O estudo tem como objetivo principal identificar a percepção dos frequentadores do Parque Municipal do Idoso em Manaus, Estado do Amazonas, a respeito da preocupação governamental em garantir e viabilizar seu acesso às atividades de lazer. Os objetivos específicos são sistematização do conhecimento acadêmico científico relacionado ao lazer e ao envelhecimento; a análise teórica e documental da legislação existente que contempla o cidadão idoso para a garantia de seus direitos fundamentais e sociais e, as percepções do público idoso de Manaus a respeito da tradução das políticas de lazer que a eles se direcionam em ações concretas por parte do poder público municipal. A pesquisa justifica-se pela discreta produção científica identificada cuja temática do lazer, envelhecimento e políticas públicas estejam interligadas, colaborando inclusive para revisão e elaboração de tais políticas. Trata-se de uma pesquisa interpretativa, quali quantitativa, de caráter exploratório. Os instrumentos de coleta de dados propostos consistem em levantamento bibliográfico e documental, visitas in loco com registro fotográfico, observação, conversas informais e entrevistas com questionário semiestruturados. A proposta metodológica visa coletar dados afim de colaborar na interpretação das percepções do público idoso em questões acerca das políticas públicas de lazer materializadas nas ações práticas de atividades desenvolvidas no âmbito municipal. A pesquisa atingiu seus objetivos uma vez que os idosos frequentadores do Parque Municipal do Idoso que participaram das entrevistas, quase que em sua totalidade, demonstraram-se atendidos pelo poder público municipal em seu direito de acesso ao lazer, inclusive foi possível conhecer o perfil e percepções a respeito das instalações e das atividades em geral / The study aims to identify the perception of the patrons of the Municipal Senior Park in Manaus, Amazonas State, regarding the government´s concern to ensure and facilitate their access to leisure activities. The specific objectives of this paper are to organize the academic knowledge related to leisure and aging; to analize the existing legislation which garantees the fundamental and social rights of senior citizens; and to determine the perception of the elderly population of Manaus in relation to the policies by the municipal government concerning leisure.This study is relevant based on the limited amount of scientific production where the themes of leisure, aging and public policy are interconnected and by its potential to collaborate to the review and preparation of these policies. This research is interpretive, quantitative, qualitative and exploratory in nature. The proposed data collection instruments consist of bibliographic and documentary analysis, on-site visits with observation, informal conversations and interviews utilizing semi-structured questionnaires. The methodology aims to collect data in order to facilitate the interpretation of the perception of the elderly public in relation to public policies concerning leisure that have been materialized into opertations at the municipal level. The study achieved its objectives since almost all the elderly patrons of the Municipal Elderly Park who participated in the interviews, showed satisfaction by the municipal government in terms of their right to the access to leisure. Furthermore, it was possible to identify the profile and perception of the patrons in respect to the park´s facilities and activities in general

This Diploma thesis deals with realationship and opinion of parents of children in age from 12 do 13 years old come from the Vysočina Region in the Czech Republic to their sport doing. Theoretical part which is divided into four chapters is focused on some key words and problems. Everything relates to floorball. Reader can find words like motivation, leisure, sport or floorball. Floorball chapter deals not only with presenet, but also with past. Next part is practical. Research is focused on opinion and relationship of parents to their children doing sport. This thesis explores why is floorball so popular, why they registered their children to do it and if they meet bully. In the end the author summarises this problem and adds his recommendations.

