Dissertations / Theses: 'Sport and leisure management'

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Shibli, Simon. "Performance analysis in sport and leisure management." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2015. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/11010/.

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Anable, Jillian Leigh. "Mobility management in the leisure sector : the application, psychological theory and behavioural segmentation." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/7811.

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Smith, Graham. "The influence of overseas coaching and management on the occupational subculture of English professional football." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2011. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/52324e84-2c14-4fbc-9fea-754379c7d2b7.

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As an area of academic and popular interest it is generally acknowledged that migrant British players and coaches were instrumental in football's global diffusion and that different technical and tactical emphases developed according to particular geographical locations and cultural milieu. As the twentieth century unfolded the trend reversed with increased inward flows of elite foreign playing and coaching labour into the upper tiers of UK football, challenging the distinctive and erstwhile dominant occupational culture of the English game. This study examines this process of sub-cultural adaptation. It is principally concerned with critical evaluation of the dynamics of occupational culture modification and any resultant tensions evidenced between expatriate and indigenous coaching talent and other interest groups operating within the higher echelons of English professional football.

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Sato, Mikihiro. "The Role of Physically Active Leisure in Enhancing Well-Being." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/292598.

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Tourism and Sport
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Using an ecological perspective, the current research developed a theoretical framework that suggests that environmental and personal resources related to physically active leisure, as well as the interactions between them, contribute to well-being. A distance-running event was examined as an environmental resource for enhancing global life satisfaction, a key measure of subjective well-being. In contrast, the constructs of behavioral involvement and psychological involvement were used to measure personal resources resulting from physically active leisure. The proposed framework was tested with a set of three studies in which participants were recruited through a survey panel from a 10-mile distance-running event in the US. Study 1 performed a partial least squares structural equation modeling analysis to examine whether the distance-running event contributed to behavioral and psychological involvement and whether such involvement, in turn, promoted global life satisfaction. By using longitudinal data over a 5-month period, Study 2 used a latent growth modeling approach to investigate whether the distance running event was able to enhance participants' psychological involvement and whether such change promoted global life satisfaction. Study 3 conducted a moderated mediation analysis to examine the influence of personality, behavioral and psychological involvement, and two environmental resources of the distance running event and an organized running club on global life satisfaction. The results of the three studies suggest that a distance-running event can serve as an environmental resource that promotes participants' behavioral involvement and psychological involvement in the activity. The results also indicate that psychological involvement plays an important role in promoting global life satisfaction, whereas behavioral involvement may be insufficient to promote global life satisfaction. Overall, the current research contributes to the sport management and leisure literature by providing scholars with a new way of understanding the benefits of physically active leisure. The findings from the current research also provide practical implications for government and community leaders to enhance people's well-being by promoting physically active leisure in their cities and communities.
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Gould, James, Dewayne Moore, Nancy J. Karlin, Diane B. Gaede, Joseph T. Walker, and Andy R. Dotterweich. "Measuring Serious Leisure in Chess: Model Confirmation and Method Bias." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3802.

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The serious leisure inventory and measure (SLIM) was tested with 348 chess players to confirm the factors, assess the effects of method bias, and propose a set of the best-performing items for the 18 factor SLIM. The 54-item SLIM demonstrated acceptable fit and reliability values. The effect of method bias was evidenced in the sample and explained one-third of the variance. Inspection of factor loadings, when controlling for method bias, yielded one best-performing item per factor. Findings indicate method bias continues to be problematic for self-report measures such as the SLIM.

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Pacheco, José Pedro Scarpel. "Gestão do esporte e do lazer : mapeamento e análise dos espaços públicos no município de Rio Claro – SP /." Rio Claro, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/181961.

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Orientador: Gisele Maria Schwartz
Resumo: Para que possam ser adequadamente desenvolvidas as vivências no âmbito do lazer e para que ocorra a apropriação deste fenômeno como direito social, se faz necessário dispor, gerir e difundir os espaços públicos nas cidades. Entretanto, nem sempre esses processos ocorrem de forma eficiente na Gestão Pública, deixando a população sem a devida informação a respeito dos espaços adequados para as práticas esportivas e sobre o direito ao lazer. Na perspectiva de contribuir para minimizar essa defasagem de informações, este estudo teve como objetivo identificar e mapear os espaços públicos de esporte e de lazer pertencentes à Prefeitura Municipal de Rio Claro/SP, bem como, analisar suas formas de apropriação. O estudo, de natureza qualitativa, desenvolveu-se por meio da união de pesquisa de revisão sistemática, de pesquisa documental e de pesquisa exploratória, com base na técnica de observação. Os dados coletados durante a pesquisa exploratória foram analisados descritivamente, pela técnica de Análise de Conteúdo. Os resultados foram apresentados em dois artigos, o primeiro, referente à revisão sistemática, apresentou dados relativos aos estudos que abordam as temáticas envolvendo gestão, políticas públicas e espaços nos contextos do esporte e do lazer e demonstrou que, embora essa temática seja abordada nos diversos estudos acadêmicos analisados, os espaços públicos e a gestão dos mesmos são abordados de forma secundária, necessitando maior atenção. O segundo artigo, foi provenien... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: In order for leisure experiences to be properly developed and appropriated as a social right, it is necessary to manage and disseminate public spaces in cities. However, these procedures do not always occur efficiently in Public Management, leaving the population without proper information about the spaces appropriate for sports practices and their right to leisure. With the aim of helping minimize this information gap, the objective of the present study was to identify and map sports and leisure public spaces that belong to the City Hall of Rio Claro / SP as well as to analyze their forms of appropriation. This study had a qualitative nature and it was developed through the gathering of systematic reviews, documentary and exploratory researches, based on the Observation Technique. Data collected during the exploratory research were descriptively analyzed using the Content Analysis Technique. The results were presented in two articles, the first one, referring to the systematic review, presented data on the themes involving management, public policies and spaces in the contexts of sports and leisure, and demonstrated that, although this theme is addressed in several academic studies analyzed, public spaces and their management are addressed in a secondary way, requiring more attention. The second article came from the data derived from documentary research, from the mapping and from the analysis of the public spaces of sport and leisure in the city of Rio Claro – SP, and brou... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Reid, Gavin. "Power, decision-making and the representation of interests : a case study of compulsory competitive tendering for Local Authority Sport and Leisure Management." Thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320721.

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This thesis provides a critical analysis of the extension of Compulsory Competitive Tendering (CCT) to the management of local authority sport & leisure facilities. Rather than examining the impact of CCT on local authorities, the research looked at how local authorities have defined the legislation and with what effect on the representation of interests. It achieves this by using the concept of 'power' to inform its institutional economic analytical framework and methodological process. Chapter 1 provides a brief definition of the study's key terms and their relevance to sport and leisure policy-making. A historical analysis of the local authority role in recreation from the pre-industrial to the present is put forward in Chapter 2. This seeks to explain the process of developments in public policy for leisure and thus highlight factors with the potential to impact on the social construction of the sport and leisure market. This serves to put CCT, or more specifically the problem of competition for local authorities, in its historical context. Chapter 3 outlines the study's methodological process which is informed by a particular model of power (Lukes, S. 1974 Power: A Radical View). In Chapter 4 the results of a large scale postal survey of local authority Chief Leisure Officers and Directors of commercial leisure companies are put forward to give initial notice of the 'winners and losers' in the CCT process and the extent of activity and inactivity of particular interest groups. Chapters 5 & 6 provide a theoretical progression within the field of institutional economics that is capable of understanding the political realities of the CCT process. An initial transactions cost analytical framework is put forward in Chapter 5 and then informed by an evolutionary institutional economic analysis in Chapter 6. Neoclassical, transactions cost and old institutional economic theory are criticised for having a limited conceptualisation of power and a resultant inadequate appreciation of how more subtle processes can serve to obstruct some interests and encourage others in the competition for sport and leisure contract specifications. Chapters 7 & 8 apply the new methodological process and analytical framework to two indepth case studies. These survey a range of interested 'actors' on a range of issues to highlight if, how and why some issues (and thus people) are able to reach the CCT decision-making process while others are organised out. Relevant written material within each authority is also considered to explain possible variations between theory and practice. The aim is to show how the organisation of the process of decision-making can influence the competition for contract specifications and what are perceived as acceptable/unacceptable costs. Recommendations are then put forward that could overcome perceived obstacles to a greater representation of interestsChapter 9 informs the previous economic analyses by using practitioners' and users' responses from both case studies. In particular. an effort is made to provide a critique of transactions cost theory as it has been applied to CCT for sport and leisure, while also putting forward an evolutionary institutional economic analysis that appreciates the role of power, values and ideology. Chapter 10 concludes with an overview of how the thesis fulfils the academic requirements of a doctoral research project

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Walker, Joseph T., Gene Farren, Andy R. Dotterweich, James Gould, and Laura Walker. "Fitness Center Service Quality Model Confirmation SQAS-19." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3791.

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A fitness center service quality measure was tested with 151 respondents to confirm a 19-item, five-factor model. The results substantiated the SQAS-19 as an adequate measure of fitness center service quality in that it continued to demonstrate that service quality is a multidimensional construct. Alpha and construct reliability coefficients found within the current study were relatively consistent with prior findings that support the use of this more parsimonious and less invasive version of a fitness center service quality assessment.Subscribe to JPRA

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Santos, Marcel Ivan dos. "Perspectivas de gestão participativa no setor de esporte e lazer da administração municipal de Vitória-ES." Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2013. http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/6109.

