Key Topics in Sports Psychology

This volume features cutting-edge and impactful articles from across  Springer's diverse journals publishing program. In this curated  collection, our editorial team has brought together highly-cited and  downloaded articles on the topic of Sports Psychology into one single  resource. Moreover, this book enables readers to review a broad spectrum  of quality research on a specialized topic, which we hope facilitates  interdisciplinary and critical discussions of the topic at hand. As part  of the Key Topics in Behavioral Sciences book series, this volume aims  to serve as a quick reference for readers when writing or researching  new topics or subject areas. Other topics in the series will include  Psychological Research Methods, Health and Behavior, Industrial and  Organizational Psychology, Sports Psychology, and Consumer Behavior.

In  the first section of the volume, articles focus on such topics as  Organized Sport, Sport-Confidence, Vealey’s Conceptual Model,  Externalizing, Football, Internalizing, Organized Physical Activity, and  Social Functioning. Next, the second section features research on Early  Intervention, Parent-Implemented Intervention, Social Validity,  Telepractice, Appraisal Tendency Framework, Emotion, Facial Recognition  Software, Feedback Self-Efficacy, Grit, and Performance Feedback. Lastly  in the final section of this collection, Ability Self-Concept,  Depressive Symptoms, Expectancy-Value Theory, Person-Centered Approach,  Sport Motivation, Subjective Task Values, Adolescence, Body Image,  Eating Disorders, Fear of Negative Evaluation, Weight And Shape  Concerns, Mindfulness, Self-Determination Theory, and Well-Being are  discussed.