Dictionary of Sport Psychology: Sport, Exercise, and Performing Arts

Dictionary of Sport Psychology: Sport, Exercise, and Performing Arts is a comprehensive reference with hundreds of concise entries across sports, martial arts, exercise and fitness, performing arts and cultural sport psychology. This dictionary uses a global approach to cover philosophical and cultural backgrounds, theory, methodology, education and training and fields of application. Each entry includes phenomenon, subject description and definition, related theory and research, practice and application across sports and related performance domains. An authoritative, balanced and accessible presentation of the state-of-the-art in key subject areas, this dictionary is a must-have reference for anyone studying or practicing sport psychology.Provides a diverse cultural perspective to ensure the broadest coverage of internationalizationCovers a broad scope of terms and conceptsIncludes extended performance domains, such as music, dance, theater arts and the circusUtilizes an alphabetical approach so entries are easily found and quickly referencedContains entries written by leading researchers and scholars across the globe Read more