Sport psychology

About: Sport psychology is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4933 publications have been published within this topic receiving 155566 citations. The topic is also known as: sports psychology & Sport and exercise psychology.

Beyond the Two Disciplines of Scientific Psychology.

Abstract: The historic separation of experimental psychology from the study of individual differences impeded psychological research, So I argued when last I had occasion to address the APA audience (Cronbach, 1957). It was time, I said, for the'manipulating and the correlating schools of research to crossbreed, to bring forth a science of Aptitude x Treatment interactions (ATIs). As that hybrid discipline is now flourishing, a progress report on ATI studies is the appropriate first business of this article. It is not practical to treat here the studies of ATIs in social behavior (e.g., Fiedler, 1973; McGuire, 1969), ATIs in response to drugs and therapy (e.g., Insel & Moos, 1974; Lasagna, 1972; Schildkraut, 1970), or ATIs in learning and motivation generally. I confine myself to ATIs related to instruction, drawing on a comprehensive review Richard Snow and I have just completed (Cronbach & Snow, in press). In that field, several research programs have brought us a long way; particularly to be acknowledged are the sustained inquiries, of Bill McKeachie, Jack Atkinson, Russ Kropp and Fred King, George Stern, David Hunt, Victor Bunderson and Jack Dunham, and Snow and his graduate students. Important as ATIs are proving to be, the line of investigation I advocated in 1957 no longer seems sufficient. Interactions are not confined to the first order; the dimensions of the situation and of the person enter into complex interactions. This complexity forces us to ask once again, Should social science aspire to reduce behavior to laws?

Developing rigor in qualitative research: problems and opportunities within sport and exercise psychology

Abstract: Qualitative research has grown within sport and exercise psychology and is now widely conducted The purpose of this review is to discuss three commonly used ways to demonstrate rigor when conducti

Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology

Abstract: Chapter 1. Welcome to Sport and Exercise Psychology Chapter 2. Personality and Sport Chapter 3. Motivation Chapter 4. Arousal, Stress, and Anxiety Chapter 5. Competition and Cooperation Chapter 6. Feedback, Reinforcement, and Intrinsic Motivation Chapter 7. Group and Team Dynamics Chapter 8. Group Cohesion Chapter 9. Leadership Chapter 10. Communication.

The effects of mental practice on motor skill learning and performance: A meta-analysis.

Abstract: A longstanding research question in the sport psychology literature has been whether a given amount of mental practice prior to performing a motor skill will enhance one's subsequent performance. The research literature, however, has not provided any clear-cut answers to this question and this has prompted the present, more comprehensive review of existing research using the meta-analytic strategy proposed by Glass (1977). From the 60 studies yielding 146 effect sizes the overall average effect size was .48, which suggests, as did Richardson (1967a), that mentally practicing a motor skill influences performance somewhat better than no practice at all. Effect sizes were also compared on a number of variables thought to moderate the effects of mental practice. Results from these comparisons indicated that studies employing cognitive tasks had larger average effect sizes than motor or strength tasks and that published studies had larger average effect sizes than unpublished studies. These findings are discus...