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Work-life Balance among youth coaches in Swedish football : A Qualitiative Study on Balancing Commitment and Everyday Life in Voluntary Coachinh
No full textPurpose The aim of this study is to explore how youth football coaches for older age groups (14–19 years) in Sweden experience and manage their work-life balance. According to Kalliath and Brough (2008), work-life balance refers to a sustainable and personal balance between various life roles, where individuals manage demands from both work and private life across six dimensions: handling multiple roles, equality between roles, individual satisfaction, the importance of roles, balance between conflict and support, and perceived control. The research questions are: - What factors do youth football coaches perceive as influencing their work-life balance? - What strategies do they use to manage the balance between their coaching responsibilities and other commitments (such as work, family, and leisure)? Method The study is based on five semi-structured interviews with youth football coaches. The material was analyzed using thematic analysis, with Kalliath and Brough’s (2008) six-dimensional model of work-life balance serving as the theoretical framework. Results Several factors were found to influence the coaches’ experience of work-life balance. While individual experiences varied, all participants shared the perception that the coaching role permeates everyday life both practically and mentally, despite having other main occupations such as employment or studies. The coaches employed various strategies, such as time planning, setting boundaries, and creating space for recovery. Many expressed that football provided them with energy and a sense of meaning. Four out of five participants lacked organizational support, which meant the responsibility for maintaining work-life balance largely fell on the individual. To promote sustainable engagement in youth football, the coaches expressed a need for greater organizational support. Conclusion Volunteer youth coaches actively strive to create balance between their coaching responsibilities and other life commitments. However, their ability to maintain long-term sustainability is affected by both personal resources and organizational conditions.Syfte Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur ungdomstränare för äldre åldersgrupper (14–19 år) inom svensk fotboll upplever och hanterar sin work-life balance (arbetslivsbalans). Work-life balance innebär, enligt Kalliath och Broughs (2008) en hållbar och personlig balans mellan olika livsroller, där individen hanterar krav från både arbets- och privatliv utifrån sex dimensioner: hantering av flera roller, jämlikhet mellan roller, individuell tillfredsställelse, rollernas betydelse, balans mellan konflikt och stöd samt upplevd kontroll. Studiens frågeställningar är: - Vilka faktorer upplever man som ungdomstränare påverkar ens work-life balance? - Vilka strategier använder man sig av för att hantera balansen mellan tränarrollen och övriga åtaganden (arbete, familj, fritid)? Metod Studien baseras på fem semi-strukturerade intervjuer med ungdomstränare i fotboll. Materialet analyserades genom tematisk analys där Kalliath och Broughs (2008) sexdimensionella modell för work-life balance användes som teoretiskt ramverk. Resultat Flera faktorer påverkade upplevelsen av work-life balance. Resultatet visade bland annat att det varierar från individ till individ, men att studiens deltagare delar en gemensam upplevelse att tränarrollen genomsyrar vardagslivet både praktiskt och mentalt trots att samtliga deltagare även har andra arbeten eller studier som huvudsakliga syssla. Respondenterna använder sig av flera strategier, exempelvis planerandet av sin tid, gränssättning och skapandet för utrymme i återhämtning. Flera respondenter uttryckte att fotbollen gav dem energi och mening. 4 av 5 respondenter saknade organisatoriskt stöd vilket gjorde att ansvaret för en god work-life balance hamnade på individnivå. För att främja work-life balance och ett långsiktigt engagemang inom ungdomsfotbollen uppger respondenterna att de efterfrågar större organisatoriskt stöd. Slutsats Ideellt engagerade ungdomstränare arbetar aktivt för att skapa balans mellan tränarrollen och övriga åtaganden, men att deras möjligheter till långsiktig hållbarhet påverkas av både personliga resurser och organisatoriska förutsättningar
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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