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Jennifer J. Waldron

Researcher at University of Northern Iowa

Publications -  41
Citations -  976

Jennifer J. Waldron is an academic researcher from University of Northern Iowa. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sport psychology & Athletes. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 41 publications receiving 898 citations.

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Crossing the line: rites of passage, team aspects, and ambiguity of hazing.

TL;DR: Results indicated that athletes reported engaging in risky, hazing behaviors and that both the values of sport as well as the desire to be accepted by teammates encouraged hazing.
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Body Image Concerns in Female Exercisers and Athletes: A Feminist Cultural Studies Perspective

TL;DR: In this paper, a focus group interview with female exercisers and athletes was conducted to understand the relationship between body image, eating, and exercise in female athletes and exercisers, and they found that most of the women in this study desired an unrealistic ideal body: a toned body with minimal fat.
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Achievement goal perspectives, perceptions of the motivational climate, and sportspersonship: individual and team effects

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the main and interactive effects of the perceived motivational climate and goal perspectives on sportspership and found that a significant three-way interaction between task orientation, ego orientation, and the task-involving climate emerged for respect for the game suggesting that the relationship between task and ego orientations and the degree of respect for a game was dependent upon the strength of the task.
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Whatever it Takes: Health Compromising Behaviors in Female Athletes

TL;DR: The power and performance model of sport stresses a sport ethic of doing "whatever it takes" to win (Coakley, 2004). Uncritical acceptance of this model may lead to various health-compromising behaviors as discussed by the authors.