Sport and Exercise Psychology Research: From Theory to Practice - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0128036346 ISBN 13: 9780128036341

Verlag: Academic Press, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Sport and Exercise Psychology Research: From Theory to Practice provides a comprehensive summary of new research in sport and exercise psychology from worldwide researchers. Encompassing theory, research, and applications, the book is split into several themed sections. Section 1 discusses basic antecedents to performance including fitness, practice, emotion, team dynamics, and more. Section 2 identifies factors influencing individual performance. Section 3 discusses applied sport psychology for athletes and coaches, and section 4 includes approaches from exercise psychology on motivation and well-being. The book includes a mix of award winning researchers from the European Sport Psychology Association, along with top researchers from the U.S. to bring an international overview to sport psychology.

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Dr. Markus Raab is Head of the Institute of Psychology at the German Sport University and Head of the Performance Psychology Department. Additionally, he is Research Professor of Psychology at London South Bank University, UK. He obtained his MSc in Sport Science and PhDs in Movement Science and Cognitive Psychology. The main focus of the research programme in performance psychology is on judgement and decision making in sports, health and peak performance. He favours a simple heuristic approach and an embodied cognition approach to understanding the interaction of sensorimotor and cognitive behaviour from a psychological perspective. Dr. Raab brings more than two decades of experience to the project and co-edited the first edition of Elsevier’s Performance Psychology.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Academic Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0128036346
• ISBN 13: 9780128036341
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 522
• Herausgeber: Raab Markus
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