Love Of Sport Research Articles

Application of Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) As a Predictor of Repeat Patronage of Betting Brands among Youths in Southwest Nigeria

The study evaluates how Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) can be used in predicting and ranking factors influencing repeat patronage of betting brands among youths in Southwest, Nigeria. In an attempt to achieve this, a descriptive survey design was chosen for this study through the administration of questionnaire in collecting data from the sampled population of the study. The study population is non deterministic, since it involves all youths participating in betting across Southwest, Nigeria and no official record of such participation exists anywhere in the country. The study made use of the ten most ranked physical betting platforms in Nigeria, viz: Betway, Parimatch, BetNaija, 1XBet, 22 Bet, Bet 365, Betwinner, Melbet, Wazobet and Nairabet as the study sample frame as well as youths of the six major cities across Southwest States in Nigeria. T he study population is 3,620 youths, in the proportion of 665, 852, 347, 508, 645 and 603 across the six cities chosen. The total population was considered as sample. Hence, an adoption of census sampling technique. The study found that, unemployment comes first, followed by love for sports, hope of winning in future, peer influence, promised bonus and technological advancement in that order.

‘When we meet, we play football, it reminds me of home': emotions, institutional work, and sport-for-development and peace

ABSTRACT Research question While there is a growing body of scholarship on institutional work in sport, less is known about the role of emotions by which institutions are affected. This study aims to explore the role of emotions in sport-for-development and peace (SDP)-related institutional work to challenge conditions of social inequality for refugees in Kampala, Uganda. Two core research questions are: (1) How do emotions related to forced displacement inform the institutional work of an SDP organization? (2) What emotions are mobilized by refugees and an SDP organization to challenge the institution of social inequality? Research methods Guided by a participatory action research approach, fieldwork was undertaken with a refugee-led organization in Kampala. Data collection included semi-structured interviews, photovoice, and photocollaging. Ethical consent was obtained from all individuals participating in the research and for the display of images. Results and Findings The findings demonstrate that a variety of emotions experienced as positive (e.g. love of sport) or negative (e.g. stress) stimulate SDP-related work to change relations between host communities and refugees. The findings also illustrate that emotions experienced positively (e.g. nostalgia, happiness) were generated via SDP activities, including creation of sport groups related to homelands and conflict resolution among refugees and host communities. Three mechanisms – diverting, bonding, peacemaking – are identified that enabled SDP-related practices to transform refugees’ emotions. The resulting positive emotional state helped to undermine the institution of social inequality between the host community and refugees. Implications This study advances theoretical development of institutional theory in sport management by accounting for the lived experience and emotions that play a role in SDP-related institutional work.

"The Struggle is Real": The Life History of a Groundbreaking African American, Female Basketball Coach

The purpose of this study was to construct the life history of Dana “Pokey” Chatman, a successful African American, female basketball coach. The study was guided by elements from critical race feminism. Data were collected through formal semistructured interviews, informal interviews, and documents and artifacts. They were analyzed through analytic induction and constant comparison. Key findings were that Pokey faced a considerable amount of marginalization and experienced a steady flow of microaggressions with the exception of the time she worked in Eastern Europe. Pokey’s mother, sister, childhood community, love of sport, university teammates, and head coach all played a role in helping her overcome the racism she faced. Pokey’s life history is inspiring and should encourage other women of color who have similar ambitions to persist in their efforts to become sports coaches. It can also be employed in efforts to transform the working environments of African American, female coaches.

There Is a Lot More to Transplantation Surgery Than the Surgery Itself: The "Other" Sir Peter John Morris, AC, FRS.

There Is a Lot More to Transplantation Surgery Than the Surgery Itself: The "Other" Sir Peter John Morris, AC, FRS.

Survey Research on Physical Education Teaching Satisfaction—Taking Adamson University as an Example

In order to improve the quality of physical education teaching in colleges and universities and the love of sports among college students, a survey and research on the satisfaction of physical education teaching among college students was conducted. Methods such as literature method, questionnaire survey method, interview method and mathematical statistics method were used to conduct questionnaire surveys and interviews with college students. Research results show that college students' satisfaction with physical education teaching is affected by many factors, including teaching content, teaching methods, teacher quality and teaching environment. Suggestions for improving physical education teaching in colleges and universities include optimizing the content of physical education and increasing the diversity and practicality of physical education content; secondly, flexibly using physical education teaching methods to increase the interactivity and participation of physical education; and thirdly, continuously improving physical education. Teacher quality specifically requires strengthening the professional training of physical education teachers and optimizing the age structure of physical education teachers; finally, improving the physical education teaching environment and providing safe and comfortable physical education teaching venues, facilities and sports equipment.