O futebol, como uma atividade de lazer, é uma prática fundamental na vida das pessoas dos bairros de periferia. Portanto, refletindo toda sua importância para nossa cultura, cria uma grande rede de sociabilidade local. A persistência dos campos de futebol, o sonho de jovens nas escolinhas de futebol, as intermináveis “peneiras” dos talentos da bola, os incontáveis jogos e torneios do final de semana, demostram toda sua vitalidade. Deslocando o olhar dos campos para o espaço das ruas, descobrimos a presença de mais um de seus formatos: o futebol de rua. O objetivo desta investigação foi descrever e analisar a prática do futebol de rua como fator de sociabilidade de jovens através da categoria “pedaço”. / Soccer, as an entertainment activity, is a deep-rooted practice in the life of the people who live in the city outskirts. Therefore, by reflecting its whole importance in our culture, it generates a considerable local socialization network. The persistence of soccer fields, the young people’s dreams at soccer schools, the never-ending searching for the new talents of the ball, the uncountable matches and the tournaments on weekends, depicts all its vitality. Turning our sight out of the soccer fields to the street environment, we find out the existence of one more of its formats: the street soccer. The objective of this study was to describe and analyze the street soccer practice as a factor in socializing young people through the ¨pedaço¨ (geographically localized neighborhood located within a larger city or suburb where people gatherings are likely to take place) category.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T14:42:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 joseroberto.pdf: 991047 bytes, checksum: 4f1741e089d96ec64a1023df9d9278f9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-08-01 / The following research has as the main goal the comprehension of development of physical adventure in nature. The way adopted to achieve this goal, goes though the exploration on the transformation in the social habits and the consequences that such transformation cause the modern life. The civilization process, the modernization and the necessities unchained for such events here are opened with the intention of verifying its relation with the activities of leisure. This purpose is marked out with the fact that some activities of leisure, on all mimetic, had been, indeed, transformed by a blind process, that was not thought, not directed, not planned, developed social-historically, as well as the own development of civilization process in a way of reaching the satisfaction throughout these necessities. The goal of this study is to show that these necessities are related to the search for a balance due to the uncomfortable found by the man in its place of living and respective positioning in the civilization evolution. In modern times, the sociability, many times, is based on running days, agitated, stressful and also routine. In this context, some activities of leisure end up presenting better conditions for the satisfaction and balance to these discomforts than others. Based on this context, front to the marketing development reached recently, the physical activities of adventure in the nature are hare studied with the purpose of verifying its condition of restorative of the balance front the necessities generated by the civilization process and the condition of life in a widely urban context. / A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo principal a compreensão do desenvolvimento das atividades físicas de aventura na natureza. O caminho adotado para se chegar a esse objetivo passa pela exploração das transformações dos hábitos sociais e dos desdobramentos que tais transformações acarretaram à vida moderna. O processo civilizacional, a modernização e as necessidades desencadeadas por tais acontecimentos são aqui desnudados com o propósito de verificar a sua relação com as atividades de lazer. Este propósito é balizado no fato de que algumas das atividades de lazer, sobretudo miméticas, foram, factualmente, transformadas – por um processo cego, isto é, não pensado, não direcionado, não planejado, desenvolvido sócio-históricamente, assim como o próprio desenvolvimento do processo civilizacional – em um meio de se alcançar a satisfação frente a essas necessidades. Este estudo objetiva mostrar que essas necessidades dizem respeito à busca por um equilíbrio frente ao desconforto encontrado pelo homem em seu local de convívio e respectivo posicionamento na evolução civilizacional. Em tempos hodiernos, o convívio, muitas vezes, é com um dia-a-dia corrido, agitado, estressante e também rotineiro. Neste contexto, algumas atividades de lazer acabam apresentando melhores condições para a satisfação e equilíbrio desses desconfortos do que outras. Assim, com base neste contexto, e frente ao desenvolvimento mercadológico alcançado recentemente, as atividades físicas de aventura na natureza são aqui estudadas com o propósito de verificar a sua condição de restauradora do equilíbrio frente às necessidades geradas pelo processo civilizacional e pela condição de vida em um contexto amplamente urbano.

A presente pesquisa pretende estudar a arquitetura das unidades do Serviço Social do Comércio (SESC) no Estado de São Paulo, desde o nascimento da entidade até os dias atuais, mostrando as transformações ocorridas nessa arquitetura e relacionando-as com a evolução dos conceitos da instituição e com a arquitetura brasileira, em especial a paulista, do mesmo período. Para isso, pretende-se analisar de forma mais específica um número determinado de unidades consideradas paradigmáticas, que exemplificam as diferentes fases identificadas no processo de transformação da entidade, dando início a uma abordagem crítica acerca do tema, investigando através do processo de pesquisa importantes aspectos da produção arquitetônica e cultural brasileiras. / This very research project aims at studying the architecture of the units of the SESC (Serviço Nacional do Comércio) in the State of São Paulo, from the founding of that institution to this date, showing the changes occurred in such architecture and drawing parallels with the evolution of the concepts of the institution as well as with brazilian architecture, especially in São Paulo, over the same period. For such, a more specific analysis is intended of a certain number of units which are considered paradigmatic, and also exemplify the different phases identified in the transformation process of the institution, bringing about a critical approach to the subject, investigating, through the research process, important aspects of the brazilian cultural and architectural production.

The detrimental nature of movement variability has recently been reconsidered with suggestions that it has a functional role to play in performance. Movements in golf can be attributed to the organismic, task and environmental constraints from which they emerge with these swing movements affecting shot outcomes. A three-dimensional analysis of address position variability revealed that higher skilled golfers present reduced alignment variability in angular relationships between the shoulders and stance compared to less skilled counterparts. Whilst there were no group differences in impact variability, both points in the swing displayed reducing variability from proximal to distal aspects of the kinetic chain. With the popularity of strength and conditioning growing within the golfing world it has become important for coaches to be able to assess golfers’ physical constraints. Two-dimensional analysis, representative of that used in coaching environments, assessed the relationship between the overhead squat and deterioration of posture in the golf swing. Results showed small but significant relationships between this test and golf swing postural kinematics. An 8-week intervention to address overhead squat physical constraints resulted in no change in 3D swing kinematics. Strength and conditioning as a stand-alone intervention provides no benefits to postural kinematics suggesting the need for coaching.

