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Book Synopsis The Development and Initial Validation of a Sport-specific Psychological Strengths Questionnaire by : Christopher Patrick Beaumont
Download or read book The Development and Initial Validation of a Sport-specific Psychological Strengths Questionnaire written by Christopher Patrick Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Development with Initial Validation of the Psychological Readiness to Return to Sport Questionnaire by : Lequita Antoinette Williams
Download or read book Development with Initial Validation of the Psychological Readiness to Return to Sport Questionnaire written by Lequita Antoinette Williams and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Williams, Lequita Antoinette, "Development with Initial Validation of the Psychological Readiness to Return to Sport Questionnaire. Unpublished Master of Education Thesis, University of Houston, August 2012. Abstract Sports therapists are efficient in rehabilitating physical aspects of sports related injuries; however, health care providers have been somewhat remiss in recognizing and addressing psychological issues that may impact sports performance. The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument to accurately assess an athlete's psychological readiness to return to competition after a sports related injury. Questions were developed for possible use in the Readiness to Return to Sport Questionnaire with assistance from sports rehabilitation therapists, who assessed the items for face validity. Only items receiving 100% agreement were chosen for the 24-item Likert format pilot study questionnaire. A total of 170 athletes competing in various sports collegiately, semi-professionally, and professionally completed the questionnaire. The mean age of the participants was 23.41. Utilizing an exploratory factor analysis, pilot study results indicated that the questionnaire is reliable in determining an athlete's psychological readiness to return to competition after injury.
Book Synopsis Directory of Psychological Tests in the Sport and Exercise Sciences by : Andrew C. Ostrow
Download or read book Directory of Psychological Tests in the Sport and Exercise Sciences written by Andrew C. Ostrow and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Self-efficacy in Sport by : Deborah L. Feltz
Download or read book Self-efficacy in Sport written by Deborah L. Feltz and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2008 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-belief, known as 'self-efficacy' by sports psychologists is widely believed to be an essential component of sporting success. This volume examines the nature of efficacy as it applies to sporting behaviour in coaches, athletes and teams.
Book Synopsis Positive Youth Development Through Sport by : Nicholas L. Holt
Download or read book Positive Youth Development Through Sport written by Nicholas L. Holt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Positive Youth Development title to focus on the role of sport, this book brings together high profile contributors from diverse disciplines to critically examine the ways in which sport can be and has been used to promote youth development. Young people are too frequently looked upon as problems waiting to be solved. From the perspective of Positive Youth Development (PYD), young people are understood to embody potential, awaiting development. Involvement with sport provides a developmental context that has been associated with PYD, but negative outcomes can also arise from sport participation and school PE. Sport itself does not lead to PYD; rather, it is the manner in which sport is structured and delivered to children that influences their development. Positive Youth Development Through Sport fills a void in the literature by bringing together experts from diverse disciplines to critically examine the ways in which sport can be and has been used to promote youth development.
Book Synopsis Evidence-Based Applied Sport Psychology by : Roland A. Carlstedt
Download or read book Evidence-Based Applied Sport Psychology written by Roland A. Carlstedt and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print+CourseSmart
Book Synopsis Community Programs to Promote Youth Development by : Institute of Medicine
Download or read book Community Programs to Promote Youth Development written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-02-12 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have long been thought to play a key role in the lives of adolescents. But what do we know about the role of such programs for today's adolescents? How can we ensure that programs are designed to successfully meet young people's developmental needs and help them become healthy, happy, and productive adults? Community Programs to Promote Youth Development explores these questions, focusing on essential elements of adolescent well-being and healthy development. It offers recommendations for policy, practice, and research to ensure that programs are well designed to meet young people's developmental needs. The book also discusses the features of programs that can contribute to a successful transition from adolescence to adulthood. It examines what we know about the current landscape of youth development programs for America's youth, as well as how these programs are meeting their diverse needs. Recognizing the importance of adolescence as a period of transition to adulthood, Community Programs to Promote Youth Development offers authoritative guidance to policy makers, practitioners, researchers, and other key stakeholders on the role of youth development programs to promote the healthy development and well-being of the nation's youth.
