Theories

Hostility in Sport
Professional players in the world of sport are expected to be, as they are labelled, professional. With recent events highly publicised in the media, how professional and level-headed are these athletes at the elite level? Are cases of over-the-top aggression becoming the norm? Or due to media coverage are we...
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Applied Sport Psychology

How strong are you? Mental and physical endurance in sport
“The mind’ll quit a lot sooner than the body will.” I had a coach a few years ago that would tell us this as we struggled to finish our workouts....
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Team Building

Group Formation
There are many opinions of what a group really is defined as. According to Carron, Hausenblas, and Eys (2005) a group in a sporting context is defined as more than...
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Physiology

EEG and alpha waves in sport
Sports psychology is the measurement of mental and behavioural components that can impact on performance (Singer et al, 1993). However, sports scientists and coaches alike have a difficult task observing,...
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Coaching

The lack of female football coaches: What can we do about it?
Who would have thought that, in a sport with the participation of over 60 million girls and women worldwide, somehow women coaches are still largely underrepresented on the football pitch...
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Applied Sport Psychology

The Relationship Between Mindset and Achievement Behaviour
The nature vs. nurture debate is one that has divided sports fans for years. How are world-class athletes created? Are innate characteristics passed down the generations, through DNA encoded within...
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Mental Health

Disordered eating and sport
Public perceptions of an athlete are usually that they are fit, well-trained machines capable of accomplishing the impossible. When viewed either from a seat in a stadium or on the...
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Applied Sport Psychology

The 4 psychological C’s of performance
Sport is a complex equation; there are many components you have to try and combine in order to achieve optimal performance. The four C’s I will define and explain below...
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Mental Health

The link between motivation and athlete burnout
Burnout is a maladaptive outcome of sport participation. Kids and talents driven too hard in their sports domain can potentially lead to burnout from an activity they ones loved. But...
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Applied Sport Psychology

BPS QSEP Step 1: Finding a Supervisor and Placement
I’d just like to start by saying: If you think you’ll come straight out of uni and get a placement at a premier league football club, keep dreaming. Over what...
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