequently in physical education\u0000and can constitute important psychological stress factors. However, so far, the\u0000relationships between disruptive behaviour and emotions in physical education have not\u0000been studied in detail. Therefore, a systematic literature review was conducted, to\u0000explore these relationships. Studies were selected through a systematic literature search\u0000from the databases Pubmed, Web of Science, ERIC, BISp, and SCOPUS. Twelve articles\u0000met the specified inclusion criteria. Results show that anger is a well investigated\u0000emotion in this context, but psychological constructs such as boredom or low intrinsic\u0000motivation to participate in class also were described as leading to disruptions. In\u0000accordance with Lazarus's theory on emotions extended by the model of emotional\u0000contagion, a first conceptual model of relationships between teachers’ and students’\u0000emotions regarding the identified typical disruptive behaviour in physical education is\u0000derived.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":40315,"journal":{"name":"International Sports Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49113074","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}