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View article: Self-Administered Hypnosis vs Sham Hypnosis for Hot Flashes
Self-Administered Hypnosis vs Sham Hypnosis for Hot Flashes Open
Importance Many women experience significant adverse effects from menopausal hot flashes. Clinical hypnosis has been shown to be an effective and safe nonhormonal treatment for hot flashes, but there is a need to increase the accessibility…
View article: Is Mindfulness the Common Ground Between Mental Toughness and Self-Compassion in Student Athletes? A Cross-Sectional Study
Is Mindfulness the Common Ground Between Mental Toughness and Self-Compassion in Student Athletes? A Cross-Sectional Study Open
This study interrogates whether mental toughness (MT) and self-compassion (SC)—historically framed as oppositional constructs—can coexist synergistically among NCAA Division II, III, and NAIA collegiate athletes, with mindfulness as a hypo…
View article: Rocking in a rocking chair activates trunk muscles in children with spinal cord injury and impaired trunk control
Rocking in a rocking chair activates trunk muscles in children with spinal cord injury and impaired trunk control Open
Purpose Rocking in a rocking chair may facilitate trunk muscle activation in children with spinal cord injury (SCI). To assess this, children with SCI and typically developing (TD) children were evaluated for increases in trunk muscle acti…
View article: Informatics-driven unsupervised learning of comorbidity clusters for COVID-19 reinfection risk: A finite mixture modeling approach
Informatics-driven unsupervised learning of comorbidity clusters for COVID-19 reinfection risk: A finite mixture modeling approach Open
Purpose: This study applied an informatics-focused, unsupervised learning framework (finite mixture modeling) to determine whether distinct clusters of coexisting conditions among patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are assoc…
View article: Enhancing training in spiritual and religious competencies in mental health graduate education: Evaluation of an integrated curricular approach
Enhancing training in spiritual and religious competencies in mental health graduate education: Evaluation of an integrated curricular approach Open
Despite practice guidelines for multiculturally competent care, including spiritual/religious diversity, most mental health graduate training programs do not formally address spiritual/religious competencies. Thus, we enhanced the Spiritua…
View article: Dynamic interactions of physiological systems during competitive gaming: insights from network physiology - case report
Dynamic interactions of physiological systems during competitive gaming: insights from network physiology - case report Open
This study investigates the dynamic interactions between physiological systems during competitive gaming, utilizing a Network Physiology approach. By examining the physiological responses of a gamer with attention-deficit/hyperactivity dis…
View article: The Positive Association between Grit and Mental Toughness, Enhanced by a Minimum of 75 Minutes of Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity, among US Students
The Positive Association between Grit and Mental Toughness, Enhanced by a Minimum of 75 Minutes of Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity, among US Students Open
Drawing from the 2015 Gucciardi et al.’s mental toughness (MT) framework, this study examines the association between grit and MT in US college students, while considering the moderating role of at least 75 min of moderate-to-vigorous phys…
View article: Collective leadership: A catalyst for school improvement
Collective leadership: A catalyst for school improvement Open
Collective leadership of teachers and administrators can be a vehicle for catalyzing school improvement. In chemistry, a catalyst is any substance that increases the rate of reaction without itself being consumed. Leadership that accelerat…
View article: Regularizing threshold priors with sparse response patterns in Bayesian factor analysis with categorical indicators
Regularizing threshold priors with sparse response patterns in Bayesian factor analysis with categorical indicators Open
Using instruments comprising ordered responses to items are ubiquitous for studying many constructs of interest. However, using such an item response format may lead to items with response categories infrequently endorsed or unendorsed com…
View article: Case report: Cortico-ocular interaction networks in NBA2K
Case report: Cortico-ocular interaction networks in NBA2K Open
The sport industry has never seen growth such as eSports’. Using synchronized monitoring of two biological processes on a 25-year-old gamer, we investigated how his brain ( via EEG) and eyes ( via pupil dilation) interacted dynamically ove…
View article: Mental Toughness Development via Military-Style Training in the NCAA: A Three-Phase, Mixed-Method Study of the Perspectives of Strength and Conditioning Coaches
Mental Toughness Development via Military-Style Training in the NCAA: A Three-Phase, Mixed-Method Study of the Perspectives of Strength and Conditioning Coaches Open
Sport cultures transmit values for anticipated conduct. Recent events have resulted in injuries/deaths of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) student-athletes, usually during off-season football training. Through media reports,…
View article: The Importance of Teacher Credentials for Early Achievement – A Replication of Croninger et al. (2007) Econ. Edu. Rev.
