The purpose of this study was to (1) examine swimmers' and basketball players' perceptions of their dual career development (2) explore these perceptions for possible differences between male and ...female participants as well as between swimmers and basketball players.
Semi-structured interviews with 12 retired Slovene elite level swimmers and basketball players (six males and six females) were used to discuss about transitions, demands and challenges which occurred throughout their dual career development. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using the qualitative analytic software program Nvivo 10.
Qualitative analysis of interviews revealed that athletes perceived their athletic career in strong and reciprocal connection to other domains in their lives, i.e. academic/vocational, psychological, psychosocial, financial level. Some of the transitions occurring in their dual career were experienced as particularly important (e.g., transition to university, finishing university study) and connected to several challenges occurring at different levels of development. Differences between male and female participants, swimmers and basketball players in this study were identified.
The study revealed a usefulness of using a holistic perspective when investigating athletes' dual career development, and a reciprocal nature of transitions occurring at different levels of athletes' development.
•Academic and athletic career are strongly connected in lives of elite athletes.•Dual career represents a set of specific demands and challenges for athletes.•Gender as well as type of sport differences might influence athletes' dual career development.
For teachers, working with parents can represent an important source of work stress. The study involved 248 Slovenian primary school teachers, who completed a questionnaire consisting of scales on ...perceived stress and job satisfaction and a questionnaire on cooperation with parents. The results showed that teachers are satisfied with their job, although they do associate it with high levels of stress. Among the different forms of engagement with parents, the most stressful was the presence of parents during the educational process and parent-teacher association meetings. Teachers also perceive high levels of stress when parents interfere in and control their work.
Background: Regular moderate and vigorous-intensity physical activity (PA) is very important for health promotion and prevention of diseases. Frequency and the amount of PA can be monitored with ...direct and indirect measurements; the former is more accurate than the latter, which is, on the other hand, easier to use and more cost-effective. One of the most commonly used indirect methods is a self-report International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ), which comes in short (SF) and long forms (LF). Despite its wide cross-cultural use, IPAQ has not yet been adapted for use in the Slovenian language. The main purposes of the study were to produce a reliable Slovenian version of IPAQ-LF for use in education.
Methods: A back-translation method involving four translators and one native English-speaking reviewer was used to adapt an IPAQ-LF questionnaire from English into the Slovenian language. The ease of use and comprehensibility of Slovenian IPAQ-LF was first pilot-tested on four teachers, then the reliability of a questionnaire was tested and retested on a sample of sixty-eight preschool and primary school teachers.
Results: Collected data were analysed with several statistical methods, and the results revealed a high degree of test-retest reliability and internal consistency for both groups of teachers. Preschool teachers reported higher levels of moderate (1138±265 min/week vs. 870±1074 min/week) and vigorous-intensity (446±430 min/week vs. 106±157 min/week) PA as well as walking (996±337 min/week vs. 690±1173 min/week) than primary school teachers.
Conclusions: The study has proven that the Slovenian IPAQ-LF version is reliable for use in education.
Sodelovanje s starši lahko za uciteljice in ucitelje predstavlja pomemben dejavnik doživljanja stresa pri delu. V raziskavi je sodelovalo 248 slovenskih osnovnošolskih uciteljic in uciteljev, ki so ...izpolnili anketni vprašalnik, sestavljen iz lestvic zaznanega stresa in zadovoljstva na delovnem mestu ter vprašalnika ? sodelovanju s starši. Rezultati so pokazali, da so uciteljice in ucitelji s svojim delom zadovoljni, povezujejo pa ga z visoko mero doživljanja stresa. Med razUcnimi oblikami sodelovanja s starši so se kot najbolj stresne izkazale prisotnost staršev med vzgojno-izobraževalnim procesom, roditeljski sestanki in govorilne ure. Najvec stresa ucitelji doživljaje ob starševskem nadzoru in poseganju v vzgojno-iz ob raže valno delo.
