Pamela Wicker
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 373739 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Pamela Wicker |
| PRENOMES | Pamela |
| SOBRENOME | Wicker |
| ASSINATURA | WICKER P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Bielefeld University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5818-8470 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 117 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
“Progressing physically and mentally” – a qualitative investigation into perceptions of mental well-being and barriers to participation in a nine-week yoga program among older inmates in Germany
Empirically linking diversity, equity, and inclusion policy to practice statements and domains
This study examined the human resource management (HRM) practice statements and domains in Canadian non-profit sport governing bodies’ (SGBs) diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. The following research questions were posed: What HRM practice statements are found in Canadian non-profit SGBs’ DEI policies? Are HRM practice statements in Canadian non-profit SGBs’ DEI policies consistent with the compliance or strategic development HRM do…
Physical activity and sedentary behavior profiles among prisoners in an open prison
The findings demonstrate substantial variation in daily activity and media patterns among prisoners in open correctional settings. Despite clear behavioral differences, psychological well-being was comparable between groups. This finding suggests that movement and media routines should be considered when promoting prison health, yet they are not coupled with well-being differences under restrictive conditions. A cluster-based approach offers a us…
Predicting fitness coaches’ intentions to include persons with disabilities in gyms
Introduction Promoting equal access to fitness offers implies the inclusion of individuals with disabilities in gyms. However, many gyms do not meet the needs of people with disabilities due to physical, social, and human resource barriers. This study examines fitness coaches’ capacities and intentions of providing fitness offers for individuals with disabilities using the theory of planned behavior as a framework. Methods A quantitative online s…
Task and social frustration of grassroots sport volunteers
Thormann TF, Scharfenkamp K, Wicker P, Davies LE. Task and social frustration of grassroots sport volunteers. Leisure Studies . 2024
What makes women volunteer and lead? The role of perceived institutional, club-level, and individual factors
Football Fans’ Interest in and Willingness-To-Pay for Sustainable Merchandise Products
According to the German Football League’s guidelines, football clubs are expected to contribute to sustainable development. This study analyzes football fans’ interest in and willingness-to-pay for socially and environmentally sustainable merchandise clothing. Data from fans of a German Football Bundesliga club were collected using an online survey in 2022 ( n = 1,019). A set of linear, logistic, log-linear, and zero-inflated Poisson regressions …
Unlocking potential? The impact of a soccer intervention on social-educational outcomes in a German prison
This experimental field study investigated the social-educational outcomes of a six-week soccer intervention in a German prison. Before and after the intervention, social integration and social self-efficacy expectations were assessed in the intervention (n = 11) and control group (n = 10). Within the intervention group, group cohesion was assessed after the first and last session. The results of analyses of variances revealed a significant posit…
Klar kam mir das ein bisschen komisch vor!« – Eine explorative Studie zum Irritationspotenzial tänzerischen Kampfkunsttrainings mit männlichen Gefängnisinsassen
Article »Klar kam mir das ein bisschen komisch vor!« – Eine explorative Studie zum Irritationspotenzial tänzerischen Kampfkunsttrainings mit männlichen Gefängnisinsassen was published on July 31, 2024 in the journal Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform (volume 107, issue 3)
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Sexual harassment and implicit gender-career biases negatively impact women’s life expectancy in the US
The study contributes to the small but growing literature showing that negative workplace experiences and bias against women in the workplace negatively impact women's health
Recreational sports in prison
Introduction This study examines inmates' perspectives on the effectiveness of sports coaches in prison. According to the integrative definition of effective coaching, coaches require professional, interpersonal, and intrapersonal knowledge to enhance athletes' outcomes within a specific context. Methods Five male inmates of a German prison were interviewed after they participated in sports programs. The data were analyzed using directed content …
Leisure Trips to the Natural Environment
This study examines the economic impact (measured by visitor spending) and environmental impact (measured by carbon footprint) of leisure trips to the natural environment. It also investigates the trade-off between them. This research uses survey data from England comprising information about randomly selected leisure trips to the natural environment (n=15,535; 2012-2016). On average, each trip involves visitor spending of GBP 8.57 and a carbon f…
The effects of capital and gender on German adolescents’ favourite sports
This study investigates the effects of different types of capital and gender on the choice of German adolescents’ favourite sports. According to Bourdieu’s theoretical framework, cultural, social, and economic capital as well as gender are expected to influence this choice because of individuals’ habitus. Data from several waves (2000–2018) of the youth questionnaire of the German Socio-Economic Panel (n = 4518) are used to discover the eleven mo…
Similar strength gains at lower perceived efforts via cluster set vs. traditional home-based online training
