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The article discusses a study that determines the role of confidence and emotion to the people with disabilities who played wheelchair basketball. The researcher examined seventy-nine adult male and female Caucasian wheelchair basketball players and uses performance self-efficacy (PSE), training self-efficacy (TSE), thought control self-efficacy (TCSE), resilient self-efficacy (RSE), positive and negative affect (PANA) as research instruments. The study revealed that players were efficacious about their sports, in managing their thoughts in times of difficulty and have positive feelings towards the game.

The article focuses on two surveys which were conducted in Latvia to obtain the perceptions of disabled students and their families to including students with disabilities in general education classes, and to determine the perceptions of general physical educators' perceptions of including students with physical disabilities in general physical education classes. The surveys revealed that there was frustration and dissatisfaction with both students and teachers with the manner in which students with disabilities were included in general physical education classes, and that more research needed to be done before inclusion could be properly managed.