Efi Tsitskari

• Professor (Associate) at Democritus University of Thrace

There has been a noticeable shift towards sustainability in participatory sport, emphasizing practices such as corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. However, a credible international evaluation tool for assessing the effectiveness of CSR initiatives in sport and recreation services is lacking. This study aimed to adapt and validate a C...

Stroke survivors often face diverse unmet needs highlighting the significance of identifying and addressing these needs to enhance rehabilitation outcomes and overall quality of life. This study aimed to validate the modified Needs Assessment Questionnaire (mNAQ) as a reliable and valid tool for assessing the needs of stroke patients in the Greek c...

Stroke survivors often face diverse unmet needs, highlighting the significance of identifying and addressing these needs to enhance rehabilitation outcomes and overall quality of life. This study aimed to validate the modified Needs Assessment Questionnaire (mNAQ) as a reliable and valid tool for assessing the needs of stroke patients in the Greek...

In an era marked by a growing emphasis on business ethics and sustainability, fitness centers face a compelling need to align their practices with their members’ perceived ethical values. To explore the role of ethics in the fitness industry’s expanding business landscape, this study draws upon established theories in consumer-perceived ethicality...

This research aim was to examine the ethical viewpoints of health and fitness managers in Greece. To achieve this, an adapted version of the Ethics Position Questionnaire (EPQ) (Forsyth, 1980) was employed. Additionally, the study sought to determine whether managers of these fitness centers leaned more towards idealism or relativism in their ethic...

The concept of body image is multidimensional and concerns the attitude of each person towards their body and their appearance. The aim of this research was to study how Greek fitness center members evaluate their body image, and whether this evaluation is differentiated in terms of gender, age and BMI. Moreover, the study aimed to survey whether f...

The aim of this research was to study the motives for participation of Greeks of the Diaspora in the Middle East in Greek dancing lessons in their countries of residence. In addition, it was examined whether demographic characteristics such as gender, age, country of birth (Greece or other) and educational level of the participants are factors that...

The health and fitness sector is systematically growing worldwide and is considered a vibrant business area shaped by many innovations while showing great potential for professional development and marketing strategies. In Greece, low-cost and budgetgyms as well as boutique fitness studios emerged as a popular business model among health club opera...

The Greek fitness industry is full of potentials both for existing companies and for those which wish to open in the near future. Gym member penetration rates in Greece are below the average of the EU markets, signifying this potential for growth. Considering that a large percentage of “exercisers” are low-motivated. Increasing their motivation is...

Η περιοχή της Μέσης Ανατολής αποτέλεσε και αποτελεί πόλο έλξης Ελλήνων, οι οποίοι για λόγους κυρίως εργασιακούς έχουν αποφασίσει να μετοικίσουν εκεί, δημιουργώντας κοινότητες και πολιτιστικούς φορείς που τους κρατούν συνδεδεμένους μεταξύ τους αλλά και με την Ελλάδα. Στα πλαίσια αυτών των φορέων σε κάποιες χώρες πραγματοποιούνται και μαθήματα ελληνι...

Ένας από τους βασικούς παράγοντες μιας επιτυχημένης παρουσίας των πολιτιστικών φορέων είναι η ποιότητα υπηρεσιών που θα προσφέρουν. Με αυτό τον τρόπο θα μπορούν να προσελκύσουν και να διατηρήσουν έναν ικανοποιητικό αριθμό ατόμων στον φορέα με πολλές θετικές συνέπειες για τον ίδιο το φορέα και τους συμμετέχοντες. Σκοπός της εργασίας ήταν η διερεύνησ...

Στόχος της έρευνας ήταν να μελετήσει αν η αντιλαμβανόμενη ποιότητα υπηρεσιών μπορεί να χρησιμεύσει ως παράγοντας τμηματοποίησης των μελών ενός γυμναστηρίου που παρέχει πιο εξατομικευμένες υπηρεσίες στους πελάτες του, προσωπικής γυμναστικής ή άσκησης σε μικρές ομάδες. Επιμέρους στόχος της έρευνας ήταν να εξετάσει αν οι διαφορετικές κατηγορίες πελατώ...

