Passion and Addiction in Sports and Exercise (Routledge Psychology of Sport, Exercise and Physical Activity) - Softcover

Szabo, Attila; Demetrovics, Zsolt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032003014 ISBN 13: 9781032003016

Verlag: Routledge, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

This book presents an overview of three dimensions of passion and offers a new frame to contextualize exercise addition. The work addresses the misinterpretation of certain aspects of training (e.g., intensity, frequency, commitment) often related to addiction.

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Attila Szabo, PhD, DSc, is Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Professor of Psychology at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate education at Concordia University (BSc in Psycholoy and MSc in Biology) and University of Montreal (PhD in 'Sciences de l'activité physique'), in Montreal, Canada. He served the sport science teaching and research teams at Nottingham Trent University, first as Senior Lecturer then as Reader for nearly nine years. His research interest is in behavioral addictions and placebo effects in sports and exercise.

Zsolt Demetrovics, PhD, DSc, is Clinical Psychologist and Cultural Anthropologist. Until 2021, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Education and Psychology, and Director of the Institute of Psychology, as well as Head of the Department of Clinical Psychology & Addiction at the ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. Currently, Zsolt is Chair of Centre of Excellence in Responsible Gaming at the University of Gibraltar. He is former president of the Hungarian Association on Addictions and funding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Behavioral Addictions. Furthermore, Zsolt is the president of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Addictions. He is board member of the International Collaboration on ADHD and Substance Abuse (ICASA), and the European Association of Substance Abuse Research (EASAR).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1032003014
• ISBN 13: 9781032003016
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH; GPSR@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Deutschland