Cluster Training (CT) has been shown to induce strength at lower perceived efforts compared to traditional training (TRT) with sets performed to repetition failure. These findings have not yet been extended to remote online training in middle-aged to older people. Thus the present study aimed at investigating whether a cluster set online training with bodyweight exercises is similar in its effectiveness a more demanding traditional strength train…
Validity and Reliability of a Commercial Force Sensor for the Measurement of Upper Body Strength in Sport Climbing
Recreational and professional climbing is gaining popularity. Thus, valid and reliable infield strength monitoring and testing devices are required. This study aims at assessing the validity as well as within- and between-day reliability of two climbing-specific hanging positions for assessing the maximum force with a new force measurement device. Therefore, 25 experienced male ( n = 16) and female ( n = 9) climbers (age: 25.5 ± 4.2 years, height…
NFL Player Career Earnings and Off-Field Behavior
The present study seeks to add to the growing literature related to off-field actions impacting labor economic issues. It examines how off-field incidents with law enforcement and violations of league policies governing performance enhancing drugs impact career earnings for players. Furthermore, we seek to understand how career earnings are impacted for visible minorities. Ordinary least squares and quantile regression estimations of career earni…
Publication and citation analysis of articles published in the European Journal for Sport and Society, 2004–2020
Travelling to Bundesliga matches
The purposes of this study were to estimate the carbon footprint caused by football fans travelling to Bundesliga matches (first division) in Germany in the 2018/19 season, to analyse determinants of seasonal carbon footprint, and to identify fan clusters based on travel behaviour. A nationwide online survey of football fans was conducted (n = 539) asking respondents to report their match-related travel behaviour. The average seasonal carbon foot…
Why do some papers get desk rejected from the European Journal for Sport and Society
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The effect of regional and social origin on health-related sport and physical activity of young people in Europe
This study investigates the role of regional and social origin in explaining health-related sport and physical activity levels of youths and adolescents in Europe. It uses a subsample of 15- to 29-year-olds from the 2017 Eurobarometer (n = 3499). The outcome variable reflects whether respondents meet/exceed the guidelines of the World Health Organisation for health-related sport and physical activity or not. Regional origin is captured by four di…
The Perceived Corporate Social Responsibility of Major Sport Organizations by the German Public
Sport governing bodies have played a special role in society during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Following stakeholder theory and consumption capital theory, this study investigated the actions of the German Bundesliga (DFL), Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) during this phase as perceived by the German population and through the lens of corporate social responsibility (CSR).…
The Effects of Sport Activities and Environmentally Sustainable Behaviors on Subjective Well-Being
This study examined the effects of sport activities and environmentally sustainable behaviors on the subjective well-being of working-age adults (18-64). Specifically, it analyzes the effects of different types of sport activities, including nature-based, natural resource-using, and nature-neutral sport activities and different types of environmentally sustainable behaviors such as recycling, ecological consumption, energy-saving, and mobility on…
Intentions of Environmentally Friendly Behavior Among Sports Club Members
Environmentally friendly behavior has become increasingly important in recent years to reduce the speed of climate change and its negative impacts. Individual behavior, including environmentally friendly behavior, is largely formed by behavioral intentions. This study draws on the theory of planned behavior to examine the effects of attitudes toward the behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control on intentions of environmentally …
Understanding the Importance of Organizational Resources to Explain Organizational Problems
Nonprofit sport clubs experience organizational problems regarding the recruitment and retention of members, volunteers, and coaches, and the financial situation of the club. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of different types of organizational resources on the severity of organizational problems. A theoretical framework based on the concept of organizational capacity is presented, which explains the influence of human, fina…
Determinants of sport participation in the European Union
With regard to sport participation in Europe, there are many national studies which are difficult to compare because of different ways of operationalizing sport participation and different methods of analysis and statistical procedures. The aim of this paper is to check which determinants influence sport participation in which way. With the help of data from the Eurobarometer 2004, regression analyses are carried out (1) for the whole European Un…
Demographic and economic factors influencing inclusion in the German sport system – a microanalysis of the years 1985 to 2005
Demographic and economic changes in society lead to questions concerning the consequences of these changes for sport. This study examines to what extent sport participation in Germany depends on demographic and economic parameters and how sport inclusion varies when demographic and economic conditions change. The underlying model is based on the economic household theory, which has been expanded to a demo-economic analysis model. The database con…
Head Coach Changes in Women’s College Soccer
