Robert J Schinke
Biographic Data
| ID | 147217 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert J Schinke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert J |
| FAMILY NAME | Schinke |
| SIGNATURE | SCHINKE R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Laurentian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4432-0730 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Diversity in elite athlete mental health and the potential to thrive
There has been a sizable number of standalone contributions and special issues devoted to elite athlete mental health (AMH). Until 10 years ago, the literature pertaining to elite AMH often targeted catalysts to a compromised status, primarily focusing on individual psychological factors, such as athletic identity and athletic functioning (Moesch et al., 2018;Schinke, Henriksen et al., 2024). Some of the earliest discussions pertained to athlete …
Effects of cognitively engaging physical activity on executive function, mental health, and physical fitness in school-age children
Over 80% of school-aged children worldwide engage in insufficient physical activity, compromising their executive function development during a critical neuroplasticity window. Cognitively Engaging Physical Activity (CEPA), which integrates cognitive challenges into physical exercise, may offer superior benefits compared to traditional physical education curriculum (TPEC), yet comprehensive evidence across cognitive, psychological, and physical d…
A Scoping Review of Mindfulness-Based and Arts-Based Parenting Interventions for Adolescent Mothers
Understanding the staff cancer through the perceived experiences of varsity male soccer players
Informal roles can be beneficial or detrimental to sport performance. Researchers have identified negative informal roles within sports and organisational contexts; however, exploration of these roles has been limited to athletes within sports research or staff members within organisational research. To our knowledge, negative informal roles occupied by a staff member on a sports team have not been studied. The purpose of the current research was…
Social media for health promotion
The aim of this study was to explore the meanings of women's cardiovascular disease constructed within the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation Facebook page. Posts from Heart and Stroke Foundation and public user comments surrounding the launch of the Heart and Stroke Foundation re-branding were of interest. Ethnographic content analysis was employed to analyse text ( n = 40), images ( n = 32), videos ( n = 6), user comments and replies ( n = 42…
Exploring disordered eating and embodiment in male distance runners through visual narrative methods
While researchers in sport and exercise psychology have provided new insight into the sociocultural construction of disordered eating and the complexity of athletes’ embodied experiences in recent years, our knowledge of these experiences in male athletes remains limited and is confined by verbal expression (e.g. interviews and analyses of the spoken word). Thus, we sought to further explore the embodied and disordered eating experiences of male …
A Commentary on Sport and Terrorism From the Vantage of Sport Psychology
The authors of this article engage in a commentary regarding broad thematic areas identified within the special issue on sport and terrorism. The commentary begins with the authors situating themselves within the field of sport psychology, and as critical scholars more specifically within the emerging cultural sport psychology genre. To further contextualize certain aspects of criticality outlined from a sport psychology vantage, a brief story is…
Understanding the meanings created around the aging body and sports through media representations of elite masters athletes
Masters athletes compete in athletic events at the elite level after the point when most elite athletes retire. These athletes typically begin this stage of their competition careers between 30 and 40 years and continue in this journey in some cases to the age of 90 or older. The purpose of the present study was to explore media representations of such athletes to extend understandings on the portrayal of ageing, the older body and sport and the …
Are you ‘woman enough’ to control your leading cause of death
The Heart Truth® campaign was implemented in the United States by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in 2002 to increase women’s awareness of heart disease and encourage risk reduction of cardiovascular disease. The present study explored representations of women’s cardiovascular disease, the meanings generated, and the implications for identity construction within one prominent corporate media partner of the campaign. The inaugural 20…
A social ecological exploration of physical activity influences among rural men and women across life stages
Social ecological models have been used to study physical activity (PA) influences of rural women across life stages. However, few, if any, studies have used these models in conjunction with qualitative methods to explore rural men’s PA perceptions or to concurrently explore rural men’s and women’s PA perceptions across life stages. This study adopted a social-ecological framework and thematic analysis to explore influences of men’s (n = 14) and …
Expanding the sport and physical activity research landscape through community scholarship