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Este estudo analisou os planejamentos e execuções de políticas de esporte e lazer desenvolvidas nas gestões da Secretaria de Esporte e Lazer da Prefeitura Municipal de Vitória no período 2005-2012, buscando compreender os fatores que promovem o distanciamento do modelo de gestão pautado na participação cidadã. Importante nessa intencionalidade é a discussão sobre modelos diferenciados de gestão, que primem pela descentralização, participação cidadã e intersetorialidade, todas as categorias emergentes a partir da década de 1980. Trata-se de ume estudo qualitativo, que contou com a pesquisa documental em fontes coletadas no setor de esporte e lazer e no conselho municipal, além de entrevistas a gestores e conselheiros. No modelo de análise dos dados, utilizou-se a técnica de análise de conteúdo de Bardin (2009). Entre os principais resultados, encontrou-se que o afastamento da perspectiva de gestão social no setor de esporte e lazer se deve a dois fatores: à presença de um discurso esportivista cunhado na formação de atletas e no esporte de alto rendimento; e à ausência do interesse coletivo pela apropriação do esporte e lazer enquanto direito. Apesar disso, é possível afirmar que o setor de esporte e lazer tem avançado no intuito de promover acesso destas práticas aos cidadãos, haja vista a diversidade de equipamentos, projetos e programações voltadas para a comunidade capixaba de todas as faixas etárias
This study investigated the planning and execution of the sports and leisure policies developed in the management of the Municipal Sport and Leisure of Victoria-ES (SEMESP) in the period 2005 to 2012, seeking explanations for the apparent distance of the management model based on participation citizen and intersectorial actions. Important is the intentionality that the discussion about different models of management, based on decentralization, citizen participation and intersectoral approach, all categories emerging from the 1980s. This is a qualitative study, which in its initial phase was conducted a literature review,, followed by analysis of documents concerning the management of SEMESP and possible partnerships, particularly with the Municipal Council of Sports (COMESP). The data analysis technique used was content analysis of Bardin (2009), by cutting the texts according to the most significant content. Thus, the main factors for the management of sport and leisure in the city Vitoria deviating from the perspective of social management is an approach to the ideas of nationalism that prevailed in the country about the sports policy from the 1960s, who coined the training of athletes and the sport of income. With regard to minimum participation in COMESP and SEMESP, we believe it is part of the limited understanding of some managers, and the community about the importance of leisure and sport evidenced in the lack of quorum at board meetings, and the devaluation of sport leisure front of other rights, insufficient training of citizens to participate, insufficient awareness of social commitment and struggle for collective gains and lack of commitment to public policy management of sport and leisure in general. Nevertheless, it can be said that the sports and leisure sector have advanced in order to promote access to citizens of these practices, given the diversity of equipment, projects and programs aimed at community capixaba of all age groups, but that in itself alone does not guarantee the right of ownership in this sector

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Silva, José Geraldo Fagundes da. "Política pública de governo do programa de esporte e lazer da cidade (PELC): desafios e contradições da gestão participativa - 2011 a 2016." Universidade Catolica de Salvador, 2018. http://ri.ucsal.br:8080/jspui/handle/prefix/419.

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Esta dissertação compõe o conjunto de estudos realizados na Universidade Católica do Salvador, no Mestrado em Políticas Sociais e Cidadania, na Linha de Pesquisa - Políticas Sociais Universais, Institucionalização e Controle. Tem como objeto de estudo o desenvolvimento de gestão participativa do Programa de Esporte e Lazer da Cidade (PELC), enquanto política pública social de governo considerando uma análise das Diretrizes de 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, e 2016. Problematiza os desafios e contradições que são identificadas na proposta das Diretrizes que tratam de gestão participativa do Programa de Esporte e Lazer da Cidade (PELC), enquanto política social. Responde uma pergunta científica específica que diz respeito aos fundamentos do PELC, segundo os documentos oficiais, para identificar os limites na sua implementação gestora. As fontes foram os documentos oficiais das Diretrizes do PELC nos anos de 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 e 2016 do Ministério do Esporte. Quanto ao método de pesquisa foram realizadas análise de conteúdo dos documentos. Na análise foram destacados os fundamentos referentes às relações sociais estabelecidas - que orientam a gestão e participação dos envolvidos com o PELC. Os dados foram expostos de forma descritiva através de quadros. A discussão dos dados analisados nos possibilitou apresentar contradições que existem no que está escrito nos documentos. Para analisar as determinações e explicar as contradições e limites nos valemos da teoria que explica o que são políticas públicas e como as relações são estabelecidas em uma sociedade dividida em classes sociais como é o caso do Brasil. Concluímos que, apesar de ser anunciado um programa democrático, participativo, universalizante, para elevar o padrão cultural esportivo da população, existem limites estruturais, contradições e que inviabilizam muitas iniciativas de participação e expansão, enquanto política social. Isto decorre destas políticas estarem determinadas pela organização econômica neoliberal que privilegia políticas assistencialistas, focais, compensatórias e não políticas verdadeiramente democráticas e universais.
This dissertation compiles the set of studies carried out at the Universidade Católica do Salvador, in the Master in Social Policies and Citizenship, in the Research Line - Universal Social Policies, Institutionalization and Control. The objective of this study is the development of participatory management of the City Sport and Leisure Program (PELC), as a public social policy of government considering an analysis of the 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2016 Guidelines. It challenges the challenges and contradictions which are identified in the proposal of the Guidelines that deal with participatory management of the City Sport and Leisure Program (PELC), as a social policy. It answers a specific scientific question that concerns the foundations of the PELC, according to the official documents, to identify the limits in its management implementation. The sources were the official documents of the PELC Guidelines in the years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016 of the Ministry of Sports. As for the research method, the document content analysis was performed. In the analysis, the foundations for established social relations - which guide the management and participation of those involved with the PELC - were highlighted. The data were described descriptively through tables. The discussion of the analyzed data allowed us to present contradictions that exist in what is written in the documents. To analyze the determinations and to explain the contradictions and limits we use the theory that explains what public policies are and how the relations are established in a society divided in social classes as is the case of Brazil. We conclude that, despite the announcement of a democratic, participative and universalizing program to raise the sports cultural pattern of the population, there are structural limits, contradictions and that make many initiatives of participation and expansion unfeasible as a social policy. This stems from these policies being determined by the neoliberal economic organization that favors genuinely democratic and universal welfare, focal, compensatory and non-political policies.

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Haycock, David. "University students' sport participation : the significance of sport and leisure careers." Thesis, University of Chester, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/600537.

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There is now national and international evidence which indicates that those who have higher educational qualifications are more likely to be present-day and future sport participants than those who leave education once they reach the minimum school-leaving age. In Britain, despite significant government policy and financial investment in interventions designed to boost youth sport participation alongside other favourable trends, including a doubling in the proportion of students entering higher education (HE) since the 1980s, the rates of sport participation among the general population, including young people, have remained relatively static. This is particularly significant for, if attending HE does indeed help explain why university students are more likely to become present-day sport participants and remain sports-active into later life, then one might have expected to observe increases in participation by young people and adults over the last three decades or so. Since this has not happened, definitive conclusions about whether there is a HE effect on sport participation and, if so, what this effect/these effects are, cannot yet be drawn. The central objective of this study, therefore, was to explore this apparent paradox by analysing the development of 124 20-25-year-old undergraduate students’ present-day sport and leisure participation via a retrospective analysis of their sport and leisure careers. The study employed a cross-sectional, mixed methods, research design incorporating structured and semi-structured interviews held at two universities in England between March and July 2011. The findings indicated that the two clearest predictors of differences in the present-day sport participation and sport careers of university students were subject of study and sex, with sport students and males being the most likely participants over the life course and whilst at university. These differences first emerged during childhood, widened from age 12-13-years-old, and remained relatively set from age 16 onwards. The differences in the present-day sport participation of university students, and the richness of their overall sport careers, could thus not be attributed to a ‘HE effect’ as previous research has suggested. It was during childhood, rather than youth, when the preconditions required for constructing short- or longer-term sport (and leisure) careers were formed. The differential childhood socialization practices students’ experienced played a crucial role in the development of sporting habituses and dispositions within their unfolding networks (or figurations) which provided the foundations upon which present-day inequalities in participation were based. In this regard, the assumed contribution attending HE has previously been expected to make to students’ current and future sport participation appears to have been over-stated, and in so doing diverted attention from other processes associated with the inequalities that underlie students’ differential engagement in sport. It seemed that the context of university did little to promote overall levels of student participation, the numbers of sports they played, and the facilities they used. At best, attending HE may have simply delayed the drop-out from sport among those with already established and longer-running sport careers prior to attending university. In this regard, the present focus on raising sport participation among 14-25-year-olds by various sports organizations and facilitators would appear misguided and perhaps doomed to failure, for the evidence of this study suggests that a more appropriate focal point for policy interventions concerned with boosting longer-term participation is not with youth, but with children.

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McInnes, Hamish Alan. "Lifestyles and leisure participation." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1989. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/28227.

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The objectives of this research are twofold; firstly, to provide a more complete appraisal of leisure participation than hitherto available, and secondly, to see whether or not leisure lifestyles can be identified on the basis of people's behaviour. Leisure life styles of individuals are poorly understood. Research to date has concentrated on specific activities or the use of facilities. It has been almost wholly descriptive in nature. This thesis aims to examine individual leisure behaviour with particular reference to the neglected sphere of informal and home based leisure.

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Shi, Xiaolei. "Social interdependence theory in sport." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8088/.

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This thesis investigates examining the effects of certain types of interdependence on motor performance in competition. In the first experiment, participants undertook a ball carrying and running task under varying levels of between-team resource interdependent condition in the individual competition. The number of balls that carried to the container decreased when between-team resource interdependence exists. In the second experiment, participants completed a basketball shooting and rebounding task under varying levels of between-team resource interdependent condition in a two-on-two team competition. Results indicated that the number of baskets made, the number of baskets attempted and the shooting accuracy was higher in resource independent competition. In the third experiment, participants undertook the same basketball shooting and rebounding task as the second experiment under varying levels of between-team resource interdependent condition and within-team reward interdependent condition. Results indicated effort-based performance was greater under resource independent condition and its interaction with low reward interdependent condition. In the final experiment, participants undertook a handgrip task in a four-on-four team competition. Compared to the no reward condition, performance was better under both high reward interdependent condition and low reward interdependent condition. Mediation analyses revealed that positive emotions, self-reported effort and pressure mediated the change of performance.

