Stress and Performance in Sport
Published on 24. October 1990
Book
Hardback
314 pages
978-0-471-92084-7 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of studies focusing on the relationship between stress and performance in sport. The first section addresses stress in relation to its effects upon performance, followed by a section on stress management self-regulation in sport.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
29 line figures, 2 tables, index
Dimensions
Height: 55 mm
Width: 35 mm
Weight
570 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-92084-7 (9780471920847)
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Content
Part 1 Stress in sport - conceptual considerations and effects upon performance: the academic study of stress in sport, J.Graham Jones and Lew Hardy; a cognitive perspective on the processes underlying the relationship between stress and performance in sport, J.Graham Jones; multidimensional anxiety and performance, C.Gaynor Parfitt et al; a catastrophe model of performance in sport, Lew Hardy; stress and sport - reversal theory, John H.Kerr. Part 2 Stress management and self-regulation in sport: goal setting in sport, W.D.Alan Beggs; multimodel stress management in sport - current status and future directions, Damon Burton; cognitive - behavioural interventions in sport, Roger Mace; the role of performance routines in sport, Stephen H.Boutcher; stress in sport - experiences of some elite performers, J.Graham Jones and Lew Hardy. Part 3 Future research directions: future directions for research into stress in sport, Lew Hardy and J.Graham Jones.