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- Provides a thorough overview of topics in sport psychology for students and experienced practitioners alike
- Offers an international perspective on sports psychology subjects and issues, featuring established experts in the field
- Includes chapter summaries, questions, and other didactic elements for use in university courses
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This textbook covers topics in sport and exercise psychology for students of psychology and sport science, as well as for sport practitioners who want to understand topics in sport psychology in more detail and depth.
The book is divided into two main parts: Theory and Application. The first part covers the theoretical facets of sport and exercise psychology, and the close link between theory and practice, divided into the sub-disciplines of psychology (cognition, motivation, emotion, personality and development, and social processes). The second part focuses on the applications of sport and exercise psychology in the context of performance and health.
With contributions from scholars across the globe, the book offers an international and timely perspective on the key fundaments of sport psychology. Taken together, these chapters provide a challenging yet accessible overview of the larger field of sport and exercise psychology.
This book issuitable for readers at different levels of competence, supported with didactic elements (learning objectives and learning control questions) to find the right learning level.
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Emotion
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Social Processes
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Julia Schüler is Professor of Sport Psychology at the University of Konstanz (Constance, Germany). Her research and teaching focuses is on motivational and volitional processes that explain and predict health- and performance-oriented sports. For her, among the most interesting phenomena are intrinsic motivation, motive conflicts, self-control, as well as the relationship between sport and stress.
Mirko Wegner is a Professor of Health Science at the University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany). His research focuses on processes of motivation and self-regulation in the context of performance, school, and health sports as well as the experiential and behavioral consequences of physical activity. He is particularly interested in unconscious behavioral and experiential processes in the context of sport and movement and their psychophysiological correlates.
Henning Plessner is Professor of Sport Psychology at the University of Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany). His research focuses on judgements and decisions in sport, the social psychology of sport, and the psychology of intuition. He is particularly interested in the advantages and disadvantages of the processes underlying spontaneous and deliberate behavior.
Robert C. Eklund is the Mode L. Stone Distinguished Professor of Sport Psychology, and Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Advancement at Florida State University (Tallahassee Florida USA). His primary research focus is on athlete motivation and experiential states (i.e., Flow, Burnout) but he has also published extensively on self-perceptions, self-beliefs, and self-presentation in sport as well as the return to athletic competition following serious injury.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sport and Exercise Psychology
Book Subtitle: Theory and Application
Editors: Julia Schüler, Mirko Wegner, Henning Plessner, Robert C. Eklund
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03921-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-03920-1Published: 26 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-03923-2Published: 27 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-03921-8Published: 25 February 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 757
Number of Illustrations: 88 b/w illustrations, 145 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sport Science , Sport Psychology, Health Psychology