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Rocha, Luiz Carlos. "Politicas públicas de esporte e lazer na Bahia: um estudo analítico do Território Litoral Norte e Agreste Baiano." Faculdade de Educação, 2012. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/14570.

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Trata-se de uma pesquisa sobre as políticas públicas de esporte e lazer no estado da Bahia. O estudo buscou pela lente da educação compreender como são elaboradas e implementadas as políticas públicas de esporte e lazer e tomou o Programa Território de Identidade, notadamente o território 18, intitulado Litoral Norte e Agreste Baiano, como campo empírico e lócus privilegiado de diagnóstico e análise. A investigação caracterizou-se como um estudo quali-quanti e utilizou como procedimentos metodológicos a entrevista semi-estruturada, a observação simples e o levantamento documental. Os resultados apontaram que o Programa Território de Identidade desenvolvido pela Secretaria de Planejamento do Governo do Estado da Bahia, é uma importante iniciativa do poder público estadual que deve ser politicamente fortalecido. Ficou evidente que a realidade do esporte e lazer no território é muito precária, principalmente, no que se refere às políticas de infraestrutura (espaço e equipamentos), recursos humanos e financiamento, observou-se, também, que tais aspectos se constituem em entraves reais para o desenvolvimento permanente e socialmente referenciado do esporte e lazer no território. A pesquisa apontou ainda a relevância da formação de gestores, da participação popular e do controle social, bem como, da criação e consolidação dos “Conselhos Territoriais de Esporte e Lazer” – CTEL, como desafios estratégicos para afirmação das políticas públicas de Esporte e Lazer como direito de todos.
ABSTRACT This is a research about public policy of sport and leisure in the state of Bahia. The study sought by lens of education to understand how are developed and implemented the public policies of sport and leisure, and took the program of Territory Identity, especially the territory 18, called North Coast and Baiano Waste, as empirical field and privileged locus of diagnosis and analysis. The investigation was characterized as a qualitative and quantitative study and used as methodological procedures the semi-structured interview, the simple observation and documentary survey. The results indicated that the program of Territory Identity developed by Secretary of Planning Government of the State of Bahia, is an important initiative of the state public power than should be politically strengthened. It was evident that the reality of sport and leisure in the territory is very precarious as regards mainly the political of infrastructure (space and equipment), human resources and financing and that these aspects constitute real obstacles to the permanent development and socially referenced of the sport and leisure in the territory. The research also showed the importance of the managers formation, popular participation and social control, as well as the creation and consolidation of the "Territorial Councils of Sport and Leisure" as strategic challenges for affirmation of the public policy of Sport and Leisure as a right of all.
RESUMEN Se trata de una investigación sobre las políticas públicas del deporte y el ocio en el estado de la Bahia. El estado busca por La vía de la educación comprender como son elaboradas e implantadas las políticas publicas del deporte y El ocio y tomo El programa territorio de identidad, notablemente 18 territorio litoral norte y La escarpada costa norte de Bahia. Como campo empírico y lugar privilegiado de diagnostico y análisis. La investigación se caracteriza como un estudio cualitativo y cuantitativo y se utilizo como procedimientos metodológicos, La entrevista semiestructurada, Las observaciones simples y El levantamiento de documentos. Los resultados apuntan que El programa territorio de identidad desenvuelto por La secretaria de planeamiento Del gobierno Del estado de La Bahia, Es una importante iniciativa Del poder publico Del estado que debe ser políticamente fortalecido. Es evidente que La realidad Del deporte y El ocio en El territorio es muy precario en lo que se refiere principalmente a las políticas de infraestructuras (espacios y equipamientos). Recursos humanos y financiamiento y que tales aspectos se constituyen en obstáculos reales para El desenvolvimiento permanente y socialmente con referencia al deporte y el ocio en El territorio. La investigación también indico La importancia de La formación de directivos, de La participación popular y Del control social. Bien como, de La creación y consolidación de los consejos territoriales de deporte y ocio – CTEL, como desafíos estratégicos para afirmar las políticas publicas Del deporte y El ocio como derecho de todos.

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Delves, A. J. "Towards a theology of leisure." Thesis, University of Hull, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387797.

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Reilly, Justine Nicola. "Sport, museums and cultural policy." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2014. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/11324/.

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Britain is widely considered to be the birth place of modern sport. Given this fact, it could be expected that the representation of sport within British museums would be extensive. However, the discussion of sport in museums within the existing literature is limited at best and, where it does occur, has a focus primarily on sport specific museums. Therefore, this thesis examines the development of sport in museums and the motivations and barriers which have influenced its development. Placing sport in museums within the wider context of cultural policy between the period of 1997 and 2012, the study explores the impact of sport in museums within wider social and economic agendas. Due to the lack of existing evidence concerning the subject area, the study draws on extensive fieldwork conducted by the author with individuals working in the fields of cultural policy, museum practice, and academia. In addition, focus groups and questionnaires were carried out with members of the public to ascertain perceptions towards sport as a subject matter for museums and the potential of sport to increase and change museum audiences. In addition, there is an in-depth evaluation of the Our Sporting Life exhibition programme in order to establish the impact of sport in museum against the widely used museu-m methodology frameworks, the Generic Learning *Outcomes and Generic Social Outcomes. The findings of this research demonstrate that sport in museums responds to a range of wider cultural policy objectives which support economic and social outcomes. These include: improving individual’s knowledge and understanding; providing enjoyment; supporting health and well-being agendas; and building stronger communities. In addition, the evidence establishes that sport attracts new and different audiences to museums and suggests that this may impact on the visiting habits of these individuals in the long-term. However, the findings also demonstrate that there are significant barriers to the delivery of sporting exhibitions in museums, most notably access to sufficient funding and inadequate knowledge and availability of relevant sporting collections. Therefore, this thesis presents the first conclusive evidence that sport in museums is both relevant and valuable as a subject matter for museum discourse, and argues that this alone suggests a need for increased funding to support further development of activity in this field.

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Schuring, Savannah A. "Meandering Motivations: A Look into the Changing Motivations of Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1557443386693632.

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Song, Wei. "Chinese women and sport : an analysis on how gender and class affect their attitudes towards sport participation." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51972/.

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This study investigates the forces that shape and determine the attitudes and choices that Chinese women have made and continue to make in regard to their sport engagement at a non-elite level. It argues that the constructs of gender and class are so deeply ingrained within Chinese society that they still play their essential roles in women’s decision making processes of their sport participation. A theoretical framework that utilizes the concepts of Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu and Raewyn Connell is significant in explaining how gender and class affect the women cited in this study. Life history interviews and auto-ethnography were employed in this investigation in order to uncover more detailed and qualitative insights as to how gender and class are discursively defined and how women conform or negotiate these discourses about gender and class.

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Speer, Susan A. "Talking gender and sexuality : conversations about leisure." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1999. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/12976.

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This thesis is a discursive and conversation analytic study of how people talk about gender in the context of discussions about leisure. The data comprise a corpus of over 600 pages of transcribed talk-in-interaction from a variety of sources, including dinner discussions, focus groups, informal interviews, newspaper and magazine articles, television talk shows and documentaries. In contrast to most feminist leisure research, I take participants' talk as my starting point. I explore how gender is made relevant by participants and constituted in the course of their discussions, and what these constructions are used to do interactionally. The thesis works on two levels. First, it provides a distinctive contribution to leisure research, sport sociology and psychology. It explores what leisure theorists have themselves constructed as 'the problem' in leisure theory, and demonstrates how a discursive, conversation analytic approach can help transcend some of these theoretical and methodological 'problems' - including the way that the concept of leisure itself might be conceived and studied. It identifies three structuring concerns in feminist leisure theory, and provides a discursive and conversation analytic reworking of each of them: (i) Justifications for the Non-Participation of Women in 'Male-Identified' Activities; (ii) Hegemonic Masculinity; and (iii) Heterosexism. Second, it provides a distinctive contribution to discursive and conversation analytic approaches to gender, by problematizing and developing our understanding of the way femininity, sexism, masculinity and heterosexism 'get done' in talk. It concludes with a discussion of the implications of this approach for feminist leisure theory, discursive psychology and conversation analysis, and challenges researchers with an interest in 'ideology' and 'power' to take this approach seriously. It finishes with some questions for future analysis.

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McCormack, Fiona. "Leisure exclusion? Analysing interventions using active leisure with young people offending or at risk." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2000. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7385.

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This research considered the role of active leisure-based interventions with young people at risk of offending. It examined some of the claimed outcomes of participation for young people, and the types of provision which can support positive outcomes. A central feature of the research was an analysis of the impact of interventions on leisure-behaviour and attitudes in the medium term. This was underpinned by three stages of research to ensure the appropriateness of the main longitudinal case studies and the framework diagram.

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Anuar, Nurwina Akmal Binti. "Imagery ability in sport and movement." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7125/.

