Drawing on social identity theory and self-categorization theory, we outline an approach to
sport psychology that understands groups not simply as features of sporting contexts but …

Social psychology in sport has grown impressively in the last decade, but no single text has
addressed all the important topics in the field--until now. Through the contributions of an …

Objectives The strength with which individuals identify with a sport team (ie, social identity)
has important implications for athletes' cognitions, affect, and behavior. Yet there remains …

Against the backdrop of a global physical inactivity crisis, attempts to both understand and
positively influence physical activity behaviours are characterized by a focus on individual …

Individuals strive to attach themselves to social groups that reflect positively on the way they
view themselves (Tajfel, 1972, 1982; Tajfel & Turner, 1979). While social categories span a …

After having attended a friendly football match between Chelsea FC and Dynamo Moscow to
mark the end of World War II, the novelist George Orwell (1945) famously remarked that …

The purpose of the present article is to provide a summary of recent developments for select
constructs that reflect the social environment of groups and have the potential to add to our …

Psychological processes in sport are inextricably linked to the social contexts within which
they occur. However, research and practice in applied sport psychology have shown only …

Recently, novel lines of research have developed to study the influence of identity processes
in sport-related behaviors. Yet, whereas emotions in sport are the result of a complex …

Sport Psychology: The Basics provides an accessible introduction to the fundamental ideas
at the heart of Sport Psychology today. This new revised and updated second edition …