Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts / Edition 2

Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts / Edition 2

by Ellis Cashmore
ISBN-10:
0415438667
ISBN-13:
9780415438667
Pub. Date:
05/23/2008
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
0415438667
ISBN-13:
9780415438667
Pub. Date:
05/23/2008
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts / Edition 2

Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts / Edition 2

by Ellis Cashmore
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Overview

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


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415438667
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 05/23/2008
Series: Routledge Key Guides
Edition description: REV
Pages: 528
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Ellis Cashmore

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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