Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts
Series: Routledge Key Guides
List Price: $26.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-43866-7
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 05/23/2008
- Pages: 528
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About the Book
Now including exercise psychology terms for the first time in its new edition, Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts offers a highly accessible introduction to this fascinating subject, its central theories and state-of-the-art research. Over 300 alphabetically-ordered entries cover such diverse terms as:
adherence
aggression
emotion
exercise dependence
home advantage
kinesiphobia
left-handedness
motivation
retirement
self-confidence.
Cross-referenced, with suggestions for further reading and a full index, this latest key guide contains invaluable advice on the psychology of Sport and Exercise. A comprehensive A-Z guide to a fast-moving field of inquiry, this book is an essential resource for scholars, coaches, trainers, journalists, competitors, exercisers; in fact anyone associated with sport and exercise.
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