Book Synopsis An Evaluation of the Reliability and Validity of Sport-specific Behavioral Checklists for Volleyball, Running, Basketball, and Swimming by :
Download or read book An Evaluation of the Reliability and Validity of Sport-specific Behavioral Checklists for Volleyball, Running, Basketball, and Swimming written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tools for Strengths-Based Assessment and Evaluation by : Catherine A. Simmons
Download or read book Tools for Strengths-Based Assessment and Evaluation written by Catherine A. Simmons and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print+CourseSmart
Book Synopsis An Introduction to Intermediate and Advanced Statistical Analyses for Sport and Exercise Scientists by : Nikos Ntoumanis
Download or read book An Introduction to Intermediate and Advanced Statistical Analyses for Sport and Exercise Scientists written by Nikos Ntoumanis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ntoumanis and Myers have done sport and exercise science researchers and students a tremendous service in producing An Introduction to Intermediate and Advanced Statistical Analyses for Sport and Exercise Scientists. This book has an outstanding compilation of comprehensible chapters dealing with the important concepts and technical minutia of the statistical analyses that sport and exercise science scholars use (or should be using!) in their efforts to conduct meaningful research in the field. It is a resource that all sport and exercise scientists and their students should have on their book shelves." —Robert Eklund, School of Sport, University of Stirling, UK "Motivating, to have a statistics text devoted to enabling researchers studying sport and exercise science to apply the most sophisticated analytical techniques to their data. Authors hit the mark between using technical language as necessary and user-friendly terms or translations to keep users encouraged. Text covers traditional and well-used tools but also less common and more complex tools, but always with familiar examples to make their explanations come alive. As a dynamic systems theorist and developmentalist, I would love to see more researchers in my area create study designs that would enable the use of tools outlined here, such as multilevel structural equation modeling (MSEM) or mediation & moderation analyses, to uncover cascades of relations among subsystems contributing to motor performance, over time. This text can facilitate that outcome." —Beverly D. Ulrich, School of Kinesiology, University of Michigan, USA "The domain of quantitative methods is constantly evolving and expanding. This means that there is tremendous pressure on researchers to stay current, both in terms of best practices and improvements in more traditional methods as well as increasingly complex new methods. With this volume Ntoumanis and Myers present a nice cross-section of both, helping sport and exercise science researchers to address old questions in better ways, and, even more excitingly, to address new questions entirely. I have no doubt that this volume will quickly become a lovingly dog-eared companion for students and researchers, helping them to continue to move the field forward." —Gregory R. Hancock, University of Maryland and Center for Integrated Latent Variable Research (CILVR), USA
Book Synopsis Character Strengths and Virtues by : Christopher Peterson
Download or read book Character Strengths and Virtues written by Christopher Peterson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-08 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Character" has become a front-and-center topic in contemporary discourse, but this term does not have a fixed meaning. Character may be simply defined by what someone does not do, but a more active and thorough definition is necessary, one that addresses certain vital questions. Is character a singular characteristic of an individual, or is it composed of different aspects? Does character--however we define it--exist in degrees, or is it simply something one happens to have? How can character be developed? Can it be learned? Relatedly, can it be taught, and who might be the most effective teacher? What roles are played by family, schools, the media, religion, and the larger culture? This groundbreaking handbook of character strengths and virtues is the first progress report from a prestigious group of researchers who have undertaken the systematic classification and measurement of widely valued positive traits. They approach good character in terms of separate strengths-authenticity, persistence, kindness, gratitude, hope, humor, and so on-each of which exists in degrees. Character Strengths and Virtues classifies twenty-four specific strengths under six broad virtues that consistently emerge across history and culture: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence. Each strength is thoroughly examined in its own chapter, with special attention to its meaning, explanation, measurement, causes, correlates, consequences, and development across the life span, as well as to strategies for its deliberate cultivation. This book demands the attention of anyone interested in psychology and what it can teach about the good life.
Book Synopsis An Evaluation of the Reliability and Validity of Sport-specific Behavioral Checklists for Volleyball, Running, Basketball, and Swimming by :
Download or read book An Evaluation of the Reliability and Validity of Sport-specific Behavioral Checklists for Volleyball, Running, Basketball, and Swimming written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an athlete seeks help from a sport psychologist, one of the first priorities is to clarify the nature of the problem and to i entify some target behaviors for treatment. Some sport psychologists have used traditional psychological instruments to evaluate the mental skill strengths and weaknesses of athletes. Other sport psychologists have raised concerns about the efficacy of this approach with elite athletes (Martin, 1997; Orlick, 1989; Rushall, 1979). The use of sport specific behavioral checklists has been suggested as a more effective alternative (Martin, 1997; Martin, Toogood, Tkachuk, 1997). Initial research on sport specific questionnaires for basketball players and swimmers has found the questionnaires to have high face validity and high test-retest reliability (Lines, Schwartzman, Tkachuk, Leslie-Toogood, Martin, in press). The current research involved two investigations. The first study evaluated the test-retest reliability, face validity, and a measure of convergent validity of sport specific questionnaires for two additional sports, running and volleyball (at both the highschool and university level). Overall, the test-retest reliability was moderate (r = 0.59) for runners, and good (r = 0.78) for volleyball players. There were low to moderate levels of test-retest reliability for most individual items, with higher levels of reliability for university-level athletes in both sports, and for the sport of volleyball (players and coaches). Face validity was found to be high for both sports at both levels (i.e., highschool and university), whereas the convergent validity was low. The second study examined the predictive validity of the sport specific questionnaires for basketball and swimming. The predictive validity was low, whereas the convergent validity of the questionnaires completed after practices and games/races included some items which were significantly correlated. Practical implications and recommendations are discussed for both studies.
