Dedicated athletes, coaches, and exercisers are often referred to as being passionate
toward their sport or activity. This chapter reviews the available literature in sport and …

Topically organized, Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness and Flourishing
presents a highly engaging, up-to-date introduction to positive psychology. Authors William …

Drawing on achievement goal theory and the dualistic model of passion, this study identifies
(1) mastery versus performance climate as the contextual antecedent for harmonious versus …

Persistence is generally viewed a unitary construct measuring the extent to which people
pursue a goal often in the face of adversity. Here, we propose two different forms of …

This paper presents a new perspective on persistence and how it relates to passion and
outcomes in the field of education. Based on the Dualistic Model of Passion (Vallerand …

Social media platforms enable like‐minded users to form online groups, interact and thereby
contribute to ideological polarisation. However, online groups also polarise along a …

Does passion predict performance? Whereas harmonious passion is typically associated
with strong performance, evidence for the obsessive passion-performance relationship has …

Inhibitory control may be vital in elite sport. The authors examined the link between athletic
expertise, inhibitory control, and sport performance in a two-part quasi experiment. Inhibitory …

This chapter begins with a very brief review of theories underlying current research on
passion in education, with a particular emphasis placed on the Dualistic Model of Passion …

In this study, we investigate the nature of Canadian early career (0 to 3 years) nurses'(N=
704; 87.8% female, aged 20 to 52) psychological need fulfillment profiles, accounting for the …