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This thesis investigated how propositions of the Revised Applied Model for Deliberate Imagery Use (RAMDIU) related to imagery ability. Chapter 2 and 3 established that PETTLEP imagery can improve the ease and vividness of internal, external and kinesthetic imagery of movements. Participants perceived the physical and environments elements of the PETTLEP model to be the most helpful for imaging easily and vividly. Chapter 4 investigated the use of these two elements in athletes’ ease of imaging five different types of sport imagery (i.e., skill, strategy, mastery, goal, and affect). The findings revealed positive associations between the use of physical and environment PETTLEP elements and ease of imaging all five imagery types. The findings of Chapters 2 to 4 suggest that the use of physical environment elements will likely result in greater ease of imaging cognitive and motivational imagery content and that the relationship between “What (type) & How” and “Imagery Ability” in the RAMDIU should be bi-directional. Chapter 5 explored the RAMDIU “Who” component by investigating whether emotion regulation in was associated with their sport imagery ability. Only emotional reappraisal was positively related with “Imagery Ability”. Overall, the thesis establishing that imagery ability can be influenced by the individual’s characteristics and how athletes image. Practitioners should consider athletes’ characteristics and how they are going to image to maximize the effectiveness of the imagery intervention in achieving the desired outcome(s).

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Lee, Alvin Y. "The impact of leisure-sport facility design on customer satisfaction." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2003. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1492.

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Marketing, retailing, organizational behavior and consumer behavior textbooks often mention the effects of servicescape atmospherics, physical design and decor elements on facility users. Service managers also recognize it as being an important aspect of their businesses. Yet, in marketing, there is surprisingly little research that is based on theoretical models which predict customer reactions to the different elements in the servicescape. Even less has been done to explore the effects of servicescape elements on customer satisfaction and behavioral intentions. This thesis focuses on selected aspects of Bitner's (1992) servicescape framework and explores the effects of layout. accessibility, aesthetics, electronic equipment, seating comfort, and cleanliness on customer perceptions of service quality. Perceived service quality is hypothesized to lead to customer satisfaction, and approach avoidance behaviors such as desire to remain longer in the servicescape, and intentions to repatronize the facility. In team based sports, fans will often frequent a venue due to their loyalty to the team; even if they do not like the facility. Therefore, having a choice of different venues is important, and is the main distinguishing feature of this thesis when compared to previous studies in this area (e.g. Baker & Cameron, 1996; Bitner, 1992; Moore, Pickett, & Grove, 1999; Wakefield & Blodgett, 1996), which used samples from leisure sports venues which hosted team-based sport. The use of these fan based samples may have resulted in respondent bias towards facility elements; as they do not visit the facility because of the “superiority" of the venue, but because their favorite team is playing there. The availability of more than one facility offering similar spectating experiences is important as it enables customers/spectators to choose between competing facilities based on the environmental variables under study. Wortman (1975) suggested that perceived choice (the perception that there is choice) can lead to positive psychological and behavioral outcomes. Therefore, having a choice of venues may give spectators more control, and result in happier spectators. Due to this need to ensure that leisure-sport facility users had a choice of venue, the data for this study was collected at horse, dog, and motor sport racing facilities. These venues were chosen because of their more "mobile" spectator base when compared to team-based sports like Australian Rules football or cricket. The Structural Equation Model of this study is based on the disconfirmation of expectations paradigm that was initially proposed by Oliver ( 1980) and later adapted for use in consumer quality perception and satisfaction theory by researchers such as Parasuraman, Zeithaml, & Berry (1985), Cronin & Taylor ( 1992), Saurina & Coenders (2002), and Price, Arnauld, & Tierney (1995). Disconfirmation of expectations theory posits that customers experience quality and satisfaction when the service provider meets or exceeds their expectations in a service scenario. Likewise, they experience disappointment when the service provider fails to meet their levels of expected service. The results suggested that Layout Accessibility, Facility Aesthetics, and Cleanliness each had significant influence on customer's service quality perceptions. Service quality was found to have a significant effect on Satisfaction, and customer satisfaction levels had a significant effect on the customer's desire to remain in the service facility, and on their repatronage intentions. The proposed model was supported, and this in turn lent further empirical evidence in support of Bitner's (1992) Servicescape Model. An interesting finding was that the loading patterns for the structural equation model were slightly different from a similar study undertaken by Wakefield & Blodgett (1996) on facilities which offered team-based sport. The importance of seating comfort and electronic scoreboards were found to be different. with these elements being of less importance to customer service quality perception than in team-based sport spectating situations. Although not part of the hypothesis, service quality was found to be an antecedent for customer satisfaction. This provides support in favor of Parasuraman et al. (1985), who has a longstanding debate with Cronin & Taylor (1992) about the directionality of the relationship between the two constructs; where Parasuraman, Zeithaml, & Berry ( l994a) suggested that perceived service quality came before customer satisfaction, and Cronin & Taylor ( 1992) disagreed by positing that customer satisfaction preceded customer perceptions of service quality. The findings of this thesis suggested that perception of quality is an antecedent to satisfaction, which favors the stance of Parasuraman, Zeithaml, & Berry(:994b). The results of this study suggest that the servicescape plays a significant role in determining customer satisfaction. Increased satisfaction, in turn, leads to a higher probability of the customer wishing to remain for longer periods in the service facility and/or return in future. For leisure-sport facility managers, this is important information as increased repatronage and length of stay has direct financial implications for their businesses (customers tend to spend more when they stay longer, and future intentions to revisit could mean more business). There are also implications for leisure-sport facility designers. The findings of this study suggests that spectators in non-team-based leisure-sport facilities place less importance on seating comfort and electronic displays, and more importance on spatial layout elements within the serviccscape. Therefore, the designers or renovators of horse, dog, and motor sport racing facilities should perhaps place more emphasis on the flow, furnishings, and layout in these types of venues.

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Abdullah, Junaida Lee Binti. "A study on leisure travel and subjective well-being." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2002. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/761/.

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Dewar, Andrew James. "Achievement goals and emotions in competitive sport." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3415/.

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The main aim of this thesis was to investigate the relationships between goal involvement and emotions and potential mediators and moderators of these relationships; a secondary aim was to examine the link between goal involvement and sport performance. The relationships between goal involvement and emotions experienced before, during, and after competition were examined in Studies 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Cognitive appraisals (Study 1) and perceived performance (Studies 2 & 3) were examined as mediators of the links between task involvement and emotions. Also, perceived competence (Study 1), perceived performance (Studies 2 & 3), and outcome of the match (Study 3) were investigated as moderators of the relationships between ego involvement and emotions. Finally, the effects of achievement goals on emotions and performance were experimentally tested in a speed-agility task (Study 4). Overall, task involvement was positively related to positive, and negatively associated with negative, emotions; challenge appraisal and perceived performance helped explain the majority of these links. Also, some relationships between ego involvement and emotions were moderated by perceived performance and outcome. These findings suggest athletes should be task involved before or during competition and that ego involvement can be beneficial for emotions when perceived performance is high.

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Turey, Colin J. "Perceptions of Leadership Styles and Job Satisfaction in a Sample of High School Athletic Directors in the United States." UNF Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/459.

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The present study examined how athletic directors perceive their leadership roles in interscholastic athletics and the relationship of their leadership styles to their job satisfaction. The conceptual framework of this study was Bass and Avolio’s (1994) full range leadership model, also known as the transformational-transactional leadership model, which consists of 9 factors—5 transformational behaviors: idealized influence (attributed), idealized influence (behavior), inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration; 2 transactional behaviors: contingent reward and management-by-exception (active); 2 passive/avoidant behaviors: management-by-exception (passive) and laissez-faire. These 9 factors are measured by the Multi-Factor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ). The study was also informed by Chelladurai’s multidimensional model of leadership in sport which focuses on transformational effects of sport leaders on individual satisfaction and group performance. The study was significant in that the effects of transformational leadership on individuals in sporting organizations have not been fully explored in previous research. Both the MLQ and the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) served as data collection tools. A sample of 500 athletic directors from across the United States was invited to participate in an electronic survey. Usable data were returned by 55 (11%) of the original sample. Participants self-assessed their leadership styles via the MLQ and job satisfaction via the MSQ. Data were analyzed via canonical correlation analysis followed by canonical commonality analysis. One canonical root was interpreted (Rc2 = .22; pCanonical structure coefficients indicated that Transformational and Passive/Avoidant Leadership made major contributions to the predictor canonical variate; the dependent canonical variate was defined by both Intrinsic and Extrinsic Satisfaction. Canonical commonality analysis indicated that Transformational Leadership had the largest unique variance partition; the largest common variance partition was shared by Transformational and Passive/Avoidant. The analysis also indicated two variable suppressor effects. There was a moderate correlation between athletic directors’ leadership styles and their job satisfaction; however, the directionality of the relationships of the variables in the leadership set with satisfaction was unexpected: (a) the relationship between transformational leadership and job satisfaction was found to be negative, and (b) the relationship between passive/avoidant leadership and job satisfaction was positive.

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Smith, Andy. "Young people, sport and leisure : a sociological study of youth lifestyles." Thesis, University of Chester, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/107899.

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In Britain, as elsewhere, over the past two or three decades there has been growing concern over the extent to which sport and physical activity are becoming increasingly rare features of contemporary youth lifestyles. One corollary of this growing concern with youth lifestyles has been the widespread acceptance of a number of common sense assumptions about the nature of young people's sporting and leisure lives. Notwithstanding these concerns, Coalter (2004: 79) has noted recently that, at present, much of the existing research on young people, sport and leisure has consistently failed to explain adequately or provide 'any clear understanding of sport's (and physical activity's) place in participants' lifestyles'. The central objective of this sociological study, therefore, was to enhance our understanding of the place of sport and physical activity in the lives of a sample of 15-16-year-olds, and of the relationships between various aspects of their lives. More specifically, the thesis reports upon data generated by questionnaires completed by 1,010 15-16-year-olds who attended six secondary schools in the north-west of England and one secondary school in the north-east of Wales, as well as focus groups conducted with a sub-sample of 153 of these young people. The findings revealed that for many 15-16-year-olds, participation in sport and particularly 'lifestyle activities', was an integral aspect of both their school and leisure lives. In school physical education (PE) and extra-curricular PE, young people's participation - which was significantly related to sex and school attended - was largely dominated by competitive team-based sports that are typically gendered and stereotypical. The data also indicated that although there were no significant school- or age-related differences in participation in leisure-sport and physical activity overall, more males than females participated in sport and physical activity in their leisure time. Males were also the more frequent weekly participants and spent more time doing so than females. In addition, the data revealed that the leisure-sport and physical activity repertoires of 15-16-year-olds were characterized by involvement in more informally organized sports and highly-individualized recreational 'lifestyle activities', as well as a small number of team sports that were played competitively. It was also clear that participation in leisure-sport and physical activity was part of young people's quest for generating sociability and excitement in the company of friends and because it enabled them to do what they wanted, when they wanted and with whom they wanted. For many young people, however, and particularly the more frequent participants, playing sport and doing physical activity was just one component in their generally busy and wide-ranging leisure lives, which did not prevent them from engaging simultaneously in more sedentary activities (such as prolonged TV viewing and playing computer games) and commercially-oriented leisure activities, as well as consuming legal and illegal drugs. In this regard, it is argued that it is only possible to understand adequately where sport and physical activity fit into the multi-dimensional lives of 15-16-year-olds by examining those lives 'in the round', and by locating young people within the various networks of relationships to which they have belonged in the past, and which they continue to form in the present.

