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Format: 1 online resource (524 pages) : , illustrations, graphs

ISBN: 0-12-803634-6 , 0-12-803665-6

Content: 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.

Note: European perspective on sport psychology / , Prerequisites of sport and exercise psychology -- , Importance of instruction in sport and exercise psychology / , Benefits of physical activity and fitness for lifelong cognitive and motor development - brain and behavior / , Visual perception and motor action: issues in current quiet-eye research / , Learning a motor action "from within": insights into perceptual-cognitive changes with mental and physical practice / , Perspectives on team cognition and team sports / , 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 / , Why self-talk is effective? perspectives on self-talk mechanisms in sport / , Personality-trait-like individual differences: much more than noise in the background for sport and exercise psychology / , Promoting acculturation through sport: an ethnic-cultural identity approach / , Perspectives from sport psychology -- , Doing sport psychology critical reflections of a scientist-practitioner / , Theoretical developments in career transition research: contributions of European sport psychology / , Holistic perspective on the development of elite athletes / , Serial winning coaches: people , vision and environment / , Sexual harassment and abuse in sport: implications for sport psychologists / , Theory-based team diagnostics and interventions / , Perspectives from exercise psychology -- , Empowering and disempowering coaching climates: conceptualization, measurement considerations, and intervention implications / , Escape from cognitivism: exercise as hedonic experience / , Coach behaviors and goal motives as predictors of attainment and well-being in sport / , Health assets and active lifestyles during preadolescence and adolescence: highlights from the GBSC/WHO health survey and implications for health promotion / , Emotional experiences and interpersonal relations in physical activity as health prevention and treatment- a psychodynamic group approach /

Language: English