Recently added articles from Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport:
1958-2008: 50 Years of youth fitness tests in the United States.(Special Topic)(Clinical report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The AAHPER Youth Fitness Test, the first U.S. national fitness test, was published 50 years ago. The seminal work of Krause and Hirschland influenced the fitness world and continues to do so today. Important youth fitness test initiatives in the last half century are summarized. Key ...
Health worry, physical activity participation, and walking difficulty among older adults: a mediation analysis.(Epidemiology)(Clinical report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... This study examined the effect of health worry (i.e., cognitive aspect of anxiety resulting from concern for health) on walking difficulty in a nationally representative sample (N = 7,527) of older adults (M age = 76.83 years). The study further tested whether physical activity mediates ...
Decreasing sports activity with increasing age? Findings from a 20-year longitudinal and cohort sequence analysis.(Epidemiology)(Clinical report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... According to cross-sectional studies in sport science literature, decreasing sports activity with increasing age is generally assumed. In this paper, the validity of this assumption is checked by applying more effective methods of analysis, such as longitudinal and cohort sequence ...
Conditions of practice in perceptual skill learning.(Motor Control and Learning)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... This study uses three experiments with different kinds of training conditions to investigate the "easy-to-hard" principle, context interference conditions, and feedback effects for learning anticipatory skills in badminton. Experiment 1 (N = 60) showed that a training program that ...
Effects of teacher autonomy support and students' autonomous motivation on learning in physical education.(Pedagogy)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... This study applied self-determination theory to investigate the effects of students' autonomous motivation and their perceptions of teacher autonomy support on need satisfaction adjustment, learning achievement, and cardiorespiratory fitness over a 4-month personal conditioning unit ....
Ice hockey players using a weighted implement when training on the ice: a randomized control trial.(Physiology)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential for improving hockey players' performance using a weighted implement on the ice. Forty-eight players were tested using a grip strength dynamometer. They also were assessed on their abilities to stick-handle. The participants were ...
No change of body mass, fat mass, and skeletal muscle mass in ultraendurance swimmers after 12 hours of swimming.(Physiology)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... We evaluated whether ultraendurance swimmers suffer a change of body mass, fat mass, skeletal muscle mass, total body water, and specific gravity of urine during a 12-hr swim in 12 male Caucasian ultraswimmers. Proton nuclear magnetic resonance of urine samples before and after the race ...
Comparison of heart rate response to tennis activity between persons with and without spinal cord injuries: implications for a training threshold.(Physiology)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability of individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) to reach a training threshold during on-court sport activity. Monitors collected heart rate (HR) data every 5 s for 11 wheelchair tennis players (WCT) with low paraplegia and 11 able-bodied ...
Exploring the relationship between exercise-induced arousal and cognition using fractionated response time.(Psychology)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Although a generally positive effect of acute exercise on cognitive performance has been demonstrated, the specific nature of the relationship between exercise-induced arousal and cognitive performance remains unclear. This study was designed to identify the relationship between ...
Preadolescent female development through sport and physical activity: a case study of an urban after-school program.(Sociology and Cultural Anthropology)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Youth development research has found that children become more engaged and benefit more from being incorporated as decision makers. Thus participation helps promote development and encourages engagement. Based in theories of engagement and free-choice learning, the current research focused ...
African American football athletes' perspectives on institutional integrity in college sport.(Sociology and Cultural Anthropology)
Mar 01, 2009; ... This qualitative case study used tenets of critical race theory and a single focus group and individual interviews with 4 African American football athletes at a predominantly White institution of higher education (PWIHE) in an effort to bring the voices of this marginalized group into the ...
Factorial validity and gender invariance of the Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale (PACES) in older adolescents.(Research Note--Psychology)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Key words: confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling In response to information about the health benefits of regular physical activity during adolescence (Erlichman, Kerbey, &James, 2002; Kriska, 2003; Strong et al., 2005), a growing body of research has sought ...
Ability beliefs, task value, and performance as a function of race in a dart-throwing task.(Research Note--Sociology and Cultural Anthropology)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Key words: expectancy-related beliefs, self-efficacy, task performance In the sport and physical activity literature, there has been a recent burgeoning of interest in the relation between individuals' motivational beliefs and achievement outcomes, particularly concerning the ...
Preface.
Mar 01, 2009; ... As researchers, we spend much of our time in the quiet solitude of individual research projects, questing for ways to contribute meaningfully to our disciplinary bodies of knowledge and to the world overall. At a fundamental level, we know our efforts are connected to something that ...
Research Consortium program: 2009 AAHPERD National Convention and Exposition, Tampa, Florida.(Calendar)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Tuesday, March 31, 2009 1:00-5:00 p.m. In-Depth Symposium: Tai Chi and Health Research--The Present and the Future Presiders: Weimo Zhu (F), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Hongwei Guan, Ithaca College/ICSPAH Discussant: Frank ...
Reviewers.
Mar 01, 2009 ... The Review Panel Chairs (RPCs) are listed immediately under each topic area. The abstract and symposia reviewers for each area then follow. Biomechanics and Sports Medicine Thomas W. Kaminski (RPC), University of Delaware Rhonda L. Boros, Texas Tech ...
2007 C. H. McCloy lecture: "Field of Dreams:" sport as a context for youth development.(Charles H. McCloy)(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Key words: moral development, motivation, self-perceptions, social influence Being asked to give the Charles H. McCloy research lecture is one of the highlights of my academic career. It is a distinct honor to be selected for this coveted lecture by my peers in kinesiology ....
The influence of matching populations on kinematic and kinetic variables in runners with iliotibial band syndrome.(Biomechanics)(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... The purpose of this study was to assess how participant matching influences biomechanical variables when comparing healthy runners and runners with iliotibial band syndrome (ITBS). We examined 52 healthy runners (CO) and 18 with ITBS, using three-dimensional kinematics and pressure ...
Sedentary activity and body composition of middle school girls: the trial of activity for adolescent girls.(Epidemiology)(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... This study describes the relationships between sedentary activity and body composition in 1, 458 sixth-grade girls from 36 middle schools across the United States. Multivariate associations between sedentary activity and body composition were examined with regression analyses using general ...
Predicting performance on a firefighter's ability test from fitness parameters.(Measurement and Evaluation)(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... The purpose of this project was to identify the relationships between various fitness parameters such as upper body muscular endurance, upper and lower body strength, flexibility, body composition and performance on an ability test (AT) that included simulated firefighting tasks. A second ...