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Johal, Sanjiev. "The sport of lions : the Punjabi-Sikh sporting experience : a study into the place of sport in the socio-cultural landscape of Punjabi-Sikhs in Britain." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2890/.

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By first detailing the religious, cultural and sporting heritage of Punjabi-Sikhs, the study focuses on how this sporting legacy of has been translated in Britain and how such translation has served to augment the perceived cultural traditions of British Punjabi-Sikhs. The inception of the Shaheedi Games tournaments and the proliferation of all-Punjabi-Sikh football teams are located within the wider phenomenon of post-war South Asian immigration to Britain. The first-hand oral testimonies of pioneering Punjabi-Sikh immigrants serve to script the narrative of the history and evolution of these tournaments. This work is also ethnographically informed through my association/interaction with a Punjabi-Sikh football club. The players/affiliates of this club provided a research environment and subject base allowing the investigation of their manifold identification with sport. The subjects of playing football and supporting professional football teams, along with the conspicuous absence of South Asians from top-flight professional football are used to highlight issues of racism(s) and the (re)negotiations of ethnic, cultural and regional identities. The Shadeedi Games tournaments are unique Punjabi-Sikh sporting/cultural events that have profound significance for Punjabi-Sikhs. The themes/principles of the carnival inform the discussion/exposition of these tournaments and point to their assumed counter-cultural motifs. This thesis aims to disavow uncritical conjecture that denies South Asians a diverse and prominent sporting pedigree/prowess. By uncovering and exploring the Punjabi-Sikh history and experience of sport, this thesis illustrates how this specific British South Asian community has an established, accomplished and multifariously dynamic identification with sport.

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Dussier, Marie. "La Rochelle, capitale de la plaisance en Charente-Maritime (1945-2005) : étude sur l'évolution d'un loisir nautique et de ses aménagements urbano-portuaires." Thesis, La Rochelle, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LAROF001/document.

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Le 13 juillet 2001, La Rochelle, ville associée à la candidature de Paris pour l’organisation des Jeux olympiques de 2008, est en effervescence. La population avec à sa tête les élus et responsables du nautisme attendent de connaître le verdict du Comité International Olympique qui permettrait à cette cité portuaire du littoral atlantique français de devenir l’un des centres mondiaux du nautisme. Si Pékin puis Londres en 2012 sont préférées à Paris, et donc par extension à La Rochelle, le fait d’avoir été choisie au niveau national confère déjà à la ville la reconnaissance d’une image de capitale du nautisme. L’objet de cette thèse est donc de saisir par quels moyens La Rochelle, dans un premier temps port de pêche et de commerce, a pu devenir un port de plaisance aux débuts des années 1970 puis en 2015 le plus grand port de plaisance de la façade atlantique française avec une capacité d’accueil de 4 800 bateaux. Après avoir réalisé une analyse théorique approfondie sur les origines de cette pratique hédoniste qu’est la plaisance, une enquête a été menée sur l’essor de ce loisir depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. L’analyse de l’histoire de la Société des Régates Rochelaises mais aussi de plusieurs destins apporte un éclairage important sur les raisons de la création d’un tel aménagement dans cette ville. Ainsi, au début des années 1960, la plaisance devient porteuse à La Rochelle d’un nouveau souffle économique pour une ville dont les activités traditionnelles commencent à décliner. Dès lors, des projets d’aménagements ambitieux visant à transformer cette cité maritime en station balnéaire complète voient le jour. A l’échelle de la Charente-Maritime, alors que le littoral faillit être baptisé « Côtes de plaisance », une véritable course à l’aménagement est entreprise. L’outil de développement territorial qu’est le port de plaisance constituait un élément valorisant de la station balnéaire, mais a fini, en devenant tentaculaire, par menacer le tourisme balnéaire
On July 13th 2001, the city of La Rochelle, involved with Paris in a candidacy for Olympic Games 2008, was seething with excitement. At the head of local population, elected representatives and managers of local yachting activities were waiting for the verdict of the International Olympic Committee, which would turn the small coastal city into a world-class centre of water-based sports. Although Beijing, and later London in 2012 were preferred, the Paris candidacy has awarded La Rochelle an international reputation. This thesis aims to describe how the city, primarily a fishing and trade harbour, hosted a marina in the early 1970’s that eventually became the largest one of the French Atlantic coast, with more than 4800 moorings. Based on theoretical concepts underlying leisure boating activities, a comprehensive study was carried out on documentary data since World War II. Tracing back the history of the local yachting club Société des Régates Rochelaises and the life of renowned sailors shed a new light on the root causes of coastal management in the city. In the early 1960’s, leisure yachting was a fresh boost to declining economic activities. Since then, ambitious projects were planned with the aim of turning La Rochelle into a seaside resort. The race for coastal planning was engaged at the broader scale of the Charente Maritime department, which was almost nicknamed "Leisure coasts". The La Rochelle marina was an important tool of territorial development and a valuable element of the city, but its sprawling growth eventually became a threat to seaside tourism

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Samaha, Christopher Jude. "Relationship Between Leisure Sport and Exercise Participation and Psychological Benefits for Horsemen." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2008. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/15824.

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This study was a description of horsemen's perceived psychological benefits and liabilities derived from leisure sport and exercise participation. The horsemen that participated in this study were active trainers or grooms who stabled their horses at a training center. Sixty-six horsemen completed the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale: 2, Stress Profile, and this researcher's inventory of horsemen's activities entitled Samaha Horsemen's Activities Questionnaire (SHAQ). Seven horsemen were interviewed to obtain qualitative data. Two of the seven horsemen were omitted from the analysis due to no or limited responses to the questions. Quantitative data results revealed that leisure participation in exercise activities positively correlated with greater well-being, physical self concept, and total self concept scores. There was a statistically significant negative relationship between time devoted to participation in exercise and stress scores. The horsemen that participated in this study work in professional harness racing. An allowable and acceptable leisure activity is gambling. However, results indicated that there were statistically significant negative relationships between time spent gambling and physical self concept, well-being, and exercise and sport participation. Horsemen who were above the median on participation in sport and exercise had significantly higher physical self concept and well being scores than those who were below the median. The results indicate that participation in a variety of exercise and sports as well as time devoted to leisure physical activity had the strongest relationship with improved well-being. Analysis of the transcribed interviews revealed two major themes (limitations and perceived outcomes) and three subthemes within limitations (time, injury, and competitiveness) and perceived outcomes (socialization, physical, and psychological well-being) that described horsemen's participation in leisure sport and exercise. A central conflict emerged within horsemen's reluctance to become assertive in addressing their limitations. Horsemen viewed limitations in participation in sport and exercise as time, injury, and competitiveness. Those who participate in leisure sport and exercise were assertive in addressing their own limitations. The perceived outcomes were physical, socialization, and psychological benefits. Participants expressed that leisure sport and exercise provided possible benefits regardless of their involvement or adherence to an exercise program.
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Al-Hijji, Abdulmohsen Abdullah A. "Leisure behaviour and recreation planning in Saudi Araba with particular reference to Riyadh." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.237080.

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Maynard, I. W. "Towards effective stress management in sport." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243085.

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Aman, Mohd Salleh. "Leisure policy in New Zealand and Malaysia: a comparative study of developments in sport and physical recreation." Lincoln University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/1768.

