Sport Psychology: A Student's Handbook
Matt Jarvis
Language: English
Pages: 239
ISBN: 1841695823
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This book offers a student-friendly introduction to the discipline of sport psychology. All the key psychological issues in sport are explored, and difficult questions are raised: are athletes born or made? Does playing sport affect personality? What effect do cultural beliefs have on personal sporting development?
Matt Jarvis has substantially revised and expanded his original coverage of the subject from the highly successful first edition (Sport Psychology (1999) in the Routledge Modular Psychology series). Here he provides a succinct but comprehensive account of major theory and research in sport psychology, whilst maintaining the readable style and student-centred approach which made the previous book so successful.
Key issues covered include:
- Personality and sport
- Attitudes to sport
- Aggression
- Social factors affecting performance
- Arousal and anxiety
- Motivation and skill acquisition.
There is an emphasis not merely on learning about sport psychology, but also on developing critical and creative thinking. In addition, the book includes chapters on conducting research and writing essays in sport psychology, as well as reflective exercises throughout the text.
radical alternative to instinct theory, Bandura (1973) proposed that all human aggression, like other social behaviour, is learned by imitation and reinforcement. Bandura (1965) famously demonstrated that children copy adults behaving aggressively in his ‘bobo doll experiment’. Children observed an adult beating a large inflatable doll. Invariably the watching child imitated the behaviour and also beat the bobo doll. When the child was rewarded or witnessed the adult being rewarded for beating
good. We didn’t try hard enough. I let the team down. The referee was biased. The crowd was on their side. They have played together many more times than us. Table 7.1 shows various attempts to make sense of the catastrophic result. The players adopting the internal attributions are blaming themselves, whereas those adopting the external attributions are blaming other characteristics of the situation. As you can imagine, after a humiliating defeat most of us would tend to adopt external
is made up of adults as well as children, Similarly in Martens’ study only male students were used. This is also not representative of society. Therefore both methods used can not be made generalisable to the rest of society. Secondly, the methodology can be critically evaluated. Firstly in Triplett’s study, a controlled experiment was used. Therefore the variables were controlled. This quite a reliable method as it ensures that each time the test was carried out in a similar way each time. In
took place. In Part (b) the candidate has sensibly approached the task by addressing both the methodological weaknesses of studies and the usefulness of the applications derived from the research. A common shortcoming in essays is to focus just on criticisms and not look for the positive. The candidate displayed a good knowledge of the methodological details of the research, as well as critical awareness. This was pleasing to see. For maximum marks, the candidate would be required to display
record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Jarvis, Matt, 1966– Sport psychology/Matt Jarvis. (Routledge Modular Psychology) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Sports—psychological aspects. 2. Athletes—psychology. I. Title. II. Series. GV706.4.J37 1999 99–12984 796′.01–dc21 CIP ISBN 0-203-97627-4 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-415-20641-3 (hbk) ISBN 0-415-20642-1 (pbk) Contents 1 2 List of illustrations xiii