Asian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology最新文献

The purpose of this research was to understand and clarify the process of inter-individual Kotsu acquisition. Kotsu is essentially a trick to learn skills in Japanese, and how individuals gain it is important. One participant who had experienced the process of acquiring Kotsu, together with the first author, was selected, and a second-person approach was adopted. A club-juggling task was used as the athletic task. Data were collected through the observation and the reflection of the participants. Modified Grounded Theory Approach was used to analyze the data. Results indicated that eight intra-individual categories, eight inter-individual categories, and two performance categories were classified into nine category groups and five core categories. The correlations among the categories were used to develop a conceptual model. The performer of the athletic task acquired Kotsu with the partner by experiencing a reversal between the feeling state and the result state in the intra-individual domain and the independent state and dependent state in the inter-individual domain. Eight types of transactional states were experienced through the reversal of four paired meta-motivational states: groping, expansion, conflict, coaction, diffusion, adhesion, obsession, and coexistence. In conclusion, Kotsu is a feeling acquired through repeated reversals.

This study examined the effect of coach-initiated motivational climate and parental support on intrinsic motivation, enjoyment of sport participation, subjective vitality, sport-related violence, and academic achievement of youth soccer players. The second purpose was to examine if intrinsic motivation mediates the impact of coach-initiated climate and parental support on the above endogenous variables. Two measurements Time 1 (T1) and Time 2 (T2) were conducted. In T1, 494 young soccer male athletes completed surveys of coach-created motivational climate, parental praise and understanding, intrinsic motivation, sport-related violence, vitality, sport enjoyment and Grade Point Average (GPA). After five months, 188 of those soccer athletes responded again to the same surveys (T2). In both measurements the findings suggest that perceived coach-initiated empowering climate and parental praise and understanding have indirect effects on sport-related violence, GPA, vitality and sport enjoyment through intrinsic motivation in sport.

Research has found that mindfulness is positively related to subjective vitality. However, whether mindful athletes were shaped by environmental conditions has rarely been investigated. Therefore, based on self-determination theory, the present study investigated how both mindfulness and coach interpersonal style (autonomy support and controlling) jointly affect athletes’ subjective vitality over time. A total of 287 adolescent athletes completed surveys at two time points over three months. In addition, fifty coaches completed coach interpersonal style surveys at Time 1. The results indicated that mindfulness is positively associated with athletes’ changes in subjective vitality. Furthermore, the positive relationship between mindfulness and subjective vitality was stronger under high coach control and low coach autonomy support interpersonal styles. The current study opens a new avenue to investigate athletes’ subjective vitality. Practically, our findings highlight the importance of mindfulness in helping athletes respond to adverse conditions and thus increase athletes’ subjective vitality.

Despite the recent advancement of athlete leadership studies, little is known about their applicability in East Asian countries such as Japan, and more importantly, their relationship to communication among team members. We therefore examined the relationship between athlete leadership and communication in Japanese sport teams. The data were collected from the athletes (N = 63; three sport teams: basketball, lacrosse, and soccer) at the women's university in Japan. We then analyzed the data utilizing the social network analysis and the quadratic assignment procedure correlation technique. The results suggested a moderate correlation between each type of athlete leadership (i.e., task, motivational, and social leadership) across the three teams. Moderate correlations were also found between each of athlete leadership quality and the amount of communication. In conclusion, the current study demonstrated that athlete leadership qualities were applicable to the Japanese context and empirically clarified the relationship between athlete leadership qualities and the amount of communication. The finding contributes to further understanding of athlete leadership.

While sport psychologists have recently been encouraged to embrace digital technology and social media use in their practice, little is currently known about the associated benefits and challenges of adopting these recommendations. Published studies in other professions have suggested that engaging in social media use can be a double-edged sword, offering great communication benefits, but at the same time having the potential to impact upon work-life balance and general wellbeing. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore practitioner social media use and perceptions, and to explore participant use of the Twitter social media platform.

Participants were initially 44 sport psychology practitioners who complete an online questionnaire, of which 28 also consented to their Twitter posts from the previous 30-days being analyzed using a reflexive thematic analysis approach. Analysis produced two main categories: tweets and retweets. The tweets were composed of seven first order themes (media comments, advice and opinion, thoughts on events, self-promotion, knowledge dissemination, recommendations and activity), with the retweets composed of eight first order themes (media programming, events, sports fixtures, promotion, sport-specific content, news stories, opinions, and dissemination). Of particular importance was the perceived link between social media use and mental health, and lack of training and development.

In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and agreed that it is vital for current and future generations to pursue 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Science, education, and sport are seen as drivers and important enablers of sustainable development (SD). Yet, even though all professions are called upon to embed SD into their work to facilitate change, and even though sport and exercise psychology professionals could play an important role in this process, there seems to be only little awareness of the need to contribute to SD as a discipline. This paper aims at changing this by elaborating on the reasons why sport and exercise psychologists should care about SD and the SDGs; it explains how psychologists and their clients can benefit from using the principles of SD to guide their professional work and decision making. It will be illustrated how sport and exercise psychology professionals can promote sustainable physical activity and sustainable elite sport, and how they can contribute to the achievement of internationally agreed societal, and global goals as practitioners, as teachers, and as researchers. Furthermore, the normative dimensions of the concept of SD are being discussed.

The effective leadership of, and within, sports teams has consistently been highlighted to be an important factor impacting upon a range of outcomes including team performance, and team functioning. However, while there has been an increasing focus on athlete leadership and leadership development in recent years there is little research exploring leadership (rather than leader) development in youth sport. As a result, the aim of this study was to explore athlete perceptions of athlete leadership and the development of athlete leadership skills in a professional football youth academy. Participants were 34 professional football club youth academy players, arranged into 9 focus groups (depending upon age). The data were analyzed using thematic analysis, with six first order themes emerging (Leader behaviors, selection criteria, shared leadership, growth and development, changing environmental constraints, and leader development). The results highlight a good level of awareness of leadership amongst the youth footballers, but also major limitations in the degree to which they felt they were developed as leaders.

Imagery training is a well-known technique in sport psychology that it is often applied to improving skill performance in a range of sports. In this study, the central aim was to experimentally examine the effect of different imagery frequencies (3, 4, 5 imagery sessions per week) on basketball shooting performance. We applied a new imagery dose-response protocol, in which we varied frequency, but systematically held the other two key imagery dose variables (repetitions and duration of sessions) constant. Participants were 40 male basketball players (Mage = 20.92, SD = 3.01) who were allocated into four conditions: 3 imagery sessions per week, 4 imagery sessions per week, 5 imagery sessions per week, and a control condition. All 3 imagery conditions had 4 weeks of imagery training. For all four conditions, we measured free throw shooting (FTS) at pre-test, Week 1, 2, 3, post-test, and retention test (Week 5). Control condition participants performed their usual basketball practice with no imagery training. Results showed that the 4 imagery sessions per week condition had the highest FTS means at post-test and retention test, with FTS means that were significantly higher than the control condition at post-test and retention test. The findings and information form this study could contribute to the design of effective imagery training by supporting athletes and coaches to tailor imagery programs. Moreover, the imagery dose-response protocol utilised in this study has potential application to further examine imagery dose-response relationships.

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The authors regrettably felt they could no longer contribute to the journal due to some conceptual differences and chose to retract this article. The editors regret this outcome and offer their apologies to the readers of the journal.