The Application of Successful Physical Education Teaching Mode Integrating Deep Learning in Basketball Teaching

The successful physical education teaching mode is a new teaching mode used in physical under the traditional physical education teaching mode, which is formed and developed from the teaching reform of physical education in recent years. Under the background of The Times, the new educational mode conforms to the trend of The Times and is conducive to the benign development of education. Compared with the traditional physical education teaching mode, the students of the successful physical education teaching mode have a stronger sense of experience. This strong sense of participation and experience can not only improve students’ love for sports but also have a positive impact on the development of students’ mental health and also free the cultivation of students’ personality. Deep learning (DL) is a type of pattern analysis method in machine learning algorithms, which solves many complex pattern recognition problems, and has achieved many results in the fields of search technology. In this paper, by constructing a deep learning model, the model is applied to the application research of the successful physical education teaching mode in basketball teaching, and the effect of the successful physical education teaching mode in actual teaching is obtained through comparative experiments. According to the experimental results, the successful physical education teaching mode has a more significant effect on the teaching of students’ basketball skills, and according to the experiment, when the number of fine-tuning is 180, the correct rate is the highest at this time, which is 85%. When the number of hidden layer nodes is 180, the highest accuracy rate is 85.6%, and according to the experiments on the classification results, it is concluded that the model has a high degree of matching with the application research of the successful physical education model in basketball teaching.

Volunteer motivation in sports events in Brazil

The purpose was to analyze the potential differences in the motivation factors of volunteers according to the demographics; sex, level of education, and type of events in Brazil. The Volunteer Motivations Scale for International Sporting Events was administered to Brazilian volunteers via an online survey. Back-translation was used to ensure accuracy between the original scales. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to perform the transcultural adaptation. MANOVA was utilized to compare differences in demographic variables. Volunteers were motivated by two factors: Love of Sports and Community Involvement. The level of education verified significant differences only in the love of sport factor. The MANOVA revealed that the volunteers with a lower level of schooling (incomplete and elementary school) have higher levels of motivation (love for sport) compared to volunteers with high school, undergraduate, master's and PhD degrees. The interaction between sex and level of education indicated a significant difference in the same factor, and the interaction sex and type of event with the factor Community Involvement. Therefore, the results identify some differences in demographics. It is concluded that Volunteers' motivation is linked to the love of sport and involvement with the community and is related to sex and schooling, highlighting the importance of investigating volunteer motivations amongst sports events to promote positive development in management practices, specially to Brazilian sports events.

The ‘physician-athlete’ and the development of sports medicine as a ‘very peculiar practice’

Drawing upon historical studies of the development of sports medicine in several countries and recent sociological studies of the practice of sports medicine, this paper focuses on the development of the concept of the physician-athlete, that is the idea that sports physicians should themselves be (or have been) athletes. It is suggested that this played an important part in the early development of sports medicine in integrating into a fledgling profession what was a highly diverse group of practitioners who had nothing in common other than a love for sport. It is further suggested that the expectation that sports physicians should themselves be, or have been, athletes – or that they will at the very least have a passion for sport – has become an important part of the occupational culture of sports medicine and that this provides an important clue to understanding medicine as a ‘very peculiar practice’

Volunteer Motivations in Military Sports Events: The Case of 2019 Military World Games

The 2019 Military World Games was the largest special sports event in the history of Military Sports Events. Volunteers as a soft infrastructure play a critical role in the success of the Military World Games. However, few systematic studies have been conducted on volunteer motivation of Military World Games. Drawing on the social identity theory, a theoretical model has been developed, which includes a new theme-related motivation of love of military based on the version of VMS-ISE scale. Through investigating 2,114 respondents, results show that motivations of expression of values, patriotism and city involvement, interpersonal contacts, personal growth, love of sport, and love of military have positively impact on volunteer satisfaction. Especially, volunteers with the deep passion of military sport would highly increase volunteer satisfaction. Follow-up analyses may contribute a deeper understanding and practical guidance of organizers to recruit and manage volunteers in special sport events with the certain theme.

The Cultivation of Children's Sports Method Research

Children are naturally curious, active, easy to learn, through scientific physical awareness of children's culture, can effectively promote the formation of lifelong physical habits of young children. Therefore, this article uses the methods of literature, logical analysis, sports consciousness of children as the starting point of the research on children's consciousness of physical training methods. Research think: in the children's sports consciousness, through the organization and innovation of sports activities, the use of sports game loved by children, the show and skills competition teaching method, cultivate children's love of sports, happy sports and enterprising aspects of sports consciousness, with the knowledge and skills of learning. The role of the driving force and exercise habits.

