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Swedish elite athletes’ experiences of psychotherapy for mental health concerns provided by licensed psychologists and psychotherapists: a qualitative study

BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine
This study explores elite athletes’ experiences of psychotherapy administered by Swedish licensed psychologists or psychotherapists with and without specialisation in elite sports, addressing the research question: What do elite athletes experience as ...
Carolina Lundqvist, Jonas Wig, David P Schary   +2 more
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Genome-wide association study identifies three novel genetic markers associated with elite endurance performance

Biology of Sport, 2014
To investigate the association between multiple single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), aerobic performance and elite endurance athlete status in Russians.
Ildus I Ahmetov, Nickolay A Kulemin, Daniil V Popov, Vladimir A Naumov, Egor B Akimov, Yan R Bravy, Emiliya S Egorova, Albina A Galeeva, Edward V Generozov, Elena S Kostryukova, Andrey K Larin, Leysan J Mustafina, Elena A Ospanova, Alexander V Pavlenko, Linda M Starnes, Piotr Żmijewski, Dmitry G Alexeev, Olga L Vinogradova, Vadim M Govorun   +18 more
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Participation in college sports and protection from sexual victimization [PDF]

, 2008
Some sociologists have argued that sport is a male-dominated institution and sexist culture in which female athletes experience various forms of discrimination, including sexual harassment from coaches and male athletes. Some research does indicate that
Brackenridge, CH, Fasting, K, Miller, KE, Sabo, D   +3 more
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Association Between the Female Athlete Triad and Endothelial Dysfunction in Dancers [PDF]

, 2011
Objective: To determine the prevalence of the 3 components of the female athlete triad [disordered eating, menstrual dysfunction, low bone mineral density (BMD)] and their relationships with brachial artery flow-mediated dilation in professional dancers.
Gutterman, David D., Hoch, Anne Z., Papanek, Paula, Schimke, Jane E., Szabo, Aniko, Widlansky, Michael E.   +5 more
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The high-performance sport environment: laying the foundation for a new research topic

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
Talent development and dual career literature have drawn attention to the importance of the environment in athlete development and highlighted that certain types of environments are more successful at supporting athletes to develop and perform.
Anusofia Schlawe, Ask Vest Christiansen, Kristoffer Henriksen   +2 more
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A systematic review of psychological difficulties among elite sports coaches

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionThis systematic review examined the psychological difficulties experienced by elite sports coaches, focusing on their causes, consequences, and potential interventions.
Sangwook Kang, Seungjoo Lee
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Relationship between State and Trait Anxiety, Reaction Time and IQ in Elite, Sub-Elite Athletes and Non-Athletes [PDF]

رشد و یادگیری حرکتی ورزشی, 2011
Reaction time (RT) is one of the psychomotor skills that determine athletes’ results and also in daily life. RT effective factors are divided into inherent (genetic) and environmental.
Mehdi Shahbazi, Ali Pashabadi, Hossein Abedini Parizi   +2 more
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Genetic variants in myostatin and its receptors promote elite athlete status. [PDF]

BMC Genomics, 2023
Leońska-Duniec A, Borczyk M, Korostyński M, Massidda M, Maculewicz E, Cięszczyk P.   +5 more
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Injuries in the emerging sport of roundnet (Spikeball): a cross-sectional study of 166 players

BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine
Objectives To describe injury frequency and characteristics in roundnet athletes and compare injury characteristics between elite and non-elite athletes.Methods This cross-sectional study was performed by convenience sampling recreational and competitive
Richa Gupta, Ryan W Paul, Rahul Muchintala, Skyler Boles, Meghan E Bishop, Kevin B Freedman   +5 more
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Purity and Danger – researching child protection and welfare in youth sport [PDF]

, 2006
Drawing on Mary Douglas’ classic social analysis in ‘Purity and Danger’ (1966) I argue that youth sport is a purity system and that pollution of it, through child abuse, breaches the belief system that still attaches to sport.
Brackenridge, CH
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