The purposes of this study were to 1) analyze previous studies reported in the journal of KSSLS dealing with dance sports(1993-2004); and 2) find out their implications and weak points; and 3) provide constructive suggestions for future studies. Total...
The purposes of this study were to 1) analyze previous studies reported in the journal of KSSLS dealing with dance sports(1993-2004); and 2) find out their implications and weak points; and 3) provide constructive suggestions for future studies. Total number of the studies were 2lstudies. Parameters used for the analysis include research areas, frequency of key words, research methods, authors/subjects characteristics, dance sports events, period of participation in dance sports, and annual trends of articles. Results indicate that most studies emphasized the effects of dance sports including physical, physiological, sociological, and psychological effects. Some studies reported appropriate contents in terms of dance sports research. However, their weak points include lack of basic information on subjects, less information on dance sports events, low reliability on the contents caused by mismatch between studies quoted in the contents and references, over generalization flaws, misinterpretation on statistical results and/or omission on basic important elements such as reliability and validity, less controled experimental design partial publication and most importantly plagiarism. Suggestions for future research and development for dance sports were discussed as well.