Rouhollah Mahmoudi; Seyed Reza Hasani; Farshid Namamian; Mehrdad Ghanbari
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The present study was conducted to design a model of the effect of brand in sports on psychological factors of professional athletes. In terms of applied purpose, the present research method was a combination of sequential exploratory type and survey collection method. The statistical population in the ...
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The present study was conducted to design a model of the effect of brand in sports on psychological factors of professional athletes. In terms of applied purpose, the present research method was a combination of sequential exploratory type and survey collection method. The statistical population in the qualitative section was experts in the field of sports marketing, sports psychology, sports sociology and sports management. Purposeful sampling in the qualitative section and interviews with experts continued until information saturation, and 16 interviews were conducted with 16 experts, and the statistical population of the research in the quantitative section included all professional athletes in selected sports (football). (288 players), volleyball (168 players), freestyle wrestling (71 players)) were present in the top leagues, due to the difficulty of accessing professional players, distributing questionnaires and analyzing them until sampling was sufficient. The data collection tool in the present study was a semi-structured interview and a researcher-made questionnaire. It was also found that branding in sports affects the psychological factors of professional athletes (path coefficient: 0.789 and T value: 34.814). Therefore, using the appropriate brand leads to improved mental performance. Cognitive becomes professional athletes.
الهام SHAMSI; seyed mohammad hoseyni; ELHAM DANESHFAR; zohre sayadpour
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The aim of the present study is the relationship between primary maladaptive schemas and anxiety with the mediation of excitement-oriented coping style in young female non-professional athletes. The method of the present research is descriptive of the correlation type. The statistical population included ...
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The aim of the present study is the relationship between primary maladaptive schemas and anxiety with the mediation of excitement-oriented coping style in young female non-professional athletes. The method of the present research is descriptive of the correlation type. The statistical population included young women (25-45 years old) newly arrived (non-professional athletes) to the sports clubs of Tehran city, 7 regions were randomly selected, and the applicants were selected by available sampling to fill out the questionnaires; In this way, 200 people with anxiety 16 and above (moderate) were selected as a sample according to Beck's anxiety questionnaire, and the research questionnaires were distributed among these people. According to Klein (2011), the number of 200 people is defensible in the structural equation method, for this purpose, among the 300 questionnaires that were distributed, the number of 200 questionnaires that were filled in completely and correctly were considered. The measurement tools of this research included 3 questionnaires: Beck's Anxiety Questionnaire (1988), Andler and Parker's Coping Styles Questionnaire (2011) and Young's Primary Maladaptive Schemas Questionnaire (2005). The obtained data were analyzed by Pearson correlation test and path analysis. The results of the analysis showed that the direct effect of primary maladaptive schemas and anxiety (0.51) was significant. The indirect effect of primary maladaptive schemas on anxiety through emotional coping style was also significant (0.27).
Hassan Norouzi; Shahnaz Mohammadi
Volume 16, Issue 35 , June 2017, , Pages 211-224
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The study is to compare the personality feature, physical image and amount of anxiety among team and individual athletes.Statistical Society was the present athletes in western of Tehran in 1393 - because of limitation in exact number of them, it is unknown. According to accidental cluster sampling, ...
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The study is to compare the personality feature, physical image and amount of anxiety among team and individual athletes.Statistical Society was the present athletes in western of Tehran in 1393 - because of limitation in exact number of them, it is unknown. According to accidental cluster sampling, 140 athletes (70 individual athletes and 70 team athletes) were assessed through the questionnaire. Two groups completed short form of neo personality questionnaire, short form of marsh physical self-description questionnaire and anxiety inventory. In order to analysis data multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) and one way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used. The results indicated that just in the mean of agreement factor and in the mean of physical activity factor, there is significant difference between two groups of team and individual athletes, in a way that the mean of score of group athletes are higher than individual athletes. In addition, the result indicated that anxiety has no significant difference between two groups. It can be concluded that in against to individual athletes, there are more amount of confidence, cooperation and sympathy in team athletes, and all of the team members try more to be prepared for proving their ability and being fixed member of the team. Also it can be concluded that the anxiety in a sport context is inseparable element of all kind of sports. Accordingly, the more necessity for athletes and coaches familiarity on psychological aspects, and awareness about how these aspects impact, positively will effect on athletes' operation.
