Violence in sport happening during sporting fight as well as out of play, is becoming a serious social problem, most often sporting activity is criticised exactly through the excessive manifestation of aggression. There are rather controversial attitudes of scientists towards manifestation of men and women aggression presented. That prompted to do a research analysing possibility of manifestation of aggression among different sex handball players of various performance (n=119) and have established interrelation of various forms of aggression. Having analysed manifestation of aggression in the aspect of sex, it was found that women are eager to express hostile aggression more than men. Summarising manifestation of aggression in the aspect of performance, the form of instrumental aggression is more expressed in high peak performance women handball players, and a feature of jealousy and tendency to hostile aggression is more peculiar to low peak performance women. Upon establishing coherence of various aggression forms among high peak performance handball players, it was founded that with increasing possibility of manifestation of instrumental aggression, a possibility of verbal aggression was also increasing. Instrumental aggression of low peak performance handball players – both men and women - is more related to defensive aggression.

It is noticed that success of sporting activity is positively influenced by certain motives. That prompted to perform a research enabling to determine prevailing sporting activity motives of high peak performance handball players. There is a sporting activity motivation of high peak performance men handball players (n=57) analysed in the final paper of the Master studies. Having analysed sporting activity motives of high peak performance men handball players (n=29) and women handball players (n=28) it was established that prevailing motives of high peak performance men handball players’ sporting activity is “cooperation”, “orientation to activity content” and “collaboration”, however just the motive of “cooperation” is statistically reliable. An average failure evasion level and success motivation level are also prevailing, however there is no a statistically significant difference. Analysing sporting activity motives of high peak performance men handball players in the aspect of sex, we have established that a motive of “cooperation” of social motivation level is the most archetypal for men as well as for women, however statistically reliable difference was not determined; there is a statistically reliable motive of “cooperation” prevailing among men. Statistically unreliable “motive of orientation to activity content” is prevailing among women; an average failure evasion level and success motivation level are most of all expressed among high peak performance men handball... [to full text]

The number of athletic migrants has increased over the last 20 years. In the past, transitions have been difficult for transnational and migrant athletes. The objective of this study was to explore professional cultural transition experiences of Icelandic handball players who moved to Denmark in terms of demands, resources, barriers, and coping strategies throughout three phases of the transition process. The study used a qualitative approach centred on postpositivism. Eight active professional handball players were interviewed about their cultural transition experiences on moving to Denmark, and the data was then analysed using a thematic analysis. The focus was to identify themes in the data within each category and phase of the transition. In the findings, we present an empirical model of the cultural transition of Icelandic professional handball players. The model provides a description of the players' transition experiences (i.e., perceived demands, resources, barriers, coping strategies, and outcomes) within each of the three cultural transition phases (pre-transition, acute cultural adaptation, and sociocultural adaptation). The empirical model can be useful for sport psychology practitioners working with handball players and sporting national governing bodies (NGB). The results can also be implemented by handball clubs in Iceland and in coaching education. / Antalet atletiska migranter har ökat under de senaste 20 åren. Tidigare har övergångar varit svåra för transnationella och migrerande idrottare. Syftet med denna studie var att utforska professionella erfarenheter av kulturövergången hos isländska handbollsspelare som flyttade till Danmark i form av krav, resurser, barriärer och copingstrategier under tre faser av övergångsprocessen. Studien använde ett kvalitativt tillvägagångssätt med fokus på postpositivism. Åtta aktiva professionella handbollsspelare intervjuades om sina erfarenheter av kulturövergång när de flyttade till Danmark, och data analyserades sedan med en tematisk analys. Fokus var att identifiera teman i datan inom varje kategori och fas av övergången. I resultaten presenterar vi en empirisk modell av den kulturella övergången för isländska professionella handbollsspelare. Modellen ger en beskrivning av spelarnas övergångsupplevelser (d.v.s. upplevda krav, resurser, barriärer, copingstrategier och resultat) inom var och en av de tre kulturella övergångsfaserna (för-transition, akut kulturell anpassning och sociokulturell anpassning). Den empiriska modellen kan vara användbar för idrottspsykologiska rådgivare som arbetar med handbollsspelare och idrottsliga nationella styrande organ (NGB). Resultaten kan även implementeras av handbollsklubbar på Island och i tränarutbildningar.

