
Istvan SoósHungarian University of Sports Science, Budapest, Hungary · Department of Pedagogy
Istvan Soós
BSc (hons), MEd, MSc, PhD Dr. Habil.
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Background: Increasingly, young people are exposed to or exhibit socially toxic negative behaviours illustrating a need to influence behaviour positively by developing personal and social responsibility. University students studying sports-related courses are the teachers or sports leaders of the future and, if motivated to do so, can strongly infl...
Vizsgálatunk tárgyát az oktatási stratégiákat kiváltó előzmények megismeréséhez alkalmazható Tanítási Környezetet (TE) és a Tanári Oktatási Hatásrendszert (TASCQ) vizsgáló angol nyelvterületeken alkalmazott kérdőívek magyar nyelvre történő adaptálása és pszichometriai elemzése képezte. Adatokat Kelet-Közép-Európában Szlovákia, Románia, Szerbia és M...
Introduction: Learning the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of motivation provides important information for understanding the behavior in physical education and sports in young people. Sage (1977) describes motivation as one’s effort towards certain activities and its intensity. Motivation is deeply rooted in the individual based on Va...
The Physical Education and Health Development learning area of the National Core Curriculum (NCC) 2020 and the framework curricula that form a coherent unit with it includes a set of goals and contents that meet the challenges of the 21st century. One of the prominent components of the 21st century image of man is that the individual is active, but...
The COVID-19 pandemic has swept the world, claiming nearly seven million lives by now. Despite a decline in the mortality rate, in November 2022, the virus-linked death cases still exceeded 500 every day. There is a belief that it is over now, but similar health-crisis situations may re-occur, and therefore it is essential to learn from such human...
Recent reports have identified that PIEDs use is rising within the Armed Forces leading to concerns over health and concomitant operational risks. The aim of this study was to identify the roles of gateways and gatekeepers on PIEDs use among a cohort of UK military veterans. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 ex-Service personnel. In...
Hungary is unique in Europe having five school physical education (PE) classes per week for every child. The objective of this study was to examine the changes that have occurred in the leisure-time activities (sedentary activities and physical activities) of Hungarian students since this introduction. Students’ sedentary activities and physical ac...
Bevezetés
A COVID-19 világjárvány leküzdése érdekében bevezetett korlátozások miatt az emberek életmódja jelentős mértékben megváltozott. Az időszakot vizsgáló kutatások rámutattak arra, hogy a korlátozások globális szinten is jelentős hatást gyakorolnak a lakosság fizikai és mentális állapotára (Hall et al., Prog Cardiovasc Dis, 2021; 64: 108–110....
"The exploration of factors underpinning Olympic success (number of medals won) extended to the Human Development Index (HDI). Analysis of the Rio Olympic Games supported the influence of geographic and social variables. Schooling was one of the most important predictors and together with population explained 64%; when adding geographic variables (...
Objective
The use of performance and image enhancing drugs (PIEDS) among active military personnel and veterans presents a public health concern. Deeper understanding of PIEDS use in those populations is necessary to understand what underpins their use and provide information to help shape interventions with the aim of reducing impacts on individua...
The aim of this in-situ research was to measure the changes in affect in adolescent dancers in three situations, before and after: a) training, b) performance grading, and c) competition. With the cooperation of a dance school, 26 girls (mean age = 15.58, SD = 1.58 years) completed the Positive Affect Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) six times. Res...
This study identified what effects project Handball at School had on target accuracy amongst primary
aged school children (n=293) over a 6 month period, who undertook daily PE in school. They were grouped into
3 experimental schools in which intervention took place and 2 control schools. In order to examine target
accuracy, technical form, and time...
Recent studies have shown a relationship between the risk for exercise addiction (REA) and passion. This research examined whether levels of REA, volume of exercise (in weekly hours), and self-reported exercise intensities yield differences in obsessive passion and harmonious passion among individuals with long history of exercise. Respondents (n =...
Physical education focuses on the development of sports skills as well as fitness for health. In Central European countries there has been a shift in these focuses since the fall of Communism to follow internationally-recognised health-related physical activity recommendations, similar to Western European countries. In this study we investigated th...
Swimming is a popular sport and leisure activity worldwide, but its psychological effects may vary in different situations. The current in situ study compared swimmers’ acute psychological responses in leisure swimming and athletic training. Fifty-four swimmers (27 in each group) were tested in their normal swimming environments. Measures obtained...
Increased research on passion in exercise calls for direct examination of possible moderating variables, such as culture and gender, that could influence the interpretation of the research results. This study using a nation by gender between‐participants design, examined differences in obsessive‐ and harmonious passion in Spanish and Hungarian phys...
