Several studies conducted on home advantage in sport have focused on game location and performance outcome. The purpose of this study was to examine three components of home advantage, such as the effect that game location has on self-efficacy, a critical psychological state, and assertive play, a critical behavioral state. Participants (N = 21) from one mid-sized, midwest, Division I soccer program completed the Modified State Sport-Confidence Inventory (MSSCI) prior to six home conference games and six away conference games. In addition, all 12-conference games were observed and coded according to four assertive behaviors of soccer players. Data were analyzed using a permutation test and Spearman's Rho with a level of significance set at .05. Results indicated there was no significant difference in self-efficacy between home and away games and no significant difference in assertive play between home and away games. No significance relationship was found for self-efficacy and assertive play. Possible limitations along with recommendations for the future are discussed. / School of Physical Education

Thesis (M.A.)--San Jose State University, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-67). Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-119). Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.

Thesis (M.Psych.Sport&Ex.) - University of Queensland, 2006. / Includes bibliography.

Thesis (M.A.)--San Jose State University, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-67).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-119).

Thesis (M.S.)-- Springfield College, 2006. / Bibliography: leaves 111-120.

Thesis (M.S.)--Springfield College, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.

Orientador: Deivis Perez Bispo dos Santos / Banca: José Sterza Justo / Banca: Paulo Roberto de Carvalho / Resumo: O presente trabalho buscou compreender como se configura o campo da formação profissional de jovens para o trabalho como atletas de futebol e como se desenvolvem os processos de subjetivação dos adolescentes no tocante à profissão a qual aspiram. A investigação foi desenvolvida nas categorias de base de um clube alocado no interior do estado do Paraná. Para efetuar esta pesquisa, o estudo foi composto por três momentos distintos. Primeiramente, contemplou a produção de uma narrativa acerca da história e da modernização do futebol no Brasil, dando ênfase aos processos, acontecimentos e eventos que conduziram a sua conversão em trabalho. O segundo momento se caracterizou pela revisão, análise e síntese do conceito de subjetivação à luz da Psicologia Histórico-Cultural. Por último, o exame e discussão do processo de formação e de subjetivação dos jovens atletas com base nos estudos e elaborações teóricas e nos dados que emergiram do campo investigado. Para esta etapa, optou-se pelos aportes teórico-metodológicos da Clínica da Atividade. Particularmente para a fase de recolha de dados, foi adotado o dispositivo da autoconfrontação simples. Tal dispositivo se baseia no princípio da coanálise da atividade cotidiana realizada pelos trabalhadores situados em contexto e tem o diálogo como fundamento para a emergência do conhecimento compartilhado sobre as maneiras de realizar a atividade e de se realizar na atividade. Neste sentido, oferece os subsídios necessários à compreensão dos processos de subjetivação no tocante à formação profissional neste cenário / Abstract: The present work sought to understand how the field of professional formation of youth people for the labor as soccer athletes is configured and how is developed the process of subjetivation of this teenagers for the profession they aspire to. The investigation was developed in the youth teams of a club located in a city of the Paraná state. In order to execute this research, the study was compound by three different moments. At first, it contemplated the production of a narrative about the soccer history and its modernization in Brazil, emphasizing the processes, facts and events which had made it became a job. Afterwards, we made a literature revision, an analyses and a discussion about the concept of subjetivation from the Historical-Cultural Psychology perspective. At last, the exam and discussion of the formation process and the subjetivation of the youth athletes, based on the studies and theoretical elaborations and on the data that were found in the field research. For this stage, we choose the theoretical-methodological contributions of the Clinic of Activity. Specifically for the dada collect stage, it was adopted the simple self confrontation device. This resource has as principle the co-analysis of the daily activity executed by the workers in their context and has the dialogue as the fundament to the emergence of the shared knowledge about the ways of to do the work and to be done by the work. Therefore, this study offers the necessary subsidies for the comprehension of the subjetivation process related to the professional formation in this field / Mestre

The main problem of this study was to determine if a significant strength difference existed between the mirror muscles of six muscle groups in the dominant and nondominant legs of University of the Pacific male soccer players at differing contraction speeds as measured by the Cybex II Isokinetic Dynometer.