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Relationship of anxiety level and performance in NAIA intercollegiate basketball games

Creator:

Boutin, K. James

Abstract:

Five NAIA intercollegiate men's basketball teams and 53 players served as subjects to determine the role pre-game anxiety played in basketball game performance. The study involved four games in which Western Oregon State College competed against other small colleges in Oregon during the 19 -81 season. Performance in basketball was...

Resource Type:

Dissertation
Motives toward track and field competition of foreign and domestic grant-in-aid student-athletes in NCAA Division I colleges and universities

Creator:

Stidwill, Howard F.

Abstract:

This study sought to chronicle the increased presence of the foreign athlete in NCAA Division I track and field and to assess the competitive motivations of American and foreign track and field athletes. Recruiting pipelines, as well as the successes of foreign athletes on U.S. university track and field teams,...

Resource Type:

Dissertation
A study of a Japanese-American basketball league and the assimilation of its members into the mainstream of United States society

Creator:

Nogawa, Haruo

Abstract:

The present study was a modified replication of the two pioneer works in the field of sport and ethnic groups by Pooley (1968) and Tindall (1973). This study investigated whether participation in an ethnic basketball league in Japanese-American communities affected the rate of assimilation of two groups of Japanese-American, high-school...

Resource Type:

Dissertation