Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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Objective evidence must support beliefs and the evidence must be open to outside observation and evaluation. The updated eighth edition of Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology continues to ensure that students are well equipped—and excited—to enter the field of sport and exercise psychology, fully prepared for the challenges they may encounter as well as the possibilities. These different levels of personality encompass a continuum from internally driven to externally driven behaviours. Sport and exercise psychologists have been practising positive performance for some time and this has opened up new opportunities.

Knowing an individual’s psychological traits and the particular situation is helpful in understanding behaviour.In one study with underachieving athletes, normal achieving athletes and overachieving athletes (people who were rated by their coach as performing above their talent level) the overachieving athletes had higher scores on some subscales (concentration, coachability) and a higher total score than the other two groups. Many psychologists distinguish between an individual’s typical style of behaving (traits) and the situation’s effects on behaviour (states). Gould was the founding co-editor of The Sport Psychologist and has published more than 200 articles on the subject of sport psychology. He also serves as a mental skills training consultant for professional, Olympic, and world-class athletes.

The direction of effort refers to whether a person seeks out, is attracted or approaches a certain situation. Studies have shown that exercise participation has the greatest impact on the physical dimension of self-concept. Female athletes were, compared to non-athletes, more achievement oriented, aggressive, independent and assertive.The leading textbook in sport and exercise psychology is back in a revised seventh edition, and it again raises the bar with its engaging introduction to the field. Because of this, not many sport scientists adopt this approach and it is unlikely that people trained in sport psychology will become qualified to use the psychodynamic approach.

Weinberg, PhD, is a professor emeritus in the department of sport leadership and management at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. More than 100 related online activities offer interactive opportunities to engage with the content―many of which can be assigned, and progress tracked, by instructors directly through HK Propel . Another weakness of this approach is that it focuses almost entirely on internal determinants of behaviour and it gives little attention to the social environment.

There are usually two objectives in mind when a person studies sport and exercise psychology: (1) understanding how psychological factors affect an individual’s physical performance and (2) understanding how participating in sports and exercises affects a person’s psychological health, development and well-being. After this introduction, the text shifts focus to personal factors that can affect performance and behaviour in sport. He has written more than 150 journal articles, as well as books, chapters and applied articles for coaches and athletes. More women are competing in sports and therefore we need to understand the personality profiles of female athletes. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology are 9781718207608, 1718207603 and the print ISBNs are 9781718207592, 171820759X.