This book brings together world-class professionals to share theoretical understanding applied to sport, exercise and performance domains. It highlights how to be more effective in developing psychological skills, context and understanding for educators, students and professionals. From both academic and practitioner perspectives, this book takes readers through contextual understanding of this field of study and into a wide variety of important areas. Specifically, the chapters focus on the mind-body relationship and performance challenges, and on core mental skills applied across different sport, exercise and performance examples (including professional athletes, normal exercise populations and military service members). The final section expands the context into the role of relationships and performance in group settings to cover a broad practice of modern day applied performance psychology.

This book brings together world-class professionals to share theoretical understanding applied to sport, exercise and performance domains. It highlights how to be more effective in developing psychological skills, context and understanding for educators, students and professionals. From both academic and practitioner perspectives, this book takes readers through contextual understanding of this field of study and into a wide variety of important areas. Specifically, the chapters focus on the mind-body relationship and performance challenges, and on core mental skills applied across different sport, exercise and performance examples (including professional athletes, normal exercise populations and military service members). The final section expands the context into the role of relationships and performance in group settings to cover a broad practice of modern day applied performance psychology.

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between 'cohesion' and 'flow state' in competitive Division I College rowers. Overall, both social and task cohesion were significantly and positively associated with flow state, and that task cohesion produced significantly stronger positive relationships. Rowers were, in effect, more likely to achieve a flow state through positive task cohesion than by having positive social characteristics. Further analysis examined the influence of performance outcome and competition level on these relationships. Winning crews possessed more and stronger relationships between flow and cohesion than losing crews. In fact, losing crews appeared to fail to achieve a flow state. The results were supported by interview data that corroborated crew members' familiarity with a collective team flow experience. This led to the discussion of a proposed model of team harmony bridging existing models of flow state and cohesion. There is a great deal that is not fully understood about the concept of flow in groups, but suggestions are made for further research into this fascinating phenomenon.