Sport Ideology Research Articles

The positive influence of ideological and political education on the mental health of college students

BackgroundStudents’ mental health issues have attracted more attention due to the pressure and challenges they experience in today’s society. This study attempts to include the new era sports ideology and politics into the positive influence of college students’ mental health in an effort to better manage the mental health state of college students.Subjects and Methods100 college students with psychological anxiety issues were selected as test subjects. 50 college students were assigned to the experimental group and 50 to the control group. The new era sports ideological and political education was provided to the college students in the experimental group during the course of a six-month psychological intervention. The typical personality education approach was employed to students in the control group for a six-month psychological intervention.ResultsThe mental health status of the two groups of college students was evaluated and scored according to the anxiety item in the Stanford Acute Stress Response Questionnaire (SASRQ). Compared with the control group, the anxiety of college students in the experimental group was obviously eliminated, and the emotional regulation was very effective. Their comprehensive score was 10 points, and the control group scored 22 points.ConclusionsCollege students’ mental health is greatly benefited from the modern incorporation of sports-related political and ideological education into their mental health education.Acknowledgement2022 Yunnan Open University Scientific Research Group Project (No. 22YNOUTD04).

The Italian Olimpiadi Universitarie of 1922: at the origins of the Fascist ideology of sport

AbstractUniversity sport was less developed in Italy than in other European countries in the first decades of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, in April 1922, students from the University of Rome organised a national multi-sport event, which they called the Olimpiadi Universitarie (University Olympic Games). Many eminent figures of the ruling class supported the initiative and thousands of undergraduates participated in the competitions. The Olimpiadi Universitarie also had an important international impact and facilitated the establishment of the International University Games, which were held from 1924 to 1939. The Olimpiadi Universitarie were based on a patriotic-educational concept of sport and played a significant role in spreading physical activities in Italian universities. Additionally, they promoted the idea of sport that in the following years would be accepted by the Fascist regime. The regime developed university sport enormously, but replaced the autonomous initiative of students with control from above.

Review and prospect of the development of school sports ideology in China in modern times

This paper summarizes the related research of school physical education thought in China since modern times by means of literature research. This paper discusses and summarizes the historical experience and lessons of the development of school PE thought since modern times in China. This paper analyzes the historical background of the dominant thought of school physical education in different periods in China. It is helpful to clarify the law of long-term development of school physical education thought, and put forward better suggestions for the future school physical education work, promote the high quality development of school physical education teaching, and provide new basis for the innovation of school physical education theory.

Perspectives and Applications of Physical Education Appeared in Mao Zedong's Sports Ideology

Perspectives and Applications of Physical Education Appeared in Mao Zedong's Sports Ideology

“She is where I’d want to be in my career”: Youth athletes’ role models and their implications for career and identity construction

ObjectivesWhile role models have been documented to play a vital role in adolescents’ career development and identity exploration, in sport psychology they remain an untapped resource. The present study drew on narrative inquiry to explore the patterns of role model selection by adolescent student-athletes and the narrative maps these role models provide for self-construction. As a second objective, the study sought to understand the impact of gender on the selection and meaning of role models. MethodEighteen Finnish student-athletes (10 women, eight men) aged 17-18 participated in conversational interviews. We analysed the data with thematic and structural narrative analyses. ResultsThe participants identified two types of role models: elite athletes and family members. Whereas young men were more likely to select the most well-known athlete superstars, young women were more concerned about the relationship and similarities between the role model and the self, engaging in more exploration to find a role model that matched their needs. Most of the youth athletes rejected the totalitarian ideologies of elite sport and chose role models who could have other identities and do other things alongside sport. ConclusionsFinnish youth athletes are inspired by athlete role models whose lives are not completely constituted by performance narratives of elite sport. From an applied perspective, role models could be incorporated into career counselling with athletes to support identity development and exploration of future selves.

Ideologia esportiva e formação do indivíduo: contribuições da Teoria Crítica do Esporte

Resumo Este ensaio apresenta o debate empreendido em meados da década de 1960, na França, pelo movimento teórico e político denominado Teoria Crítica do Esporte. Essa perspectiva ocorreu em meio ao clima cultural emergente naquele período, marcado pela crítica às instituições vigentes e propunha o desvelamento dos elementos subjacentes à hegemonia da ideologia esportiva na cultura, particularmente na mídia, nos clubes e escolas. O texto apresenta os principais argumentos de seus idealizadores, sobretudo os concebidos por Jean-Marie Brohm, aproximando suas inquietações com contribuições oriundas de autores que marcaram a primeira geração da Teoria Crítica da Sociedade, notadamente Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer e Hebert Marcuse. O ensaio incide sobre as críticas tecidas por esses autores com a finalidade de compreender os fundamentos do movimento esportivo, concebido como objeto cultural de ampla disseminação e importância para a formação do indivíduo sob a égide do capitalismo.

