impacts on society over the past two decades, it has brought both opportunities and challenges. This leads to a pertinent scholarly question: To what extent have academic publications explored the realm of sport on social media and the impacts of social media on sport industry? How have such studies
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Social Media and Sport Studies (2014–2023): A Critical Review
Gashaw Abeza
Operationally Conceptualizing Physical Literacy: Results of a Delphi Study
Chelsee A. Shortt, Collin A. Webster, Richard J. Keegan, Cate A. Egan, and Ali S. Brian
Physical literacy (PL) is a widely contested term ( Edwards, Bryant, Keegan, Morgan, & Jones, 2017 ). The past decade has seen a proliferation of over 10 separable definitions of PL used among educational, public health, and sport organizations across the world ( Keegan, Barnett, & Dudley, 2017
Improving Experiential Learning in Sport Management Through Work-Integrated Learning
Susan B. Foster and David A. Pierce
context. Questions concerning the work readiness of sport management graduates are rooted in challenges associated with the adoption, implementation, and assessment of experiential learning programs. Creating a cohesive student experience that helps students draw connections between field experiences and
Attachment and Attention in Sport
Kelly A. Forrest
Attachment (Bowlby, 1969/1982) is an interdisciplinary theory of social development that views early relationships with caregivers as central to how individuals learn to regulate attention under attachment-related stress (Fonagy & Target, 2002; Main, 2000; Hesse & Main, 2000). This paper proposes that conditions present in competitive sport situations, such as unexpected conditions, fear of failure, fatigue, and coach stress are likely to activate attachment-related attentional processes of athletes and differentially influence attentional flexibility under competitive stress. The attachment-based approach to performance-related problems in which attentional processes are implicated, such as anxiety, choking, and self-regulation, is discussed. Research using the Adult Attachment Interview (George, Kaplan, & Main, 1996) is suggested to investigate the distribution of adult attachment classification in the athlete population.
Portuguese Students’ Perceptions About the Motivational Climate in Physical Education
Paulo Pereira, Fernando Santos, and Daniel A. Marinho
statistical techniques, the perception of the motivational climate oriented toward mastery was first inserted into the equation, followed by the perception of the motivational climate oriented toward performance, since both variables can influence behavior within the contexts of PE and sport. Results
Dominant Discourses at Play: How Children’s Soccer Coaches of Mixed-Sex Programs in Ontario, Canada, Understand Sex and Gender
Julia Hamer and Audrey R. Giles
Sport perpetuates both a sex and a gender binary. 1 As Kane ( 2015 ) characterized, “sport [is] an ideal setting for establishing and articulating the [a]ssumption that there are two, and only two, obviously universal, bipolar, mutually exclusive sexes that necessarily correspond to stable gender
Effectiveness of Individual Exercise and Sport Counseling Based on Motives and Goals: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Nina Schorno, Vanessa Gut, Achim Conzelmann, and Julia Schmid
[available online]). Although almost all of these concepts include behavior change techniques ( Michie et al., 2013 ), such as developing action and coping plans, which are effective in the promotion of exercise and sport behavior (e.g., Fischer, Kreppke, et al., 2019 ; van Hoecke et al., 2014 ), the topic
Erratum. “Keep the Pace! You’ve Got This!”: The Content and Meaning of Impactful Crowd Encouragement at Mass Running Events
The Sport Psychologist
TO OUR READERS: An error appeared in the following article: Gibbs-Nicholls, S., McCormick, A., & Coyle, M. (2022). “Keep the pace! You’ve got this!”: The content and meaning of impactful crowd encouragement at mass running events. The Sport Psychologist, 36 (2), 115–127. https://doi.org/10
Consumer Engagement on Weibo in a Professional Sport Context: The Case of the Chinese Super League
Yuanyuan Cao, Ziyuan Xu, and Hirotaka Matsuoka
team, some sport fans posted negative comments. They questioned the professionalism of the coaches and players, posting comments such as shame on the Chinese team for not winning the gold medal, which were shared and disseminated. These types of behavior on social media are referred to as consumer
Goal Striving, Coping, and Well-Being: A Prospective Investigation of the Self-Concordance Model in Sport
Alison L. Smith, Nikos Ntoumanis, Joan L. Duda, and Maarten Vansteenkiste
Developing upon cross-sectional research (Smith, Ntoumanis, & Duda, 2007) supporting the self-concordance model (Sheldon & Elliot, 1999) as a framework for contextual goal striving, the current study investigated the assumptions of the model in relation to season-long goal striving in sport. The study additionally examined the role of coping strategies in the persistence of goal-directed effort. Structural equation modeling analysis with a sample of 97 British athletes indicated that start-of-season autonomous goal motives were linked to midseason effort, which subsequently predicted end-of-season goal attainment. Attainment was positively related to changes in psychological need satisfaction, which, in turn, predicted changes in emotional well-being. In a second model, autonomous and controlled motives positively predicted task- and disengagement-oriented coping strategies, respectively. In turn, these strategies were differentially associated with effort. The findings provide support for contextual adaptations of the self-concordance model and demonstrate the role of coping strategies in the goal striving process.
