Bullying in Adolescents Practising Sport: A Structural Model Approach

The purpose of this study was to examine the explanatory power of a predictive model of bully/perpetrator behaviour in Romanian athletes, consisting of negative pre-competitive emotions (anxiety, sadness, and anger), perception of male gender normativity, and relationships with coaches and teammates. Additionally, we aimed to explore the mediation effect of bully–victim behaviour on the relationship between athletes’ connections with their coaches and bully/perpetrator behaviour. The current research involved a nonexperimental, cross-sectional design exploring the presence of bully/perpetrator behaviour in Romanian male and female athletes. The quantitative methodology was used to collect and analyse the data obtained. Researchers translated, adapted and pretested the questionnaire set to the Romanian cultural background (SEQ, MAMS, CART-Q, In-group Ties Scale, BSQ) before distributing it to 448 participants. 58.7% were male participants, and 41.3% were female participants. The mean age was 21.15 (SDage = 2.37, range = 18–32). The research was conducted in the first half of 2023. SPSS (V. 20) and Hayes’s PROCESS tool were used to investigate the data. The findings demonstrated that in the case of Romanian male athletes, perception of male gender normativity, anger, and weaker connections with coaches are the most important psychological factors in predicting bully/perpetrator behaviour. In contrast, in the case of Romanian female athletes, only weaker connections with coaches and perception of male gender normativity play an essential role in explaining bully/perpetrator behaviour. Additionally, the study demonstrated that bully–victim behaviour mediates the relationship between athletes’ weaker connections with their coaches and bully/perpetrator behaviour. Athletes’ weaker connections with their coaches lead to experiencing a high level of bully/perpetrator behaviour by stressing bully–victim behaviour, which also contributes to achieving a high level of bully/perpetrator behaviour.

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Traditional sports culture: a fun sport to change the physical literacy of junior handball athletes

Prabowo,

Ma’Mun,

Hendrayana

et al. 2023

HSR

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Purpose: This study aims to investigate the effects of traditional sports culture to change the level of physical literacy among junior handball athletes. Material and methods. This study applied an experimental method by using a pretest-posttest control group design. This study involved athletes from Bandung city (Indonesia) (n = 30) as participants. The recruitment process was conducted with a random technique through sending invitation via email. Participants were allocated to an experimental group (n=15) and a control group (n=15). Quantitative research instruments used physical literacy-movement competence domain, cognitive domain and affective domain. Data was analysis through IBM SPSS to test data normality, statistical descriptive (mean, standard deviation). Independent sample t-test was used to test differences in physical literacy scores before and after the experiment in the experimental and control groups. Meanwhile, the Paired sample t-test was used to test the effect of traditional sports culture towards changes in physical literacy levels in the experimental and control groups. Results. This study results show several findings. First, there was no significant difference in physical literacy between the experimental and control groups before receiving the experimental program (p>0.05). Second, there was a significant difference in physical literacy between the experimental and control groups after receiving the experimental program (p<0.05). Third, the experimental group proved to have an effect on changes in athletes' physical literacy levels (p<0.05), however there was no changes in the control group (p>0.05). Conclusions. Thus, this study confirms that traditional sports culture has proven to be effective in enhancing the physical literacy level of junior handball athletes. This research contributes to the development of physical literacy in athletes, which can be used in future to accelerate their achievements in handball and this research provides important information for coaches, teachers and lecturers about the importance of using traditional sports culture.

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