Η παρούσα εργασία εκπονήθηκε με σκοπό να διερευνηθεί εάν η υγεία και η κοινωνικοποίηση ως κίνητρα συμμετοχής και η αφοσίωση των συμμετεχόντων σε χορευτικές δραστηριότητες διαφοροποιούνται ανάλογα με το είδος χορού. Το δείγμα αποτέλεσαν 389 ενήλικες που ασχολούνται με το χορό τουλάχιστον ένα έτος. Χωρίστηκαν σε τρείς ομάδες: Παραδοσιακών χορών (140...

Η αλλαγή στη μορφή της ελληνικής κοινωνίας έχει αυξήσει τη συμμετοχή των ατόμων στις χορευτικές ομάδες των πολιτιστικών συλλόγων. Σκοπός της παρούσας μελέτης είναι η εξέταση των κινήτρων συμμετοχής σε χορευτικά τμήματα των πολιτιστικών συλλόγων του αστικού ιστού της Καστοριάς. Το δείγμα της έρευνας αποτέλεσαν 87 άτομα από έξι διαφορετικά σωματεία,...

Σκοπός της έρευνας ήταν η αξιολόγηση των κινήτρων συμμετοχής τουριστών σε μουσικοχορευτικά δρώμενα και συγκεκριμένα στη δράση «ONE- DAY TOUR IN ATHENS». Επιπρόσθετα διερευνήθηκε αν τα δημογραφικά χαρακτηριστικά (φύλο, ηλικία, εκπαίδευση) αποτελούν παράγοντες διαφοροποίησης των κινήτρων. Το δείγμα της έρευνας αποτέλεσαν 100 συμμετέχοντες στις δραστη...

The study’s aim was to cross-validate the “Behavioral Regulation in Sport Questionnaire” (BRSQ), of Lonsdale and his co-authors (2008) in a Greek dance context. The sample consisted of 390 dancers, 249 coming from folk dance groups and 141 from non-folkdance groups. The scale was translated into Greek using the back-translation procedure. The valid...

Tourism is an important social phenomenon that impels travel to new destinations. The purpose of this paper is to examine destination competitiveness regarding the tourists’ perspective in Greece. The guiding principle of this study concerns the tourists’ perspective, the overall competitiveness of a destination and whether or not it is dependent u...

The present study aimed to segment fitness centers' members through their exercise motives and further profile them according to their perceptions of service quality and loyalty. Participants (N = 378) filled in a questionnaire measuring: (a) exercise motives, (through the translated-into-Greek EMI-2), (b) service quality, and (c) psychological com...

This study aimed to test the applicability of the Survey of Employability Skills Needed in the Workforce (SESNW) (Robinson, 2006) in Greek sport employers. One hundred ninety three employers from three sectors participated in the study. Consecutive EFAs led to six robust factors of employability skills, labeled Professional Behavior & Development,...

PurposeExercise may offer a further opportunity to achieve pleasant conditions, without the use of substances or addiction supporting the promotion of a healthy lifestyle that is incompatible with the use of drugs. The aim of the present study was to explore the influence of physical activity on the degree of happiness among drug abusers in Greece....

Holiday and recreation destinations play an important role in people's lives in modern societies. Outdoor recreation activity programs do not concern themselves with participants' physical improvement or empowerment, rather with their feelings of satisfaction and pleasure. This results in benefits that arise effortlessly, prompting participants to...

This study presents data from the Erasmus Life Long Learning Program “Employability of Graduates of Sport” (EGS). EGS aims at establishing a Europe wide Employers/Sport related Higher Education Institutions network, to promote good practice in employability programs. As part of the Needs Analysis action of the project, a survey of employers and spo...

The aim of the study was to examine the factorial structure and validity of Behavioral Regulation in Sports Questionnaire (BRSQ – Lonsdale Hodge & Rose, 2008). The proposed nine dimensional motivation model by Lonsdale et al. (2008) investigated: i) amotivation, ii) external regulation, iii) introjected regulation, iv) identified regulation, v) int...

