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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Sports training & coaching > Sports psychology
This comprehensive and accessible resource can be used as textbook
or a self-help book and is aimed at students, athletes, coaches,
sport scientists or indeed any-one looking to enhance their
performance, whatever their sport or activity. The psychological
concepts may even be useful for those working in business. It
covers the key topics in sport psychology, but also addresses
current issues such as talent identification, mental toughness,
risk taking, stress management, mindfulness, gender issues,
sporting injuries and the use of social media. It contains examples
from a multitude of sports around the world, and new developing
areas such as strength and conditioning, extreme sport and combat
sports. Recognising the importance for the reader to fully
understand the topic in order to apply this knowledge, the book
provides a comprehensive overview of each topic before presenting
practical applications as well as recommending online resources.
Every chapter focuses around answering key questions integral to
each topic within sports psychology, helping the reader to progress
in their understanding of the theory and learning how to apply it.
Sports used as examples include: football (soccer), rugby, tennis,
cricket, motorsport, swimming, winter sports, weight lifting,
martial arts, athletics (track & field), baseball, and American
football.
Individual Motivation within Groups: Social Loafing and Motivation
Gains in Work, Academic, and Sports Teams explores the state of our
scientific understanding of when and why individuals are most and
least likely to work hard as members of groups and work teams. This
book addresses key psychological phenomena such as social loafing,
social dilemmas, social facilitation, and ostracism, with each
chapter creating connections to related topics such as leadership,
performance in learning groups, isolated teams, and more. This
volume provides a summary of the field's history, synthesizes
related research, and, using the Collective Effort Model and other
key motivational theories, looks at the current level of
understanding of both motivation losses and gains in groups.
Individual Motivation within Groups is a vital resource for social,
organizational, and applied psychologists as well as academics and
researchers in these fields and related areas such as leadership
and team performance.
This book explores the understanding, description, and measurement
of the physical, sensory, social, and emotional features of
motorcycle and bicycle journey experiences in tourism. Novel
insights are presented from an original case study of these forms
of tourism in the Sella Pass, a panoramic road close to the
Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage Site. A comprehensive mixed-methods
strategy was employed for this research, with concurrent use of
quantitative and qualitative methods including documentation and
secondary data analysis, mobile video ethnography, and emotion
measurement. The aim was to create a holistic knowledge of the
features of journey experiences and a new definition of the
mobility space as a perceptual space. The book is significant in
that it is among the first studies to explore the concept of
journey experiences and to develop an interdisciplinary theoretical
foundation of mobility spaces. It offers a comprehensive
understanding and a benchmarking of the features of motorcycling
and cycling journey experiences, a deeper market knowledge on
motorcycling and cycling tourists, and a set of tools, techniques,
and recommendations for future research on tourist experiences.
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