View All Book Series

Routledge Psychology of Sport, Exercise and Physical Activity

About the Book Series

This series offers a forum for original and cutting edge research exploring the latest ideas and issues in the psychology of sport, exercise and physical activity. Books within the series showcase the work of well-established and emerging scholars from around the world, offering an international perspective on topical and emerging areas of interest in the field. This series aims to drive forward academic debate and bridge the gap between theory and practice, encouraging critical thinking and reflection among students, academics and practitioners.

9 Series Titles


Decision Making for Sports Officials Training and Assessment Perspectives

Decision Making for Sports Officials: Training and Assessment Perspectives

1st Edition

By Ian Cunningham, Aden Kittel, Duncan Mascarenhas, Clare MacMahon, Paul Larkin
June 08, 2025

This essential guidebook provides a comprehensive, holistic, and evidence-based account for improving the decision making of sports officials across different sports and levels. By combining cutting-edge research with practical strategies, this book provides fundamental frameworks for developing ...

Analytical Psychology and Sport Epistemology, Theory and Practice

Analytical Psychology and Sport: Epistemology, Theory and Practice

1st Edition

By Andrew Cowen
May 26, 2025

Analytical Psychology and Sport: Epistemology, Theory and Practice introduces the epistemology and psychology of C.G. Jung to the sport psychology readership. In doing so, it considers for the first time the implications of analytical psychology with respect to theorising on well-established ...

Passion and Addiction in Sports and Exercise

Passion and Addiction in Sports and Exercise

1st Edition

By Attila Szabo, Zsolt Demetrovics
January 29, 2024

Passion and Addiction in Sports and Exercise is about the bright and dark aspects of sports and exercise behavior and revolves around two closely related yet distinct concepts. Passion is a joyful and healthy reflection of one’s enjoyment and dedication to an adopted sport or exercise. At the same ...

The Psychology of Closed Self-Paced Motor Tasks in Sports

The Psychology of Closed Self-Paced Motor Tasks in Sports

1st Edition

Edited By Ronnie Lidor, Gal Ziv
January 29, 2024

In practice settings, competitions, and games, athletes are often required to perform an arsenal of motor tasks in dynamic and challenged sporting environments, where they have to respond without having enough time to prepare themselves for the act. However, in many sport activities athletes also ...

Analytical Psychology of Football Professional Jungian Football Coaching

Analytical Psychology of Football: Professional Jungian Football Coaching

1st Edition

Edited By John O'Brien, Nada O'Brien
September 25, 2023

Jungian psychology of football is a new and cutting edge approach being applied by Champions league teams and used in youth football training. Implications for the wider role of football organisations in society as models for the diagnosis and management of trauma and tension in our changing world ...

Athlete Transitions into Retirement Experiences in Elite Sport and Options for Effective Support

Athlete Transitions into Retirement: Experiences in Elite Sport and Options for Effective Support

1st Edition

Edited By Deborah Agnew
September 25, 2023

Transitions in sport can be either normative (relatively predictable) or non-normative (less predictable) and are critical times in the development of athlete’s careers. Whilst retirement from sport is inevitable, the timing of retirement can be less predictable. If an athlete copes well with the ...

Stress, Well-Being, and Performance in Sport

Stress, Well-Being, and Performance in Sport

1st Edition

Edited By Rachel Arnold, David Fletcher
September 26, 2022

Stress, Well-Being, and Performance in Sport provides the first comprehensive and contemporary overview of stress in sport and its implications on performance and well-being. It explores how athletes’, coaches', and support staffs' performance can be enhanced while simultaneously optimizing their ...

Sport Injury Psychology Cultural, Relational, Methodological, and Applied Considerations

Sport Injury Psychology: Cultural, Relational, Methodological, and Applied Considerations

1st Edition

Edited By Ross Wadey
June 01, 2022

Written by a team of international experts and emerging talents from around the world, Sport Injury Psychology: Cultural, Relational, Methodological, and Applied Considerations challenges the status quo of the field of sport injury psychology and opens new and exciting future research trajectories ...

Feelings in Sport Theory, Research, and Practical Implications for Performance and Well-being

Feelings in Sport: Theory, Research, and Practical Implications for Performance and Well-being

1st Edition

Edited By Montse Ruiz, Claudio Robazza
April 01, 2022

Feeling states, including emotional experiences, are pervasive to human functioning. Feeling states deeply influence the individual’s effort, attention, decision making, memory, behavioural responses, and interpersonal interactions. The sporting environment offers an ideal setting for the ...

AJAX loader