Olga Kouli

• Democritus University of Thrace

Environmental degradation and climate change are of paramount concern and require urgent action. Physical education holds an important role in addressing environmental issues and contributing to environmental sustainability. The present study assesses the effectiveness of an intervention program to cultivate environmental awareness in fifth-grade c...

Background/Objective: Evidence suggests that preschool children experience significantly higher rates of injury-related mortality and disability compared to older age groups of children. However, there seems to be a lack of recorded data on unintentional injuries among preschoolers in public daycare centers in Greece. Therefore, the present study a...

Physical activity and sports can be considered important sources of motivation for people with visual impair ments; however limited attention has been given to blind peoples’ involvement in sports and to the intra-personal variables such as self-esteem and motivation that affect their sport participation. The purpose of the present study was a) to...

The aim of this study is to examine if the social anxiety that female and male adults feel, affects their motivation in relation to their participation in the gym. The study consisted of 139 persons (72 men and 67 women), with an average age of 31.06 ± 10.13 years who exercise at gyms in Limassol. For the data collection the following vale techniqu...

Reducing physical activity children's daily lives has a negative impact on children’s health. Psychomotor Intervention Program (PIP) for children with difficulties and behavioral problems is prescribed within the health systems of most European countries, however, it has yet to be institutionalized in the Greek Health System (GHS). The aim of the s...

The “Physical Activity Class Satisfaction Questionnaire” (PACSQ) in Greek Educational Context: Psychometric Properties Abstract Background: The Greek bibliography does not provide researchers with a credible measurement instrument which can estimate satisfaction as a multi-dimensional concept, in the frame of a P.E. lesson. Objective: The purpose...

Psychomotor Education (PE) has a positive effect on the development of pre-school age children, however, it is not systematically applied to pre-school structures education of the country. The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of PE program lasting 8 months on behavior problems (BP) of children 4-5 years aged. The sample of the survey...

The aim of this study was to carry out a preliminary validation of "Motivational Climate in Physical Education Scale" in Greek educational context and specifically in relation to elementary school students. The participants of the research were 184 (101 male and 83 female) students of grades 5th and 6th from four elementary schools, in different ge...

Over the last decade, the lives of children in several countries, including Greece, have been affected by recession. The aim of the present study was (a) to examine time trends in physical activity (PA) and screen time (ST) of Greek preschool children, together with their family affluence (FA), from 2009 until 2018, and to explore the associations...

Background. The subject of PE is often considered as a field of equal opportunities and cultural coexistence, which facilitate social skills and create a harmonic environment. Sports are a most suitable field for developing social skills, facing the "different" and embodying normally all the participants who come from different cultural environment...

Background. Job satisfaction has been an issue of intense study interest during the last decades. It could be defined a positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job situation and is linked to the characteristics and demands of one’s work. Also that interest in the concept of job burnout has grown rapidly and the knowledge of b...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of a dance aerobic intervention program on intrinsic motivation and perceived motivation climate in 7th grade middle school students. The sample of the study consisted of 160 healthy students, of the first grade of middle school. Of these, 91 students was the experimental group and the rema...

Background Obesity constitutes a crucial health issue during preschool period and has an impact on children regardless their ethnic backgrounds. The purpose of the study was to examine the self-efficacy perceptions of mothers and potential differences and correlations with dietary behaviour and physical activity of their preschool children in Finla...

The interdisciplinary approach has risen in the modern curricula as it is considered an important and challenging technique. Physical education is a prime content area for interdisciplinary learning. In order to integrate different subject areas into Physical Education lessons, the specialist needs to learn more about the academic curriculum. Integ...

El objetivo de este estudio fue examinar las posibles diferencias y relaciones en la Educación Física (EF) con respecto a la percibida satisfacción laboral y el burnout de los profesores de la EF en relación con el sector de la educación (privado versus público), nivel educativo (primario versus secundario) y género. 282 profesores de la EF partici...

Research on the role of sport as a social integrative agent for migrants has provided equivocal results. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between ethnic–cultural identity and sport environmental factors. Young migrant male athletes from two different societal and sport contexts were studied: migrants from Eastern European c...

