Research Impact: The COVID-19 pandemic had created many restrictions on the lives of adolescents around the world. In this report, we looked at those adolescents in 22 countries who reported COVID-19 had a negative impact […]
Tag: COVID-19
Student’s perspectives about their learning profile before and after Covid-19 – Moura, Graça, MacPhail, & Batista.
This study attempted to analyse students’ perceptions of their learning profile before and after Covid-19. There were 663 students of two educational cycles: grades 7-9 and 10-12. These were two different cohorts of students from […]
Publication: Bidirectional associations between depressive and anxiety symptoms and loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: Dynamic panel models with fixed effects
Research Impact: We used weekly data collected over eight weeks throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to expand previous findings and use dynamic panel models with fixed effects to better understand the direction and magnitude of the […]
Publication: Finnish Late Adolescents’ Physical Activity During COVID-19 Spring 2020 Lockdown.
Research Impact: There have been various restrictions across the world at the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Finland, there were similar restrictions to Ireland, such that schools, sport clubs and facilities were closed […]
Publication: High sitting time is a behavioral risk factor for blunted improvement in depression across 8 weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic in April-May 2020
Research Impact: COVID-19 increased sedentary behaviours, decreased physical activity, and worsened mental health. The longitudinal impacts of these changes, however, are relatively unknown. We examined associations between changes in self-reported activity behaviours and mental health […]
Teaching Physical Education through a screen! – ursula freyne.
I know Joe Wicks became a household name teaching “PE” to the nation during lockdown and bar a broken bone he made it look easy! Remember, Joe Wicks had ample space to work in and […]
Publication: Czech adolescents’ remote school and health experiences during the spring 2020 COVID-19 lockdown
New Publication from @kwokwng
& colleagues on Czech adolescents’ remote school & health experiences during the spring 2020 COVID-19 lockdown
THE COVID COACH: A ONE YEAR REFLECTION OF SUPPORTING ROWERS IN A COVID-19 WORLD – DR FRANK NUGENT
As The vaccine roll out is gathering pace and a return to competitive sport is looking closer than ever, I felt it was time to reflect on my role as the lead coach of the […]
The Role of Accreditation in Sport Psychology: Lighthouses in a Storm – Dr. Tadhg MacIntyre
It is fitting that we revisit the issue of professional accreditation just a year on from the passing of Professor Aidan Moran (1957-2020) who has been described as the father of Irish sport psychology. Aidan […]
Publication: Associations between employment changes and mental health: US data from during the COVID-19 pandemic
Research Impact: COVID-19 transformed how, where, and whether people work. It is intuitive that working from home (WFH) and employment loss influence mental health. Here, 2,301 US adults who were employed prior to COVID-19 self-reported […]
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