Relationships of Individual Skill,Tactical Understanding and Team Skills in Finnish Junior Basketball Players

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Experiential Learning in Industrial/Organizational Psychology: A Case Study

Experiential learning is considered a powerful tool for learning in college. Community-based research is one type of experiential learning that has been used to learn research skills in a variety of social science disciplines. The current case study was conducted as an experiential learning research project. A team of six students and a professor from a small Midwestern college conducted community-based research with a large agribusiness company headquartered near the college. The goal of the project was to create an effective employee-selection process for this firm and to provide an effective learning experience for students. This included development of a situational judgment test, cognitive ability testing, and personality assessment. The article focuses on steps taken to organize a community- based research project, the steps required to develop an effective selection process, and an evaluation of the experience from students, the community partners, and faculty

CSES - Collective Self-Esteem Scale (scheda descrittiva)

Test psicologico. Scheda descrittiva creata all'interno del progetto Bibliomedi

BFQ-C :- Big Five Questionnaire Children (scheda descrittiva)

Test psicologico. Scheda descrittiva creata all'interno del progetto Bibliomedi

The mediating relationship of self-awareness on supervisor burnout and workgroup Civility & Psychological Safety: A multilevel path analysis

The purpose of this study was to examine whether managerial self-awareness (defined as degree of agreement between self and subordinate ratings of leaders’ behaviors) mediates the relationship between supervisor burnout and supervised workgroup climate. Using an HLM approach, supervisor emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and personal accomplishment exhibited significant indirect relationships with workplace Civility and Psychological Safety, via managerial self-awareness. No direct relationships between supervisor burnout and workgroup climate were found, suggesting that self-awareness may be an important mediator for individual characteristics of leaders previously thought to be non-significant. Additional post hoc comparisons indicated that workgroups with supervisors who over-rated their own performance behaviors reported the lowest levels of Civility and Psychological Safety compared to workgroups with supervisors who accurately rated or under-rated their own performance behaviors. However, supervisors that under-rated their own performance reported the highest levels of burnout, highlighting the importance of self-awareness (accurately rating oneself) in relation to individual and group outcomes. The relationships between supervisor burnout, managerial self-awareness, and workgroup perceptions of Civility and Psychological Safety differed when considering the directionality of self-other rating agreement, with the negative impact of burnout at the supervisor level having a more direct impact on the workgroup level perceptions of Civility and Psychological Safety when the workgroup is managed by an under-rater, as opposed to an accurate- or over-rater. Practically, organizations should consider the role of managerial self-awareness in influencing subordinate performance and creating desirable work climates. Also, this study suggests the effects of burnout extend beyond the individual and have significant implications for the performance of those in the supervision of the burned out manager

How football team composition constrains emergent individual and collective tactical behaviours : Effects of player roles in creating different landscapes for shared affordances in small-sided and conditioned games

This study was conducted in the context of a teacher professional development programme that aimed to improve dialogic teaching in the classroom, and it describes the programme and examines the change in teachers' dialogic teaching practices and pupils' classroom engagement during the programme. Data on pupils' school engagement were collected using classroom video recordings and students' self-ratings at the end of the lesson including dialogic teaching practices. The participants comprised seven in-service teachers and their 140 pupils (10- to 15-year-olds) from two comprehensive schools. The findings indicated positive change in the use of dialogic teaching practices and in observed pupils' school engagement during the programme. Moreover, pupils' help-seeking during lessons increased over the course of the programme. The study suggests that a structured professional development programme utilising video recordings with teacher reflections provides beneficial tools for promoting teachers' employment of dialogic interaction and pupils' school engagement.peerReviewe

The impact of different standards of opponents on observed player performance in the English Premier League

The purpose of the investigation was to develop an understanding of how the performance of a soccer team is affected when playing against different standards of opponents in the English Premier League. Twenty-nine Premier League matches were analysed during the 2010-2011 season for 18 selected performance indicators. Standards of opposing teams were defined as being top, middle or bottom depending on their final league position. The participating team was categorised in the ‘middle’ category and eighteen players from the squad were selected to take part in the study. Comparisons (mean±SD) were made between the team’s performances on selected performance indicators against teams ranked as top, middle and bottom. A one-way ANOVA analysed the team’s performance behaviour along with: five positional units (centre-back, full-back, centre midfield, wide midfield, centre forward); and individual player performance behaviour. At team level, successful passes (ρ=0.047) were significantly higher against middle (84.2%) compared with top (83.8%) and bottom standard teams (83.3%). Interceptions (ρ=0.016) were also significantly higher against middle (11.2±8.3) when compared with playing against top standard teams (8.4±5.2). The findings suggested the team generally performed better against middle than top or bottom standard opponents. Possession/passing was highlighted as a key factor influencing the performance at team level, although no account for game state was considered. The findings suggest that differences in individual player performance are not always evident at team or unit level which previous research has failed to address. The current study has shown that player, unit and team performance changes as a function of opposition standard but must be considered in the future in relation to game state

Blue sky and green bugs – How physical parameters and algal speciation influence DMSP and DMS profiles in Antarctic winter sea ice

Due to the unique and extreme physico-chemical conditions in sea ice, i.e. the high salinity and the icy matrix, it constitutes a favourable habitat for the production of high levels of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) by the inhabiting microalgae. High concentrations of DMSP and DMS (dimethylsulfide) are frequently found in sea ice during spring and summer. Records of production during winter are still scarce, but first evidence indicates the potential importance for global budgeting. Our study presents profiles of DMS(P) in sea ice cores collected during the AWECS (Antarctic Winter Ecosytem Climate Study) cruise on RV Polarstern (ANT29-6) in the Weddell Sea. Results show that significant DMS(P) production also occurs during winter in sea ice of the Weddell Sea. This stands in contrast to previous measurements in Arctic winter sea ice (CFL-IPY cruise in the Circumpolar Flaw Lead Polynya), where DMS(P) concentrations were very low. Possible explanations for the differences between DMS(P) levels in the Arctic and Antarctic might be the different snow cover and thus insulation, light regimes and also microbial community structure within the ice. The DMS profiles mirrored the permeability of the sea ice, following elevated DMSP levels in the impermeable areas while showing losses to the ice surface and ice-water interface in the more permeable regions. DMS(P) levels were generally correlated with chlorophyll A concentrations, although the details are complex and seem to be influenced by species composition and species specific DMSP/Chla ratios. Three mayor trends determined in situ reflect values of 136 (±93), 32 (±15) and 5 (±2) mmol DMSP/g Chla resembling published values for cultures of dinoflagellates, haptophytes and diatoms. Preliminary microscopy data confirm that dinoflagellate dominated sea ice layers display higher DMSP/ChlA ratios than diatom dominated ones