Interdependency of sport supply and sport demand in German metropolitan and medium-sized municipalities – findings from multi-level analyses
2011). Interdependency of sport supply and sport demand in German metropolitan and medium-sized municipalities – findings from multi-level analyses. European Journal for Sport and Society: Vol. 8, No. 1-2, pp. 65-84
Labor migration among elite sport coaches
Coaches are critical to elite sport achievements because they represent the link between sport policies and athletes. Yet, labor migration of elite sport coaches challenges the competitiveness of the sport system of the sending country and brain drain is a concern for policy-makers. Previous research on labor migration in sport has focused on athletes in professional team sports. Based on the push-pull framework, this study seeks to explore the f…
Recruitment and Retention of Referees in Nonprofit Sport Organizations
The recruitment and retention of voluntary referees is challenging for nonprofit sport organizations. This study examines the trickle-down effect of role models on the retention of already active referees and the recruitment of new referees in German football (soccer). Secondary panel data on the number of referees and role models (i.e., referees promoted to the status of a Bundesliga or FIFA referee) were collected for the 21 regional football a…
The effect of regional and social origin on health-related sport and physical activity of young people in Europe
This study investigates the role of regional and social origin in explaining health-related sport and physical activity levels of youths and adolescents in Europe. It uses a subsample of 15- to 29-year-olds from the 2017 Eurobarometer (n = 3499). The outcome variable reflects whether respondents meet/exceed the guidelines of the World Health Organisation for health-related sport and physical activity or not. Regional origin is captured by four di…
Gendered Racial Stereotypes and Coaching Intercollegiate Athletic Teams
Gender Effects on Organizational Problems—Evidence from Non-Profit Sports Clubs in Germany
Analysis of problems using Data Mining techniques – findings from sports clubs in Germany
Sports clubs are often objects of investigation in European research on sport and society. Usually descriptive analyses are carried out and sport clubs are differentiated by structural factors such as size, age, and number of offered sports. However, these factors do not always have to be the distinctive ones as sports clubs are very heterogeneous and have many other features. Therefore, a more explorative analysis was applied using Data Mining f…
The Monetary Value of Voluntary Work
The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive comparison of different valuation approaches for estimating the monetary value of voluntary work both conceptually and empirically. This study adds to the literature by suggesting two approaches: (1) the leisure-adjusted opportunity cost approach (OCA), which corrects for voluntary work being a leisure substitute, is suggested as an alternative to the alternative-employment wage approach (…
Examining the Financial Condition of Sport Governing Bodies
Sport governing bodies play a critical role in the sport system. The purpose of this study is to analyze their financial condition, a topic that has been largely neglected in previous research. Based on financial portfolio theory, it was suggested that the level of revenue diversification has a positive effect on their financial condition (measured through total revenues, break even, profit, and investments). Also, the influence of sport-related …
The effects of capital and gender on German adolescents’ favourite sports
This study investigates the effects of different types of capital and gender on the choice of German adolescents’ favourite sports. According to Bourdieu’s theoretical framework, cultural, social, and economic capital as well as gender are expected to influence this choice because of individuals’ habitus. Data from several waves (2000–2018) of the youth questionnaire of the German Socio-Economic Panel (n = 4518) are used to discover the eleven mo…
The Effects of Sport Activities and Environmentally Sustainable Behaviors on Subjective Well-Being
This study examined the effects of sport activities and environmentally sustainable behaviors on the subjective well-being of working-age adults (18-64). Specifically, it analyzes the effects of different types of sport activities, including nature-based, natural resource-using, and nature-neutral sport activities and different types of environmentally sustainable behaviors such as recycling, ecological consumption, energy-saving, and mobility on…
Intentions of Environmentally Friendly Behavior Among Sports Club Members
Environmentally friendly behavior has become increasingly important in recent years to reduce the speed of climate change and its negative impacts. Individual behavior, including environmentally friendly behavior, is largely formed by behavioral intentions. This study draws on the theory of planned behavior to examine the effects of attitudes toward the behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control on intentions of environmentally …
Willingness-to-volunteer versus willingness-to-pay in sports clubs
In light of increasing problems of recruiting and retaining volunteers, non-profit sports clubs might consider providing their members with an option to buy their way out of voluntary work. Using a rational choice framework, this study examines how organizational capacity of sports clubs affects members' preferences for willingness-to-volunteer (WTV) versus willingness-to-pay (WTP). It uses data from German sports clubs (n = 228) and their member…
Task and social frustration of grassroots sport volunteers
Thormann TF, Scharfenkamp K, Wicker P, Davies LE. Task and social frustration of grassroots sport volunteers. Leisure Studies . 2024
Publication and citation analysis of articles published in the European Journal for Sport and Society, 2004–2020