Book Synopsis Recovery-stress Questionnaire for Athletes by : Michael Kellmann
Download or read book Recovery-stress Questionnaire for Athletes written by Michael Kellmann and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2001 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides athletic specialists, trainers, and coaches with resources for monitoring athletes to avoid over-training, burnout, and decreased performance. The questionnaire is based on the hypothesis that an accumulation of stress in different areas of life, with insufficient opportunity for recovery, leads to a compromised psychophysical state. Stress states are based on 12 nonspecific and seven sports-specific scales. The questionnaire package offers tools to measure and track an athlete's recovery, including two complete questionnaires (72- and 56-item forms), manual scoring keys, profile sheets, and a user manual that describes questionnaire development and data and profile interpretation.c. Book News Inc.
Book Synopsis Assessment in Applied Sport Psychology by : Jim Taylor
Download or read book Assessment in Applied Sport Psychology written by Jim Taylor and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessment in Applied Sport Psychology is a comprehensive resource that offers both students and professionals the opportunity to hone their skills to help their clients, starting with the initial consultation and lasting through a long-term relationship. In this text, Jim Taylor and a team of sport psychology experts help practitioners gain a deep understanding of assessment in order to build trusting relationships and effective intervention plans that address the needs and goals of their clients. Part I of Assessment in Applied Sport Psychology covers topics such as the importance of assessment, the appropriateness of qualitative and quantitative assessment, ethical issues that can arise from assessment, and the impact of diversity in the use of assessment. Part II introduces readers to six ways that consultants can assess athletes: mental health screening, personality tests, sport-specific objective measures, interviewing, observation, and applied psychophysiology. Chapters in this section explain the strengths and weaknesses of each approach—for example, when traditional pencil-and-paper and observation approaches may be more appropriate than interviewing—and offer consultants a more complete toolbox of assessments to use when working with athletes. Part III addresses special issues, such as career transition, talent identification, and sport injury and rehabilitation. One chapter is devoted to the hot-button issue of sport-related concussions. Tables at the end of most chapters in parts II and III contain invaluable information about each of the assessment tools described, including its purpose, publication details, and how to obtain it. Chapters also contain sidebars that provide sample scenarios, recommended approaches, and exercises to use with clients. Assessment in Applied Sport Psychology works toward two main goals. The first is to help consultants gain a complete understanding of their clients through the use of a broad range of assessment tools. The second is to show consultants how to ethically and effectively use assessments to develop a comprehensive understanding of their clients, thus enabling them to assist their clients in achieving their competitive and personal goals.
Book Synopsis Athletes' Attitudes Toward Seeking Sport Psychology Consultation by :
Download or read book Athletes' Attitudes Toward Seeking Sport Psychology Consultation written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Advances in Applied Sport Psychology by : Stephen Mellalieu
Download or read book Advances in Applied Sport Psychology written by Stephen Mellalieu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Applied Sport Psychology aims to bridge the gap between research and practice in contemporary sport psychology. Now available in paperback, the book draws together reviews of cutting edge research in key areas of applied sport psychology, assesses the implications of this research for current practice, and explores future avenues of research within each thematic area. This book surveys the scientific literature underpinning the most important skills and techniques employed in contemporary sport psychology, examining key topics such as: imagery goal setting self-talk stress management team building efficacy management attention control emotion regulation mental toughness. Representing the most up-to-date review of current scientific research, theory and practice in sport psychology, this book is a vital resource for all advanced students, researchers and practitioners working with athletes and sports performers.
Book Synopsis Mental Toughness in Sport by : Daniel Gucciardi
Download or read book Mental Toughness in Sport written by Daniel Gucciardi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2011. The pursuit of excellence in sport depends on four key facets of performance, namely physical, technical, tactical and mental skills. However, when physical, technical and tactical skills are evenly matched, a common occurrence at elite level, it is the performer with greater levels of mental toughness that seems to prevail most often. This book brings together the world's leading researchers and practitioners working on mental toughness to discuss this vital ingredient of performance excellence in sport, to survey the latest research and to present cutting-edge developments in theory and professional practice. It explores key conceptual, methodological and practical issues including: what mental toughness is and is not, how to measure mental toughness in sport, how to develop mental toughness in sport, mental toughness in other human performance settings, from business to coping and life skills. Also highlighting important avenues for future research, Mental Toughness in Sport is essential reading for all advanced students, researchers and practitioners with an interest in sport psychology or performance sport.