Tyrimo objektas: Maisto papildų vartojimo paplitimas tinklininkų ir rankininkų, bei jų fizinis pajėgumas. Tyrimo problema: Maisto papildų vartojimo paplitimas tinklininkų ir rankininkų, bei jų fizinis pajėgumas yra mažai nagrinėti teoriniu ir empiriniu lygmeniu. Tikslas: Nustatyti maisto papildų vartojimo paplitimą tinklininkų ir rankininkų, bei jų fizinį pajėgumą. Uždaviniai: 1) Nustatyti ir palyginti įvairių maisto papildų vartojimo ypatumus tinklininkų ir rankininkų grupėse. 2) Nustatyti ir palyginti maisto papildų daromą įtaką fiziniam pajėgumui tinklininkų ir rankininkų grupėse. Hipotezė: Maisto papildų daroma įtaka sportininkų organizmui yra susijusi su geresniu fiziniu pajėgumu. Išvados: 1. Tyrimo dalyviai daugiausia vartojo baltymų ir angliavandenių mišinius, o mažiausiai tarp tiriamųjų buvo vartojami HMB maisto papildai. Tinklininkai labiausiai buvo linkę vartoti baltymų ir angliavandenių mišinius, rankininkai L-karnitiną, amino rūgštis bei baltymų ir angliavandenių mišinius. Rankininkų ir tinklininkų maisto papildų vartojamų preparatų pasirinkimas gana skirtingas. 2. Tinklininkų grupėje, praėjus 6 mėn. nuo tyrimo pradžios, geresniems staigiosios jėgos rezultatams, taikant šuolio į tolį pratimą, reikšmės turėjo amino rūgščių maisto papildų vartojimas, o rankininkų grupėje – kreatino maisto papildų vartojimas. Taikant šuolio aukštyn atsispiriant pratimą, geresniems tinklininkų rezultatams, praėjus 6 mėn. nuo tyrimo pradžios, reikšmės turėjo kreatino, o... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Object of this study: Prevalence of food supplements usage for volleyball and handball players’ and their physical fitness. Problem of this study: Prevalence of food supplements usage and their physical fitness (particularly for volleyball and handball players) is a low-examined theoretically and empirically. Aim: Identify the prevalence of food supplements usage for volleyball and handball players‘ and their physical fitness. Tasks: 1) Identify and compare the food supplements usage features for volleyball and handball players. 2) Identify and compare the influence of food supplements for volleyball and handball players’ physical fitness. Hypothesis: The influence of food supplements for athletes’ organism is related with better physical fitness. Findings: 1. Participants of this study mainly used protein and carbohydrates’ mixtures and the least among the subjects were used the HMB supplements. Volleyball players was the most likely to use mixtures’ of protein and carbohydrates, handball players – L-carnitine, amino acids, protein and carbohydrate mixtures. As can be seen, handball and volleyball players select quite different food supplements to use. 2. The emergency power, when the long jump exercise was used, after 6 months from the beginning of this study was better for those volleyball players‘ who used amino acids and for handball players’ – who used supplements of creatine. When the jump up exercise was used, better results (after 6 months from the... [to full text]

Title: Evaluation of the ability to dynamically stabilize and postural strategy of Czech female handball players Author: Bc. Michaela Pešková Aim: The main objective of the diploma thesis is to investigate the difference of dynamic postural stability and its strategy between female handball players in the Czech republic and the group of women, who don't practise any sport. For the objectivization is used a dynamic posturography Smart EquiTest by NeuroCom company. Methods: The participants of this quantitative cross-sectional study are 44 women, divided into the experimental (24 handball players) and the control group (20unsporting women) in the age from 18 to 28 years old. Measurements of dynamic postural stability were performed on Smart EquiTest by Neurocom in the Kinesiological Laboratory at the department of the physiotherapy on Faculty of Physical Education and Sport of Charles University. The whole test battery contains 7 testing protocols. The measured data from z Neurocom Balance Manager Software were exported to Microsoft Excel 2016, where were used other statistical methods like Shapiro - Wilk test, Student's T-test, Mann - Whitney test and Cohen's d effect size.. Results: A statistically significant difference in favor of non-handball players was found of Limits of Stability, Sensory...