Sport And Exercise Psychology: A Critical Introduction

has acquired, In summary, achievement goal theory is plagued by conceptual and methodological issues. Critical thinking question ...

Some research findings on attribution theory In sport and exercise psychology, one of the earliest attributional questions addre ...

explanation is that excuses help people to present a favourable image to others. In order to explore further this tendency for p ...

match outcome and type of attribution. If the self-serving bias is present, we would expect a significantly higher proportion of ...

defeat was just a freak occurrence and it doesn’t affect the most important things in my life”), they are displaying an “optimis ...

controlled for in the data analysis. Interestingly, these findings show that explanatory style is quite separate from athletic a ...

Implications of research on explanatory styles According to Seligman (1998), research on attributional style has several practic ...

Now that we have explored the nature of motivation and some theoretical perspectives on it, let us turn to the question of how i ...

Types of goals Three main types of goals have been identified in sport and exercise psychology research (Weinberg, 2002). First, ...

to elicit effort and commitment from athletes. Presumably, that is why coaches give “pep talks” at half-time in football matches ...

First, although goal-setting is one of the most widely used interventions in applied sport psychology, most athletes rate goals ...

business; second, goal-setting is a paradox because this simple technique is somewhat more complicated than it looks” (Burton et ...

Goal challenge or difficulty According to Locke and Latham (1990), the more challenging the level of a goal in organisational se ...

Box 2.6 Thinking critically about...research on goal-setting in sport Sport psychology is replete with claims about the value of ...

Future directions in research on goal-setting According to Burton et al. (2001) and Burton and Naylor (2002), the following new ...

R=realistic Your goals should be realistic for your present level of health and fitness. Therefore, it is important that you get ...

involves the “need for varied, novel and complex sensations and experiences and the willingness to take physical and social risk ...

The third theoretical approach to risky behaviour in sports comes from the cognitive tradition. To illustrate, consider the idio ...

Summary Motivation plays a vital but often misunderstood role in sport and exercise. The role is critical because athletic succ ...

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