Although widely invoked as an explanation for psychological phenomena, ego threat has
been conceptualized and induced in a variety of ways. Most contemporary research …

Why are some performers exhilarated and energized about performing in public, while
others feel a crushing sense of fear and dread, and experience public performance as an …

Although sport is played with the body, it is won in the mind. Inspired by this idea, the second
edition of this popular textbook provides a comprehensive critical introduction to sport and …

This study proposes a process model of the antecedents of both constructive and destructive
leadership. As task difficulty increases, a leader's limited attentional resource capacity may …

Sport Psychology is an essential introduction to the field's key issues, suitable for
psychology, sport science and sport studies students at all levels. Encompassing the history …

In this study, we examined how individuals controlled their gaze behaviour during execution
of a far aiming task and whether the functional relationship between perception and action …

Cardiovascular (CV) reactivity is proposed by both the Biopsychosocial Model and the
Theory of Challenge and Threat States in Athletes to predict competitive performance. The …

Student attrition in higher education is a pervasive problem. In this analysis, we used a
longitudinal sample of nearly 10,000 university students to examine the relative importance …

The present study investigated how trait anxiety alters the balance between attentional
control systems to impact performance of a discrete preplanned goal-directed motor task …

Sport Psychology, 2nd Edition provides a synthesis of the major topics in sport psychology
with an applied focus and an emphasis on achieving optimal performance. After exploring …