Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts

Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts

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Now including exercise psychology terms for the first time in its new 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.

Table of Contents

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

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