Aminuddin Yusof

With the focus on Mount Kinabalu as a sport tourism destination, the push and pull theory (Dann, 1981) was adopted as framework to examine the travel motivation of sport tourists visiting Sabah, Malaysia. The Leisure Motivation Scale (Beard & Ragheb, 1983) and semantic differential instrument by Attle (1996) were utilized to measure the push motives and pull factors. Analyses of data include descriptive statistics, t-test and logistic regression. A sample of 195 mountain climbers was selected with the majority comprising of international active sport tourists respondents (71.1%). Statistically, domestic active sport tourists at Mount Kinabalu were more significantly motivated by two out of four push motives namely; competence-mastery and social factors. With respect to the pull factors, analysis of result from the logistic regression shows there were few attributes which has been identified to be perceived differently by the domestic and international tourists. The findings of the s...

Efforts at organizing sport event should involve developing marketing communications that feature sport-events information to potential sport tourists. Using a human and a marker component of Tourist Attraction System Model by Leiper (1990), this paper explores that sport tourists vary in some extent which they choose event informational sources to the commencement of traveling decisions related attending Sepaktakraw event. The respondents included 316 sport tourists in two categories of domestic sport tourists (n=224) and foreign sport tourists (n=92) attending ISTAF Super Series. Differences were found. Findings show that a great number of domestic sport tourists reported using generating markers related mass communication items, while social networking was the most important sources of information to foreign sport tourists. This research provides different strategic use of event informational sources for sport event marketers and organizers to enhance sport tourists’ behavioral m...

Costumer’ satisfaction has been publicized as successful sport business and marketing and improves the strategic planning of sport event performance. Using Leiper’s (1990) Tourist Attraction System Model, this paper examined satisfaction level from the perspective of 316 sport tourists comprised of domestic (n=224) and foreign sport tourists (n=92) attending ISTAF Super Series. Findings from t-test analysis show that no difference significantly was identified among domestic and foreign sport tourists. The findings provided support for the Sepak takraw event as a potential area of sustainable tourism development in terms of social impact within small-scale sport-tourism context.

Many studies have reported inconsistent results on the relationship between competitive sports participation and academic achievement. Attitude was not studied in previous research on competitive sport participation and in Saudi Arabia, the attitude towards sports participation is low among students due to the fear of negative influence of sport on academic achievement. This study examines whether attitude towards sports participation might play a role in mediating the relationship between sports participation and academic achievement. A total of 102 undergraduate student-athletes from three universities in Saudi Arabia were selected as the sample of this study. Results showed there is a significant relationship between competitive sports participation and academic performance, mediated by the attitude towards competitive sports participation. This study found that the higher the subjects’ participation in competitive sports, the higher their academic performance, especially when they exhibit positive attitude towards their participation in competitive sports

This study examines the mediating effect of academic attitude on the relationship between sport participation and academic achievement of student athletes in Saudi Arabia. A total of 102 subjects comprising of undergraduate student athletes from Saudi Arabia were randomly selected as the sample of this study. Participation in competitive sport is measured as frequency of the students' participation in sports activities in a week (Wicker, Hallmann, Breuer, 2013) and whether the students are active members of sport university teams (Lindner & Kerr, 2000) or sport clubs (Dollman& Lewis, 2010). Academic achievement is measured by the formal academic report from the student athletes' respective university. Survey of Study Habits & Attitudes (SSHA) by Brown and Holtzman (1956) was adapted to measure academic attitude. Result indicates a positive significant relationship between participation in competitive sport and academic achievement. Results also showed a partial mediation of academic attitude on the relationship between sport participation and academic achievement. It was concluded that when a student athlete developed a positive attitude towards academic achievements, the level of their participation in the sport competition will positively affect their academic scores.

This study attempts to explore the motives of visitors attending a sport tourist event in Lake Kenyir, Malaysia. Using a quantitative research approach, data were collected from 400 subjects using the Leisure Motivation Scale developed by Ragheb and Beard (1983). This study examined the motives of tourists in terms of the following dimensions: intellectual (the extent to which an individual is motivated to travel to be involved in activities such as exploring, discovering or creating), social (the extent to which an individual travels ...

This research addressed the second language (L2) learning beliefs of the students at the National University of Malaysia, who took English proficiency courses offered by one of the university's faculties. This investigation examined the students' beliefs in terms of the:(i) ...