An International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association’s report (2013) recently referred to Cyprus as an emerging market in the fitness industry. Although Cypriot fitness agencies appear to be a growing business that both demands the acquisition of new members and, most importantly, the upkeep of the existing ones, not such research seems to h...

This study aimed to examine: (a) the stability of the factor structure of the Modified Involvement Scale (Kyle et al., 2007) and (b) whether exercise involvement may act as an antecedent of Greek fitness club members’ satisfaction. The sample consisted of 198 members participating in fitness clubs of a Greek city. The results did not support the fi...

The present study aimed to examine the applicability of the SPEED scale in the context of fans of the professional football clubs in Greece and examine its predictive power on fans behavioral intention to continue attending the team’s games. The proposed by Funk, Filo, Beaton and Pritchard (2009) five-dimensional motivation model used: a) Socializa...

Σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας ήταν η μελέτη των κινήτρων συμμετοχής που έχουν οι συμμετέχοντες σε υπαίθριες δραστηριότητες αθλητικής αναψυχής σε Εθνικό Δρυμό. Το δείγμα της έρευνας αποτέλεσαν 201 συμμετέχοντες σε υπαίθριες αθλητικές δραστηριότητες αναψυχής που έλαβαν χώρα στον Εθνικό Δρυμό της Πάρνηθας τους μήνες Μαρτίου και Απριλίου του 2013. Στην...

The purpose of the present study was twofold: first, to examine whether satisfaction may be used as predictors of psychological commitment and second to investigate whether satisfaction, non satisfaction and psychological commitment to fitness services’ providers may differentiate between female and male participants. Three hundred questionnaires w...

To explore the outcomes of an Xbox Kinect intervention on balance ability, enjoyment and compliance for previously injured young competitive male athletes. Experimental pre-/post-test design with random assignment. Sixty-three previously injured young competitive male athletes, aged 16 ± 1 years. Participants were divided into three groups: one gro...

Blended learning With the concerns and dissatisfaction with e-learning, educators are searching for alternative instructional delivery solutions to relieve the above problems. The blended e-learning system has been presented as a promising alternative learning approach. While blended learning has been recognized as having a number of advantages, in...

The study’s aim was to evaluate the motives that affect young athletes’ behavior in relation to their participation in team sports. One hundred and fifty-eight children aged 10 to 13 (121 of which were boys and 37 were girls), all active members of private volleyball, football and basketball sport academies in Komotini filled in the questionnaire....

O αθλητικός τουρισμός έχει τις ρίζες του στην αρχαιότητα. Σήμερα ένα από τα σημαντικά αθλητικά γεγονότα που προσελκύει αθλητές και θεατές απ’ όλο τον κόσμο είναι ο διεθνής Κλασικός Μαραθώνιος Αθηνών. Ο σκοπός της παρούσας έρευνας ήταν η ανάλυση των δημογραφικών χαρακτηριστικών και η διερεύνηση των χαρακτηριστικών του αθλητικού τουρίστα σε σχέση με...

In the last 20 years, the Greek children's summer sport camp industry has grown in numbers and significance and has become very competitive. Few studies have been conducted on sport camps, especially of their impact on children's intrinsic motivation, their sport competence, and life satisfaction. The aim of this paper was to: (i) study the relatio...

In the last 20 years, the children’s summer sport camp industry has become very competitive and has grown in Greece. Few studies, though, have been conducted in summer camps especially about how they affect children’s intrinsic motivation, their sport competence and life satisfaction. The aim of this paper was to study the relationship between intr...

The aim of this study was to examine spectators’ expectations of the service provided in basketball stadiums of Northern Greece. Five hundred spectators from five basketball stadiums of Northern Greece filled in an evaluation instrument created and modified so that to fit in the Greek standards. The exploratory factor analysis and reliability analy...

