iosr-jspe   Volume-2 ~ Issue-1 ~ Jan-Feb 2015

Abstract: This narrative article reviewed 20 intervention studies which focused on physical activity and nutrition together under the school based health promotion programmes. Objective: To assess and summarize the effectiveness of interventions focussing on physical activity and nutrition together through the school-based health promotion programmes. Search method: The search strategy included search in databases such as pubmed, medline, reference lists of included articles, systematic reviews and background papers to identify relevant studies and references. Efforts were made to retrieve and review full articles, in the absence of which, the abstracts were considered.

Abstract: Background: The purpose of the study was to comparative study on selected physical fitness components among the physical education students of different universities in West Bengal State. Procedure: For the present study adopted was on the basis of random group design. Equal numbers of tasks were assigned randomly to five groups of twenty subjects each. The first group was trained Visva-Bharati University Group, the second group with Calcutta University Group and the third group with Kalayani University Group. For comparisons of this study Analysis of variance (ANOVA) using for statistical treatment. Finding: Here it is clearly observed that the results showed that there was significant difference between the physical education students of different universities in agility and cardio vascular efficiency. The mean differences in other variables studied, explosive power, were not significantly.

Abstract: This study examined sport team culture among athletes in the Malaysian Public Universities. Team Culture Inventory was adopted from Kao & Cheng (2005). A total of 316 student athletes were surveyed using convenience sampling method. Research findings revealed that there were more males student athletes (60.8%) than female athletes (39.2%). Majority (73%) of the athletes was involved in team sport and 57% of them were in the university and state teams. Only 14.5% of the athletes hold leadership positions including captain and assistant captain. The ranking of team culture sub-domains showed that 'togetherness within other team member' sub-domain was ranked first, 'compliance to coaching' second, 'competitive desire' third and 'perseverance' forth for the respondents of the whole sample, males and females respondents. Inferential statistics found that there were no significant differences in team culture among athletes according to gender, age groups, category of sports and level of involvement. However, one-way ANOVA results revealed significant difference in the 'together within other team member' sub-domain (F[3,312] = 4.044, p<0.05). Team captains have a more positive team culture as compared to athletes holding other team posts. The findings have significant implications for coaches and sport program directors.

Keywords: Sport culture, Athlete's culture, Team culture