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This comparative study assessed the usefulness of the convergence thesis as a tool for understanding developments in leisure, recreation and sport in New Zealand and Malaysia. The study examined the interrelationship between 'global' and 'local' or 'contingent' factors and their impact upon leisure behaviour, leisure policy and leisure structures. 'Local' factors included institutional arrangements (notably political ones) and national cultural practices. A social history of New Zealand and Malaysia with particular reference to leisure, sport and recreation and national cultural practices was provided as a context for discussion of these issues. The study utilised a mixture of archival and library research and semi-structured interview, and was guided by an explicit comparative framework, concentrating on the development of leisure, sport and recreation in the two countries between 1970 and 2002. Interviews with 'key players' in both countries captured valuable data in the form of 'insiders' views' on leisure behaviour, policy and structure. These data were analysed with the relevance of the convergence thesis in mind. This study shows that contemporary leisure behaviour in New Zealand and Malaysia is shaped by the media and is highly commercialised, placing a high value on entertainment, and involves increasingly passive forms of participation. Informal sport and individualised recreational activities are replacing organised team-based sports in popularity. Leisure behaviour trends have led governments in both countries to encourage greater participation in sport and physical activity and to encourage private sector ventures into leisure-related products, services and infra-structures in the form of private-public partnerships. In terms of leisure policy, developments in leisure, recreation and, noticeably, sport, in Malaysia and New Zealand have been shaped by the wider agendas of the governing political parties. This is particularly noticeable at central government level. Individual political leaders in both countries have been influential in setting leisure-related policy. They had the vision to see that sport in particular might serve wider, national interests and that investments in sport could help raise the profiles of their countries in international markets and among trading organisations and the regulatory bodies that oversee trading practices. Malaysian and New Zealand governments seek to make leisure, sport and recreation policy supportive of other priorities. In Malaysia, the government legitimises its control over the policies which affect people's lives by appeals to Islamic principles and the need to put collective needs of nation building ahead of individual concerns for freedom. In terms of institutional, political, arrangements, this impacts at both central and local government levels in Malaysia. New Zealand, following a pluralist, Westminster, tradition of political representation, experiences regular changes in political management at central government level and a system of local government whereby local autonomy is jealously protected. Malaysia has resisted 'the global', by virtue of the nation-building policies of the Barisan Nasional, which has been in power since 1957. New Zealand's 'resistance' stems in part at least from the autonomy which local government enjoys. These experiences demonstrate that resistance to 'global' change can take varied forms at the 'local', contingent, level (Thorns, 1992). Differences in leisure structures reflect, once again, different agendas stemming from different political arrangements. The Malaysian government's approach is multi-Ministry, and micro-managed. In New Zealand, a 'hands off' approach via a quasi-autonomous non-government organisation (‘Quango'), became the favoured means of structuring central government leisure provision in the 1980s and 1990s. This was with a view to encouraging stability and consistency in leisure policy and provision in a pluralistic political system. Overall, and 'cautiously', this study provided support for the convergence thesis as a way to explain development in leisure, recreation and sport in New Zealand and Malaysia over the past 32 years. Although institutional arrangements and national cultural practices have provided some resistance to convergence processes, changing consumer sentiments may weaken such resistance in future.

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Stevenson, Karl. "Representative task design in cricket batting." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2016. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/318a4c35-00df-45b2-a23d-eaeccc05f339.

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In recent years researchers have argued that in order to fully understand perceptual cognitive expertise in sports, representative tasks must be used to preserve the tightly coupled links between perception and action that experts exploit. Previously, tasks have been considered as representative or not, with little evidence existing to indicate the degree to which a task is representative enough. This thesis primarily aimed to investigate experimentally representative tasks in cricket batting and the degree to which a laboratory-based task of cricket batting was able to represent batters’ emergent perceptuo-motor behaviour for perceiving bowlers’ delivery length. A secondary aim was to re-evaluate perceptuo-motor behaviours thought to contribute to skilled performance and their development. In chapter 2 skilled batsmen’s foot movements were recorded in response to balls bowled to a range of lengths under in situ and video-based laboratory conditions. Kinematic analyses quantified decision-making skill and movement scaling. Analyses revealed the laboratory condition to have a high degree of fidelity. Skilled batter’s Foot movements were reliably replicated and differences were found compared to a novice group. In chapter 3, response mode, occlusion condition and skill level were compared on the representative laboratory test developed in chapter 2. Analyses identified that skilled performance was only aided by maintaining coupled responses under occluded conditions, whilst no differences were observed under un-occluded conditions. Skilled performers were also shown to possess greater anticipation skills compared with novices under both coupled and un-coupled conditions. In Chapter 4, the effects of manipulating information present in situ, through simulated ball flight, and fully simulated training aids were compared in a novel experimental paradigm. Skilled batsmen faced deliveries across a range of lengths from a bowler (in situ), from a bowling machine (simulated ball flight) and from a ProBatter simulator (fully simulated action and ball flight). Results showed that simulated ball flight condition resulted in foot movements that were closer to in situ than the fully simulated condition, suggesting that if present, the link between bowling action and ball flight needs to be tightly coupled. These results demonstrate for the first time that representative tasks must not be considered unilaterally as representative or not, but instead the degree of representativeness should be quantified and evaluated against the expert behaviour under investigation. Determination of the degree of representativeness would allow researchers to apply findings to the performance environment with greater knowledge of their potential impact.

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Gilroy, Sarah Isobel. "The embody-ment of power? : women and physical activity." Thesis, Open University, 1996. http://oro.open.ac.uk/54176/.

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The thesis examines the connections between being physically active and becoming empowered. It centres on the experiences of women and investigates their involvement in physical activity and how this relates to the rest of their lives and their subjectivities. In so doing the research explores the relation between physicality and social power, and considers the role of the body in the construction of gender power relations. The key concepts used to explore this area are agency and structure, hegemony, negotiation, empowerment and physicality. More broadly the research has been informed by debates in feminist postmodernism and poststructuralism. The main data set were generated through interviews with twenty-eight women with additional information coming from questionnaires returned by one hundred and seventy-two women representing a range of activity levels, ages and class locations. The findings were generated largely from the experiences of white women living in a market town within commuting distance of London. The findings demonstrate the potential for women to become empowered through their bodies, as a result of being involved in physical activity. The acquisition of new skills and the discovery of new physical potential in their bodies such as feeling stronger, having more energy, were foregrounded by the women as being important to them. This led them to feeling more positive about themselves and their potential. There was nothing to suggest that particular activities were more empowering than others, although the context and purpose of the activity was found to be important. There is little evidence of there being any difference between working-class and middle-class women in terms of their experience of empowerment or disempowerment through physical activity. The findings also highlight the need to set an understanding of physical activity within the context of intra-household relations. By doing this it is argued that we are better able to understand how the construction of women's subjectivities operates simultaneously across fields of activity.

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Matošić, Doris. "The role of narcissism in sport coaching : a self-determination theory perspective." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7580/.

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The aim of the current thesis was to investigate coach narcissism as an antecedent of controlling and autonomy-supportive coach interpersonal styles proposed by self-determination theory (SDT); potential indirect effects that underlie those relations, and the outcomes of such coach interpersonal styles. The current thesis is comprised of a systematic review and three empirical chapters. Chapter 2 reviewed the literature on antecedents of controlling and need supportive interpersonal styles and identified narcissism as an antecedent of particular importance to sport coaching. This chapter has also illustrated a dearth of research investigating narcissism as an antecedent of coach interpersonal styles, which then became a key theme of the empirical studies that followed. Across these studies, narcissism was found to be positively associated with controlling interpersonal style in coaches (Chapters 3, 4, and 5), however it was not associated with autonomy-supportive style (Chapter 3). Some of these studies also revealed indirect effects (i.e., empathic concern, effectiveness beliefs about controlling interpersonal style) that helped explain the relation between narcissism and controlling interpersonal style (Chapters 3 and 5), and narcissism and autonomy-supportive interpersonal style (Chapter 3). Finally, coaches' controlling interpersonal style was associated with need frustration and positive attitudes toward doping in athletes (Chapter 4), and moral disengagement in coaches (Chapter 5). These novel finding extend SDT literature by offering further understanding on antecedents and outcomes of coach interpersonal styles.

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Payi, Mthobeli. "Effecacy of sport management processes and structures in Khayelitsha." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2009. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_3859_1298030348.

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The research seeks to investigate processes and structures presently in Khayelitsha so as to ascertain whether they are operating, in such a manner that sporting people and government can rely on them to strike the balance needed, to reach a scenario where all the citizens of the country are afforded equal opportunities in sport. The White Paper (Revised: 2007) mentions the establishment of the Strategic, Monitoring and Evaluation Directorate to ensure focus remains on track with the latest development in sporting fraternity and that this is aligned with government priorities. However better resources are still handed out to advantaged communities. South African society has achieved somewhat miraculously, a stable democracy since the elections of 1994, but this new democracy has to realize that liberation comes with an added burden of responsibility. Hence communities and especially previously disadvantaged communities, need to even work harder to ensure social and an acceptable degree of economic transformation. The culture of entitlement needs to be discouraged in black townships. The Constitution, Provincial and Local policies allow for efficient sport management as sport is critical for development to take place. Sport is the most important vehicle to deepen democracy and bring about genuine transformation in society, forging unity of purpose at grassroots level so as to achieve same purpose and direction. Khayelitsha (as most of the black townships) has been hit by a wave of crime, drug abuse, alcohol abuse and gangsterism caused by the inactivity of youth. Sport can act as a catalyst to minimise tensions and maximise peace and harmony. This research focused on the efficacy of sport management processes and structures in Khayelitsha. It examined issues of provisioning, accessibility and maintenance of sport facilities in order to guarantee mass participation and infinite activism in sport.

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Adam, Elizabeth J. B. "A new way of looking at intrinsic motivation in sport." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis, 1996. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/654/.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 1996.
Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, 1996. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

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(9827327), Nigel Pope. "Sponsorship and motorsport." Thesis, 1992. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Sponsorship_and_motorsport/20341914.

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This dissertation examines sponsorship through a case study of Australian motor sport. This examination concentrates on six major variables identified by participants in the area and previous commentators: the form by which the sponsorship is manifested, the magnitude of the sponsorship agreement, the longevity of the sponsorship agreement, the setting of sponsorship objectives, the evaluation of the benefits to sponsors, and the type of sponsor. The variables are examined primarily from the perspective of the recipient of the sponsorship.

Research was both qualitative and quantitative, commencing with a literature review, and proceeding to preliminary interviews with participants, survey questionnaires with sponsors and recipients of sponsorship, and in- depth interviews with sponsorship recipients. The dissertation proceeds through an introductory chapter which sets the background and justification for the research, a chapter which reviews previous research, a chapter discussing the methodology employed, another presenting findings, and a final chapter summarising and presenting conclusions.

A major finding of the research was that a lack of knowledge obtains with regard to the nature of sponsorship and its place within the promotions mix. This applied in previous research and amongst practitioners in the area. It was also found that while most sponsors set objectives for sponsorship, these are not always communicated to recipients, and that evaluation of sponsorship is usually by media audit, despite known shortcomings of this method.

