Stress and performance in sport

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Stress and performance in sport

edited by J. Graham Jones and Lew Hardy

(Wiley series in human performance and cognition)

J. Wiley, c1990

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Volume

: ISBN 9780471920847

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.

Table of Contents

  • 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.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780471938767

Description

A study of stress in sport, which conveys an understanding of the ways in which stress affects performance and examines the cognitive mechanisms underlying these effects. It also evaluates methods for dealing with the stresses surrounding sporting performances.

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