Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts

by Ellis Cashmore

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:	9781134071159
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/03/2008
Series:	Routledge Key Guides
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	528
File size:	920 KB

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