Annals of Applied Sport Science
Volume:7 Issue: 4, Winter 2019

The current study aimed at codifying the strategic perspective of Iranian federation of martial arts sport.

The current study aimed at investigating the negative consequences of the use of social networks at the workplace from the viewpoint of the employees of the sports and youth departments.

The current strategic study was conducted based on a combination of sequential explanatory methods. The statistical population of the study consisted of 138 individuals including the chairman, vice-chairman, and the secretary of the Iran Martial Arts Federation, the officials of the internal committees of the federation, the directors of provincial boards of martial arts, the directors of the styles (associations, committees, and groups), and the members of the Strategic Council of the Federation of which 43 individuals were selected to participate in the study using the Cochran formula. The data were collected through interviews, open and closed questionnaires, and Delphi method. The employed questionnaire had 27 items: seven in strengths, five in weaknesses, seven in opportunities, and six in threats. The validity of the research tool was assessed by 15 sport management experts and martial arts experts and its reliability was also confirmed by Cronbachchr('39')s alpha coefficient for strengths (α = 796), weaknesses (α = 0.704), opportunities (α = 0.845), and threats (α = 0.774). To prioritize the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, the Friedman test was used to determine the strategic position of the federation through weighing and the severity of each factor. In order to formulate strategies, SWOT analysis and pairwise comparison of ST, WO, SO, and WT were employed. Finally, the quantitative strategic planning matrix (QSPM) was used to prioritize strategies.

The strategic position of the Iran Martial Arts Federation in the SO region was codified.

Based on the current study results, three SO, two WO, two ST, two WT, and nine strategies were presented to clarify the vision of the Iran Martial Arts Federation.

Despite the research being accomplished so far, there is no clear answer to the question whether purchasing welfare is affected by the attitude of customer purchasing behavior.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of purchasing welfare on consumer purchasing behavior and to assess the mediator role of attitudes in this regard.

This was a descriptive-correlational study conducted using a survey method. The statistical population of the study consisted of all young consumers of sporting goods (15-30 years old) in Isfahan city. In this study, there were 23 free parameters in the proposed model. The sample size was considered for each free parameter of 15 people. Finally, 350 people were estimated. Purchasing welfare (Edley et al., 2013), attitudes (Lee and Trill, 2012) and consumer purchasing behavior (Edwards, 1998) were used as the instruments and their face and content validity and reliability were confirmed (0.75, 0.80, 0.81). Data were analyzed using Amos-22 software.

The research model had a favorable fit. Also, the mediator attitude was a partial relationship between purchasing welfare and purchase behavior (P < 0.05).

Consumer welfare increased the behavior of consumer purchasing, but with the increasing consumer attitude in the relationship, the impact of purchasing prosperity on behavior increased.

Due to the fact that the current methods used in Iran are old-fashioned and their theoretical foundations are based on authority of teachers, there is a necessity to adopt and enjoy new and creative methods which are depended upon peer learning of students who are actively involved in working with each other. These features are the cornerstone of sport education (SE) method whose procedure is to learn students to be self-dependent and participate in all parts of the class unlike traditional methods of sport education.

The current study aimed at comparing the effects of traditional method (current methods in Iranian schools) with sport education on physical fitness and competency.

The current semi-experimental study focused on the effects of two methods of sport education and traditional method. The statistical population included the junior students of 2nd grade in Sama School in Boroujerd of which two 18-subject groups were selected; the first group was trained based on the sport education method and the 2nd group based on traditional method in volleyball. Each group separately attended sport education and traditional method classes. In the sport education group, the students attended 12 sessions according to the procedure of sport education, formerly introduced by Siedentop; in the traditional method group, the students also attended 12 sessions, based on the running method in volleyball. For the sport education group, before starting the season, the participants were asked to take the physical fitness and competency pre-tests. Likewise, the traditional method group took the same tests before starting the program. Then, the participants in each group were trained in accordance with the structure, procedure, and lesson plan of the running method. After completion of training, the participants were asked to take the posttests of physical fitness and competency. Then, the data from pre- and posttests were gathered and compared using ANCOVA and analyzed with SPSS.

Intergroup comparisons showed a significant difference between the two groups in physical fitness (except for jumping index); intragroup comparison also showed a significant difference between pre- and posttest results in each group in terms of competency. Therefore, the sport education had a significant priority to the traditional method.

Our results suggest that instead of using common and traditional teaching methods for physical education in schools, colleges and universities, it is better to use modern methods, especially sports education.

Marketing is essential for any kind of conscious movement in todaychr('39')s market; a market that no longer recognizes either the borders or a particular customer.

The aim of this research is designing and preparing the development model of marketing in volleyball Super League of Iran.

The current research is an applied one from the point of its aims. The research method for this study is mixed methods research of the discovery serial type. At the end of this stage, important factors contributing on the designing and preparing the development model of marketing in volleyball Super League were used. The population for this research included general managers, leaders, managers, and coaches present in the super league of Iran. The sample including 102 members was chosen based on theoretical sampling method using the Cochran formula. The research tool for this paper was a questionnaire consisting of 139 two-way 5-option questions. In order to test the hypotheses Lisrel and SPSS software were used.

The results indicated that in optimal circumstances, management, environment, strategy, partitioning the goal market, locating, and mixed marketing are influential factors in Iran’s volleyball super league. Moreover, in optimal conditions, the priorities of the marketing variables of Iran’s super league are management, environment, strategy, mixed marketing, target market, and locating. In the current situation, sport marketing management in sport marketing strategy and mixed marketing has a positive significant impact.

In order to reach the above-mentioned marketing we should consider factors like management, environment, strategy, partitioning the target market, and contexts should be considered as influential factors.