For the English as a Second Language (ESL) students, reading is an essential activity for obtaining information. Studies have indicated that readers spontaneously used reading strategies in the process of comprehending text (Pritchard, 1990). Previous investigations also discovered that the use of appropriate strategies could enhance reading comprehension (Olsen & Gee, 1991). Most educators lack the knowledge of what their students do while attempting to comprehend reading materials; very often, they are ...

This study examined the perceptions of the low achieving students about target language learning (TLL) in a Malaysian university. The target language is the English language which is the second most important language. This research analysed the views that these learners held of ...

The purpose of this research was to examine the applicability of the Leisure Motivation Scale in determining the motives of sport tourists visiting a particular destination. Specifically, the study seeks to identify the motives of sport tourists in terms of the following dimensions: intellectual (the extent to which an individual is motivated to travel to be involved in activities such as exploring, discovering or creating), social (the extent to which an individual travels because of the need for friendship and interpersonal relationships), ...

Using Kerr and Jermier's (1978) leadership substitutes theory as framework, this study examined the extent to which situational variables moderate the relationship between transformational leadership behaviours and coaches' job satisfaction at NCAA Division III institutions. Data for this study were collected from a national sample of 308 coaches from NCAA Division III institutions. The Transformational Leadership Behaviour Inventory developed by Podsakoff, MacKenzie, Moorman, and Fetter (1990) was used to measure ...

Malaysia embarked on the use of English as a medium of instruction for the teaching of Science (and also Mathematics) in January 2003. One of the aims was to upgrade the English language proficiency of Malaysian students. Several problems and challenges have been ...

Dr. Parilah M. Shah is a lecturer at the Faculty of Education, National University of Malaysia. She obtained her MA and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut, USA. Her research interests are second language acquisition, reading, teaching of English to speakers of other ...

This paper will discuss the topic of consciousness and its scientific account. Furthermore, it aims to discover the different obstacles that science face in explaining and assessing the phenomenon of consciousness. Consciousness is a very complex matter. Throughout the years, men have tried to discover the questions that surround this interesting topic. One of which is the question on whether consciousness can be determined by science. Scholars hold different answers to this question, and thus it is the objective of this paper to discuss ...

The purpose of this study is to examine what are the extrinsic factors that contribute to university athlete's motivation to participate in sports during their study at university. A sample of 11 athletes university footballer in one of the University team in Kuala Lumpur were invited by the researchers for the study, however only five (aged range from 19 to 21 years old) willing to accept the invitation. All of them have signed an inform consent letter for a tape-recorded interviewed. The transcripts were content analyzed by the researchers ...

The purpose of this research was to identify the motives of sport tourists. The second was to determine if destination attributes could be associated with the aforementioned motives. This study examined the motives of sport tourists in terms of the following dimensions: intellectual (the extent to which an individual is motivated to travel to be involved in activities such as exploring, discovering or creating), social (the extent to which an individual travels because of the need for friendship and interpersonal relationships), competence-mastery (the ...

Leisure-time, as an important factor for reducing and predicting most diseases not only is emphasized by many studies but also it considers as a cause in order to be an active and healthy. Our information this regard on post graduate students is very limited. Their physical activities have decreased due to many factors such as assignments and some courses. To improve physical activity among the students, this qualitative study concentrates on the questions whether or not they play sport or do any physical exercises; if so, how they do it, and if not, why not? The aim of this study is to find out ways of spending leisure-time physical activity by post graduate students. For this study the researchers have selected 5 convenient samples from among third semesters post graduate students who accepted to participate in this research at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), “1st semester 2010”. The researchers derived 36 codes from interviews with students and categorized them into five categories. Respondents argued sport and physical activities can control, prevent and decrease many of different diseases such as cardiovascular illness, arthritis, diabetes, depression, and obesity. All respondents believe leisure-time physical activities improve mental power. Finally, for the latter case, this study intends to propose a suggestion for improving this condition.

Page 1. European Journal of Social Sciences – Volume 8, Number 4 (2009) 672 The Effect of School Coaches Decision –Making Style and Burnout on School Male Soccer Players Inderjit Goman Sing Sunar Ministry of Education E-mail: inderjit90@yahoo.com Mohd. ...