Estimating willingness to pay for a cycling event using a willingness to travel approach
Public support for hosting the Olympic Summer Games in Germany
Cities and their respective regions must weigh the merits of hosting major sport events, including the Olympic Games. This paper presents a contingent valuation method estimate of the monetary value of intangible benefits to Germans of hosting the Olympic Summer Games. In a nationwide online survey, 6977 respondents said whether they would support a referendum to host the Games. The survey employed a payment card format containing monthly tax amo…
How to Raise Voluntary Giving for Nonprofit Sports Clubs
Nonprofit sports clubs generate revenue from a variety of sources. One of the main income categories is donations. Previous research only analyzed the amount of money generated through donations, but not the influencing factors. The purpose of this study is to investigate determinants of donations for nonprofit sports clubs. The study is based on the public goods theory (Weisbrod in “The economics of nonprofit institutions.” “Studies in structure…
Community sports clubs' responses to institutional and resource dependence pressures for government grants
The convergence of institutional processes and resource dependence perspectives stresses the notion that organizations choose strategies that address pressures from both their exchange and the institutional environments. Community sports clubs often resort to government grants to offer their member services. This paper examines the processes involved in seeking government grants with the aim of optimizing sports clubs' chances of successfully att…
Demographic and economic factors influencing inclusion in the German sport system – a microanalysis of the years 1985 to 2005
Demographic and economic changes in society lead to questions concerning the consequences of these changes for sport. This study examines to what extent sport participation in Germany depends on demographic and economic parameters and how sport inclusion varies when demographic and economic conditions change. The underlying model is based on the economic household theory, which has been expanded to a demo-economic analysis model. The database con…
Determinants of sport participation in the European Union
With regard to sport participation in Europe, there are many national studies which are difficult to compare because of different ways of operationalizing sport participation and different methods of analysis and statistical procedures. The aim of this paper is to check which determinants influence sport participation in which way. With the help of data from the Eurobarometer 2004, regression analyses are carried out (1) for the whole European Un…
Analysis of problems using Data Mining techniques – findings from sports clubs in Germany
Sports clubs are often objects of investigation in European research on sport and society. Usually descriptive analyses are carried out and sport clubs are differentiated by structural factors such as size, age, and number of offered sports. However, these factors do not always have to be the distinctive ones as sports clubs are very heterogeneous and have many other features. Therefore, a more explorative analysis was applied using Data Mining f…
Strukturelle und kontextuelle Spezifika von selbstorganisierten Migrantensportvereinen / Structural and Contextual Aspects of Self-Organized Migrant Sports Clubs
Der Beitrag behandelt strukturelle und kontextuelle Spezifika von selbstorganisierten Migrantensportvereinen auf statistischer Grundlage. Er beruht auf einer Sonderauswertung des für den Sportentwicklungsbericht 2009/2010 durch eine Befragung von Sportvereinen in ganz Deutschland gewonnenen Datensatzes (N=19.345). Durch univariate Varianzanalysen abgesicherte Mittelwertvergleiche zwischen den anhand ihrer Mitglieder- und Vorstandszusammensetzung …
Integrationsspezifische Organisationsleistungen und -herausforderungen der deutschen Sportvereine
Sporttreiben und andere Aktivitäten im Sportverein bedeuten zwangsläufig die Interaktion zwischen Menschen. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden auch die Integrationsleistungen des organisierten Sports thematisiert, welche gleichzeitig ein wesentliches Argument für die Befürwortung einer öffentlichen Sportförderung darstellen (Rittner/Breuer 2004). Ganz allgemein wächst die Bedeutung der Integrationspotenziale verschiedener gesellschaftlicher Akteure, d…
Gender Effects on Organizational Problems—Evidence from Non-Profit Sports Clubs in Germany
Interdependency of sport supply and sport demand in German metropolitan and medium-sized municipalities – findings from multi-level analyses
2011). Interdependency of sport supply and sport demand in German metropolitan and medium-sized municipalities – findings from multi-level analyses. European Journal for Sport and Society: Vol. 8, No. 1-2, pp. 65-84
Understanding the Importance of Organizational Resources to Explain Organizational Problems
Nonprofit sport clubs experience organizational problems regarding the recruitment and retention of members, volunteers, and coaches, and the financial situation of the club. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of different types of organizational resources on the severity of organizational problems. A theoretical framework based on the concept of organizational capacity is presented, which explains the influence of human, fina…
Conscientious vs. ambivalent consumers
Community sports clubs' responses to institutional and resource dependence pressures for government grants
The convergence of institutional processes and resource dependence perspectives stresses the notion that organizations choose strategies that address pressures from both their exchange and the institutional environments. Community sports clubs often resort to government grants to offer their member services. This paper examines the processes involved in seeking government grants with the aim of optimizing sports clubs' chances of successfully att…