野球害毒論争(1911年)に見る野球イデオロギー形成の一側面 : 「日本的スポーツ観」再考試論

野球害毒論争(1911年)に見る野球イデオロギー形成の一側面 : 「日本的スポーツ観」再考試論

Benefits of Outdoor Pursuits: From a Health Perspective

This paper inspects the determinants of recreational practices amongst respondents using outside of their homes. The term Recreation is derived from a Latin word “re-career” means the way of recharging or regenerating of self while Health is the quality of life to live long and serve best throughout the life suture. The study explains the sports ideology especially in respect of wholesome health. The information collected will provide guidance to the development of policy in the areas of health, sport, education, transport and the environment all of which have important roles to play in getting Pakistanis’ people and children more active more often. The study aimed at that freely possessed natural spaces are an ideal to human sustenance and that Parks and outdoor recreation spots are exhale of the community and summit is product. A reliable likert scale of 10 items with 5 choices has been used for responses on benefits of outdoor pursuits, on health perspective was constructed.

“Aye, But It were Wasted on Thee”: Cricket, British Asians, Ethnic Identities, and the ‘Magical Recovery of Community’

People in sport tend to possess rather jaded perceptions of its colour-blindness and thus, they are reluctant to confront the fact that, quite often racism is endemic. Yorkshire cricket in particular, has faced frequent accusations from minority ethnic communities of inveterate and institutionalised racism and territorial defensiveness. Drawing upon semi-structured interviews conducted with amateur white and British Asian cricketers, this paper examines the construction of regional identities in Yorkshire at a time when traditional myths and invented traditions of Yorkshire and ‘Yorkshireness’ are being deconstructed. This is conceptualised through a reading of John Clarke's ‘magical recovery of community’. Although cricket has been multiracial for decades, I argue that some people's position as insiders is more straightforward than others. I present evidence to suggest that, regardless of being committed to Yorkshire and their ‘Yorkshireness’, white Yorkshire people may never fully accept British Asians as ‘one of us’. Ideologically and practically, white Yorkshire people are engaged in constructing British Asians as anathema to Yorkshire culture. The paper concludes by advocating that, for sports cultures to be truly egalitarian, the ideology of sport itself has to change. True equality will only ever be achieved within a de-racialised discourse that not only accepts difference, but embraces it.

A battle for control: exchanges of power in the subculture of snowboarding

This article uses a Gramscian perspective to explore the subculture of snowboarding, suggesting that cultural power is both resisted and reproduced. It examines the impact of commercialization on a snowboarding subculture from a participant perspective, gained from semi-structured interviews with boarders and skiers at a resort in British Columbia, Canada. The paper discusses new ways that snowboarders differentiate themselves from wider sporting cultures, in addition to how they do not outrightly reject the ideologies of mainstream sport but instead attempt to involve themselves more in the snowboarding industry. Through linking themselves with traditionally non-snowboarding institutions and creating alternatives to them, snowboarders become actively involved in the organization of snowboarding.

Explaining the Under-Representation of Women in Leadership Positions of Sport Organizations: A Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

Research suggests that females are vastly under-represented in the upper echelons of sport organizations. As such, the purpose of the current article was to apply a symbolic interactionist perspective to the lacking presence of women in leadership positions of sport organizations. The model proposes that gender-role meanings and stereotypes associated with social and sport ideology may function to limit the capacity of females within the sport context. Specifically, in response to the lower levels of societal power and status afforded to women, females within sport organizations may fail to view themselves as adequate and appropriate leaders and/or coaches thus preventing them from acting as such (i.e., self-limiting behavior). Identity theory and the identity control process are applied to support the linking of these macro and micro processes, respectively. The proposed model also suggests the presence of a moderator; one's self-concept, that may provide a protective mechanism to the potential detrimental affects of ideological meanings, identity formation, and subsequent self-limiting behaviors. Additionally, suggestions for future research are offered.

Beyond the Hijab: Female Muslims and Physical Activity

Researchers have identified significantly low participation rates of Muslim women in international and recreational sport, citing reasons ranging from alleged discriminatory Islamic doctrine to incompatibility with Islamic beliefs. However, there are several examples of Muslim women participating in international competitions and recreational activities on their own terms, leading one to believe that perhaps the Western physical activity cultures are different from Islamic physical activity cultures. In this paper, I examine the physical activity experiences of Muslim women who were born in or immigrated to Canada. There are three areas where physical activity within an Islamic framework differs from that of a Western sport ideology. They were: a flexible and modest dress code, sex segregation, and controlled access to their physical activity space. When such needs were not met by the physical education system or existing recreational facilities, subjects compromised their beliefs, participated with their religious community, or stopped playing completely.

