This study measured muscular strength and perceived exertion of active men, 25 to 64 years old. The subjects were 80 members of a large YMCA, with 20 active men chosen from each of the following age groups: 25-34, 35-44, 45-54,and 55-64. Measurement of strength consisted of assessing the maximum weight...
The problem of this study was to determine the relationship
between selected autobiographical data and the personality characteristics
of high school basketball players.
The Athletic Motivation Inventory (AMI) measured the personality
traits of 150 high school basketball players. The Individual Data
Questionnaire was used to identify background characteristics for
comparison...
In the field of physical education and athletics the ever-rising
operating costs of quality programs had forced all small colleges to
seek new sources of funds. The financial problems in supporting
physical education and athletics were related to the overall
financial problems of these institutions.
With the need for additional...
This study was based upon the Multidimensional Model
of Leadership (Chelladurai, 1978, 1990), and the administration
of the Leadership Scale for Sport (LSS) and the
Sport Orientation Questionnaire (SOQ) (Gill and Deeter,
1988). The purposes of the study were: 1) To determine
the competitive achievement orientations (competitiveness,
goal and win)...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of false positive and
false negative feedback upon the self-efficacy and performance of high and low
self-esteem experienced weight lifters. Among a group of volunteers, 65 experienced
male weight lifters were classified as either high or low self-esteem
following administration...
Two separate studies on the distribution of gammarid amphipods in the bathyal and abyssal benthic environments demonstrated that different assemblages could be found at a single depth over distances on the order of 100 kilometers. These studies evaluated changes in the species composition and relative abundance of the amphipod assemblage...
Mounting inflationary economic pressures and the obvious spiralling costs of education, at all levels, has drastically augmented public, administrative, and government concern regarding the effectiveness of many educational training programs. Secretarial Science, which is designed to provide occupational-level training represents such a program. Therefore, this study was conducted in order...
Vacuum ultraviolet absorption spectra of 13 model sugar compounds
were measured in the energy range of 50 to 80 kK. The model
sugars included three simple alcohols, four simple ethers, four cyclic
alcohol-ether compounds, and two dioxanes. All spectra show
transition bands in the energy region 50 to 65 kK....