Using the Behavioural Regulation in an Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ-2) in Central and Eastern Europe: Evidence of Reliability, Sociocultural Background, and the Effect on Sports Activity.

The factors influencing sports motivation create a complex system, integrating internal drivers, such as the love of sport and the need for competence, and external segments, such as the environment, institutions, or the media. In our research, we examined the sports motivation of students studying in higher educational institutions in five countries (Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Ukraine) using the Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ–2). This research aims to explore the socioeconomic and institutional factors influencing students’ sports motivation and the effect of sociocultural, demographical, motivational, and societal factors on the frequency of participating in sports. Based on factor analysis, instead of the original five factors, three factors could be detected in the sample: intrinsic and identified motivation, introjected motivation, extrinsic motivation, and amotivation. Based on the results, higher social status facilitates intrinsic motivation, while lower socioeconomic status facilitates extrinsic motivation and amotivation. The strongest effect is exerted by individual variables, of which intrinsic and identified motivation support regular physical activity as a significant factor among students in all countries. This can also be seen in the frequency of sporting activities, as the highest frequency of sports activity was detected among people with high intrinsic motivation.

Reasons for choosing an exercise and sport science degree: Attractors to exercise and sport science

Despite recent growth and increasing popularity, there is limited knowledge of course choice and career intentions in exercise and sport science. Students in exercise and sport science degrees completed a questionnaire to measure their career intentions and reasons for course choice. Immediate career intentions were most frequently further study, with five year career intentions most often in physiotherapy or sport science areas. The main reasons for course choice were sport association and continuation reasons (love of sport and remaining involved) and interpersonal reasons and means to an end (wanting to work with and help others and to provide career options).

Understanding and building clean(er) sport together: Community-based participatory research with elite athletes and anti-doping organisations from five European countries

BackgroundIn sport the narrative is changing from anti-doping to pro-clean sport. Yet, our understanding of what ‘clean sport’ means to athletes is notably absent from the literature. ObjectivesWorking together with elite athletes and National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs), this study explored the meaning and importance of ‘clean sport’ and ‘clean athlete identity’. DesignCommunity-based participatory research design was employed to explore (a) how elite athletes define clean sport and being a clean athlete; (b) the hopes and challenges associated with clean sport and being a clean athlete; and (c) what can be done in anti-doping to elicit clean sport. MethodsFive elite athletes in five European countries (Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Slovenia and United Kingdom) were recruited as co-researchers by their respective NADOs, trained for their role as co-researchers and individually interviewed. Seventy-seven elite athletes were then purposefully recruited for 12 athlete-led national focus groups. Finally, the five athlete co-researchers and five athlete participants took part in one 2.5-h long international focus group. ResultsReflexive thematic analysis resulted in generating four overarching themes: ‘clean is being true to the self’, ‘clean performance enhancement has multiple meanings’, ‘clean is not a solo act’ and ‘the problems and solutions are systemic’. Collectively, the themes showed that the clean athlete identity is generally rooted in upbringing, early experiences and love of sport; and characterised by continued, intrinsically motivated commitment to fundamental values and morals acquired in childhood. In contrast, the concept of clean performance-enhancement is highly idiosyncratic and flexible. Elite athletes value anti-doping efforts but their experiences of disparity and unfairness in doping control undermine their trust in anti-doping. ConclusionClean athlete identity is a social endeavour and artefact, which needs to be reflected in and developed through evidence-informed anti-doping interventions. Raising athletes' voices via collaboration and participatory research can be an enriching experience for athletes and researchers alike, and a worthwhile endeavour for sport organisations with responsibility for anti-doping. To make anti-doping education personally relevant, the richness of individual interpretation of ‘clean’ for the self (i.e., clean athlete identity) and performance-enhancement must be acknowledged, respected and cultivated.

