Sport Psychology Arena - New Titles The Sport Psychology Arena provides professionals, researchers, instructors and students in Sport Psychology with information on the range of books and journals by Psychology Press, Routledge Mental Health and Guilford Press, as well as links to various online resources, including societies and associations, upcoming conferences, and support groups http://www.sport-psychology-arena.com en-gb Copyright (C) Psychology Press 2008 webmaster@psypress.com webmaster@psypress.com 720 Psychology of Physical Activity Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:03:03 GMT Psychology of Physical Activity

Determinants, Well-Being and Interventions

  • By Stuart J.H. Biddle, Nanette Mutrie

In today’s urbanised and technologised society, physical activity is becoming an increasingly peripheral part of our daily lives.

This new edition is updated to reflect new findings and current research directions, and includes full textbook features, such as key points and chapter summaries. A dedicated accompanying website provides lecturers and students with extensive supporting materials, including slide presentations and self-test questions.

Psychology of Physical Activity is a comprehensive account of our psychological knowledge about physical activity covering:

  • motivation and the psychological factors associated with activity or inactivity
  • the feel-good factor: the psychological outcomes of exercising, including mental health illness and clinical populations
  • interventions and applied practice in the psychology of physical activity
  • current trends and future directions in research and practice.

This textbook is essential for students of sport and exercise science, exercise physiology, health psychology, occupational therapy and physical education.

Visit the companion website www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415366656

ISBN: 9780415366649

Published September 03 2007 by Routledge.

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A Critical Introduction

  • By Aidan P. Moran

Sport and exercise psychology is a rapidly expanding field both academically and professionally. Aidan Moran, former psychologist to the Irish Olympic squad, provides the first textbook to combine an explanation of the theoretical foundations of sport and exercise psychology with critical reviews of contemporary research, and practical suggestions for relevant independent research projects.

Arranged in four complementary parts, the book moves from a general discussion of the nature and role of sport psychology to explorations of individual, group and health factors affecting performance. Key themes explored in this text include:

  • motivation and goal-setting in sport
  • using imagination in sport
  • coping with injury.

Designed to encourage students to apply their psychological knowledge and critical thinking abilities, each chapter features a summary and boxed highlights containing questions to help students gain maximum understanding of the material.

ISBN: 9780415168083

Published December 11 2003 by Routledge.

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  • By Matt Jarvis
Sport Psychology is an introductory account of the major psychological issues in sport today. Major theories and up-to-date research are covered in the areas of personality, attitudes to sport, aggression in sport, anxiety and stress, social influences, motivation, and skill acquisition. A wide variety of sporting examples are used, ranging from football to ballet.

ISBN: 9780415206419

Published September 16 1999 by Routledge.

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  • Edited by John Kremer, Shaun Ogle, Karen Trew
Based on survey data derived from face-to-face interviews with 2,400 schoolchildren, 600 four-day diaries and focus groups with both elite performers, coaches and parents, the book offers a comprehensive overview of young people's involvement in sport and physical activity in the 1990s. Deliberately set in the context of the literature on sport involvement and participation motivation, and alongside wider policy concerns, individual contributors each have accessed the data in order to address a particular substantive topic.
Given the almost complete absence of hard data currently available in this field, the book should appeal not only to a local audience but to a wider international readership including sport scientists, sports' administrators, coaches, teachers and policy makers, indeed anyone with an interest in the who, what, why and how of young people's involvement in sport.

ISBN: 9780415166492

Published July 31 1997 by Routledge.

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