Examining the Financial Condition of Sport Governing Bodies
Sport governing bodies play a critical role in the sport system. The purpose of this study is to analyze their financial condition, a topic that has been largely neglected in previous research. Based on financial portfolio theory, it was suggested that the level of revenue diversification has a positive effect on their financial condition (measured through total revenues, break even, profit, and investments). Also, the influence of sport-related …
Determinants of expected vs. actual match outcome
Within society, there are many publications regarding expectations of firm performance. These include analysis, industry insiders and ranking service. Within sports, bookmakers provide betting odds that reflect the expected outcome of matches and are determined by several factors. The purpose of this study is to analyse the determinants of expected match outcome (i.e. betting odds) and compare them to those of actual match outcome. Data from the …
The Monetary Value of Voluntary Work
The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive comparison of different valuation approaches for estimating the monetary value of voluntary work both conceptually and empirically. This study adds to the literature by suggesting two approaches: (1) the leisure-adjusted opportunity cost approach (OCA), which corrects for voluntary work being a leisure substitute, is suggested as an alternative to the alternative-employment wage approach (…
How to Raise Voluntary Giving for Nonprofit Sports Clubs
Nonprofit sports clubs generate revenue from a variety of sources. One of the main income categories is donations. Previous research only analyzed the amount of money generated through donations, but not the influencing factors. The purpose of this study is to investigate determinants of donations for nonprofit sports clubs. The study is based on the public goods theory (Weisbrod in “The economics of nonprofit institutions.” “Studies in structure…
The effect of Porter’s generic strategies on organisational problems of non-profit sports clubs
Non-profit sports clubs face several organisational problems relating to memberships, finances, demographic changes and competition from other organisations, which can be addressed through strategic planning. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of Porter's (1980) generic strategies (cost leadership, differentiation, focus) on the severity of those organisational problems. Quantitative panel data from a German sports club survey are…
Recruitment and Retention of Referees in Nonprofit Sport Organizations
The recruitment and retention of voluntary referees is challenging for nonprofit sport organizations. This study examines the trickle-down effect of role models on the retention of already active referees and the recruitment of new referees in German football (soccer). Secondary panel data on the number of referees and role models (i.e., referees promoted to the status of a Bundesliga or FIFA referee) were collected for the 21 regional football a…
Public support for hosting the Olympic Summer Games in Germany
Cities and their respective regions must weigh the merits of hosting major sport events, including the Olympic Games. This paper presents a contingent valuation method estimate of the monetary value of intangible benefits to Germans of hosting the Olympic Summer Games. In a nationwide online survey, 6977 respondents said whether they would support a referendum to host the Games. The survey employed a payment card format containing monthly tax amo…
Estimating willingness to pay for a cycling event using a willingness to travel approach
Willingness-to-volunteer versus willingness-to-pay in sports clubs
In light of increasing problems of recruiting and retaining volunteers, non-profit sports clubs might consider providing their members with an option to buy their way out of voluntary work. Using a rational choice framework, this study examines how organizational capacity of sports clubs affects members' preferences for willingness-to-volunteer (WTV) versus willingness-to-pay (WTP). It uses data from German sports clubs (n = 228) and their member…
Labor migration among elite sport coaches
Coaches are critical to elite sport achievements because they represent the link between sport policies and athletes. Yet, labor migration of elite sport coaches challenges the competitiveness of the sport system of the sending country and brain drain is a concern for policy-makers. Previous research on labor migration in sport has focused on athletes in professional team sports. Based on the push-pull framework, this study seeks to explore the f…
Head Coach Changes in Women’s College Soccer
Pollution, Health, and the Moderating Role of Physical Activity Opportunities
Air and water pollution have detrimental effects on health, while physical activity opportunities have a positive relationship. The purpose of this study was to explore whether physical activity opportunities moderate the relationships among air and water pollution, and measures of health. Aggregate data were collected at the county level in the United States ( n = 3104). Variables included the mean daily density of fine particle matter (air poll…
Gendered Racial Stereotypes and Coaching Intercollegiate Athletic Teams
Travelling to Bundesliga matches
The purposes of this study were to estimate the carbon footprint caused by football fans travelling to Bundesliga matches (first division) in Germany in the 2018/19 season, to analyse determinants of seasonal carbon footprint, and to identify fan clusters based on travel behaviour. A nationwide online survey of football fans was conducted (n = 539) asking respondents to report their match-related travel behaviour. The average seasonal carbon foot…
Why do some papers get desk rejected from the European Journal for Sport and Society
Contains fulltext : 241715.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access
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