Οι Gibson και Yiannakis (2002), παρουσίασαν μια περιεκτική ταξινόμηση των τουριστών ελεύθερου χρόνου και σχεδίασαν την κλίμακα Tourist Role Preference Scale τουριστικής τυπολογίας. Ο σκοπός αυτής της έρευνας ήταν να διερευνήσει την τυπολογία των τουριστών ελεύθερου χρόνου στην Ελλάδα μέσω της κλίμακας TRPS-Tourist Role Preference Scale. Τα δεδομένα...

Sport marketing managers worldwide are exploring and experimenting with the Web in an attempt to develop more effective communication and marketing tools. This is especially the case in Greece where in recent years there has been a desire to create team-based websites that are more fan friendly, relevant and accessible. This paper aimed to develop...

The purpose of the current research was to examine the differences between expected quality of service and the perceived quality of service experienced by spectators at selected professional basketball stadiums in Northern Greece. Five hundred spectators filled in the evaluation instrument created for the purpose of the study. The Wilcoxon's matche...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of multimedia computer-assisted instruction (MCAI), traditional instruction (TI), and combined instruction (CI) methods on learning the skill of shooting in basketball. Additionally, a comparison of the students’ attitudes towards the MCAI and TI methods was made. Seventy-five middle school studen...

The aim of this study was to test a tool for the evaluation of the service quality provided in basketball stadiums. Another aim of this study was to investigate the dimensions of perceived service quality in basketball installations and to develop and standardize a scale measuring this concept based on a sample of the Greek population. Five hundred...

Choo (1998) και τροποποιήθηκε έτσι ώστε να ανταποκρίνεται στα ελληνικά δεδοµένα και στις ανάγκες της έρευνας. Από τη ∆ιερευνητική Παραγοντική Ανάλυση και τις Αναλύσεις Αξιοπιστίας προέκυψαν έξι παράγοντες προσδοκιών που εξηγούσαν το 66,02% της συνολικής διακύµανσης: α) «ψυχαγωγία», β) «προσωπικό», γ) «άνεση», δ) «εγκαταστάσεις», ε) «πολυτέλεια» και...

Conceptualization and measurement of quality in the field of sport-related services are still in a formative stage, underlining a certain degree of uncertainty or disagreement regarding the set of criteria or the conceptual model that can adequately describe them. This paper presents a literature review on the evaluation of quality of sport-related...

Computers are increasingly a part of preschooler’s lives. The purpose of the present paper was to discuss research avenues employing computers as a learning tool and to analyse the results obtained by this method at the preschoolers’ learning level. Specifically this research was to determine if computer assisted instruction (CAI) was a useful tool...

Computers are increasingly a part of preschooler�s lives. The purpose of the present paper was to discuss research avenues employing computers as a learning tool and to analyse the results obtained by this method at the preschoolers� learning level. Specifically this research was to determine if computer assisted instruction (CAI) was a useful tool...

The main purpose of this study was to confirm whether the evaluation tool MASSQ (“Marketing Assession of Sport Sites Questionnaire”, Tsitskari, Costa, Tzetzis & Kioumourtzoglou, 2004) which was in the past answered by Greek sport fans may also be used for the evaluation of internet marketing by the sport managers. The sample consisted of 66 manager...

During the last few years, there has been significant interest in service quality issues, in general, and the quality of athletic services, in particular. The aim of this research was to see whether the 10 dimensions for the evaluation of service quality of Parasuraman, Zeithaml and Berry (1985) could be modified and used to evaluate the service qu...

One of the worldwide biggest phenomena of modern age is the use of Internet. With various ways and for various reasons sport causes intense interest to Internet. The impact of Internet in sports has already be­come perceptible and it continues to develop with rapid rates. The aim of this research was the development of a questionnaire that could ev...

The purpose of this study was to develop a psychometric questionnaire in order to evaluate the educational web site “Youth 2004” considering the perceptions of Greek abroad students of Sydney. The differences among the sex were also investigated. Participants were 192 high school students, between the ages from 15-17 years old. Data was collected u...