This study examined the effects of utilizing a wearable activity tracker in a credit-based physical activity instructional program (PAIP) for promoting physical activity (PA) in college students. Fourteen PAIP courses in a large public university were randomly assigned into intervention (k = 7; n = 101) and control (k = 7; n = 86) groups. All courses focused on a core curriculum that covers basic exercise and behavioral science contents through lectures and activity sessions. A Misfit Flash activity tracker was provided to students in the intervention group. Objective PA assessments occurred at baseline, mid-, and end-of-semester during a 15-week academic semester. The control group showed a significant reduction in moderate- and vigorous-intensity PA (MVPA) minutes from baseline to the end-of-semester (P <.05), whereas the intervention group showed no changes in MVPA minutes over time. However, the intervention group also showed increased sedentary time and decreased time spent in light-intensity PA during the intervention period. Taken together, the present study found null effects of utilizing the wearable activity tracker in promoting PA in college students suggesting that intervention of primary using the wearable activity tracker as a behavior change strategy may not be effective to increase in PA in this setting.
Operational characteristics for successful mentoring programs of new university faculty include clarity of purpose of the program, methods for matching mentors and protégés, mentor training, mentorprotégé relationship building, and program effectiveness assessment. Strengths of formal, informal, peer, group or consortia, intra-departmental, inter-departmental, and research mentoring approaches to mentoring from the literature are presented. Using characteristics and outcomes from successful programs, a proposed four-stage model of conceptualization, design and development, implementation, and evaluation can lead to the benefits of socialization into the culture, emotional support, networking, and increased job performance. A model for mentoring university faculty. The Educational Forum, 75, 357-368. Publisher's official version: http://dx.
All Sports Illustrated feature articles between 1954-1987 were examined with reference to sport, gender, race, role of the person featured, length of article, author, number of pictures, individuals pictured, and descriptive characteristics. The sporting achievements and lives of males were acclaimed in 90.8% of these 3,723 articles. Males authored 91.8% of the articles. Baseball (21.6%), football (16.2%), and basketball (13.1%) appeared most frequently, followed by boxing (7.5%), track and field (6.5%), and golf (4.7%). Blacks were featured in only 22.4% of the feature articles. Athletes (83.9%) and their achievements, rather than coaches, owners, or administrators, were the focus of these articles. As expected, pictures of the featured individuals predominated (mean of 3.01) over those of others (mean of .677). Articles about males and whites were longer on average than those about females and blacks (66 to 55 and 67 to 58 column inches, respectively), as were those for boxing (77), football (69), baseball (60), and men’s basketball (58). Written descriptors characterized females in blatantly sexist terms.
Using self‐determination theory as a foundation, the current study examined ethical leadership, servant leadership, and emotional intelligence to ascertain any shared characteristics contributing to effective leadership. Self‐determination theory espouses the centrality of autonomy, competence, and relatedness to human motivation. Servant leadership emphasizes serving and caring for others. Ethical leaders consistently make morally reasoned decisions. Emotionally intelligent leaders are self‐aware and self‐regulating, nurture motivation, and stress empathy and social skill. An analysis of the literature revealed 10 shared characteristics connecting the three components of self‐determination theory, including awareness, empathy, fairness, integrity, moral values, motivation, trust, relationship management, respect, and self‐management. Synergies among ethical leadership, servant leadership, and emotional intelligence to leadership in a variety of settings emerged. Effective leaders use awareness, empathy, fairness, integrity, moral values, motivation, trust, relationship management, respect, and self‐management contributing to needs satisfaction in followers’ autonomy, competence, and relatedness. In conclusion, leadership effectiveness can increase when leaders demonstrate integrity, trust, and respect, serve others with empathy and fairness, and are personally and socially competent.
When students know that their teachers genuinely care, they respond by exerting greater effort to reach their potential.
This study analyzes the treatment of athletes in Women's Sports and Fitness between 1975 and1989. Author, article length, gender, sport, race, and sporting role were assessed for each article; the number of accompanying pictures to each article and the characteristics of those featured in the articles were also tallied. Gender, race, sport, and active or posed status of the individual appearing on the cover were coded. Whites were featured in 92% of the articles, mostly in tennis, running, track, basketball, and golf. Of the 151 covers, 98. 7% showed females with 92% whites and 8% blacks. This magazine, on its covers and in its feature articles, changed its emphasis from reporting on traditional sports and competitions to focusing on fitness activities for all women.nitially published in 1975, the magazine WornenSportwas created to help celebrate the sporting achievements of outstanding female athletes and to legitimize women in sports. In the 1970s, communities, schools, colleges, and independent organizations slowly began to provide more competitive opportunities for females. Women were at last receiving begrudging approval for seeking their athletic potentials. No longer did laws, such as Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments Act requiring equal opportunity, permit private clubs and publicly-funded programs to exclude females. Growing out of this &dquo;women in sports phenomenon&dquo; was the physical fitness boom. While only a few could become elite athletes, all females could increase their fitness levels and find recreational activities to enjoy. To appeal to this new, larger market in 1984, this magazine changed its target market and title (to Women's Sports and Fitness). This magazine increasingly provided stories for the average fitness buff along with feature articles about star athletes. TNE PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN IN THE MEDIAMedia treatment of sporting women has been plagued by considerable problems. Poe (1976) examined advertisements in two family and two women's magazines for the years 1928,1956, and 1972 to see how sportswomen were portrayed. She found an emphasis on recreational, non-competitive individual or dual activities and discovered that usually sportswomen were posed, not shown in activity. Rintala and Birrell (1984) also found more females than males in posed shots in their study of the YoungAthlete magazine. Boutilier and San Giovanni ( 1983) found that magazines as diverse as Ms. and Sports Illustrated treated women athletes in quite traditional and stereotypic ways. Hilliard (1984) concluded that magazine feature articles about female tennis players trivialized their athletic achievements. He found that male at James Cook University on March 16, 2015 jss.sagepub.com Downloaded from
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