Sport coaching is a complex phenomenon in need of greater conceptual and grounded understandings. Since Heidegger’s influential text; Being and Time (1927/2005), the phenomenological question of what it means to ‘be’ has aided understanding in areas such as nursing and teaching. It is logical then, that this thesis sought to identify what it means to ‘be’ a youth performance coach. The phenomenological tenet that those best placed to elucidate a phenomenon are those that experience it, guided the thesis to explore the lived experiences of four case study coaches. Findings revealed three constituent ‘essences’ of youth performance coaching; (i) care; (ii) a commitment to educate athletes authentically for corporeal challenges to come; (iii) working with others to achieve a specialised corporeal excellence. These findings redirect coaches, researchers and educators ‘back to the thing itself’. The thesis also includes further novel contributions: 1) Phenomenological philosophy and methodology are introduced to coaching research. 2) The essential constituents of youth performance coaching are humanised by describing the incidental experiences and lifeworld of four case study coaches. 3) Fresh concepts (e.g. forms of care), sources (e.g. Sartre, 1943/1984), and areas for future research (e.g. coaching imagination) extend extant sport coaching literature.

The majority of psychological research investigating leader integrity has relied on self or other report methods as the primary means of data collection. While such an approach has advanced the literature, due to the theorised deceptive and manipulative nature of leaders lacking in integrity, prominent theorists (Barling, Christie and Turner, 2008) have called for alternative measures that are less prone to socially desirable responding. As no prior research had examined the integrity of sporting leaders, the present thesis began by examining the antecedent cognitive processes of expert football managers. Building upon this exploration, an implicit association test was developed within studies two and three. Results suggest that the instrument is capable of assessing automatic attitudes towards leader integrity, is more sensitive than existing measures, offers support for concurrent and convergent validity, demonstrates good test-retest reliability, good internal consistency, and is a predictor of player reported commitment. In sum, the present research has sought to understand the phenomena of leader integrity from the perspective of social cognition. The result of these investigations is a robust, sensitive, and complimentary measure of leader integrity, which will assist researchers to better understand the processes that underpin leader integrity.

This thesis investigated the effects of acute eccentric exercise on the immune response to vaccination in young humans. Study one investigated whether the efficacy of the eccentric exercise intervention was affected by manipulating the timings of exercise prior to influenza vaccination. Three exercise groups were vaccinated immediately, 6 hr or 48 hr after exercise and antibody responses at 28 days post-vaccination were compared to those from a resting control group. All participants exhibited robust antibody responses to the vaccine and no effect of exercise was observed; therefore, it was not possible to determine the effects of exercise timing on vaccine responses. Study two investigated whether the antibody response to influenza vaccination was influenced by the intensity of eccentric exercise. Three groups exercised at an intensity eliciting 60%, 85% or 110% of one repetition maximum, and the antibody responses at 28 days post-vaccination were compared to those from a resting control group. In the exercise groups, both men and women showed enhanced antibody responses against the B/Florida strain, and men had enhanced responses against A/Uruguay, in comparison to resting controls. In both cases, the control group exhibited poorer responses against these strains, but no effect of exercise intensity was observed. Study three investigated whether the site of vaccine administration affected the efficacy of the immune response to hepatitis B vaccination following eccentric exercise. The antibody seroconversion rate to the vaccine was low (approx. 5 %), and thus, further analysis between exercise and control participants was not feasible. In sum, supporting previous research, it appears that acute eccentric exercise can enhance the immune response to poorly immunogenic strains of influenza, but research is needed to establish if exercise can enhance other poorly immunogenic vaccines, or vaccine responses in the immuno-compromised.

Vocational dancers are anecdotally regarded as a group ‘at risk’ of compromised health. Yet little is known of the antecedents of variability in positive and negative indicators of dancers’ welfare. Grounded in the basic needs theory (Deci and Ryan, 2000), a mini-theory of the self-determination framework (Deci & Ryan, 1985, 2000) this thesis examined the social-psychological predictors of indices of well- and ill-being among vocational dancers. In study one, the inter-relationships between dancers’ perceptions of the social environment, basic psychological need satisfaction (BPNS) and reported affective states and exhaustion were explored via structural equation modeling. In study two, changes in autonomy support and BPNS were modeled as predictors of changes in dancers’ burnout during the academic year. Multilevel modeling techniques were employed to examine a) perceptions of autonomy support and BPNS as predictors of dancers’ daily affective states in learning and performance contexts (study three); and b) whether BPNS was relevant to dancers’ cognitive appraisals and hormonal and emotional responses in ‘real life’ performance settings (study four). Overall, this thesis partially supports the tenets of basic needs theory. Findings point to the importance of need supportive environments if elite performers are to experience sustained and optimal physical and psychological health.