ABSTRACT

Now including exercise psychology terms for the first time in its second edition, Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts offers a highly accessible introduction to this fascinating subject, its central theories and state-of-the-art research. Over 300 alphabetically-ordered entries cover such diverse terms as:

  • adherence
  • aggression
  • emotion
  • exercise dependence
  • home advantage
  • kinesiphobia
  • left-handedness
  • motivation
  • retirement
  • self-confidence.

Cross-referenced, with suggestions for further reading and a full index, this latest key guide contains invaluable advice on the psychology of sport and exercise. A comprehensive A-Z guide to a fast-moving field of inquiry, this book is an essential resource for scholars, coaches, trainers, journalists, competitors, exercisers; in fact anyone associated with sport and exercise.

chapter |2 pages

KEY CONCEPTS

chapter |1 pages

ABILITY

chapter |8 pages

ACHIEVEMENT GOALTHEORY

chapter |1 pages

AEROBIC/ANAEROBIC

chapter |7 pages

AFFECT

chapter |13 pages

AGING

chapter |9 pages

ANOREXIA NERVOSA

chapter |9 pages

AROUSAL

chapter |15 pages

AUTOGENIC

chapter |4 pages

BURNOUT

chapter |2 pages

CATASTROPHE THEORY

chapter |15 pages

CELEBRITIES

chapter |5 pages

COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION

chapter |20 pages

COHESION

chapter |2 pages

COPING STRATEGIES

chapter |1 pages

COVARIATION PRINCIPLE

chapter |39 pages

DEATH WISH

chapter |9 pages

EQUALITY

chapter |4 pages

EXPECTANCY

chapter |13 pages

EYE MOVEMENT

chapter |3 pages

FLOW

chapter |23 pages

FOCUS

chapter |12 pages

HAWTHORNE EFFECT, THE

chapter |4 pages

IDENTITY

chapter |13 pages

IMAGERY

chapter |22 pages

INTELLIGENCE

chapter |20 pages

LOCUS OF CONTROL

chapter |22 pages

MIMESIS

chapter |11 pages

NERVOUSNESS

chapter |4 pages

OUTPERFORMANCE

chapter |2 pages

OVERTRAINING SYNDROME

chapter |2 pages

PAIN

chapter |17 pages

PARAMETERS

chapter |22 pages

PERSONALITY DISORDER

chapter |2 pages

REACTION TIME

chapter |2 pages

RECIPROCITY

chapter |6 pages

REINFORCEMENT

chapter |2 pages

RELATIONSHIP

chapter |20 pages

RELAXATION

chapter |2 pages

ROLE MODEL

chapter |12 pages

SCHEMA

chapter |2 pages

SELF-EFFICACY

chapter |13 pages

SELF-ENHANCEMENT

chapter |4 pages

SENSATION-SEEKING

chapter |20 pages

SEX TEST

chapter |8 pages

SOCIAL PHYSIQUE ANXIETY

chapter |10 pages

STREAKS

chapter |2 pages

TALENT

chapter |2 pages

TELIC DOMINANCE

chapter |2 pages

THEORYOF PLANNED BEHAVIOR

chapter |3 pages

THERAPY

chapter |3 pages

TRANSGENDERED

chapter |7 pages

TYPE A

chapter |6 pages

WEIGHT CONTROL

chapter |4 pages

YOGA