There was some disagreement amongst respondents' beliefs expressed in interview and the research findings with regard to the type of sponsor. Interviewees expressed a belief that sponsors involved in a particular sport would produce products related to that sport. This was not supported by the evidence. It also appeared that little thought had been given to the forms sponsorship could take and there was confusion as to pricing policies.

The magnitude and longevity of sponsorship agreements were found to be related to objective setting and evaluation, with a belief held that exposure, especially television exposure was the "key to sponsorship success". This was found to support the bias toward the use of media audit for evaluation purposes. The dissertation also describes the characteristics of the sponsor who will spend more for longer in sponsorship agreements. This is suggested as an area for future research along with other questions presented in the conclusion.

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(9804419), Danya Hodgetts. "Legacy by osmosis? Investigation of sport development legacies resulting from the conduct of a major sport event." Thesis, 2011. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Legacy_by_osmosis_Investigation_of_sport_development_legacies_resulting_from_the_conduct_of_a_major_sport_event/13462544.

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"... There is little research examining the sport development benefits that sporting organisations may receive when hosting an event. To examine measures of development in a sport and determine if they were affected by an event that was not intentionally leveraged, the Australian Surf Life Saving Championships (ASLSC) were profiled. The ASLSC were hosted by Scarborough, Western Australia from 2007-2009, with previous and subsequent events being held in Kurrawa, Queensland. Statistics from Western Australia between 1991 and 2010 were examined in this research"--Abstract.

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WENG, Chi-Hsiang, and 翁啟祥. "Graduate Institute of Sport and Leisure Management Consumers’ Satisfaction of Competitive Woodball Courses in Asia." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54271486207953677580.

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碩士
國立臺灣師範大學
運動與休閒管理研究所在職碩士班
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Abstract The purposes of this study were to comprehend the population variables and satisfaction of users on Competitive Woodball Courses in Asia. Moreover, the consumers’ satisfaction of competitive Woodball courses of Lanjut Resort, Malaysia, Azuma Sports Park, Fukushima, Japan, Clementi Woods Park, Singapore, and National Taipei College of Nursing, Taiwan. The research subjects were the Woodball players of Asia, and the questionnaire "Consumers’ Satisfaction with the Woodball Courses" was used as a research survey instrument. Among the 253 questionnaires, 217 samples are valid. The data were analyzed by t-test and One-way ANOVA with SPSS 12.0. The result shows: 1. The major players of Asia Competitive Woodball Courses were males, over 61 years old, married, governmental staffs, education level above senior high school, monthly income average under USD 1,000, and 1~3 years of Woodball experience. Consumers’ satisfaction of male and married players was higher than female and unmarried ones. The highest satisfaction of players were 31~40 years old, workers, education level with junior high school, monthly income average between USD 2,000~2,500, 7~9 years of Woodball experience. The satisfaction of players with different marriage status was significant. 2. The satisfaction of players in Azuma Sports Park, Fukushima, Japan was the highest, and others were Lanjut Resort, Malaysia, Clementi Woods Park, Singapore, and National Taipei College of Nursing, Taiwan. The consumers’ satisfaction of different Woodball courses was significant. This research was the first satisfaction study of Woodball courses, and the following suggestions were inferred from this research results: The study was limited in competition Woodball courses future researchers may enlarge the research fields, especially the non-competitive Woodball courses. Moreover, this research might not include other factors that affect the satisfaction of players. Future studiers could increase the satisfaction investigation of Woodball courses. Finally, future researchers might study on the same players with different Woodball courses to better the research results of satisfaction of Wodball players.

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Yang, Shih-Wen, and 楊世文. "The Trend Research Of The Sport And Leisure Management Master and Periodical Thesis In Taiwan : 2001~2005." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11939843074051462999.

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國立臺灣師範大學
運動與休閒管理研究所在職碩士班
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The Trend Research Of The Sport And Leisure Management Master and Periodical Thesis In Taiwan－2001~2005 Student: Yang, Shih-Wen Advisor: Professor Chen, Chin-Lung Abstract This research adopts the content analytic approach, analyzing totally 308 articles of master theses and 101 articles of periodical theses on Sport And Leisure Management from 2001 to 2005 in Taiwan with a view to understanding the state of thesis researches, theme distribution, research purpose, research approach and statistic method. I take the “Content Analytic Booking Chart of The Sport And Leisure Management master and periodical theses in Taiwan” as my research tool, utilizing frequency and percentage for data processing. The results are shown as follows: I.The current research of Master theses and periodical theses 1. The annual distributional number of master and periodical theses on Sport And Leisure Management has been increasing these years. 2. The regionally distributional number of master theses: The northern part of Taiwan is the largest (50%); the middle part of Taiwan is ranked second (45.45%); the least is located in the southern & eastern part of Taiwan (2.27%). 3. There are totally 6 universities or colleges majoring the master theses of Sport And Leisure Management. II.Theme of master and periodical theses: It can be divided into 2 major categories, and 14 minor categories according to the characteristics of industry features. As for major categories, the “groups of recreational sport ambient industry” is 1.2~2.4 times higher than the “groups of recreational sport nucleus industry in the master and periodical theses. The “active recreational sport service industry (include recreational experience) and “Leisure Education” almost dominate the minor ambit (area) research theses. Ⅲ.Research purpose of master and periodical theses: The primal research purpose is “Descriptive Research”; the next is “Theoretical Research”; then the “Analytic Research” ranked the third. Ⅳ.Research methods: the uppermost research method is the use of questionnaires, interviews, and literature reviews. Ⅴ.Qualitative And Quantitative Research Method: the primal research method is “Quantitative Research Method”. Ⅵ.Statistical methods: utilizing “Times Frequency” and “Percentage Calculation”, “Average & Root-Mean-Square Deviation”, and “Factor Analysis and Reliability Analysis”. Based upon the conclusion, 5 pieces of advice are as followed: 1. Put emphasis on the trend for the research matter of recreational management. 2. Strengthen the extention of research purpose. 3. Augment the training for research and statistic methods. 4. Commence other athletic sports and content analysis on various data. 5. Combine professional and field courses for formulation and evaluation system.

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Wang, Pei-Fang, and 王珮舫. "The Relational Study on Leisure Participation, Life Stress and Sleep Quality for Students of Sport Management Department." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53137389342626322416.

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大葉大學
運動事業管理學系
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The purpose of this study is to examine the correlation between leisure participa-tion, life stress, and sleep quality of students in sports management of schools in north-ern, central, and southern Taiwan. Three hundred copies of the questionnaire were sent out, and 270 valid ones were retrieved. The findings yielded by an analysis with SPSS for Windows12.0 are as follows. 1. Sports management students have moderate participation in leisure activities (M=2.84), and most of them prefer static activities, including chatting, eating out, listening to music, watching TV, and playing online games (in the order of popular-ity). Activities less participated are calligraphy, gardening, and writing/submitting essays. 2. Sports management students perceive a low level of life stress (M=2.68); of the stressors, “planning of life goals” poses most stress, while “environmental stressors” has the least stress. 3. Of the sports management students, 116 have good sleep quality (43.0%), and 154 have poor sleep quality (57.0%). 4. There is a significantly negative correlation between sports management students’ leisure participation and life stress. 5. There is a significantly negative correlation between sports management students’ life stress and sleep quality. 6. There is a significantly positive correlation between sports management students’ leisure participation and sleep quality. Key Words: leisure participation, life stress, sleep quality

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Chang, Chia-Hao, and 張家豪. "Leisure Sports Management related departments students of the benefits of cooperative education." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91392341830247087140.

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國立雲林科技大學
休閒運動研究所碩士班
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This study aimed to understand the correlation of leisure and sports management students in the internship after the proceeds of the real benefits of the process to study, its effectiveness and value of existence providing the correct concept of student internships. The results based on the effectiveness of cooperative education to be of real and make recommendations for future recreational sport management-related implementation of cooperative, education student at the Department of the more clearly the meaning of practice. This study for the 2010 practice in the water park of the Eight Immortals coastal management-related recreational sports department intern 10. And a professional lifeguard license. This study used qualitative research in-depth interviews, interviews with the depth of the past to do a literature study. Sampling stratified random sampling, stratified according to school department to the standard hierarchical standards. The results of this study are as follows: （1）Internship process can effectively combine theory and practice, by work content can be applied to the old school which the actual situation, but also allows students back in school lead to motivation. （2）After the internship process can effectively enhance the soft skills of interns in terms of speaking skills, time management skills, logical thinking, interpersonal skills, teamwork skills, problem-solving aspects can be effectively improved. （3）Sports and leisure industry in understanding the status of some 70% of respondents said no more about the students, the future industrial development in the seven men can understand some of the respondents, and in the organization management and future career planning, respondents Jie better understand or help.

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Forsell, Thomas Edward. "An Exploratory Study of the Nature of Social Capital in Local Area Leisure Clubs." Thesis, 2013. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/25065/.

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The nature of social capital in local leisure clubs today has become an area of interest. Although research has mainly made inferences on the possible outcomes of social capital there is currently little agreement on its factors or its measurement. Therefore there has been an urgent need to examine the possible social capital factors present in leisure clubs and develop a tool to measure these. This research addresses these two aims through an analysis of social capital in local leisure clubs and the development of a scale to measure social capital. A mixed method was adopted with the initial qualitative phase informing the main (quantitative) phase of the research by identifying social capital concepts and contributing to scale development. Focus groups, interviews and a panel of experts were used with aspects of grounded theory to develop and refine items. The quantitative phase employed factor analysis for scale item reduction and multivariate analysis to test the scale. The ‘Club Social Capital Scale’ (CSCS) was distributed to Victorian leisure clubs generating 1079 returned questionnaires. The final version of the CSCS included the factors trusting/reciprocity, friendly/ acceptance, norms and governance. The scale was noted as a good tool for measuring social capital, with high reliability (Cronbach) and all scale items measuring social capital and its components, highlighting strong validity and reliability. Analysis of variance showed variation in levels in social capital with the demographic characteristics age, gender, education and income. Results showed reduced social capital levels with age, while men reported higher overall social capital, trust, and governance than women. Higher levels of education and income reflected lower social capital levels. Finally, recreation clubs scored higher governance than sport clubs. This research developed theory on the factors associated with social capital in leisure clubs and developed a short and easy to complete CSCS which would be a useful tool for further research.

