Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Giovanni Morone, Sheida Ghanbari Ghooshchy, Claudia Pulcini, Emanuele Spangu, Pierluigi Zoccolotti, Marialuisa Martelli, Grazia Fernanda Spitoni, Valentina Russo, Irene Ciancarelli, Stefano Paolucci, Marco Iosa
Summary: This review critically analyzes the evidence of motor imagery application in sport performance, focusing on the PETTLEP approach. The reviewed studies suggest that motor imagery based on the PETTLEP model is effective in increasing strength and managing pain, indicating its implementation in physical training routines.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Kurt Braddock, Sandy Schumann, Emily Corner, Paul Gill
Summary: This study emphasizes the importance of considering the interaction between individual psychological traits and responses to terrorist propaganda in order to understand the tendency for radicalization.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Bingcan Li, Yi Jiang, Yuanzhi Wu, Lei Wang
Summary: This study investigates the impact of mindfulness on purchase intentions of sensory marketing products. Through three studies, it is found that mindfulness is positively correlated with purchase intentions, and high-level mindfulness enhances purchase intentions. This effect is moderated by the number of sensory types and mediated by the vividness of mental images. The study highlights the critical contribution of mindfulness to promoting sensory marketing.
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Bin-Bin Fang, Frank J. H. Lu, Diane L. Gill, Yi-Hsiang Chiu, Yi-Chia Cheng, Ming-Hui Hsieh, Zhiyang Zhang
Summary: The purpose of this study was to examine the interactive effects of dispositional mindfulness and visualized PETTLEP imagery training on basketball mid-range shooting performance and retention. The results showed that high dispositional mindfulness participants performed better than low dispositional mindfulness participants in internal imagery training during retention. This study extended current knowledge on sport imagery and dispositional mindfulness and gained several theoretical implications for researchers.
PSYCHOLOGY OF SPORT AND EXERCISE
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Barbara Tomasino, Gaia Pellitteri, Francesco Bax, Alessandro Marini, Andrea Surcinelli, Gian Luigi Gigli, Mariarosaria Valente
Summary: Gustatory and olfactory dysfunctions are common neurological symptoms in COVID-19 patients. This study used mental imagery as an experimental paradigm and found that the vividness of odor and taste imagery was significantly decreased in COVID-19 patients with both olfactory and gustatory dysfunctions. The duration and type of dysfunctions influenced the status of mental chemosensory representations. Patients were not explicitly aware of long-term altered chemosensory processing.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Yaoxue Li, Youngmin Kim
Summary: This study analyzed the effects of sponge city projects in three cities in China and proved that these projects can improve water pollutant control capability and stormwater control capability. The study also showed that combining sponge projects with a city-wide green infrastructure network can further enhance their effectiveness and contribute to urban sustainability.
Letter
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Myung Ja Kim, C. Michael Hall, Ohbyung Kwon, Kwonsang Sohn, Minseong Kim
Summary: Limited research on sustainability in the space tourism market. Created and verified an extended model of goal-directed behaviour (EMGB) with individual and organizational interventions. Results showed significant effects of individual intervention on all MGB constructs, while organizational intervention had partially significant impacts, influencing desire relevant to behavioural intention. Findings from fsQCA revealed different profiles of experienced and non-experienced tourists.
CURRENT ISSUES IN TOURISM
(2023)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Guanxi Yan, Zhixin Cheng, Ye Ma, Alexander Scheuermann, Ling Li
Summary: The results show that salt and surfactant can minimize bubble size with increasing solute concentration, and the surfactant outperforms salt. The gas injection rate has minor effects on bubble size variation compared to solute concentration. Additionally, the concept of CCIR was proposed to describe how gas injection rate influences the standard deviation of BSD.
Article
Social Issues
Rana Muhammad Sohail Jafar, Wasim Ahmad, Yanming Sun
Summary: This study investigates how metaverse attributes affect users' sense of telepresence, product knowledge, and purchase intentions in metaverse stores. The results show that metaverse stimuli attributes have a positive significant influence on metaverse organismic experience, which in turn significantly impacts customers' perceived product knowledge and purchase intentions. This study provides innovative recommendations for tech giants and metaverse developers to enhance consumers' buying behavior in metaverse stores.
TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Sport Sciences
Brandon Giles, Machar Reid
Summary: This study investigated the mechanics of tennis players performing running forehands at varying movement speeds, revealing that female players had difficulty maintaining racquet-head speed at high speeds, while male players were able to adjust lower limb joints to achieve similar racquet-head speed at different entry speeds.
JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Deniz Bedir, Suleyman Erim Erhan
Summary: The study examined the effectiveness of VRBI training programs on shot performance and imagery skills of athletes, compared to VMBR + VM. Results showed that athletes in the VRBI group demonstrated greater improvement in shot performance and imagery skills over a 4-week period, adapting to the training earlier than the VMBR + VM group. It was concluded that VRBI program is more efficient in enhancing shot performance and imagery skills compared to VMBR + VM.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biology
Gordon H. Petty, Amanda K. Kinnischtzke, Y. Kate Hong, Randy M. Bruno
Summary: The activity of secondary thalamic nuclei such as POm and LP in the neocortical sensory areas is related to whisking in awake mice, possibly reflecting arousal rather than encoding movement. These nuclei may monitor behavioral state and alter cortical activity accordingly.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Sang-Won Kim, Seung-Kweon Hong
Summary: This study aims to improve the speed and accuracy of touching a touchpad with the feet while seated. The study found that moving the foot at a 30 degrees angle to the right was the most effective direction, using the big toe as the touch area resulted in the best speed and accuracy, and a slope angle of 15 degrees increased work efficiency. These findings can be used for designing foot interfaces.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Wael Alhazmi, Turki Turki
Summary: This study aims to comprehensively report the performance behavior for detecting colon cancer using various imaging modalities coupled with different deep learning models in the transfer learning setting, and evaluate the best imaging modality and deep learning model for detecting colon cancer. The experimental results show that colonoscopy imaging modality, when coupled with the DenseNet201 model under the transfer learning setting, outperforms all the other models with an average accuracy of 99.1%.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Alessia Putorti, Michele Corrado, Micol Avenali, Daniele Martinelli, Marta Allena, Silvano Cristina, Valentina Grillo, Luca Martinis, Stefano Tamburin, Mariano Serrao, Antonio Pisani, Cristina Tassorelli, Roberto De Icco
Summary: The study demonstrates the beneficial effects of a 4-week intensive rehabilitative program on destination sequence effect in patients with Parkinson's disease, especially those with freezing of gait. Improvement in destination sequence effect after training is associated with enhancements in speed, cadence, stride duration, and stride length.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Annie T. Ginty, Benjamin J. Oosterhoff, Danielle A. Young, Sarah E. Williams
Summary: Arousal reappraisal has been shown to improve anxiety symptoms by enhancing interpretations of physiological arousal. In stress tasks, arousal reappraisal led to more positive interpretations, breaking the link between arousal intensity and interpretation.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Annie T. Ginty, Alexandra T. Tyra, Danielle A. Young, Ryan C. Brindle, Susanne R. de Rooij, Sarah E. Williams
Summary: The present study found an association between cardiovascular reactions to acute psychological stress and academic performance in final year high school students. Higher heart rate and cardiac output reactivity were associated with better A-level performance. These associations remained statistically significant after adjusting for potentially confounding variables.
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Grace Tidmarsh, Richard Whiting, Janice L. Thompson, Jennifer Cumming
Summary: This study highlights that despite the challenges, frontline service staff are able to deliver MST4Life(TM) with high fidelity, supporting young people experiencing homelessness.
EVALUATION AND PROGRAM PLANNING
(2022)
Correction
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Jennifer Cumming, Richard Whiting, Benjamin J. Parry, Fiona J. Clarke, Mark J. G. Holland, Sam J. Cooley, Mary L. Quinton
EVALUATION AND PROGRAM PLANNING
(2023)
Editorial Material
Sport Sciences
Nurwina Anuar, Nurhidayah Bahar
BRITISH JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE
(2023)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Kirsty R. Brown, Mary L. Quinton, Grace Tidmarsh, Jennifer Cumming
Summary: Athletes are less likely to seek help for mental health issues due to barriers such as lack of access to services and negative past experiences. This scoping review aims to map the evidence on athletes' access, attitudes, and experiences of help-seeking for mental health to improve services specific to their needs, through a systematic and comprehensive evaluation.
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Laura J. J. Wright, Jet J. C. S. Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Sarah E. E. Williams
Summary: The study found that higher physical activity is associated with lower stress levels, leading to fewer internalizing symptoms. This association may be mediated by higher self-esteem, better coping with stress, and more adaptive stress appraisals. The findings suggest that increasing physical activity could improve mental health in older adolescents.
JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENCE
(2023)
Editorial Material
Sport Sciences
Nurwina Anuar, Nor Azizah Abd Rahman
BRITISH JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Sam N. Thrower, Jamie B. Barker, Adam M. Bruton, Pete Coffee, Jennifer Cumming, Chris G. Harwood, Karen Howells, Camilla J. Knight, Paul J. Mccarthy, Stephen D. Mellalieu
Summary: This study provides valuable insights into the consultancy process between applied sport psychologists and young athletes. The findings highlight the importance of clear intentions, flexible approaches, and collaborative efforts with coaches and parents. Indirect interventions were found to have the greatest impact, and the effectiveness of Psychological Skills Training (PST) depended on adaptation and integration.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED SPORT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Meeting Abstract
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Georgia Bird, Mary Quinton, Jennifer Cumming
JOURNAL OF SPORT & EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Meeting Abstract
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Georgia Bird, Jennifer Cumming, Mary Quinton
JOURNAL OF SPORT & EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Henry J. Beevor, Annie T. Ginty, Jet J. C. S. Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Sarah E. Williams
Summary: This study examined the impact of imagery ability on heart rate reactivity and stress perception. The results showed that imagery ability moderated the relationship between heart rate reactivity and interpretation of stress and perceived physiological arousal. Individuals with higher imagery ability perceived stress and arousal as more beneficial for performance. Additionally, imagery ability predicted lower perceived stress intensity and physiological arousal intensity.
Article
Neurosciences
Sarah E. Williams, Annie T. Ginty
Summary: This prospective study explores the association between stress-is-enhancing mindset before the COVID-19 pandemic and traumatic stress symptoms during the pandemic. The results suggest that a more positive stress mindset is associated with fewer traumatic stress symptoms. Altering stress mindset may be a potential intervention for coping with stress.
ANXIETY STRESS AND COPING
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Sarah E. Williams, Annie T. Ginty
Summary: This study investigated the effects of online stress mindset videos on altering stress mindset, and found that a combined intervention of stress-is-enhancing education and imagery was the most effective in promoting a stress-is-enhancing mindset.
ANXIETY STRESS AND COPING
(2023)
Review
Psychology, Developmental
Grace Tidmarsh, Janice L. Thompson, Mary L. Quinton, Jennifer Cumming
Summary: This systematic review examined 10 process evaluation studies of positive youth development programs for disadvantaged young people, concluding that there is a varied quality and methods used in these evaluations. The study identified numerous barriers and enablers to delivering programs as intended, emphasizing the urgent need for improvements in design and reporting of process evaluations.
JOURNAL OF YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
(2022)
