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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...