Product Description: The emotional highs and lows of competitive sport, whether experienced as a competitor, spectator or coach may be the essential ingredient that gives sport its universal and compelling appeal. Emotion is clearly a pervasive force within competitive sport, and this is reflected in the burgeoning interest over recent decades in athletes’ emotions and strategies for coping with these emotions...read more

Examines some of the most important and influential studies in sport and exercise psychology. This book brings together a selection of important readings in sport and exercise psychology. It also includes a Background and Context section in order to put the study into a theoretical, practical, and historical context.