Sport And Exercise Psychology: A Critical Introduction

chapter is to provide some answers to these and other relevant questions, thereby introducing you to sport and exercise psycholo ...

the value of this discipline. For example, she claimed that she had “never had any help on the mental side. I don’t like that so ...

quadrant in Figure 1.2 concerns strategic aspects of athletic performance. Included here are such skills as planning and decisio ...

over-confidence and keeping your concentration at a high level during a long season is probably the hardest aspect of profession ...

can control” (cited in Coaching Excellence, 1996, p. 3). But as we explained previously, athletes’ insights into psychological c ...

that enables an athlete to cope better than his or her opponents with competitive lifestyle and training demands. The specific c ...

(Tackle, 1998). In particular, when one of Tackle’s fictional team-mates was asked to visualise a victory, he reported the image ...

Interestingly, not all snooker players feel as helpless as does Hendry in this situation. For example, Peter Ebdon, who won the ...

ubiquitous phenomenon of excuse making in sport. Recently, Hodgkinson (2002) assembled a collection of excuses used by athletes ...

Despite this semantic difficulty of defining the discipline precisely, three characteristics of sport psychology are noteworthy. ...

researcher and practitioner is widely regarded as the progenitor of this discipline (see Green, 2003). Indeed, it was Griffith w ...

1989 Publication of first issue of Journal of Applied Sport Psychology 1991 Formation of Board of Sport Psychologists within the ...

relative efficacy of mental versus physical practice in the learning and performance of a motor skill (see Chapter 5)? As you ha ...

manipulation of certain variables and control of others measurement ii Precise control of independent Variables iii Causal infer ...

and/or to gain a competitive edge over rival performers. Indeed, research suggests that a desire to perform better is the reason ...

and false assumptions about the discipline can arise. At a more practical level, coaches and managers are usually eager to obtai ...

Florida. Two sport psychologists were stationed there for the full four weeks of camp training. Olympic village One of the spor ...

psychologist is often on shaky ground theoretically because many of the intervention techniques which s/he recommends have not b ...

Box 1.6 Thinking critically about...evaluating the efficacy of sport psychology consultations How can sport psychologists assess ...

psychologist” has been debated vigorously in such countries as Australia, Britain, Canada and the United States (see details of ...