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How Football Players’ Age Affect Passing Patterns of Play According to Field Lo...
Coito, Nuno; Folgado, Hugo; Monteiro, D.; Travassos, BrunoThis study aimed to characterize the passing patterns that support collective tactical behaviour in football players of different ages (U15, U17, and U19) in different field zones. Two hundred and twenty-eight male players, divided into U15, U17, and U19, participated in the study. Cluster analysis was used to group the passes into three sizes (short, medium, and long). The chi-square test was used to analyse t...
The Mediation Role of Perceived Benefits and Barriers in the Relationship Betwe...
Rodrigues, F.; Monteiro, D.; Lopes, Vítor P.We investigated whether the relationship between significant others’ social support and adolescents’ physical activity (PA) is mediated by perceived barriers and benefits of PA. In this cross-sectional study, we analyzed data from 497 adolescents (girls = 272, boys = 225) aged between 12-18 years (M = 15.87, SD = 1.43) from six different middle and secondary schools. We collected data regarding social cognitive...
Empowering and Disempowering Motivational Coaching Climate: A Scoping Review
Birr, Caroline; Hernandez-Mendo, Antonio; Monteiro, D.; Rosado, AntónioThe multidimensional model of empowering and disempowering coach climates has great relevance within the scope of intervention in the context of Sport Psychology. This scoping review of studies summarizes the scientific production of the empowering and disempowering motivational climates. The search comprised the Web of Science, Scopus, Psycinfo, and Pubmed databases for English, Portuguese, and Spanish article...
How Does the Level of Physical Activity Influence Eating Behavior? A Self-Deter...
Fernandes, Vanessa; Rodrigues, F.; Jacinto, M.; Teixeira, Diogo; Cid, L.; Antunes, Raul; Matos, R.; Reigal, Rafael E.; Hernández-Mendo, AntonioPhysical activity and diet are two predominant determinants of population health status that may influence each other. Physical activity has been identified as a behavior that may lead to a healthier diet and regulates eating behaviors. This research aimed to investigate how the level of physical activity is associated with the motivation related to eating behaviors and, consequently, the eating style individua...
Affective responses to resistance exercise: toward a consensus on the timing of...
Andrade, A.J.; Ekkekakis, P.; Evmenenko, A.; Monteiro, D.; Rodrigues, F.; Cid, Luis; Teixeira, D.S.Tailoring exercise prescriptions aimed at improving affective responses to resistance exercise may promote pleasurable experiences and thus exercise adherence. The purpose of this study was to evaluate different timing protocols for administering rating scales for the assessment of affective valence (Feeling Scale, FS) and perceived activation (Felt Arousal Scale, FAS) during resistance exercise. Thirty-three e...
The behavioral regulation in exercise questionnaire (BREQ-4): psychometric evid...
Teixeira, D.S.; Rodrigues, F.; Monteiro, D.; Cid, LuisThe assessment of motivation has been a key aspect to the understanding of exercise participation, and research grounded in self-determination theory has presented valid and reliable instruments for that purpose. Given the need to continually refine this latent construct, the present study aimed to translate, adapt, and psychometrically validate a subscale targeting the approach facet of introjection, and to te...
The preference for and tolerance of exercise intensity: an exploratory analysis...
Marques, P.; Andrade, A. J.; Evmenenko, A.; Monteiro, D.; Faria, J.; Rodrigues, F.; Cid, Luis; Teixeira, D. S.Health clubs are considered one of the most relevant contexts of exercise. However, they suffer from high dropout rates and struggle to keep exercisers enrolled in the long run. Considering the exercise intensity-affect relation, the main objective of this exploratory study was to test the relation of the discrepancy between the intensity traits and current exercise training intensity, and possible differences ...
The relationship between past exercise behavior and future exercise adherence: ...
Rodrigues, F.; Figueiredo, N.; Teixeira, D.; Cid, Luis; Monteiro, D.The present study explored the mediation role of past exercise adherence, self-reported frequency and intentions in the association between past experience and future exercise adherence. In total, 431 exercisers (female = 216; male = 215) aged 18 and 64 years, engaged in fitness activities such as group fitness classes and resistance training, were included in the analysis. Serial mediation procedures were empl...
Motivation and anxiety during the second COVID-19 lockdown in gym exercisers: T...
Antunes, Raul; Monteiro, D.; Silva, Carina; Filipe, Daniel; Cordeiro, Filipa; Frontini, R.The present study aimed to analyze the association between motivation (self-determined and non-self-determined motivation), positive and negative affect, life satisfaction and state-anxiety in a sample of gym exercisers, during the 2nd COVID-19 lockdown in Portugal. Also, we aimed to analyze the possible mediating role of positive and negative affect and life satisfaction in the relationship between motivation ...
Adaptation and Validation of a Portuguese Version of the Sports Motivation Scal...
Rodrigues, Filipe; Pelletier, L.; Rocchi, M.; Cid, Luis; Teixeira, D.; Monteiro, D.In the present cross-sectional study, we adapted and examined the validity of a Portuguese version of the Sport Motivation Scale II (SMS-II-P) within a sample of 1148 Portuguese athletes (women ¼ 546, men ¼ 602) with a mean age of 18.45 years (SD ¼ 5.36), participating in a variety of sports (i.e., football, basketball, swimming, and athletics). We conducted confirmatory factor analysis, convergent and discrimi...