The Importance of Teacher Credentials for Early Achievement – A Replication of Croninger et al. (2007) Econ. Edu. Rev. Open
Many educational reforms in the United States incorporated teacher qualifications into their design to better the quality of public education. However, research remains mixed as to whether teacher quality impacts student achievement. This …
View article: Impaired proteostasis in obese skeletal muscle relates to altered immunoproteasome activity
Impaired proteostasis in obese skeletal muscle relates to altered immunoproteasome activity Open
Obesity-associated inflammation and/or oxidative stress can damage intramuscular proteins and jeopardize muscle integrity. The immunoproteasome (iProt) is vital to remove oxidatively modified proteins, but this function may be compromised …
View article: Sport Isn’t Sacred and Analytics Isn’t New: Challenging Common Notions About Sports Analytics
Sport Isn’t Sacred and Analytics Isn’t New: Challenging Common Notions About Sports Analytics Open
The authors add to the debate about whether sport and numbers can cohabitate in modern day athletics, three areas are explored (albeit briefly) in the present paper. The first area focuses on the newness (or lack thereof) of analytics. The…
View article: Offseason Fitness Tests a Collegiate Basketball Strength Coach Should Choose to Predict In-Season Perfomance Based on Sex
Offseason Fitness Tests a Collegiate Basketball Strength Coach Should Choose to Predict In-Season Perfomance Based on Sex Open
Quantification of athletic performance via analysis of scores of off-season fitness tests has become an essential part of the modern strength and conditioning coach (SCC). Player Efficiency Rating (PER) and Efficiency index (EFF) are two o…
View article: Conceptualizing, measuring, and training mental toughness in sport: Perspectives of master strength and conditioning coaches
Conceptualizing, measuring, and training mental toughness in sport: Perspectives of master strength and conditioning coaches Open
Coaches are key stakeholders involved in creating a climate in which athletes' mental toughness (MT) can be developed. Although Master Strength and Conditioning Coaches (MSCC) spend a substantial amount of time working with US collegiate a…
View article: Multilevel Latent Transition Mixture Modeling: Variance Decomposition and Application
Multilevel Latent Transition Mixture Modeling: Variance Decomposition and Application Open
Person-centered methodologies generally refer to those that take unobserved heterogeneity of populations into account. The use of person-centered methodologies has proliferated, which is likely due to a number of factors, such as methodolo…
View article: Functional Social Support Moderates Stress on Depression in Individuals with CID during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Two-Wave Study.
Functional Social Support Moderates Stress on Depression in Individuals with CID during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Two-Wave Study. Open
Depression is a common psychological experience for those living with a chronic illness and disease (CID). Social support (SS) can influence psychological health by regulating emotional functioning. The functional domain of SS refers to su…
View article: Illustrating Randomness in Statistics Courses With Spatial Experiments
Illustrating Randomness in Statistics Courses With Spatial Experiments Open
Understanding the concept of randomness is fundamental for students in introductory statistics courses, but the notion of randomness is deceivingly complex, so it is often emphasized less than the mechanics of probability and inference. Th…
View article: Illustrating Randomness in Statistics Courses With Spatial Experiments
Illustrating Randomness in Statistics Courses With Spatial Experiments Open
Understanding the concept of randomness is fundamental for students in introductory statistics courses, but the notion of randomness is deceivingly complex, so it is often emphasized less than the mechanics of probability and inference. Th…
View article: Illustrating Randomness in Statistics Courses With Spatial Experiments
Illustrating Randomness in Statistics Courses With Spatial Experiments Open
Understanding the concept of randomness is fundamental for students in introductory statistics courses, but the notion of randomness is deceivingly complex, so it is often emphasized less than the mechanics of probability and inference. Th…
View article: Illustrating Randomness in Statistics Courses with Spatial Experiments
Illustrating Randomness in Statistics Courses with Spatial Experiments Open
Understanding the concept of randomness is fundamental for students in introductory statistics courses, but the notion of randomness is deceivingly complex, so it is often emphasized less than the mechanics of probability and inference. Th…
View article: Sex Moderates the Fitness Tests - Performance Index Relationship in Collegiate Basketball: A Case Study
Sex Moderates the Fitness Tests - Performance Index Relationship in Collegiate Basketball: A Case Study Open
Performance indicators are used widely in sports, including basketball. Those total performance metrics are mathematical models that are used to determine the “best” athlete per game/week/season. Players with higher metrics get recruited m…
View article: Can athletes be tough yet compassionate to themselves? Practical implications for NCAA mental health best practice no. 4
Can athletes be tough yet compassionate to themselves? Practical implications for NCAA mental health best practice no. 4 Open
Recent tragic events and data from official NCAA reports suggest student-athletes' well-being is compromised by symptoms of mental health (MH) disorders. Self-compassion (SC) and mental toughness (MT) are two psychological constructs that …
View article: Developing and training mental toughness in sport: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies and pre-test and post-test experiments
Developing and training mental toughness in sport: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies and pre-test and post-test experiments Open
Objective To investigate the efficacy of interventions designed to train and develop mental toughness (MT) in sport. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources Journal articles, conference papers and doctoral theses indexed i…
View article: Tutorial on Using Regression Models with Count Outcomes using R
Tutorial on Using Regression Models with Count Outcomes using R Open
Education researchers often study count variables, such as times a student reached a goal, discipline referrals, and absences. Most researchers that study these variables use typical regression methods (i.e., ordinary least-squares) either…
View article: XIV Men’s Volleyball Pan American Cup: Team mental toughness correlates perfectly with final placement
XIV Men’s Volleyball Pan American Cup: Team mental toughness correlates perfectly with final placement Open
Mental toughness (MT) has been associated with competitive and non-competitive performance indicators in sport. On average, mentally tougher participants tend to be more successful. However, even in team-sport research, team MT is often di…
View article: MT_SC_MH_QUALTRICS
MT_SC_MH_QUALTRICS Open
Dataset for PLOS One manuscript:PONE-D-20-08466R1 Can athletes be tough yet compassionate to themselves? Practical Implications for NCAA Mental Health Best Practice No. 4.
View article: Mental Toughness Trait or State A Case of Female, NCAA Division I Soccer Players
Mental Toughness Trait or State A Case of Female, NCAA Division I Soccer Players Open
The importance of mental toughness (MT) in sport settings is well recognized. However, there is an ongoing debate on whether MT is a state or a trait. Recent findings supports the notion that, although there is considerable stability, MT l…