New evidence suggests that passion is linked to exercise addiction. The objective of this work was to determine the strength of the relationship between exercise addiction, obsessive passion, and harmonious passion in team versus individual sports. Athletes (n = 190) from three team and three individual sports were examined. Results of hierarchical...
Influence of body mass index and gender on physical activity in primary school children during PE and non-PE school days - Volume 76 Issue OCE2 - D.T. Archer, B. Hogg, M. Coulson, I. Soos, S.D. Anderson, P. Innerd, S.D. Leyland
Placebo and nocebo effects occur in response to subjective expectations and their subsequent neural actions. Research shows that information shapes expectations that, consequently, influence people’s behaviour. In this study, we examined the effects of a fictive and inert green colour energy drink provided for three groups (n = 20/group) with diffe...
Placebo and nocebo effects occur in response to subjective expectations and their subsequent neural actions. Research shows that information shapes expectations that, consequently, influence people's behaviour. In this study, we examined the effects of a fictive and inert green-colour energy drink provided for three groups (n=20/group) with differe...
Just weeks before the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, this work examined the connection between winning Olympic medals at the London 2012 Games and the participating nations' population size, Gross Domestic Product Per Capita (GDP-PC), and average annual temperature as based on the 'demographic-', 'economic', and 'geographical' hypotheses (Hoffmann et al.,...
Emotional intelligence (EQ) was linked to sport participation. We report two studies in which we tested the link between exercise volume, defined as weekly hours of exercise, and EQ. Volunteers (n = 64 and n = 84) completed the Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale. In Study I, significant correlations between exercise volume and use-and regula...
Placebo and nocebo effects occur in response to cognitive beliefs and their subsequent neural actions. Studies show that information bias triggers beliefs that alter the behavioural outcome. In this work, we scrutinized the effects of an inert green-colour energy drink provided to three groups (n=20/group) with different information. One group was...
Placebo and nocebo effects occur in response to cognitive beliefs and their subsequent neural actions. Studies show that information bias triggers beliefs that alter the behavioral outcome. In this work, we scrutinized the effects of an inert green-color energy drink provided to three groups (n=20/group) with different information. One group was to...
ABSTRACT
Karate has been theoretically linked to the development of body
awareness and spirituality. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to
examine these constructs in long-term (at least five and then at least
10 years) Shotokan karate practitioners (n = 77) and a control group (n
= 49). The participants completed the Body Awareness Question...
This study investigated the relationship between pre-competition mood state factors in gymnastics by gender, age and a national ranking. Participant-gymnasts (total n=116, male n=49, female n=67) completed a Brunel Mood Scale (BRUMS) one day prior to their main competition of the year. Information was also gathered from gymnasts of gender, age and...
Intervention studies have been undertaken to reduce sedentary behaviour (SB) and thereby potentially ameliorate unhealthy weight gain in children and adolescents. We synthesised evidence and quantified the effects of SB interventions (single or multiple components) on body mass index (BMI) or BMI z-score in this population. Publications up to March...
Intervention studies have been undertaken to reduce sedentary behaviour (SB) and thereby potentially ameliorate unhealthy weight gain in children and adolescents. We synthesised evidence and quantified the effects of SB interventions (single or multiple components) on body mass index (BMI) or BMI z-score in this population. Publications up to March...
One of the most persecuted peoples in the world, Roma (Gypsies) have sometimes struggled to retain their ethnic identity, and have suffered from a lack of education and high rates of illiteracy.
This study examined physical activity, sedentary behaviours, location of electronic media and snacking among children from five countries. These variables were assessed by ecological momentary assessment (EMA) using a free-time diary. Data were obtained from 812 secondary-school students (348 male, 464 female) aged from 12 to 18 years in United Kin...
The aim of the present study was to describe/explain differences in the psychological skills of the British (N=17) and Hungarian (N=16) female gymnasts. Members of both groups who had been preparing for the London Olympic Games were selected to participate in our study. The behavior strategy of female gymnasts was measured with the Test of Performa...
4 Introduction Demonstrating validity is fundamental to theory testing. If researchers and practitioners cannot trust the validity of measures, scores on psychometric questionnaires should be not emphasized. Schutz (1994) emphasized the importance of testing the validity of measures when extending validity to a different population. The inextricabl...
Recent cross-cultural studies explore the worldwide variability of sedentary behaviours, physical activity and snacking in different countries and age groups. Health behaviours in young people in different countries are explained by cultural differences as well as being influenced by psychosocial characteristics and socioeconomic status. In the Uni...
