Tag: Urban Johnson

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: Effects of the function-specific instruction approach to neurofeedback training on frontal midline theta waves and golf putting performance by Tai-Ting Chen, Kuo-Pin Wang, Wen-Hsuan Chang, Cheng-Wei Kao, Tsung-Min Hung (open access).

The aim of the Journal of Sport Psychology in Action is to provide psychology practitioners involved in the sport industry with sound information that is immediately applicable to their work. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Lessons Learned from a Multi-Level Intervention Program to Reduce Swedish Female Floorballers’ Dropout Rate by Stefan Wagnsson, Henrik Gustafsson, Johan Libäck & Leslie William Podlog.

JCSP seeks to promote an understanding of theory, technique, and empirical findings specifically related to clinical sport psychology. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “BE MINDFUL EVEN THOUGH IT HURTS”: A SINGLE-CASE STUDY TESTING THE EFFECTS OF A MINDFULNESS- AND ACCEPTANCE-BASED INTERVENTION ON INJURED ATHLETES’ MENTAL HEALTH by Karin Moesch, Andreas Ivarsson, Urban Johnson.

IJSEP publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in the science of physical activity, human movement, exercise, and sport. Editor’s pick from the current issue: Editor’s pick from the current issue: EXPLORING CAREER EXPERIENCES OF SWEDISH PROFESSIONAL HANDBALL PLAYERS: CONSOLIDATING FIRST-HAND INFORMATION INTO AN EMPIRICAL CAREER MODEL by Johan Ekengren, Natalia Stambulova, Urban Johnson & Ing-Marie Carlsson. (Open Access)

Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. Editor’s pick from the current issue: COMPOSITE VIGNETTES OF SWEDISH MALE AND FEMALE PROFESSIONAL HANDBALL PLAYERS’ CAREER PATHS by Johan Ekengren, Natalia B. Stambulova, Urban Johnson, Ing-Marie Carlsson & Tatiana V. Ryba.

In his new book, In Depth Sport Psychology: Reclaiming the Lost Soul of the Athlete (Routledge), David Burston relates classic mythology and the Greek sports academies to the contemporary sporting climate to consider the roots of play and, by way of Jungian depth psychology, attempts to develop a new kind of sport psychology. Urban Johnson is our reviewer, and he finds Burston readable as well as demanding and challenging.

SSSF, a multidisciplinary social sciences sport study journal, welcomes articles that deal with sport and social change and social stability in a wide sense, articles about the profound and comprehensive processes affecting sports such as professionalization, globalization, commercialization, urbanization, technologization, medicalization and juridification.

The International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology (IJSEP) publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in the science of physical activity, human movement, exercise, and sport. The journal’s Editors and Editorial Board encourage researchers and scholars worldwide to submit their work for publication.

The International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology (IJSEP) publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in the science of physical activity, human movement, exercise, and sport. The journal’s Editors and Editorial Board encourage researchers and scholars worldwide to submit their work for publication.

This peer reviewed article by Joakim Ingrell, Marie Larneby, Urban Johnson and Susanna Hedenborg deals with student-athletes in a Swedish compulsory school with a sport profile, with the overall aim to study and discuss their beliefs about athletic ability, specifically changes in entity beliefs and incremental beliefs during the three-year period, and the role gender may affect such changes.