Sport and Exercise Psychology

The Key Concepts
2. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-415-43866-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 657 g

Reihe: Routledge Key Guides

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cashmore, Ellis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sport: Psychologie, Soziologie, Ethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sportpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Anorexia Nervosa. Extreme Sports. Fear of Failure. Giftedness. Group Orientation. Focus. Halo Effect. Integrated Regulation. Kinesthesia. Metacognition. Motor Reaction. Self-Actualization. Trans-Gender. Yerkes-Dodson Law. Weight-Control. Yoga

Über Autor(innen)

Ellis Cashmore