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CHEN, TZU-EN, and 陳慈恩. "Research on Pressure Sources and Coping Strategies in University Students- An Example at Department of Leisure and Sport Management Cheng Shiu University." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62nj2u.

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正修科技大學
休閒與運動管理所
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Background: As a result of the improvement of life style, college students are not only facing to the environmental changes, but also the challenges of self-growth. We can lead college students toward positive development if we find the detection of stress causes immediately. Objective: Through this study, the researcher looks forward to exploring the following research questions from students at DLSM : 1.sourses of pressure 2.current situation of coping strategies 3.difference of pressure sources and coping strategies according to background variables. Method: Questionnaire survey will be adopted in this study. The subjects focus on the full-time students at Department of Leisure and sport Management at Cheng Shiu University. 248 questionnaires will be issued. This research uses quantitative method and conduct descriptive analysis approach using by t-test, one way ANOVA, and correlation analysis. Outcome: The study object at Department of Leisure and sport Management students have the highest score in stress sources is future plans, have the lose score in stress sources is interpersonal relationships.Students of DLSM often take emotional adjustment and problem solving as their coping strategies, Secondly is escape. Conclusion: 1. Pressure are solidly linked with these four aspects: economy,studying, family relationships,self, interpersonal relationships. The most important is the future plan 2. Students of DLSM often take emotional adjustment and problem solving as their coping strategies 3. Students of DLSM have variety degrees of feeling of pressures owing to family backgrounds. 4. Students of DLSM have variety degrees of coping strategies varies as well.

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Gouws, Johannes Stephanus. "Sportbestuur : 'n historiese teoretiese en bestuursmatige fundering." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/9763.

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Sport as a phenomenon has been part of different cultures throughout the ages, and in literature various authors emphasise the significant role it played and still plays in people's lives. From a cultural-historical perspective, sport as a time-filling activity therefore forms an important foundation for the development of sport as an industry. The possibilities of using leisure as an industry have been considered from early times. Participants in sport, magnates and the public sector made an important contribution to the development of sport, although everybody also benefited indirectly from this. In the examination of sport as a business, sport is measured against the standards set for a business, and from this it is evident that sport meets these requirements in all instances. In the light of these facts, it is necessary for sport to be managed like a business. Management and managerial behaviour are defined in a theoretical foundation, but particular attention is devoted to concepts in sport with a view to providing an own point of view. As a result of this theoretical foundation, a base is created for drafting a curriculum for a course in Sport Management. Various models and points of view are discussed and suggestions on the ideal contents of such a curriculum are made. The B.Comm. degree and certificate courses in Sport Management at the Rand Afrikaans University are used as a model. The fundamental personal traits of sport officials and students of Sport Management are examined in the empirical study. Various psychometric tests and questionnaires are employed, enabling the creation of an instrument in future research to screen students and sport officials. As a result of this research, certain recommendations are made with regard to further research, drawing up a curriculum for Sport Management and measuring personal traits of sport officials.

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Zheng, Yong-Zhan, and 鄭詠展. "Physical Fitness - A Case Study for Leisure Sports Management Department Students of Tajen University." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8sz642.

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大仁科技大學
休閒事業管理研究所
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The purpose of this study is to explore the effect of enhanced training on the physical fitness of the Department of Leisure Sports Management Department Students of Tajen University. Methods: The subjects were divided into training group and control group, aged between 19 and 22 years old. The training group was to carry out the enhanced training, while the control group maintained the original general course. Do training, two days a week for eight weeks. The course of this study is based on enhanced training prescription, progressive training and according to the test of college students physical fitness, training purposes and the scene environment, equipment to be amended. Before the experiment, please fill in the consent form and health status questionnaire, and asked before and after training to participate in physical fitness before the test and post-test, test items include: BMI value, sitting position before the bend, one minute knees sit-ups, Standing in the long jump, 1600 meters running to the independent sample t test to test the two groups before and after training between the two groups of differences; In the case of the difference between the pre - test and the post - test, the significant level is α = .05. The results showed that the students in the training group had significant improvement in muscle fitness, softness, instantaneous force and cardiopulmonary fitness. Conclusion: Enhanced training can effectively improve college students' physical fitness

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Semenya, Karabo Shyllot. "Provision of public leisure services in the Soweto area, City of Johannesburg, 2002-2005." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/3480.

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This study was conducted against the theoretical background that local government has the responsibility to provide public leisure services to the communities. Leisure provides an ideal medium for the transmission of historical, social, and cultural values that promote desired norms, customs and social orientations, as such, it is vital to the community. For disadvantaged communities to experience the benefits of leisure, government has a major role to play in the provision of resources. The aim of the study was to describe and analyse the provision of local government sport and recreation services in the City of Johannesburg, Soweto area and to present alternative forms of public leisure service delivery to aid in ensuring that limited resources are distributed to all. In order to achieve the aim of the study, it was necessary to: 1. Present responsibilities of local government with regard to the provision of sport and recreation in local government. 2. Evaluate whether resources are available for the provision of public leisure services. 3. Analyse the feasibility and implications of the user fee charge policy in public leisure services. 4. Present alternative forms of public leisure service delivery to the City of Johannesburg. Theoretical background was dealt with in Chapter two. The chapter started by briefly explaining objectives that direct services in countries like Australia, Britain, Canada and Brazil. Information obtained assisted in explaining that governments can legitimise their policies in very different ways and that service delivery is driven by what the country intends to achieve. Governance structure of sport and recreation in South Africa was discussed. Focus was mainly on local government and its mandatory responsibility towards public leisure service delivery. The importance of leisure provisions in fulfilling human needs was illustrated. Literature also indicated that personnel, facilities, money, equipment tend to influence each other to produce leisure services to the community. At the same time, user fee charge policy and marketing of services can impact on service delivery. Through the discussion it was noted that resources are limited. In view of that, it became vital to present alternative forms of public leisure service delivery. Literature presented also assisted in constructing an empirical research based on literature provided. The instruments used to collect data were two questionnaires. One questionnaire was for facility managers and the other was for regional managers/ area managers/ operational managers. A pilot study was conducted to test the reliability and relevancy of the questionnaires which were then adapted accordingly. The main survey comprised forty respondents. Questionnaires were sent to all sixty two sport and recreation facilities owned by The City of Johannesburg in Soweto for facility managers to fill and only forty were returned. Five questionnaires were sent to regional managers/ area managers/ operational managers and were returned.

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Gee, Bridget Louise. "Sports media decision-making in France : how they choose what we get to see and read : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Management in Sport Management at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1373.

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Research to date on women in the sports-media has predominantly concentrated on comparisons of the type and amount of media coverage afforded to sportsmen and women. This substantial body of literature has consistently revealed that sports-media continues to be viewed as an exclusively masculine domain, where women remain under- and misrepresented. While content analyses are important in revealing the sexist portrayal of sportswomen in the media, they do little to provide guidance to sociologists on why this continues to occur. Looking behind the scenes into how sports-media content is produced has rarely been explored internationally, and not at all in France, yet is integral to understanding the process through which gendered coverage is sustained. The aim of this exploratory case study was to redress the deficit of sports-media research in France by undertaking a study of those responsible for the production of sports media content. It was guided by the central question: what role do sports-media producers play in perpetuating dominant ideologies in sport? The nine participants were drawn from experienced male and female sports content decision makers (editors and higher) from the major, national television and print media in France. Data was collected through individual semi-structured, audio-recorded interviews and open coded using NVivo 8. The analysis, based around five themes (ideal profile, feedback, sport selection, women’s sport, blame), revealed that the patterns of sport media decision-making in France show many similarities and some differences to those observed in other countries, but that the end result is the same: sports media content remains dominated by men’s sport. Findings indicate that women’s sport is subject to much harsher editorial selection criteria. Conclusions were drawn on what role the makers of sports media content in France have in reproducing this hegemonic masculinity so inherent in sports coverage. The findings will enable stakeholders such as sociologists, journalism academics, sport media management and sports organisations to consider ways through which hierarchical values and accepted patriarchal practices in the sports-media industry can be transformed.

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Wang, Chen-Hsiung, and 王振雄. "The Study of the Relationships between the Management Strategy and the Management Performance of the Sports-Leisure Industry in Hsinchu, Taiwan." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97543246968274022229.

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國立屏東師範學院
體育學系碩士班
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His purpose of this study was to analyze and explain the relationship between the relationship between the management strategy and the management performance of the sports-leisure industry in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The study sample consisted of 25 management personnel of sports-leisure industry in Hsinchu area. Data collection spanned 6 months included questionnaire survey and informal interviews. The results indicated that the capital and management types of sports-leisure industry were independent no matter what strategies they took. It meant that there were no significant connection between the capital, management type and the management strategy in the industry. Thru the Chi-square test to analyze the relationship between the management strategy and performance, it revealed a significant difference between the selection of strategy and the performance. In the Scheffe’s test, the performance score of prospector strategy was high than other strategies: defender strategy, analysis strategy and reactor strategy. In the ANOVA of management strategy and Balanced Scorecard’s (BSC) four dimensions, there was a significant difference between the Innovation and Learning perspective. The performance score of Innovation and Learning perspective of the industry took prospector strategy, were obviously higher than those who took defender strategy in the Scheffe’s test.

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