Major sporting events exert manifold influences on people’s intra- and interpersonal experiences. Preliminary findings suggest that they affect sexuality, but the evidence has been limited to population-level outcomes such as birth rates. Direct, individual-level evidence and research on underlying processes are missing. In this preregistered study, we investigated the relationship between the success of national men’s soccer teams during the UEFA EURO 2024 tournament and the frequency of sexual events in daily life, with match results serving as natural within-person, quasi-experimental manipulations. Participants from five European countries (N = 952, k = 3,627 reports) reported more cognitive, affective, and behavioral sexual events following their national teams’ wins (vs. losses). These effects were particularly pronounced among participants who identified more strongly as fans and were partly explained by higher well-being after wins. We discuss the far-reaching impact of sporting events on sexuality in daily life and future research directions.
Purpose - This study explores the meaning of being multicultural among international graduates of English-language management programs in Poland. Additionally, it examines how these individuals perceive the opportunities and challenges their multicultural identity brings to their professional lives.
Design/methodology/approach – Eleven participants took part in two waves of semi-structured interviews, conducted two years apart, during which they created cultural identity maps as part of a reflexive interview exercise focused on their multiple cultural identities.
Findings - Most participants identified as bicultural or multicultural, though they differed in how certain they were about being multicultural and how they interpreted its meaning. Some strongly embraced their multicultural identity, while others viewed it as a dynamic process shaped by their environment and life experiences. Moreover, interviewees predominantly viewed their multicultural identity as beneficial in professional settings, highlighting enhanced adaptability,
improved communication skills, and advantages in cross-cultural business interactions. Several graduates demonstrated cultural variability, consciously adjusting aspects of their cultural identities depending on the context, which served as a professional asset. However, some participants faced challenges related to adaptation or issues tied to gender and religion.
Originality/value – These findings suggest that multicultural identity can serve as a strategic toolkit in professional settings, empowering individuals to navigate diverse workplace environments. However, its expression may be shaped by various social factors and organizational contexts. Practical implications - The study offers recommendations for educational institutions to developmulticultural competencies and for organizations to create enabling conditions that leverage the unique capabilities of multicultural employees.
The yoga mat serves as a point of departure for an analysis of contemporary conceptions, practices, and tensions surrounding yoga, particularly in relation to materiality, spirituality, and consumption. Although mats in their current form did not exist in traditional Indian practices, their emergence in the 1980s reflects a shift in emphasis from yoga’s spiritual core toward its physical and fitness-oriented dimensions. Understood as a liminal object, the mat enables an examination of how boundaries of intimacy, individuality, and community are negotiated, as well as how practices of self-care are ritualized. The study is situated within the framework of the turn toward materiality and research on consumer culture and aesthetics. It is based on a qualitative case study of two yoga communities in Poznań (within the metropolitan middle class), drawing on autoethnographic observation, participant observation, interpretative interviews, practitioners’ and teachers’ accounts, and an analysis of yoga mat design and marketing materials.
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