Keywords: community scholarshipsocial justicesportphysical activityengagement
Pathways for community research in sport and physical activity
This paper focuses on how researchers might approach judging community scholarship and what criteria might be used to evaluate this work. It is suggested that rather than adopting a criteriologist approach that proposes pre-established, permanent and universal criteria, a relativist approach is more suitable for making fair and informed judgments about the quality of research. This approach proposes that criteria should be viewed as lists of char…
Moving beyond words
In recognising the limitations of verbally based research methods for understanding and capturing the multidimensionality of lived experience, arts-based methods have been gaining ground within the social sciences. These methods embrace emotional, sensory, embodied and imaginative ways of knowing that lend to richer knowledge production and communication processes. Yet, these methods are rarely used in sport research. The purpose of the current p…
Moving toward trust and partnership
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the authors own assumptions made as academics using two examples from a research project with an Aboriginal community. The first attempt features a project that silenced the community. Later work engaged the community through tenets of community-based participatory research (CBPR) and a sport development project (SDP). Design/methodology/approach – This project explores a shift from a m…
Five Residents Speak
Personal meanings given to the experience of living with nursing home death were shared by 5 nursing home residents. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews. Using M. van Manen's (1990) hermeneutic phenomenology, the lived experience of residents emerged as a compilation of 5 dynamically occurring themes, including (a) mapping relations, (b) pacing oneself (c) maintaining belongingness, (d) reconciling death as part of life, and (e) …
Non-numerical data as data
In this paper, we describe our positive experiences integrating quantitative and qualitative inquiry in sport and exercise psychology. Asked to reflect among other topics, on the weakness and limitations of qualitative methods from a positivist standpoint, we found ourselves first, criticising our own quantitative methods, though questions were also raised in terms of a few qualitative research strategies found in the sport science literature. We…
In Indigenous Words
Recently, awareness within academia has grown regarding the incompatibilities of mainstream research with indigenous cultures as well as the historical injustices that have accrued through colonizing practices. Accordingly, support for alternative (non-Westernized) research approaches has been increasing. Participatory action research (PAR) and cultural praxis reflect two approaches where researchers advocate for a movement toward cultural inclus…
Special Issue
May the Circle Be Unbroken
This study was conducted by university and Aboriginal coresearchers in Canada, utilizing a participatory action research (PAR) approach akin to a decolonizing methodology. The purpose was to empower nine Aboriginal coresearchers to share their recommendations for meaningful research practice, grounded in their cultural perspectives and lived experiences. Data were collected through conversational interviews. The overarching intent was to (a) chal…
Perceived Psychosocial Benefits Associated With Perceived Restorative Potential of Wilderness River-Rafting Trips 1
Analysis of the restorative experiences and psychosocial benefits of wilderness river rafting trips of varying difficulty with 186 Canadian participants of different ages supported the restorative potential of natural settings for all age groups as measured by the Perceived Restorativeness Scale. The two-factor structure (General Restorativeness and Coherence) was confirmed. Significant associations were found between scores on the General Restor…
Perceived Psychosocial Benefits Associated with Perceived Restorative Potential of Wilderness River-Rafting Trips
Analysis of the restorative experiences and psychosocial benefits of wilderness river rafting trips of varying difficulty with 186 Canadian participants of different ages supported the restorative potential of natural settings for all age groups as measured by the Perceived Restorativeness Scale. The two-factor structure (General Restorativeness and Coherence) was confirmed. Significant associations were found between scores on the General Restor…
Cultural Missteps and Ethical Considerations with Indigenous Populations
The Adaptation Challenges and Strategies of Adolescent Aboriginal Athletes Competing Off Reserve
Within the motivation literature, it has been indicated that athletes respond more effectively to sport's contextual challenges through effective adaptation skills. Fiske identified five core motives as facilitators of the adaptation process across cultures: belonging, understanding, controlling, self-enhancement, and trusting. Through a cultural sport psychology approach, the adaptation challenges and strategies of Canadian Aboriginal adolescent…
From Practice to Praxis
