Essays about: "professional athlete"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words professional athlete.
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1. "We are a team": Creating a Healthy Coach-Youth Golfer Relationship
University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för hälsa och välfärdAbstract : The research objectives were (1) to explore how coaches and youth golfers perceive a healthy coach-athlete relationship and (2) what they do to facilitate such a relationship. A qualitative small-q study was done by interviewing five experienced coaches and five competitive youth-golfers using two semi-structured interview guides in order to get both coaches’ and athletes’ perspectives. READ MORE
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2. Crossfit and sports psychology : Elite Crossfit athletes’ opinions on mental toughness– a qualitative interview study
University essay from Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan, GIH/Institutionen för fysiologi, nutrition och biomekanikAbstract : The aim of the present study was to review the elite Crossfit athletes’ opinions of the importance of mental toughness to achieve optimal performance. A number of other research studies looking at psychological factors such as grit and mental toughness supports the idea that elite athletes should develop their mental capacity to improve their individual performance. READ MORE
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3. Creating a Healthy Coach-Youth Golfer Relationship: "We are a team"
University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för hälsa och välfärdAbstract : The study was aimed to (1) explore how coaches and youth golfers perceive a healthy coach-athlete relationship and (2) what they do to facilitate such a relationship. This was made by doing a qualitative small-q study, interviewing coaches and youth-golfers using semi-structured interview guides. READ MORE
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4. Learning from Sports Entrepreneurs - Development of a conceptual framework for entrepreneurial risk-handling
University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : The research takes a descriptive and exploratory approach in understanding how the risk experience of top athletes shapes sports entrepreneurs’ risk-handling strategies. In particular, the purpose of this study is to advance the theoretical knowledge of entrepreneurial risk-handling by studying risk-handling strategies developed and applied by sports entrepreneurs and putting them into a conceptual framework of entrepreneurial risk-handling that can be used by any entrepreneur and for future research. READ MORE
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5. “We Always Have to be the Nice Ones, be the Ladies”: A Postfeminist Analysis of how Sports Marketing Reflects Female Athletes’ Lived Experiences
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : Current debates about representations of female athletes in the media consist mainly of textual analyses research produced by scholars who observe the topic from different theoretical frameworks. To better comprehend the relation between women athletes and media’s representation of them, in particularly advertising, this thesis aims to converse with up-and-coming professional and collegiate sportswomen as a way to examine what kind of correlation, if any, there is between sports commercials’ portrayals of female athletes and their actual reality. READ MORE
