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  • The Youth Sports Volunteer Coach Experience: Influencing Children's Physical Activity Levels in Youth Sports

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    Cohen, Alysia J.
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    The inclusion of sport participation during childhood reaches beyond the boundaries of childhood backyards and open streets. For many, youth sports have been considered a right of passage to adolescence with organized youth sports programs being encased in communities for a handful of decades. Within that time, a plethora of...
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    for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Exercise and Sport Science presented on June 9, 2015

  • Factors influencing women's enrollment in cardiac rehabilitation : patient and support person perspectives

    Creator:
    Northrup-Snyder, Kathlynn
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    Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) accounts for almost 20% of all deaths in the United States and is a leading cause of premature death and disability. The cost for this disease includes not only lost work years, but billions of health care dollars. Women account for almost half of the deaths...
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    Rehabilitation Choices Of Women TABLE OF CONTENTS (Continued) Article 2: Factors Influencing Women's Cardiac

  • Increasing physical activity in adults : identifying mechanisms of goal-setting theory

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    Moon, Dal-Hyun
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    Walking is the most popular type of physical activity among the adult population in the United States including individuals with disabilities. Considering the popularity of the activity, walking-related physical activity should be a focus of health promotion campaigns among the adult population. Rhodes and Nigg (2011) suggested that employing theory-based...
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    ., & Byrne, A.T.J. (1988). Goal setting in sports: clarifying recent in anomalies. Journal of Sport

  • The effects of resistance training on fracture risk and psychological variables in postmenopausal women

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    Shaw, Janet M.
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    of Doctor of Philosophy in Exercise and Sport Science presented on May 2, 1995. Title: The Effects

  • Inclusion of youth with disabilities in afterschool programs

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    Taylor, Jennifer Julie
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    Afterschool staff have been identified as a critical piece in the positive outcomes youth receive through participation in afterschool programs (Apsler, 2009; Daud & Carruthers, 2008; Riggs & Greenberg, 2004). These programs may benefit youth with disabilities but little is known about what influences staff to include youth with disabilities...
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    Exercise and Sport Science presented on September 3, 2013. Title: Inclusion of Youth with Disabilities

  • Accuracy of momentary time sampling : a comparison of varying interval lengths using SOFIT

    Creator:
    McNamee, Jeff B.
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    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has made the promotion of regular physical activity a national health objective, and experts believe that physical education can play a significant role in the promotion of physical activity. Feasible measurement tools to assess physical activity behavior, by physical educators, are lacking....
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    of Doctor of Philosophy in Exercise and Sport Science presented on November 21, 2003. Title

  • Ethnic minorities' leisure-time physical activity in the context of acculturation

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    Lee, Hyo
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    Eliminating physical activity disparities among ethnic minorities in the U.S. is important. Cultural differences have been found to be plausible contributing factors associated with such disparities. Therefore it is important to investigate and understand the mechanisms by which diverse aspects of cultural experiences affect physical activity participation among ethnic minorities,...
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    activity context. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 29, 1-19. 18 Haskell, W. L., Lee, I

  • Breaking silos : interdisciplinary research in kinesiology

    Creator:
    Schary, David P.
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    With the growing popularity of kinesiology at the undergraduate level, one would expect the field to be influential. Kinesiology, however, appears to be in a paradox. The undergraduate popularity is not reflected in the rest of academia, or even the general public, many of whom feel kinesiology is not a...
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    sample of journal articles (n = 552) were selected from kinesiology-focused journals (n = 10) from the

  • Life course perspective : a journey of participation in physical activity

    Creator:
    Li, Kin-Kit
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    A life course perspective provide a meta-theoretical framework to understand human development. This perspective is characterized by studying the changing lives within the changing environment (George, 2004). Building upon the literature in the psychosocial paradigm and ecological models, Manuscript 1 discusses the uniqueness and the practical importance of a life...
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    DISSERTATION OF Kin-Kit Li for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Exercise and Sport Science

  • Physically active adult women's experiences with plus-size athletic apparel

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    Christel, Deborah A.
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    Substantial research on the functionality of athletic apparel has been conducted; however little consideration has been given to the plus size figure. Societal messages suggest that overweight women are lazy and therefore would not be interested in athletic apparel. The purpose of this study was to determine overweight adult women's...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Deborah A. Christel for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in