Technical Analysis and Development of Single Bamboo Floating from the Perspective of Education and Psychology
Validation of a Scale to Evaluate Group Cohesion in thePhysical Education Area in Secondary School Students
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Group cohesion is widely recognised as a critical factor for achieving the objectives set within a work group, serving both as a primary enabler and a potential obstacle to the group processes that shape behaviour. Consequently, this study aimed to examine the factor structure, reliability, and validity of an instrument designed to assess group cohesion among students in Physical Education classes. The sample comprised 306 students from Compulsory Secondary Education in public schools in southwestern Spain. Both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to assess the instrument's structure. The results indicated a unifactorial structure consisting of nine items, demonstrating high reliability (Cronbach's alpha = 0.93) and excellent goodness-of-fit indices. Thus, this instrument can be considered a quick and efficient tool for evaluating group cohesion among students in Physical Education settings, providing valuable insights for stakeholders aiming to foster cohesive group dynamics.
María Dolores Molina Poveda, Eduardo Galak
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The advent of cinema brought with it its use as a propaganda device with which to transmit ideals and doctrines. As a result, newsreels and cinema documentaries were born with the aim of showing the «most relevant» news of the country and abroad, the former with a shorter duration. In this study, the Spanish NO-DO and «Sucesos Argentinos» are used as primary sources to interpret the images and imaginaries that were projected between 1943 and 1955 on female physical culture. The intention is to understand the official discourse of both political regimes on what Argentinean and Spanish society should be like, especially by questioning those meanings about women. In total, 69 issues of NO-DO and 14 editions of «Sucesos Argentinos» have been found which aim to show female physical culture in this period. The female physical culture shown in both newsreels was aimed at strengthening women’s bodies so that they could carry out their «natural functions» (mother, wife, housewife), as well as highlighting their «inferiority» in relation to men through lower impact activities and the homogenization of bodies through clothing, and the performance of the same exercises in synchrony. And all this in countries with different regimes, but which, in the end, coincided.
Keywords:
female physical culture, NO-DO, Sucesos Argentinos, propaganda, audio-visual images