Through research grounded in praxis, sport psychologists can seek to understand and then help meet the motivational needs of sport participants from marginalized cultures. The present report unveils the recommendations of 23 elite Canadian Aboriginal athletes and subsequent community meetings with an Aboriginal community regarding how to enhance sport programming and increase enrollment of youth within a First Nations reserve. Data were analyzed …
Considerations Regarding Graduate Student Persistence
Completion of graduate studies is a central issue for universities. Over the past decade researchers interested in higher education have become concerned with graduate student completion rates. Possible reasons underlying variations in graduate student persistence have included the amassed learning experiences and subsequent perceptions of graduate students, supervisory committee members, and other department staff. This article addresses some of…
In Indigenous Words
Recently, awareness within academia has grown regarding the incompatibilities of mainstream research with indigenous cultures as well as the historical injustices that have accrued through colonizing practices. Accordingly, support for alternative (non-Westernized) research approaches has been increasing. Participatory action research (PAR) and cultural praxis reflect two approaches where researchers advocate for a movement toward cultural inclus…
May the Circle Be Unbroken
This study was conducted by university and Aboriginal coresearchers in Canada, utilizing a participatory action research (PAR) approach akin to a decolonizing methodology. The purpose was to empower nine Aboriginal coresearchers to share their recommendations for meaningful research practice, grounded in their cultural perspectives and lived experiences. Data were collected through conversational interviews. The overarching intent was to (a) chal…
Are you ‘woman enough’ to control your leading cause of death
The Heart Truth® campaign was implemented in the United States by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in 2002 to increase women’s awareness of heart disease and encourage risk reduction of cardiovascular disease. The present study explored representations of women’s cardiovascular disease, the meanings generated, and the implications for identity construction within one prominent corporate media partner of the campaign. The inaugural 20…
From Practice to Praxis
Through research grounded in praxis, sport psychologists can seek to understand and then help meet the motivational needs of sport participants from marginalized cultures. The present report unveils the recommendations of 23 elite Canadian Aboriginal athletes and subsequent community meetings with an Aboriginal community regarding how to enhance sport programming and increase enrollment of youth within a First Nations reserve. Data were analyzed …
Cultural Missteps and Ethical Considerations with Indigenous Populations
The Adaptation Challenges and Strategies of Adolescent Aboriginal Athletes Competing Off Reserve
Within the motivation literature, it has been indicated that athletes respond more effectively to sport's contextual challenges through effective adaptation skills. Fiske identified five core motives as facilitators of the adaptation process across cultures: belonging, understanding, controlling, self-enhancement, and trusting. Through a cultural sport psychology approach, the adaptation challenges and strategies of Canadian Aboriginal adolescent…
Social media for health promotion
The aim of this study was to explore the meanings of women's cardiovascular disease constructed within the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation Facebook page. Posts from Heart and Stroke Foundation and public user comments surrounding the launch of the Heart and Stroke Foundation re-branding were of interest. Ethnographic content analysis was employed to analyse text ( n = 40), images ( n = 32), videos ( n = 6), user comments and replies ( n = 42…
Moving toward trust and partnership
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the authors own assumptions made as academics using two examples from a research project with an Aboriginal community. The first attempt features a project that silenced the community. Later work engaged the community through tenets of community-based participatory research (CBPR) and a sport development project (SDP). Design/methodology/approach – This project explores a shift from a m…
Five Residents Speak
Personal meanings given to the experience of living with nursing home death were shared by 5 nursing home residents. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews. Using M. van Manen's (1990) hermeneutic phenomenology, the lived experience of residents emerged as a compilation of 5 dynamically occurring themes, including (a) mapping relations, (b) pacing oneself (c) maintaining belongingness, (d) reconciling death as part of life, and (e) …
Considerations Regarding Graduate Student Persistence
Completion of graduate studies is a central issue for universities. Over the past decade researchers interested in higher education have become concerned with graduate student completion rates. Possible reasons underlying variations in graduate student persistence have included the amassed learning experiences and subsequent perceptions of graduate students, supervisory committee members, and other department staff. This article addresses some of…
From Practice to Praxis
