Abstract

Seventy-nine international academics, researchers, and practitioners contribute 39 chapters to a resource text for students, educators, and psychologists concerned with optimizing human performance and improving health and well-being. Topics addressed including motivation, emotion, and psychophysiology; social perspectives; sport expertise; interventions and performance enhancement; exercise and health psychology; life span development; measurement and methodological issues; gender and cultural diversity; athletes with disabilities; and alcohol and drug use among athletes. The text has been updated throughout to reflect new research and its impact on teaching and clinical applications since publication of the second edition; specific revisions to the text are not stated. The authors and their contributions are:
Part I Motivation, Emotion, and Psychophysiology
1. Glyn C. Roberts and Darren C. Treasure and David E. Conroy: Understanding the Dynamics of Motivation in Sport and Physical Activity: An Achievement Goal Interpretation
2. Yuri L. Hanin: Emotions in Sport: Current Issues and Perspectives
3. Robert J. Vallerand: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in Sport and Physical Activity: A Review and a Look at the Future
4. Bradley D. Hatfield and Scott E. Kerick: The Psychology of Superior Sport Performance: A Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Perspective
Part II Social Perspectives
5. Packianathan Chelladurai: Leadership in Sports
6. Kathleen A. Martin Ginis and Magnus Lindwall and Harry Prapavessis: Who Cares What Other People Think? Self-Presentation in Exercise and Sport
Part III Sport Expertise
7. Nicola J. Hodges and Raoul Huys and Janet L. Starkes: Methodological Review and Evaluation of Research in Expert Performance in Sport
8. Jean Cote and Joseph Baker and Bruce Abernethy: Practice and Play in the Development of Sport Expertise
9. A. Mark Williams and Paul Ward: Anticipation and Decision Making: Exploring New Horizons
10. Keith Davids and Duarte Araujo and Chris Button and Ian Renshaw: Degenerate Brains, Indeterminate Behavior, and Representative Tasks: Implications for Experimental Design in Sport Psychology Research
11. Bruce Abernethy and Jonathan P. Maxwell and Richard S. W. Masters and John van der Kamp and Robin C. Jackson: Attentional Processes in Skill Learning and Expert Performance
12. David W. Eccles and Gershon Tenenbaum: A Social-Cognitive Perspective on Team Functioning in Sport
Part IV Interventions and Performance Enhancement
13. Robin S. Vealey: Mental Skills Training in Sport
14. Robert D. Stainback and James C. Moncier III and Robert E. Taylor: Sport Psychology: A Clinician's Perspective
15. Thomas Schack and Dieter Hackfort: Action-Theory Approach to Applied Sport Psychology
16. Trent A. Petrie and Christy A. Greenleaf: Eating Disorders in Sport: From Theory to Research to Intervention
17. Jean M. Williams and Mark B. Anderse: Psychosocial Antecedents of Sport Injury and Interventions for Risk Reduction
18. Britton W. Brewer: Psychology of Sport Injury Rehabilitation
19. Sian L. Beilock and Rob Gray: Why Do Athletes Choke under Pressure?
20. Ronnie Lidor: Preparatory Routines in Self-Paced Events: Do They Benefit the Skilled Athletes? Can They Help the Beginners?
Part V Exercise and Health Psychology
21. Daniel M. Landers and Shawn M. Arent: Physical Activity and Mental Health
22. Yael Netz: Physical Activity and Three Dimensions of Psychological Functioning in Advanced Age: Cognition, Affect, and Self-Perception
23. Janet Buckworth and Rodney K. Dishman: Exercise Adherence
24. Stuart J. H. Biddle and Martin S. Hagger and Nikos L. D. Chatzisarantis and Sonia Lippke: Theoretical Frameworks in Exercise Psychology
25. Gershon Tenenbaum and Jasmin C. Hutchinson: A Social-Cognitive Perspective of Perceived and Sustained Effort
26. Kerry S. Courneya and Clare Stevinson and Jeffrey K. H. Vallance: Exercise and Psychosocial Issues for Cancer Survivors
27. Bonnie G. Berger and David A. Tobar: Physical Activity and Quality of Life: Key Considerations
28. Robert C. Eklund and Scott L. Cresswell: Athlete Burnout
Part VI Life Span Development
29. Diane E. Whaley: A Life Span Developmental Approach to Studying Sport and Exercise Behavior
30. David Light Shields and Brenda Light Bredemeier: Advances in Sport Morality Research
31. Thelma S. Horn and Jocelyn L. Horn: Family Influences on Children's Sport and Physical Activity Participation, Behavior, and Psychosocial Responses
32. Dorothee Alfermann and Natalia Stambulova: Career Transitions and Career Termination
Part VII Measurement and Methodological Issues
33. Bernd Strauss and Dirk Busch and Gershon Tenenbaum: New Perspectives on Measurement and Testing in Sport Psychology
34. Gershon Tenenbaum and Akihito Kamata and Kentaro Hayash: Measurement in Sport and Exercise Psychology: A New Outlook on Selected Issues of Reliability and Validity
35. Herbert W. Marsh: Application of Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling in Sport and Exercise Psychology
36. Nicholas D. Myers and Deborah L. Feltz: From Self-Efficacy to Collective Efficacy in Sport: Transitional Methodological Issues
Part VIII Special Topics
37. Diane L. Gill: Gender and Cultural Diversity
38. Stephanie J. Hanrahan: Athletes with Disabilities
39. Matthew P. Martens and Kristen Dams-O'Connor and Jason R. Kilmer: Alcohol and Drug Use among Athletes: Prevalence, Etiology, and Interventions
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