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Sports and Community on Campus: Constructing a Sports Experience That Matters
(2013-05)
Student affairs personnel are often charged with the task of creating a sense of community on campuses. Sports is among the many activities that historically have been used to meet this need for community among students. ...
The Football Factor: Shaping Community on Campus
(2011)
Many American universities continue to invest in expensive intercollegiate football
programs, and specifically cite the sport’s ability to foster a sense of community (SOC) as justification for the cost. This study sought ...
More Than Just Letting Them Play: Parental Influence on Women's Lifetime Sport Involvement
(East Carolina University, 2008)
This qualitative study uses expectancy-value and life course theories (Giele & Elder, 1998) to examine both the proximal and distal impact of early family socialization on enduring female participation in sport. Seventeen ...
Perceptions of Justice within Intercollegiate Athletics among Current and Former Athletes
(2012)
The topic of social justice within intercollegiate sport has focused primarily on administrator perceptions. To better understand the athletes’ perspective and the impact of athletic identity on social justice, 166 current ...
Youth Sport Ministry: Looking Beyond the Court
(2012-11)
Every year millions of children participate in church-sponsored sport leagues
throughout the U.S. and Canada. In fact, the Upward sport program reports that over a half of million 5-12 year-olds compete annually in their ...
Sport as medicine: How F3 is building healthier men and communities
(2019-02)
Given sport has been largely absent from U.S. public health policies and discourse, the author suggests ways that sport can be better managed to promote health. Using a critical perspective and grounded theory approach, ...
Connecting It All: Creating Community in Sport and Entertainment
(2016-06-01)
There is a growing concern that many individuals are no longer living in and experiencing community like previous generations. Today for many Americans, it is common for someone to have thousands of online Facebook friends ...
The Impact of Formal versus Informal Sport: Mapping the Differences in Sense of Community
(2012-10-09)
As the popularity of sport continues to grow, more community developers, planners, and leaders are recognizing the ability for sport to foster community. Similar to other community contexts, understanding the structure and ...
Employee Satisfaction in Sport: Development of a Multi-Dimensional Model in Coaching
(East Carolina University, 2010)
Despite the overwhelming emphasis on job satisfaction in sport management research, scholars continue to advocate for the distinctiveness and importance of evaluating both job satisfaction and dissatisfaction. The purpose ...
Social Network Analysis as a Complimentary Tool to Measuring Team Cohesion
(2017-03)
In addition to the Group Environment Questionnaire (GEQ), Social Networking Analysis (SNA) has emerged as a promising approach to measuring team cohesion. However, little to no research has simultaneously used both measures ...