Through research grounded in praxis, sport psychologists can seek to understand and then help meet the motivational needs of sport participants from marginalized cultures. The present report unveils the recommendations of 23 elite Canadian Aboriginal athletes and subsequent community meetings with an Aboriginal community regarding how to enhance sport programming and increase enrollment of youth within a First Nations reserve. Data were analyzed …
Perceived Psychosocial Benefits Associated With Perceived Restorative Potential of Wilderness River-Rafting Trips 1
Analysis of the restorative experiences and psychosocial benefits of wilderness river rafting trips of varying difficulty with 186 Canadian participants of different ages supported the restorative potential of natural settings for all age groups as measured by the Perceived Restorativeness Scale. The two-factor structure (General Restorativeness and Coherence) was confirmed. Significant associations were found between scores on the General Restor…
Perceived Psychosocial Benefits Associated with Perceived Restorative Potential of Wilderness River-Rafting Trips
Analysis of the restorative experiences and psychosocial benefits of wilderness river rafting trips of varying difficulty with 186 Canadian participants of different ages supported the restorative potential of natural settings for all age groups as measured by the Perceived Restorativeness Scale. The two-factor structure (General Restorativeness and Coherence) was confirmed. Significant associations were found between scores on the General Restor…
Cultural Missteps and Ethical Considerations with Indigenous Populations
The Adaptation Challenges and Strategies of Adolescent Aboriginal Athletes Competing Off Reserve
Within the motivation literature, it has been indicated that athletes respond more effectively to sport's contextual challenges through effective adaptation skills. Fiske identified five core motives as facilitators of the adaptation process across cultures: belonging, understanding, controlling, self-enhancement, and trusting. Through a cultural sport psychology approach, the adaptation challenges and strategies of Canadian Aboriginal adolescent…
Non-numerical data as data
In this paper, we describe our positive experiences integrating quantitative and qualitative inquiry in sport and exercise psychology. Asked to reflect among other topics, on the weakness and limitations of qualitative methods from a positivist standpoint, we found ourselves first, criticising our own quantitative methods, though questions were also raised in terms of a few qualitative research strategies found in the sport science literature. We…
In Indigenous Words
Recently, awareness within academia has grown regarding the incompatibilities of mainstream research with indigenous cultures as well as the historical injustices that have accrued through colonizing practices. Accordingly, support for alternative (non-Westernized) research approaches has been increasing. Participatory action research (PAR) and cultural praxis reflect two approaches where researchers advocate for a movement toward cultural inclus…
Special Issue
May the Circle Be Unbroken
This study was conducted by university and Aboriginal coresearchers in Canada, utilizing a participatory action research (PAR) approach akin to a decolonizing methodology. The purpose was to empower nine Aboriginal coresearchers to share their recommendations for meaningful research practice, grounded in their cultural perspectives and lived experiences. Data were collected through conversational interviews. The overarching intent was to (a) chal…
Five Residents Speak
Personal meanings given to the experience of living with nursing home death were shared by 5 nursing home residents. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews. Using M. van Manen's (1990) hermeneutic phenomenology, the lived experience of residents emerged as a compilation of 5 dynamically occurring themes, including (a) mapping relations, (b) pacing oneself (c) maintaining belongingness, (d) reconciling death as part of life, and (e) …
Expanding the sport and physical activity research landscape through community scholarship
Keywords: community scholarshipsocial justicesportphysical activityengagement
Pathways for community research in sport and physical activity
This paper focuses on how researchers might approach judging community scholarship and what criteria might be used to evaluate this work. It is suggested that rather than adopting a criteriologist approach that proposes pre-established, permanent and universal criteria, a relativist approach is more suitable for making fair and informed judgments about the quality of research. This approach proposes that criteria should be viewed as lists of char…
Moving beyond words
In recognising the limitations of verbally based research methods for understanding and capturing the multidimensionality of lived experience, arts-based methods have been gaining ground within the social sciences. These methods embrace emotional, sensory, embodied and imaginative ways of knowing that lend to richer knowledge production and communication processes. Yet, these methods are rarely used in sport research. The purpose of the current p…
Moving toward trust and partnership
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the authors own assumptions made as academics using two examples from a research project with an Aboriginal community. The first attempt features a project that silenced the community. Later work engaged the community through tenets of community-based participatory research (CBPR) and a sport development project (SDP). Design/methodology/approach – This project explores a shift from a m…
