Tag: Zsolt Demetrovics

There are bright and dark aspects of sports and exercise behaviour – passion and addiction. In their new book Passion and Addiction in Sports and Exercise (Routledge), Attila Szabo and Zsolt Demetrovics attempt to explain the significant differences between them. Stuart Carrington appreciates their point of departure, the concept of harmonious versus obsessive passion. From then on, its critical scholarly work throughout the book, and thus beneficial reading. However, the treatment chapter would have gained from greater depth and accuracy.

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: Not your average sport parents: How sport scholars make decisions about their own children’s sport involvement by Heather K. Larson, Tara-Leigh F. McHugh, Bradley W. Young, Wendy M. Rodgers.

SEPP publishes papers in all areas of sport, exercise, and performance psychology for applied scientists and practitioners that supports the application of psychological principles. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Emotion dysregulation mediates the relationship between psychological distress, symptoms of exercise addiction and eating disorders: A large-scale survey among fitness center users by Bernadette Kun, Róbert Urbán, Attila Szabo, Anna Magi, Andrea Eisinger & Zsolt Demetrovics.