European Journal of Adapted Physical Activity, 2025 (vol. 18)
EUDAPA: Academic, social and employment assessment of an international programme
Ramiro Muñoz-Calvo, Saleky García-Gómez, Jyrki Vilhu, Javier Pérez-Tejero
European Journal of Adapted Physical Activity 18, 2 (2025) | DOI: 10.5507/euj.2024.015 
The European Diploma in Adapted Physical Activity (EUDAPA) is an international program focused on the adapted physical activity (APA) field. Students and teachers come from different places around the world in order to share. The aim of this study was to assess the opinion of EUDAPA alumni about the influence of the programme in their applied APA professional knowledge, competences, skills, socialization, and future employment capability. An ad hoc questionnaire was developed from a proposed evaluation of those skills, which was assessed and validated through experts' opinion. Thereafter, the tool was sent by email to all of the 136 alumni who took...
The effect of attentional focus based on learning stages on motor learning in children with intellectual disabilities
Rasool Zeidabadi, Ensieh Sadat Askari Tabar, Morteza Pourazar
European Journal of Adapted Physical Activity 18, 3 (2025) | DOI: 10.5507/euj.2024.013
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of different focus of attention (Internal, External, and Mixed) instructions on the acquisition and learning of a throwing skill in children with intellectual disabilities. Thirty boys with intellectual disabilities (M = 12.1 SD = 1.42 years) with an intelligence quotient ranging between 50 and 69 participated in this study. All participants were randomly assigned to three groups (internal: focusing on the movements of their throwing hand, external: focusing on the movement of the beanbag, and mixed: focusing on the movement of their hand in the first half of training and focusing on the movement...
Sport commitment in Taiwanese para-athletes
Andy Wei-Ru Yao, Deborah Shapiro, Cheng-Chen Pan, Wei-Ren Chen
European Journal of Adapted Physical Activity 18, 4 (2025)
While the Sport Commitment Model (SCM) has been widely used in research, recent studies suggest increasing scholarly interest in exploring additional antecedents to this model. Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory (SCT), with its emphasis on factors influencing motivation, may provide a framework for exploring supplemental constructs to better understand the sport commitment of para-athletes with disabilities. This study examined the relationship among four potential SCT factors (i.e., sport enjoyment, perceived competence, sport friendship quality, external rewards) in predicting two dimensions of sport commitment: enthusiastic commitment and constrained...