The increasing prevalence and incidence of type 2 Diabetes has turned it into a worldwide epidemic. Although Physical Activity (PA) may play an essential role in the prevention and management of this disease, sedentary lifestyles continue to increase among diabetics. Besides, there is evidence to believe that diabetics and non-diabetics show different patterns of PA behavior, perceptions and information seeking.

This study aims to analyze diabetics and non-diabetics differences regarding (1) PA patterns (level, barriers, goals/expectations and preferred activities); (2) PA-related information sources and (3) evidenced perception on the need and importance of PA.

Using data from 485 Portuguese subjects aged between 41 and 90 years old, differences between diabetics (n=85) and non-diabetics (n=400) were analyzed with Pearson’s chi-square and independent t-test.

The study concludes that 32% of diabetics that are physically inactive. Their attitude toward PA is not much different from non-diabetics. Nevertheless, the importance given to the time available and the schedules of activities as well as exercising with friends were more relevant for diabetics. Diabetics considered that the exercise is not safe for their health condition and present lower expectation towards exercise. Regarding information seeking behavior about PA, diabetics use as leading information source doctors and less online information.

Diabetics and non-diabetics give different importance to PA. Results establish a foundation for the development of effective tailored communication strategies to promote PA among the diabetics.

Football is the most popular sport in Vietnam, and this is not just a game or sports, it makes a role as nationalism, and football also is viral motivation to push up the development of socio-economic in Vietnam. To date, the majority of existing studies have focused upon the wider economic impacts, with few empirical studies of the social or cultural impacts upon local residents from professional football.

The paper aims to develop and validate the scale of socio-cultural impacts to examine the perceptions of local residents from professional football clubs in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Before using questionnaire for conducting the scale of socio-cultural impacts to reach participants, structure and content validity of preliminary questionnaire is assessed by a panel of experts with using the test of Item-Objective Congruence. In addition, the reliability test for the draft questionnaire also conducted via the thirty university’s students. Data were collected from 1,500 local residents were based on a convenience sample from six cities and provinces of the three regions in Vietnam. After collecting the data, the entire data set was randomly split into two parts for exploratory factor analysis by IBM SPSS version 22.0 and confirmatory factor analysis by LISREL 9.30 in order to confirm the factor structure of the scale of socio-cultural impacts.

Results of the exploratory factor analysis identified the four impact factors including three positive socio-cultural impacts as Community Enhancement and Consolidation, Health and Socio-cultural Opportunities, and Economics Benefits; and one negative socio-cultural impacts as Socio-cultural & Environment Concerns with a total variance of 62.76%. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that after adjusting model, the 4-factor with 37-item model provided a good fit to the data with the index of χ2/df = 0.343 with P-value > 0.05; RMSEA = 0.000; SRMR = 0.003; GFI = 1.000; and AGFI = 0.998.

It is concluded that the Scale of Socio-Cultural Impacts (SSCI) is a valid measuring instrument for assessing perception of local residents on socio-cultural impacts from professional football clubs at their community in Vietnam.

Job satisfaction has been an issue of intense study interest during the last decades. It could be defined a positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job situation and is linked to the characteristics and demands of one’s work. Also that interest in the concept of job burnout has grown rapidly and the knowledge of burnout has increased considerably. Burnout is defined as a negative experience that is a reaction of people to jobrelated stress.

The present study seeks to investigate the levels of job satisfaction and burnout in Teachers and Physical Education Teachers of Minority and Public Sector Schools, as well as their relation to demographic characteristics.

The Employee Satisfaction Inventory questionnaire, adapted for the Greek population, was employed to assess job satisfaction. For the measurement of burnout, Maslach Burnout Inventory questionnaire was used, which has also been validated for the Greek population. Questionnaires were picked up by 297 Primary School Teachers and by 142 Physical Education Teachers, who serve at 186 Minority Schools and 253 Public Schools of Thrace.

The results of the study revealed a negative relation between job satisfaction and burnout; teachers experience relatively moderate burnout levels, their job satisfaction level is high. The results showed that Physical Education teachers experience higher job satisfaction and lower burnout than Primary school teachers. Finally, concerning school, the type of school affects satisfaction in relation to the factor “job conditions”.

For the first time, burnout and job satisfaction of teachers in minority schools was studied and the results revealed that when job satisfaction increases, the perceived burnout decreases, where job satisfaction and burnout presented medium to high negative correlation.

Skin temperature is an important indicator of the functional status of the body. Infrared thermal images of the body surface or its separate parts could be the indicator of body composition and, probably, the criterion of the functional activity of muscles.

This study aims to find a correlation between the average values of skin temperature in different parts of the body and the components of body composition in young women with low values of adipose tissue (FAT % = 20.73±5.50; BMI = 20.23±2.44).

The study involved 69 healthy women aged 18-20 (BMI = 20.23±2.44). Participants were subjected to a 15-minute temperature adaptation in the room with a temperature of 22–24°С and humidity of 45-50%. We measured body composition using bioelectrical impedance analysis and taking eight photos of different body areas with the help of the thermal infrared camera.

Correlation analysis allowed us to reveal temperature correlations with BMI and FAT%. The most significant values were registered between FAT% and tmean (r=-0.36), FAT% and tshinBL (r=-0.39), FAT% and tshin BR (r=-0.38).

To forecast FAT% for this sample, the skin temperature of the shin is the most informative parameter (decrease by 1% results in the increase in FAT% by 1-1.5%). Moreover, we made a hypothesis that the differences between tmean of shins and hips indicate the postural balance: tshinmean ˃ t hipmean is responsible for the shin strategy; tshinmean ˂ thipmean indicates the hip strategy.