Understanding Sexual Aggression Against Women

Data from 139 college men who participated in and viewed contact (e.g., ice hockey) and noncontact (e.g., tennis) sports at different rates of frequency were examined to determine if there was a relationship between these variables and level of sexual aggression against women. The authors also examined whether attitudes toward women, fraternity membership, and sports ideology were related to sexual aggression against women. Hierarchical regression analysis indicated that attitudes toward women, fraternity membership, and viewing contact sports were significant predictors of sexual aggression against women, with high scores on these variables forecasting higher levels of sexual aggression against women. In addition, low scores on men's contact sports participation significantly forecasted higher levels of sexual aggression against women. Suggestions for future research in this area are discussed and implications of the results for the socialization of fraternity members and other males are considered

Physical education and health promotion: a qualitative study of teachers’ perceptions

Presents the findings from semi‐structured interviews with 35 physical education (PE) teachers in secondary schools in the Northwest of England. A principal aim of the study was to examine the extent to which health promotion had become a central feature of PE teachers’ ‘’philosophies” and practices. The findings indicated that the views of many teachers were heavily tinted with health‐related ideological justifications for PE. Teachers not only viewed sport as a central aspect of the subject but also as the main vehicle for health promotion. The paper concludes that an ideology of sport has penetrated deeply into the core assumptions of both PE teachers and government in relation to the promotion of health through PE. Gaps between “policy” and “practice” in relation to health promotion in PE remain and these appear likely to become hardened rather than diminished by recent government policy.

Sport Institutions and Ideology in Israel

The inherent relationship between Israeli sport organizations and political movements has been one of the key identifying marks of Israeli sport. This relationship was successful due to the mutual benefits it provided to the political system and the power centers of the sporting establishment alike. This article maintains that parallel to the ideological and cultural shifts in Israeli society, a new balance of power among sporting institutions was created. This combination has reshaped the relations between sports and politics in Israel.

Holistic Approaches to the Place of Sport in Women’s Lives

With this paper, I explore the need to study people who take part in sports holistically and inclusively. A critique of uncritical “scientism” is developed, illustrated by examples of distorted use of sports science and abusive sporting practice, especially as they relate to women and girls. The need to balance performance discourse with ideologies of sport as a liberatory and humane activity is argued. Holistic approaches to establishing a common scientific pedagogy for women working in physical education and sports science are recommended.

Sport as Symbol

This paper is an attempt to analyse sport in semiological categories, i.e. of sign and symbol. The author accepts the significative layer of sport is nearest to the nature of a myth. Contemporary sport expresses the industrial society's desire to compete, to reach for perfection, individual fame and riches. It also satisfies the hope for rapid horizontal and vertical mobility, for women to surmount biological and culture barriers and for the abolition of ethnical and racial inequality. It further expresses the longing for universal ethical principles and for escape from the spiritless conditions of a profane world. In the author's view, the basic forms of symbolizing sporting behaviors have been expressed by: the ideology of sport, utopia of sport, ethics of sport, sporting art, science of sports and a ritual of a sacral nature.

Values and Ideologies of Norwegian Children's Sport as Perceived by the General Population

Values and Ideologies of Norwegian Children's Sport as Perceived by the General Population

Sport in industrial America, 1850-1920

Riess examines the evolution of sport from its rural and urban origins as a less-than-respectable entertainment for the lower classes, through its antebellum upsurge when, with the development of a new sport ideology, it attained respectability - penetrating and finally remaking popular culture. Using a topical approach, Riess looks at sport from several vantage points, analysing the interaction between sport and the rise of modern cities; the impact of sport on immigration, race, class, and gender; how sport became accessible through technological innovations; how it became integral to various educational and social movements; the coming of the professional sports figure; sport's links to politics and organised crime; and, the role of women in sport. Highlighted with colourful anecdotes, the narrative unfurls a pageant of celebrities and unknowns, players, spectators, and entrepreneurs - all engaged in the drama that is American sport.

Political Influence on Physical Education and Sport in the People's Republic of China

sport has been intertwined with government in the People's Republic of China since the Communist Party took power in 1949. It serves best as a subculture, fitting into the scope of socialism. In this paper, the author investigates whether China can become a super sport power in the world. This is done by examining sport ideology, governmental structure, sport history, integrated education, mass sports, and competitive sports from the ascendancy of Mao's leadership to the post-Mao leadership under Den, and to analyze historically and sociologically the interdependence of sport, physical culture, Chinese culture, and politics. In addition, the author's experience in the system for twenty-five years highlights the investigation.