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Injured athletes' perceptions of the social support provided by their coaches and teammates during rehabilitation.(Author abstract)(Report)
June 1, 2008... In their quest for solutions, researchers and sport psychologists have studied many components of sport injuries including injury predictors (Andersen & Williams, 1988), healing enhancers (levleva & Orlick, 1993), and recovery facilitators...
Perceived motivational climate and self-determined motivation in female high school athletes.(Author abstract)(Report)
June 1, 2008... There are countless answers to the question, "why do people do what they do." For instance, people may perform certain tasks in order to better themselves and develop a more integrated sense of self. On the other hand, people may act in order...
Associations among field dependence-independence, sports participation, and physical activity level among school children.(Author abstract)(Report)
June 1, 2008... Field dependence-independence (FDI), simply put, is the tendency to rely on external frames (given situations and significant or authoritative others) or internal frames (oneself and one's own body) for one's information processing and...
Characteristics of an effective sport psychology consultant: perspectives from athletes and consultants.(Author abstract)(Report)
June 1, 2008... In the realm of sport psychology consulting, there are generally held images of how effective sport psychology consultants (SPC) look and behave (e.g., confident, athletic, easily fits into the sport environment) while consulting with athletes...
Are we underestimating the affective benefits of exercise? An experience sampling study of university aerobics participants.(Report)
June 1, 2008... There is considerable support for the ability of acute bouts of exercise to influence affective states (e.g., Arent, Landers, & Etnier, 2000; Landers & Petruzzello, 1994; Thayer, 1987a). Studies have generally shown that exercise increases...
Sport superstition as a function of skill level and task difficulty.(Author abstract)(Report)
June 1, 2008... Superstition appears to arise from situations of uncertainty (Burger & Lynn, 2005; Felson & Gmelch, 1979; Vyse, 1997). Skinner (1948) was one of the first to document' superstition' as a way of describing the behaviors pigeons showed when...