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Item The academic socialization and professional sport expectations of college athletes(2015-05) Robbins, Paul Anthony; Bentley, Keisha L.; Cokley, Kevin O; Harrison, Lous; Suizzo, Marie-Anne; Stone, JeffreyObjective: In this dissertation the differences between NCAA athletes and other college students who participate in sports at various levels (i.e., club sports and intramural) were examined. The effects of different types of academic socialization received and the primary source of these messages on grade point average and professional sport expectations were also studied. The weekly hours spent on school and sports during the season and offseason were tested as potential mediators of the relationship between professional sport expectations and grade point average. Method: The sample consisted of 448 college students (NCAA = 122, Club = 104, Intramural = 119, No Sport = 103) ranging from age 18-25. Participants self-reported GPA, professional sport expectations, athletic identity, weekly time spent on school/sports during the season/offseason, academic attainment aspirations/expectations, academic involvement, educational encouragement, the value of education, and most influential socializer of academic messages. Results: NCAA athletes reported greater academic involvement by others, but had lower GPAs than the other students. They also reported academic counselors/mentors and parents/family as their two primary socializers, while students from the other groups indicated parents/family as their only primary source of socialization, as they relied on themselves second most. Also, weekly time spent on sports during the offseason was found to significantly mediate the negative relationship between professional sport expectations and grade point average. Conclusions: The academic experience of NCAA athletes is different from all other students on campus. Collaborating with others on campus to help athletes explore other avenues for future success can lead to less emphasis on playing a professional sport and more academic success. This would be beneficial considering so few NCAA athletes end up having successful pro sport careers.Item Information processing differences in elite and novice performers: evaluation of detection speed(Texas Tech University, 1995-05) Merritt-Twaddle, Renee MichelA number of studies have utilized tachistoscopic technology to evaluate athlete versus non-athlete differences in accuracy and detection of visual perception (Allard & Starkes, 1980; Starkes & Deakin, 1984; Starkes & Allard, 1983). Athletes were shown to be as accurate as the non-athletes in visual perception, but had faster rates of detection (Allard & Starkes, 1980). The purpose of this study is to evaluate volleyball athletes and non-athletes for speed and accuracy of detecting a volleyball in rapidly presented slides. The present study will also examine whether practice at identifying volleyballs in rapidly presented slides will lead to Improved speed and accuracy in stimulus-identification.Item Motivational comparison between aggressive and non-aggressive college football athletes(Texas Tech University, 1969-05) Berger, Richard AnthonyNot availableItem Sidelined : gender inequality in athletics(2010-05) Hollingsworth, Brian Paul, 1973-; DeCesare, Donna; Burd, GeneThe essence of American women’s struggle to play sports at a competitive level is that for decades the power structure of American professional and scholastic athletics simply didn’t think they should be allowed to play. The various institutions governing athletics of all levels sought first to prevent women from participating in sports at all and later to keep women athletes segregated and barred from playing on men’s teams or competing against them. They have justified this discrimination by citing various outmoded ideas of women’s mental and physical abilities, their perceived frailty, and the erroneous belief that keeping women athletes segregated from men provides a more suitable and more enjoyable athletic experience for both sexes. This report and the accompanying video, Outlaws Rising, examine the legacy of gender inequality in sports and its impact on the Austin Outlaws, a women’s tackle football team.Item The relationship between personality factors and football ability(Texas Tech University, 1969-08) Pruit, Sherman AThe purposes of this study were: (A) To determine the relationship between personality factors, STDCR, of a team of AAAA Texas high school football athletes and their rated football ability, and (B) To determine what personality factors, STDCR, are prevalent in each of seven categories of football athletes. The seven categories were: (A) offensive linemen, (B) defensive linemen, (C) offensive backs, (D) defensive backs, (E) offensive ends, (F) defensive ends, and (G) defensive linebackers. The Cowell and Ismail Football Rating Scale was used by the seven coaches of the seventy-four subjects to independently rate each subjects's football ability. A single football ability score was obtained for each subject by computing the mean of the seven ratings. Zero-order correlations using the Pearson-Product-Moment correlation technique were computed to determine the relationship between the C-score of each of the five personality factors, STDCR, and the mean football ability rating. Zero-order and multiple correlation coefficients v/ere computed for each of seven categories of positions to determine the relationship between the five personality factors, STDCR, and the mean football ability ratings. A regression equation for predicting the rated football ability for each of the seven categories of positions was established. It was found that a statistically significant correlation coefficient (r=.27) existed between factor S (social introversion-extroversion) and the mean football ability ratings. The correlation was significant at the .05 level of confidence. For the positions of offensive linemen and defensive ends the zero-order correlation coefficients (r=.56 and .70 respectively) obtained between factor S and football ability were statistically significant at the .05 level of confidence. On four of the seven categories of positions, the multiple correlation coefficients obtained between various combinations of personality factors, STDCR, and rated football ability were statistically significant at the .05 level of confidence. The four categories of positions and the statistically significant multiple correlation coefficient for each were: (A) offensive linemen, (R=.79), (B) defensive backs, (R=.75), (C) defensive ends, (R=.85), and (D) defensive linebackers, (R=.99). The reliability of the mean ratings derived from the use of the Cowell and Ismail Football Rating Scale v/as .93, and the reliability of the seven raters using the scale was .64. It was found that the mean C-scores for all subjects as a whole and for all subjects within seven categories of positions were within the ambivert range of C-scores. It was concluded that: (1) There is a low and positive relationship between personality factor S and the rated football ability of all football athletes (N=74), (2) There are high significant relationships between various combinations of personality factors, STDCR, and rated football ability in four of the seven categories of positions. The personality factors, STDCR, and rated football ability yield a significant relationship (R=.79) for offensive linemen (N=14) The personality factors, STDCR, and rated football ability yield a significant relationship (R=.75) for defensive backs (N=15). The personality factors, SDCR, and rated football ability yield a significant relationship (R=.85) for defensive ends (N=9). The personality factors, TDR, and rated football ability yield a significant relationship (R=.99) for defensive linebackers (N=5).