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Alfred Min; Ross M. Murray; Tahla den Houdyker; Catherine M. Sabiston – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective Explore the association between varsity athletes' fitness perceptions and symptoms of depression while sidelined from sport for an extended period, and test whether fitness-related self-conscious emotions (i.e., shame, guilt, authentic pride, and hubristic pride) mediate this relationship. Participants Varsity athletes (N = 124) from a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Athletics, Student Athletes, Student Attitudes
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Saunders, Travis; McIsaac, Travis; Baker, Tyler; Beck, Katie; Fowles, Jonathon R. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2023
Service learning opportunities allow students to apply their knowledge and skills through engagement with their community. Previous studies have suggested that student-led exercise testing and health screening can benefit both students and their community participants. In a third-year kinesiology course, "Physiological Assessment and…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Exercise, Physiology, Kinesiology
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Ouellet, Lorie; Laberge, Suzanne – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2023
The outdoor domain has frequently been identified as one where women's skills and competences were undervalued compared with those of men. The aim of the study was to explore how men and women interact in the context of an educational wilderness expedition. The concepts of field, forms of capital and habitus of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu were…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Physical Environment, Sex, Gender Bias
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Lodewyk, Ken; Sullivan, Philip – JTRM in Kinesiology, 2017
A recently validated trait personality framework is the HEXACO (honesty-humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience). Little is yet known about how the HEXACO personality dimensions and its subsets--particularly the dimension of honesty-humility--relates to physical activity and body size…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Personality Traits, Physical Fitness, Self Concept
Schuman, Samuel – National Collegiate Honors Council, 2013
Although honors students are highly motivated and intellectually promising, they are not empty cognitive vessels ready to be filled with professorial knowledge. They are, instead, complex, multifaceted young people, sometimes troubled, often delighted and delightful. While at college they are learning how to live their lives not just as…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Holistic Approach, Undergraduate Students, Wellness
Kuruganti, Usha – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2014
As part of the undergraduate curriculum, the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) requires all students to take an undergraduate course in physical activity, health and wellness in their third year of study. This capstone course allows students to integrate concepts from their program regarding physical activity,…
Descriptors: Health Education, Health Promotion, Wellness, Surveys
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Scott, Felicity; Rhodes, Ryan E.; Downs, Danielle Symons – Journal of American College Health, 2009
Objective: Public health messaging about physical activity (PA) sometimes combines moderate and vigorous intensity, but the variance/invariance of the motives for PA by intensity has received scant attention. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the beliefs and motivations associated with regular moderate- and vigorous-intensity PA in a…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Public Health, Social Cognition