Sport And Exercise Psychology: A Critical Introduction

regarding the issue of who is entitled to be called a “sport psychologist”. Recently, a European training programme in sport and ...

http://www.bases.org.uk/ Aims to develop and spread knowledge about the application of science to sport and exercise British Psy ...

Society of Sport Psychology, ISSP; first published in 1970 and re-named in 2003) Journal of Applied Sport Psychology (published ...

As indicated earlier in our analysis of the work of Hoberman (1992), criticisms have also been levelled at sport psychology from ...

the England squad mentally for the tournament in France (Austin, 1998). Not surprisingly, this allegation attracted mirth and de ...

An idea for a research project on sport psychology Here is an idea for a possible research project on the psychological aspects ...

4 The fourth section of the chapter provided a brief evaluation of the current status of sport and exercise psychology. This se ...

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Part two EXPLORING ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE: KEY CONSTRUCTS Overview Part one of the book examined the nature of the discipline and ...

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Chapter 2 Motivation and goal-setting in sport Motivation is a strange subject, it’s not an exact science. Footballers are all d ...

motivation in sport and exercise, the present chapter will attempt to answer the following questions. What exactly does the term ...

broadly by some that it incorporates the whole field of psychology, so narrowly by others that it is almost useless as an organi ...

mine). Interestingly, according to Martens and Webber (2002), intrinsic motivation is associated with increased enjoyment of an ...

old man. After a week, however, the man told them that he could not afford to pay each of them the two euros that they had been ...

Having considered the nature and types of motivation, let us now review the main theoretical approaches to this construct in spo ...

people with high achievement needs are impelled to seek challenging but realistic objectives for their performance in competitiv ...

second type of motivation is called an “ego orientation” and stems from a view of success that is normative or defined in relati ...

Some research findings on achievement goal theory A number of predictions from achievement goal theory have been tested by resea ...

Nicholls, 1992) advocate the importance of cultivating a task-oriented climate in which athletes are taught to value effort, ski ...