A social ecological exploration of physical activity influences among rural men and women across life stages
Social ecological models have been used to study physical activity (PA) influences of rural women across life stages. However, few, if any, studies have used these models in conjunction with qualitative methods to explore rural men’s PA perceptions or to concurrently explore rural men’s and women’s PA perceptions across life stages. This study adopted a social-ecological framework and thematic analysis to explore influences of men’s (n = 14) and …
Understanding the meanings created around the aging body and sports through media representations of elite masters athletes
Masters athletes compete in athletic events at the elite level after the point when most elite athletes retire. These athletes typically begin this stage of their competition careers between 30 and 40 years and continue in this journey in some cases to the age of 90 or older. The purpose of the present study was to explore media representations of such athletes to extend understandings on the portrayal of ageing, the older body and sport and the …
Are you ‘woman enough’ to control your leading cause of death
The Heart Truth® campaign was implemented in the United States by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in 2002 to increase women’s awareness of heart disease and encourage risk reduction of cardiovascular disease. The present study explored representations of women’s cardiovascular disease, the meanings generated, and the implications for identity construction within one prominent corporate media partner of the campaign. The inaugural 20…
Exploring disordered eating and embodiment in male distance runners through visual narrative methods
While researchers in sport and exercise psychology have provided new insight into the sociocultural construction of disordered eating and the complexity of athletes’ embodied experiences in recent years, our knowledge of these experiences in male athletes remains limited and is confined by verbal expression (e.g. interviews and analyses of the spoken word). Thus, we sought to further explore the embodied and disordered eating experiences of male …
A Commentary on Sport and Terrorism From the Vantage of Sport Psychology
The authors of this article engage in a commentary regarding broad thematic areas identified within the special issue on sport and terrorism. The commentary begins with the authors situating themselves within the field of sport psychology, and as critical scholars more specifically within the emerging cultural sport psychology genre. To further contextualize certain aspects of criticality outlined from a sport psychology vantage, a brief story is…
Social media for health promotion
The aim of this study was to explore the meanings of women's cardiovascular disease constructed within the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation Facebook page. Posts from Heart and Stroke Foundation and public user comments surrounding the launch of the Heart and Stroke Foundation re-branding were of interest. Ethnographic content analysis was employed to analyse text ( n = 40), images ( n = 32), videos ( n = 6), user comments and replies ( n = 42…
Understanding the staff cancer through the perceived experiences of varsity male soccer players
Informal roles can be beneficial or detrimental to sport performance. Researchers have identified negative informal roles within sports and organisational contexts; however, exploration of these roles has been limited to athletes within sports research or staff members within organisational research. To our knowledge, negative informal roles occupied by a staff member on a sports team have not been studied. The purpose of the current research was…
A Scoping Review of Mindfulness-Based and Arts-Based Parenting Interventions for Adolescent Mothers
Diversity in elite athlete mental health and the potential to thrive
There has been a sizable number of standalone contributions and special issues devoted to elite athlete mental health (AMH). Until 10 years ago, the literature pertaining to elite AMH often targeted catalysts to a compromised status, primarily focusing on individual psychological factors, such as athletic identity and athletic functioning (Moesch et al., 2018;Schinke, Henriksen et al., 2024). Some of the earliest discussions pertained to athlete …
Effects of cognitively engaging physical activity on executive function, mental health, and physical fitness in school-age children
Over 80% of school-aged children worldwide engage in insufficient physical activity, compromising their executive function development during a critical neuroplasticity window. Cognitively Engaging Physical Activity (CEPA), which integrates cognitive challenges into physical exercise, may offer superior benefits compared to traditional physical education curriculum (TPEC), yet comprehensive evidence across cognitive, psychological, and physical d…
Psychology (18 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Political science (14 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Social science (8 works) · Sport Psychology and Performance (8 works) · Physical Education and Pedagogy (7 works) · Qualitative research (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Athletes (6 works)