The purpose of this study was to examine whether kindergartens and childcare centres differ in terms of educational and caregiving components. More specifically, two aspects of the process quality of the early childhood education and care were examined regarding the ‘Activities’ and the ‘Programme Structure’. A multi-stage sampling technique was ap...

Pre-service teacher preparation programs aim to enhance teachers' knowledge, skills, and attitudes so that to provide effective teaching. The purpose of the present study was to explore the impact of the theoretical undergraduate course " Assessment in Physical Education-Student Evaluation " on pre-service physical education teachers' knowledge lev...

Movement activities are crucial for the health and the overall development of young children. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of the environment for movement activities in the Greek early childhood education (ECE) using the “Movement-Play Scale” (MPS) (Archer & Siraj, 2012; 2015a). This scale consists of three items, with 30 i...

Through physical play children enjoy and learn in a holistic manner. Preschools can provide many opportunities to enhance children’s social skills, via social interaction and cooperation in physical play. Deficits in social skills can have short-term detrimental effects on children’s development as well as long-term impacts later in their life. Alt...

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the role of fan involvement with volleyball in their behavior (as expressed by loyalty) towards their team in professional men’s volleyball League in Greece. The sample that was used included 521 fans that watched volleyball games in five venues in Athens and completed questionnaires that were handed to...

Sport participation has been recognized as an important socializing agent; the sport environment is considered a suitable setting for the development of social and moral values, particularly for youth. Therefore, it can be argued that participation in sport may reinforce understanding and respect of cultural diversity and foster the integration of...

Balance training is an effective intervention to improve static postural sway and balance. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of the Nintendo Wii Fit Plus exercises for improving balance ability in healthy collegiate students in comparison with a typical balance training program. Forty students were randomly divid...

The purpose of the study was to compare 2 different balance training programs, based on distinct exercise frequencies, with the aim of improving proprioceptive ability. Thirty eight professional soccer players, were randomly assigned into 3 groups: the A group, exercised with a frequency of 6 times per week, for 3 weeks, the B group exercised with...

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...

Understanding the role of emotions is critical if we are to explain, control and predict athletic performance. The Individual Zones of Optimal Functioning (IZOF) model attempts to describe and explain emotions related to an individual's successful and poor performances (Hanin, 1997, 2000). The participants were 300 male wrestling athletes (160 grec...

Emotional relationships are crucial for an accurate prediction and control of the impact of emotions on athletic performance. The Individual Zones of Optimal Functioning (IZOF) model attempts to describe and explain emotions related to individually successful and poor performances (Hanin, 1997, 2000). The participants were 617 Greek athletes (424 m...

The Emotions Scale (EMS) was developed to assess responses of patients with CLBP to pain in terms of positive and negative emotions. Such an evaluation may be able to provide an insight into the effectiveness of a rehabilitation programme in patients with CLBP. To determine the final number of factors, an initial principal component analysis withou...

Emotional relationships are crucial for an accurate prediction and control of the impact of emotions on athletic performance. The Individual Zones of Optimal Functioning (IZOF) model attempts to describe and explain emotions related to individually successful and poor performances (Hanin, 1997, 2000). The participants were 617 Greek athletes (424 m...

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 the present study was to examine the effect of a single session dance aerobic program of High and Moderate intensity on the psychological mood state of healthy adults. The sample of the study consisted of 136 adults, who took part in two group exercise programs: 1) High Dance aerobic (n=59), 2) Moderate dance aerobic (n=77). For the data...

ObjectivesThis study investigated the association of ethnic/cultural identity salience with achievement goals and motivational climate in multicultural physical education classes.MethodsQuestionnaires assessing ethnic/cultural identity salience, achievement goals and motivational climate were completed by high school students with Greek (n = 927) a...

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the level of health-related fitness and intrinsic motivation in 10 to 11-year old pupils, before and after the application of an intervening dance aerobic program. Thirty-three pupils composed the experimental group and the rest twenty-four the control group. The experimental group followed an aerobi...

The purpose of this study was a) to evaluate the job satisfaction of Physical Education teachers who work as dance aerobic instructors in private or municipal centres and b) to investigate whether the factors ‘sex’, ‘private or municipal centres’ and ‘professional stability’ differentiate the levels of job satisfaction. The sample consisted of 207...

