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Diagnostics, functional
No full textThis entry in the dictionary gives a short definition of functional diagnostics in sport psychologygive
Intention, Intentionality
No full textThis entry in the dictionary explains the concept of intention and intentional behaviour in sport, based on psycvhological action theories
Practice
No full textA characteristic feature of sport tasks is that associated movements are too intricate to be realized ad hoc. On the one hand, these intricacies may be due to the movement itself as in, for example, a double somersault with a twist in springboard diving. On the other hand, it may be rooted in particulars of the task, for example, when a windsurf jibe is performed in choppy water under gusty wind conditions or when a football attacker runs into free space to open up for his teammate’s deadly pass. In all these cases, no one will manage to produce an appropriate movement on the very first trial, which implies that success in sports is fundamentally based on practice.
This chapter aims to provide the reader with an overview on the role of practice for developing motor skills. To this end, a short review on the state of the art of motor-control theory will be presented to obtain a framework for the subsequent discussion of different aspects of skill-related practice. These aspects will regard cognitive, preparatory, specific, variable, whole, part and complex practice as well as its respective amount
Context-driven sport psychology:A cultural lens
No full textSport psychology is situated in a broader social and cultural context. Sports-specific cultures, socioeconomic factors, societal values, and policies all influence the work of a sport psychology practitioner. The relationship between the practitioner and client, the consultation, the specific events, processes, and situations are also contexts of sport psychology practice. In this chapter, we aim to address the term “context-driven sport and exercise psychology practice” that was recently introduced in sport psychology literature. This term builds from the special issue in the Journal of Sport Psychology in Action edited by Schinke and Stambulova (2017)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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