Sport and Exercise Psychology Research (eBook, ePUB)

From Theory to Practice
Redaktion: Raab, Markus; Hatzigeorgiadis, Antonis; Elbe, Anne-Marie; Seiler, Roland; Wylleman, Paul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

• Includes international contributions from Europe and the U.S.
• Encompasses theory, research, and applications
• Includes sport psychology and exercise research
• Features applied information for use with coaches, teams, and elite athletes
• Identifies performance enhancers and inhibitors

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 522
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780128036655
• Artikelnr.: 45351606

Autorenporträt

Dr. Markus Raab is Head of the Institute of Psychology at the German Sport University and Head of the Performance Psychology Department. Additionally, he is Research Professor of Psychology at London South Bank University, UK. He obtained his MSc in Sport Science and PhDs in Movement Science and Cognitive Psychology. The main focus of the research programme in performance psychology is on judgement and decision making in sports, health and peak performance. He favours a simple heuristic approach and an embodied cognition approach to understanding the interaction of sensorimotor and cognitive behaviour from a psychological perspective. Dr. Raab brings more than two decades of experience to the project and co-edited the first edition of Elsevier's Performance Psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

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