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Exercise Dependence and Body Image Concerns Amongst Group Fitness Instructors: A Self-Determination Theory Approach

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
IntroductionDespite the fact that group fitness instructors serve as significant role models with potentially great impact on class participants' motivation for exercise, they are a very under-researched group.
Michael S. Reinboth   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developmental Outcomes for Young People Participating in Informal and Lifestyle Sports: A Scoping Review of the Literature, 2000–2020

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2023
The aim of this study is to review the literature on lifestyle sports and lifestyle sport contexts with regard to the developmental potential they may represent in young people’s everyday lives.
Reidar Säfvenbom   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Contract Instructing within Aotearoa New Zealand’s Secondary Schools

open access: yesNew Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2018
Over the last 150 years, outdoor education in Aotearoa New Zealand has evolved from teachers taking students out of school on field trips to running expeditions and adventure activities as part of the curriculum.
Alan Haslip, Jo Straker, Sarah English
doaj   +1 more source

No Change – No Gain; The Effect of Age, Sex, Selected Genes and Training on Physiological and Performance Adaptations in Cross-Country Skiing

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2020
The aim was to investigate the effect of training, sex, age and selected genes on physiological and performance variables and adaptations before, and during 6 months of training in well-trained cross-country skiers.
Jan-Michael Johansen   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

OUTDOOR EDUCATION: OBSTACLES AND PERSPECTIVES FOR PRACTICING OUTDOOR LEARNING IN ROMANIA

open access: yesAnthropological Researches and Studies, 2022
Objectives. Although in recent years more and more scientific studies demonstrate the benefits of outdoor educational activities on the harmonious development of children, in Romania outdoor education is not practiced enough and even is less promoted ...
Sergiu-Lucian RAIU, Oana MÎNDRUȚ
doaj   +1 more source

Sport and Recreation Undergraduate Students’ Perspectives on Disruption of Lifestyle, Active Lives, Learning, and Livelihood during Pandemic Times

open access: yesCOVID, 2023
This paper highlights curriculum and policy reforms and innovations in a Higher Education (HE) institution in response to undergraduate student perspectives about the phenomenon of the COVID-19 restrictions imposed by the New Zealand government (2020 ...
Kathleen Ann Godber, Denise Robyn Atkins
doaj   +1 more source

Basic Psychological Need Profiles and Correlates in Physical Activity Participation: A Person-Centered Approach

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Guided by Basic Psychological Need Theory, we investigated the combined associations between need satisfaction and need frustration (i.e., need profiles) and their relations with theoretically relevant correlates including mindfulness, physical literacy,
Chunxiao Li   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Young children's perspectives of time: New directions for co‐constructing understandings of quality in ECEC

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive Restoration in Children Following Exposure to Nature: Evidence From the Attention Network Task and Mobile Eye Tracking

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Exposure to nature improves cognitive performance through a process of cognitive restoration. However, few studies have explored the effect in children, and no studies have explored how eye movements “in the wild” with mobile eye tracking technology ...
Matt P. Stevenson   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trajectories of Physical Activity Among Adolescents in the Transition From Primary to Secondary School

open access: yesFrontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2020
Research on physical activity (PA) behavior reveals an overall decrease worldwide from early childhood and throughout adulthood. The ability to illuminate which factors promote activity for whom and in which phase of life, therefore, becomes a key ...
Hilde Kristin Mikalsen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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