Sport Voluntarism: Indicators of Sport Volunteers’ Satisfaction and Motivation

The study was examining characteristics of volunteer motivation and factors responsible for the volunteer satisfaction using Bang and Challadurai’s (2003) volunteer motivation scale and Kuhn and Guzley’s (2002) volunteer satisfaction index. The sample was selected by using random and snowball sampling methods. A Likert-scale online survey was used and administered (n=185) to gain volunteer perception of their motivation and satisfaction associated with individual volunteer experience. The results of descriptive analysis indicate that interpersonal contact, career orientation, personal growth, community involvement and love of sport are the motivational factors encouraging volunteers to participate in sport volunteerism. Thus, multiple regression analysis reveals that Career orientation and personal growth best explained volunteer satisfaction with volunteer experience. In addition, volunteer satisfaction dimensions such as Group integration, Empowerment and Organisation Support are satisfied according to the perception of volunteers with volunteer experience. Thus, multiple regression analysis reveals that empowerment and organisation support are the most influencing factors towards volunteer satisfaction in their volunteer experience. Finally, concluded that most volunteers focus on satisfying their personal goals through participating in sport volunteerism. For further researchers can be recommended to do research using different methods such as mix methods, qualitative methods and could use different influencing factors to address the gap in literature of volunteer satisfaction and motivation. Key Words: Satisfaction, Motivation, Volunteers, Sport volunteer organisations, and Volunteer management DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/13-6-20 Publication date: March 31 st 2021

«Робин Гуд школьный»: от «дешевых ужасов» к «повестям для мальчиков» (2-я половина XIX — начало ХХ в.)

In the second half of the 19th century Robin Hood, who formerly had been a character of historical novels a la Walter Scott and the low-grade criminal and adventurous literature (“penny dreadful”), came into the field of books addressed to young children and teenagers of a relatively high status. These stories were largely designed both to amuse and to teach; they served as the voice of pedagogical ideas and carried the public school ethos. The focus was shifted from Robin Hood’s outlawry towards the very features that could serve didactic purposes. The legendary archer stands before boy readers as an epitome of cardinal virtues of an ideal English schoolboy (patriotism, justice, bodily development, love for sport’s competitions, the skill of fair play, socialization as the supreme value). Robin Hood as the hero of school stories was especially invented for readers to identify with him on the points that were crucial in the public school ethos. For the young readers he became at least a good example, both cautionary and thrilling, of fulfillment of social expectations, if not a real role model.

CNN-LSTM Hybrid Model for Kinematic Feature Analysis and Parabolic Radian Prediction in Basketball Videos.

With the improvement of living standards around the world, people's love for sports has also increased; basketball is especially loved by people. It is of great importance to provide sound motor instruction for basketball. To this end, this paper comprehensively investigates the dependence between the optimal release conditions and the corresponding shooting arm movements in basketball players. We carry out kinematic feature analysis of basketball sports videos, propose a hybrid CNN-LSTM model that can predict the arc of the shooting parry, and identify the key movements of the arm joint that produce optimal release velocity, angle, and backspin in short-, mid-, and long-range shots. The experiment demonstrates that the model has three rigid planar links with rotational joints that mimic the shoulder, elbow, and wrist joints of the upper arm, forearm, and hand, which are better at guiding the optimal ball release speed, angle, and backspin for different players with the fastest ball speed being about 4.6 m/s and the slowest being about 1.7 m/s.

Davila Family and love for sport

Davila Family and love for sport

An Examination of Parent-Reported Facilitators and Barriers to Organized Physical Activity Engagement for Youth With Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Physical, and Medical Conditions.

Organized physical activity (OPA) is an important contributor to physical, social, and emotional health and well-being; however, young people with disabilities are participating at lower rates than their peers without disabilities. This study aimed to (1) compare facilitators and barriers to OPA for young people with disabilities who currently do and do not participate in OPA and (2) to assess whether groups differed in the type of internal and external assets they reported. Parents of 218 young people (41% with a primary diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder) with a diverse representation of disabilities completed an online survey. Young people were categorized as either participants in OPA (n = 131) or non-participants (n = 87) by parent report. Non-participation was significantly predicted by the barrier “there are no activities my child enjoys” and by a lack of children’s motivation and happiness during OPA. Significant internal assets differentiating participants from non-participants were the ability to understand simple instructions, love of sport, and meeting physical activity guidelines. Significant external assets were parent and sibling participation in OPA, school type, and household income. The findings from this study have important implications for the design of public health interventions that aim to promote OPA in young people with disabilities, highlighting the need to make activities enjoyable, promote participation of siblings and parents, and support low-income families to participate.

Vania Hungria—treating myeloma with restricted resources

A love of sport almost saw Vania Hungria become a physical education teacher. “But at university I soon realised doing sport and teaching sport were not the same thing!” Hungria tells The Lancet Haematology. She then transferred to a medical degree at the Santa Casa de São Paulo Medical School (Sao Paulo, Brazil), where she realised her interest lay more in clinical medicine than surgical disciplines. “During my residency at Santa Casa Hospital, I got to work with and bond with many young patients with leukaemia.

Pinter's World: Relationships, Obsessions, and Artistic Endeavours

Pinter's World: Relationships, Obsessions, and Artistic Endeavours