Tag: Rosemary Purcell

Bringing together the most prestigious writings on mental health in sport and physical activity from the International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Mental Health in Sport and Physical Activity by editor Robert Schinke (Routledge) provides an essential reference for the field of sport and exercise psychology. In her review, Marit Sørensen points to the collection’s broad span, which makes it especially valuable as an introduction to the field of mental health in sport and physical activity.

Stress, Well-Being, and Performance in Sport, edited by Rachel Arnold and David Fletcher (Routledge) provides a comprehensive and contemporary overview of stress in sport and its implications on performance and well-being. Our reviewer is sport psychology professor Henrik Gustafsson. He would have loved to read this book as an undergraduate student and coach in cross-country skiing; as a professor he contends that this is the book to go to for insights about stress in sport.

International Sport Coaching Journal is a venture of the International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE). Its mission is to advance the profession of coaching. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Coaches’ Experiences of Morality in English Professional Football Environments: Recommendations for Creating a Moral Atmosphere by Andrew J. Higham, James A. Newman, Joseph A. Stone, James L. Rumbold.

Psychology of Sport and Exercise is an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Affordance-based control in deceptive and non-deceptive penalties in soccer goalkeeping: Gender matter by Ran Zheng, John van der Kamp, Xinyong Song, Geert Savelsbergh.

The Journal of Applied Sport Psychology is a refereed journal designed to advance thought, theory, and research on applied aspects of sport and exercise psychology. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Self-determined motivation, social identification and the mental health of adolescent male team sport participants by Stewart A. Vella, Alex Benson, Jordan Sutcliffe, Colin McLaren, Christian Swann, Matthew J. Schweickle, Andrew Miller & Mark Bruner.

IJSEP publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in the science of physical activity, human movement, exercise, and sport. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ATHLETES’ USE OF GOAL-DIRECTED SELF-TALK: SITUATIONAL DETERMINANTS AND FUNCTIONS by Alexander T. Latinjak, Marc Masó, Luis Calmeiro & Antonis Hatzigeorgiadis.