The aim of this study was the investigation of the possible relationship between sport participation and moral functioning between Greek handball team athletes. The instrument that was used was developed by Gibbons, Ebbeck, and Weiss (1995). The sample consisted of 204 athletes, 107 men, 97 women. Factor analysis revealed 4 factors. Cronbach’s vari...

The aim of this study was to discover the attitudes and behaviors of Greek Physical Education students towards the subject of computers, and the changes that might have occurred in these attitudes and behaviors, as influenced by general information provided in their classrooms. The sample consisted of 244 freshmen students, 119 males and 125 female...

The main objective of the present paper is to thoroughly review the operational definitions of sexual harassment as those presented by the European Union and international women’s sports organizations, along with research evidence on psychological, social, and day-to-day consequences of sexual harassment experiences for female athletes. The secοnda...

Little information exists about the causal relationships of sport and exercise participation with goal orientations, perceived athletic competence and intrinsic motivation in physical education. A longitudinal study was conducted involving 882 Greek students who completed questionnaires on three occasions: 3 - 5 weeks into the academic year, 3 - 6...

This paper focuses on the subject of cross-cultural approach in Physical Education. New data from the immigration waves in Greece indicate that cross-cultural is a major issue on all subjects of education. This happens because major problems of cross-cultural issues, appear specifically on education where new generations educate themselves and were...

The aim of this preliminary study was to investigate the contributions of knowledge and information to the prediction of students' intention to play badminton. The sample, 121 students (53 men and 68 women) 18-25 years of age, were beginning students in a semester badminton course. A questionnaire was completed before and after the course (4 mo.)....

The aim of this preliminary study was to investigate the contributions of knowledge and information to the prediction of students' intention to play badminton. The sample, 121 students (53 men and 68 women) 18–25 years of age, were beginning students in a semester badminton course. A questionnaire was completed before and after the course (4 mo.)....

In analyzing the relation between job satisfaction and job security, a sample of 97 Greek fitness instructors, 18 to 42 years of age, showed statistically significant positive correlations between job security and job satisfaction (p < .002). Particularly, job security was correlated with pay .54, promotion .43, job itself .41, and the organization...

In analyzing the relation between job satisfaction and job security, a sample of 97 Greek fitness instructors, 18 to 42 years of age, showed statistically significant positive correlations between job security and job satisfaction (p<.002). Particularly, job security was correlated with pay .54, promotion .43, job itself .41, and the organization a...

Ο σκοπός της παρούσας έρευνας ήταν να διεpευνήσει τις σχέσεις μεταξύ των εννοιών της ασάφειας ρόλων και της σύγκρουσης ρόλων με την ικανοποίηση του προσωπικού σε γυμναστήρια.

Καταγραφή δημογραφικών στοιχείων των συμμετεχόντων στο «3° Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Αεροβικής Γυμναστικής & Άσκησης και Λειτουργικής Οργάνωσης Γυμναστηρίου», το οποiο διοργανώθηκε από την Ένωση Γυμναστών Βορείου Ελλάδος (Ε.Γ.Β.Ε.).

The views of physical education and sports graduates on their training in the subjects of outdoor activities

This study examined the effect of task structure, perceived motivational climate, and goal orientations on students' task involvement and anxiety in the physical education lesson. Two hundred thirty-nine junior high school students participated in a physical education lesson comprised of four task-involving tasks and in a physical education lesson...

Περίληψη H κύριος σκοπός της παρούσας μελέτης είναι η λεπτομερής ανασκόπηση των λειτουργικών ορισμών της σεξουαλικής παρενόχλησης όπως αυτοί παρουσιάζονται από το Eυρωπαϊκό Kοινοβούλιο και τις διεθνείς οργανώσεις γυναικείου αθλητισμού, συνδέοντας τους με ερευνητικά δεδομένα πάνω στα ψυχολογικά, κοι- νωνικά και άλλα καθημερινά επακόλουθα εμπειριών σ...

Key words: aerobic dance programs, high and moderate intensity, profile of mood state. ABSTRACT The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of a single session dance aerobic program of high and moderate intensity on the psychological mood state of healthy adults. The study sample consisted of 136 adults, who took part in two group exerci...