Sedentary behaviour is becoming a popular area of health research, but most studies report data on samples from Australia, the UK and USA, and on a narrow range of behaviours. The present study reports on the prevalence of multiple sedentary behaviours in a sample of secondary school students (n = 635; mean age 16.0 years) from Romania and Slovakia...
Proficiency and habits in body culture cannot be disregarded when drawing up integrated cultural competences that meet the challenges of the 21st century. This is all the more true if we aim to define the key competences of the cultural content and proficiency knowledge with regards to the school system. Therefore, it was astonishing to discover th...
This study investigated relationships between self-report measures of emotional intelligence and memories of pre-competitive emotions before optimal and dysfunctional athletic performance. Participant-athletes (n = 284) completed a self-report measure of emotional intelligence and two measures of pre-competitive emotions; a) emotions experienced be...
There is an increase in sedentary lifestyle and a dramatic decline in young people's participation in physical activities and therefore a deterioration of health. Sedentary and obesity related diseases tends to become the twenty-first century problems (Rossner 2002). In Europe, the highest rate of overweight adults and adolescents are in South East...
Limited data are available on the active and sedentary behaviours of young people in Eastern Europe. Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia are relatively new members of the European Union. The socioeconomic status of the people of these countries differs from that of their Western European counterparts. These three countries are understudied in respect of...
The study of sedentary behaviour is becoming much more visible, alongside research on physical activity. Few published studies, however, originate from Eastern or Central Europe.
Prevalence and point estimate data of key leisure time sedentary and active behaviours are reported from Hungary, a country that has been through an important political tr...
An extended trans-contextual model of motivation for health-related physical activity was tested in samples from four nations. The model proposes a motivational sequence in which perceived autonomy support from teachers in a physical education (PE) context and from peers and parents in a leisure-time physical activity context predict autonomous mot...
Objective: The study aimed to develop a perceived autonomy support scale for exercise settings (PASSES) in young people.Design: Cross-sectional questionnaire survey.Methods: In Study 1,432 school pupils responded to an initial pool of perceived autonomy support items with physical education (PE) teachers as the source of support. The validity of th...
The present study tested the cross-cultural generalizability of the measurement and structural parameters of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) among youth in a physical activity context. Pupils from five cultural groups completed measures of attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control (PBC), and intentions for physical activity. Fi...
The present study investigated the factorial validity of the Brunel Mood Scale for use with UK, Italian and Hungarian athletes. One thousand five hundred and eleven mood responses from athletes were analysed using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). CFA on the Italian, Hungarian and UK athletes were close to the .90 criterion for acceptable fit ini...
3 Introduction A positive mindset is both favourable and necessary in most sports and exercise settings. People use numerous physical routines before their exercise or sporting competition. Some of these, like stretching and massage, may also contribute to positive mental states. For example, Parente (2000) showed that stretching was equally effect...
The study of motivational orientations of participants is essential in designing physical education or sport programs in enhancing their enjoyment and persistence. People from different regions may adopt different motivational orientations during participating in physical activities. This study compared junior secondary school students (N = 1,083)...
Among the most persecuted peoples in the world, Rroma (Gypsies) have sometimes struggled to retain their ethnic identity, and have suffered from a lack of formal education and high rates of illiteracy. This article examines the education and sport involvement of Rroma youth in Hungary. Results suggest that while Rroma youth are from severely disadv...
This study investigated the differences in the motivational profiles of students, based on the self-determination theory, goal orientation theory, and sport competition anxiety. Two hundred and fifty-two Hungarian pupils (mean age=13.0 years), recruited from three comprehensive schools and a sports college, took part in the study. Students were ask...
Utilising a goal perspectives framework, a study predicting physical activity intentions in 12 to 16-year-old Hungarian adolescents was conducted with two samples. Theoretical predictions established a model that was tested through path analysis. Beliefs thought to underpin goal orientations were hypothesised to predict ego orientation (general and...
Cross-cultural analyses of sport indicate that there are many similarities to be found, and increasing globalisation is occurring in western industrialised countries Whether this process is quite so evident in the former eastern bloc countries is a matter of some interest, however, This study examines adolescent attitudes toward sport in New Zealan...
This study used goal orientation theory and self-determination theory (SDT) perspectives to investigate the predictors of physical activity intentions in a sample of 723 Hungarian youth (aged 12–16 yrs). It was hypothesized that the 4 behavioral regulations stemming from SDT would be proximal predictors of intention, and that goal orientations woul...