Full Description
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.
Contents
Chapter 1: European Perspective on Sport Psychology
Section I: Prerequisites of Sport and Exercise Psychology
Chapter 2: Importance of Instructions in Sport and Exercise Psychology
Chapter 3: Benefits of Physical Activity and Fitness for Lifelong Cognitive and Motor Development—Brain and Behavior
Chapter 4: Visual Perception and Motor Action: Issues in Current Quiet-Eye Research
Chapter 5: Learning a Motor Action "From Within”: Insights Into Perceptual-Cognitive Changes With Mental and Physical Practice
Chapter 6: Perspectives on Team Cognition and Team Sports
Section II: Individual Differences in Sport and Exercise Psychology
Chapter 7: Antecedents of Need Supportive and Controlling Interpersonal Styles From a Self-Determination Theory Perspective: A Review and Implications for Sport Psychology Research
Chapter 8: Why Self-Talk Is Effective? Perspectives on Self-Talk Mechanisms in Sport
Chapter 9: Personality-Trait-Like Individual Differences: Much More Than Noise in the Background for Sport and Exercise Psychology
Chapter 10: Promoting Acculturation Through Sport: An Ethnic-Cultural Identity Approach
Section III: Perspectives From Sport Psychology
Chapter 11: Doing Sport Psychology? Critical Reflections of a Scientist-Practitioner
Chapter 12: Theoretical Developments in Career Transition Research: Contributions of European Sport Psychology
Chapter 13: Holistic Perspective on the Development of Elite Athletes
Chapter 14: Serial Winning Coaches: People, Vision, and Environment
Chapter 15: Sexual Harassment and Abuse in Sport: Implications for Sport Psychologists
Chapter 16: Theory-Based Team Diagnostics and Interventions
Section IV: Perspectives From Exercise Psychology
Chapter 17: Empowering and Disempowering Coaching Climates: Conceptualization, Measurement Considerations, and Intervention Implications
Chapter 18: Escape From Cognitivism: Exercise as Hedonic Experience
Chapter 19: Coach Behaviors and Goal Motives as Predictors of Attainment and Well-Being in Sport
Chapter 20: Health Assets and Active Lifestyles During Preadolescence and Adolescence: Highlights From the HBSC/WHO Health Survey and Implications for Health Promotion
Chapter 21: Emotional Experiences and Interpersonal Relations in Physical Activity as Health Prevention and Treatment—A Psychodynamic Group Approach
