Advances in Sport Psychology Book

The second edition of the popular Advances in Sport Psychology provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date review of the major trends in sport psychology. With four new chapters on self-perceptions, moral reasoning levels, athletic injury, and flow and peak performance, the text is much more than an overview of other resources. It is an in-depth compilation that assists students and professionals in thoroughly comprehending the current research in sport psychology. Editor Thelma Horn compiles information and analyses from 28 leading sport psychology researchers and scholars to build on classic theories presented in the book?s first edition. In the new text, current research and older philosophies are synthesized, and boundaries that have traditionally defined sport psychology are pushed as never before. The new edition emphasizes future research directions; reviews personality, motivation, anxiety performance; and goal setting; and examines the individual difference factors that affect a person?s behavior in sport and physical activity contexts. The four-part text features the following: · Modified or substantially updated chapters from the first edition, giving readers a decade?s worth of new material in one convenient reference · Four new chapters on self-perceptions, moral reasoning levels, flow and peak performance, and athletic injury, ensuring that burgeoning fields of interest to current researchers are not overlooked · Contributions from a team of lead researchers in the various fields of sport psychology, giving readers the relevant and critical examinations of the various topics covered in the text · An easy-to-read format that includes chapter-by-chapter introductions, definitions of terms, an explanation of the scope, a clear outline of sections within each chapter, and a review of the available research and theory on the chapter topic Advances in Sport Psychology (second edition) clearly and thoroughly reflects the theoretical and empirical advances that have occurred in sport psychology in the past decade. Returning and new readers will find the most significant current topics in sport psychology research compiled in one place, allowing them to see what the field has and has not accomplished. The new edition is a must-have reference for professionals in the field, and it makes an ideal text for graduate-level sport psychology courses.Read More