Description |
xx, 501 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
Sport and Exercise Psychology Research: From Theory to Practice provides a comprehensive summary of new research in sport and exercise psychology from worldwide researchers. Encompassing theory, research, and applications, the book is split into several themed sections. Section 1 discusses basic antecedents to performance including fitness, practice, emotion, team dynamics, and more. Section 2 identifies factors influencing individual performance. Section 3 discusses applied sport psychology for athletes and coaches, and section 4 includes approaches from exercise psychology on motivation and well-being. The book includes a mix of award winning researchers from the European Sport Psychology Association, along with top researchers from the U.S. to bring an international overview to sport psychology. - Provided by the publisher. |
Contents |
European perspective on sport psychology / Paul Wylleman and Roland Seiler -- Prerequisites of sport and exercise psychology -- Importance of instruction in sport and exercise psychology / Nele Schlapkohl and Markus Raab -- Benefits of physical activity and fitness for lifelong cognitive and motor development - brain and behavior / Claudia Voecker-Rehage, Claudia Niemann, Lena Hubner, Ben Godde, and Axel H. Winneke -- Visual perception and motor action: issues in current quiet-eye research / Andre Klostermann -- Learning a motor action "from within": insights into perceptual-cognitive changes with mental and physical practice / Cornelia Frank -- Perspectives on team cognition and team sports / Nathan McNeese, Nancy J. Cooke, Mike Fedele, and Rob Gray -- Individual differences in sport and exercise psychology -- Antecedents of need supportive and controlling interpersonal styles from a self-determination theory perspective: a review and implications for sport psychology research / Doris Matosic, Nikos Ntoumanis, and Eleanor Quested -- Why self-talk is effective? perspectives on self-talk mechanisms in sport / Evangelos Galanis, Antonis Hatzigeorgiadis, Nikos Zourbanos, and Yannis Theodorakis -- Personality-trait-like individual differences: much more than noise in the background for sport and exercise psychology / Sylvain Laborde and Mark S. Allen -- Promoting acculturation through sport: an ethnic-cultural identity approach / Eleftheria Morela, Antonis Hatziegeorgiadis, Xavier Sanchez, and Anne-Maire Elbe -- Perspectives from sport psychology -- Doing sport psychology critical reflections of a scientist-practitioner / Chris Harwod -- Theoretical developments in career transition research: contributions of European sport psychology / Natalia B. Stambulova -- Holistic perspective on the development of elite athletes / Paul Wylleman and Nathalie Rosier -- Serial winning coaches: people , vision and environment / Clifford J. Mallett and Sergio Lara-Bercial -- Sexual harassment and abuse in sport: implications for sport psychologists / Kari Fasting -- Theory-based team diagnostics and interventions / Jeannie Ohlert and Christian Zepp -- Perspectives from exercise psychology -- Empowering and disempowering coaching climates: conceptualization, measurement considerations, and intervention implications / Joan L. Duda and Paul R. Appleton -- Escape from cognitivism: exercise as hedonic experience / Panteleimon Ekkekkis and Zachary Zenko -- Coach behaviors and goal motives as predictors of attainment and well-being in sport / Alison L. Smith -- Health assets and active lifestyles during preadolescence and adolescence: highlights from the GBSC/WHO health survey and implications for health promotion / Luis Calmeiro and Margarida Gaspar de Matos -- Emotional experiences and interpersonal relations in physical activity as health prevention and treatment- a psychodynamic group approach / Kirsten Kaya Roessler. |
Subject |
Sports -- Psychological aspects.
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Exercise -- Psychological aspects.
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Exercise -- Psychological aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00918016
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Sports -- Psychological aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01130495
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Added Author |
Raab, Markus, editor.
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Wylleman, Paul, editor.
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Seiler, Roland, editor.
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Elbe, Anne-Marie, editor.
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Hatzigeorgiadis, Antonis.
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ISBN |
0128036346 |
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9780128036341 |
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