Giampaolo Santi

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano | Unibolzano · Faculty of Education

Abstract. Questo articolo rappresenta un'autoriflessione su "Goal setting e performance sportiva: una rassegna della letteratura", pubblicato su questa rivista scientifica circa dieci anni fa (Santi & Pietrantoni, 2013). Nel presente lavoro, le assunzioni e le cornici teoriche che hanno fatto da sfondo all'articolo del 2013 sono integrate con quell...

The PRIME PETE programme is innovative as it is the first online European programme for primary teachers available with a focus on PE. Thus, this programme should allow interested HEI and teacher education institutions who are currently offering primary PETE programmes or those who are developing programmes to choose appropriate modules for flexibl...

Following the previously developed outputs, the aim of this IO#6 is to develop a method and tool(s) to evaluate the PRIME PETE course modules and micro-modules. The modules and micro-modules were developed by the partner experts, were informed by their work at the respective Universities and the outcomes of IO#1 - IO#5. All micro-modules were open...

This report aims to provide an overview of the PRIME PETE project and to summarise how its intellectual outputs (IOs) can be useful and sustained in the future. The PRIME PETE project is built on the belief that Physical Education (PE) can produce benefits in physical, social, cognitive and emotional domains (e.g., Whitehead 2019; Young et al., 202...

Background FitBack is an international network established to support the creation of physical fitness monitoring and surveillance systems for children and adolescents across Europe. Aims As a part of the greater scope of the FitBack European project, the FitBack web portal was designed and tailored for various target groups, such as teachers, hea...

Aligned with research recommendations (e.g., Wadey & Everard, 2021), the purpose of this multi-method multi-study investigation was to construct a measure of athletes’ experiences of growth following sport injury. Study 1 systematically reviewed the literature on sport injury-related growth (SIRG) and extracted a pool of relevant and specific items...

Objective: People with mental illness experience a significantly increased mortality rate, partly attributable to high rates of premature metabolic disease. Exercise is increasingly recognized as an evidence-based component of treatment for improving both physical and mental illness. Ensuring health care staff have the necessary competence to supp...

Perceived stress in Italian coaches and sport mental health were investigated during the rebooting of sport activities following the first COVID-19 lockdown period. A sample of 237 coaches from various sports were asked to answer the Italian version of the Perceived Stress Scale and the Sport Mental Health Continuum, together with reporting of demo...

Most adolescents in industrialized countries are physically inactive and effective actions to counteract this situation are required. School physical education (PE) can promote students’ active lifestyle. The paper presents the protocol of the “Physical education for moving” (PE4MOVE) project, based on an Internet-supported professional training pr...

Since the end of 2019 and throughout 2020, the world has been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The sports world suddenly had to deal with a massive reorganization of events with important implications for the physical and psychological preparation of athletes and coaches. The purpose of this study was to explore how these changes impacted coach...

Since the end of 2019 and throughout 2020 the world has been devastated by the SARS COVID-19 pandemic. The sport world suddenly had to deal with a massive reorganization of events with important implications on the physical and psychological preparation of athletes and coaches. The purpose of this study was to explore how these changes impacted coa...

The psychological consequences of the lockdown in the sport context have been well studied. However, few studies investigated athletes’ perceived stress during the rebooting in sport training and competitions; moreover, no investigations examined the relationship between perceived stress and interoceptive awareness. To mind this gap and support the...

A partire dai primi mesi del 2020, il contesto sportivo italiano ha dovuto fronteggiare l’emergenza sanitaria dovuta alla pandemia da COVID-19. Società sportive e atleti italiani sono stati tra i primi a vivere le restrizioni dovute alle misure di prevenzione. A tal proposito, abbiamo indagato le principali conseguenze psicologiche dell’isolamento,...

The recent global outspread of the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the lives of people across multiple countries including athletes, coaches, and supporting staff. Along with everybody else, coaches found themselves constrained to an at-home self-isolation, which limited their ability to normally engage with their profession and to interact with t...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic impacted on the sporting field, with athletes constrained in home isolation without the possibility to train and compete in their usual environments. This situation has been investigated within the theoretical frameworks of athletic identity and cognitive emotion regulation.Objectives The objectives of our investiga...

The Collective Efficacy Questionnaire for Sports (CEQS; Short, Sullivan, & Feltz, 2005, Development and preliminary validation of the collective efficacy questionnaire for sports. Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 9(3), 181–202. doi:10.1207/s15327841mpee0903_3) is a domain-specific instrument for the assessment of collective e...

Freestyle race pacing strategies (400 m) were compared between elite able-bodied swimmers and those with minimal physical (International Paralympic Committee S10 classification) and visual disabilities (International Paralympic Committee S13 classification). Data comprised 50-m lap splits and overall race times from 1176 400-m freestyle swims from...

Abstract This study investigated how coach and teammates influence masters athletes' sport commitment, and the effect of functional and obligatory commitments on participation in masters swimming. The sample consisted of 523 masters swimmers (330 males and 193 females) aged between 22 and 83 years (M = 39.00, SD = 10.42). A bi-dimensional commitmen...

Santi, G. & Pietrantoni, L. (2013) Psychology of sport injury rehabilitation: a review of models and interventions. J. Hum. Sport Exerc., 8(4), pp. 1029-1044. The aim of this review is to provide the state of the art about the psychology of sport injury rehabilitation by analyzing the most recent literature and research on this field. In the first...

Lo Sport Commitment Model (SCM) è un modello recente che spiega quali fattori determinano l’impegno nel continuare a praticare esercizio fisico o uno specifico sport. Questo modello è già stato testato in altri paesi sia nell’ambito dell’esercizio fisico, sia in quello dello sport amatoriale e professionistico. Il principale scopo del nostro studio...

The Sport Commitment Model (SCM) is a recent model that explains which factors determine the involvement on sport or exercise practices. This model has been already validated in other countries in the physical exercise setting and in amateur and professional sport. The aim of our study was to validate this model also in the Italian context, particu...

Questa rassegna si focalizza su goal setting e performance sportiva. La Goal Setting Theory nasce in campo organizzativo e lavorativo (Locke e Latham, 2002) e le sue applicazioni nello sport hanno dimostrato l’efficacia di questo metodo nel miglioramento della performance sportiva (Gould, 2006; Weinberg e Gould, 2011). In ambito sportivo è importan...

Contemporary theories of sport commitment (e.g., Wilson et al., 2004: Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 5, 405-421) suggest the type of commitment displayed (i.e., functional vs. obligatory) has differential effects on sport participation. Indeed, studies in sport contexts have identified coaches and sport-peers as the two main social agents that i...

Quello di leadership è un concetto chiave in psicologia e le sue applicazioni sono molteplici in ambito sportivo. Un modello teorico di riferimento per la leadership sportiva è il modello multidimensionale di Chelladurai (1993). Lo scopo di questo studio è indagare le percezioni degli atleti della leadership dei propri allenatori e confrontarle con...