Sports & Performance Psychology Resources
Sport and performance psychologists focus on identifying and applying psychological principles that facilitate peak sport performance, enhance people’s participation in physical activities and help athletes achieve optimal human performance.
-APA
These resources support study and research related to Sport & Performance Psychology.
Handbook of Sport Psychology, 2 Volume Set by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781119568070Publication Date: 2020-04-14Presented in eight parts, the Handbook of Sports Psychology, 4th Edition adds new material on emerging areas such as mindfulness, brain mapping, self-consciousness, and mental toughness, and covers special topics such as gender and cultural diversity, athletes with disabilities, and alcohol and drug use in sports. In addition, it covers classic topics such as what motivates an athlete to perform; why do some choke under pressure; how do top performers handle leadership roles; what does one do to mentally train; how an athlete deals with injury; and much more. Fourth edition of the most influential reference work for the field of sport psychology New coverage includes mindfulness in sport and exercise psychology, ethics, mental toughness, sport socialization, and making use of brain technologies in practice.
- Oxford Reference Premium
This reference database includes access to almost 400 dictionaries and encyclopedias of fully-indexed, cross-searchable works published by Oxford University Press with detailed information across a broad subject range of topics.
- APA PsycArticles (EBSCOhost)
APA PsycArticles includes full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology with articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprint - the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present and nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1.
- APA PsycInfo (EBSCOhost)
APA PsycInfo includes abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations from the fields of behavioral and social sciences. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from periodicals in dozens of languages.
- PubMed Central
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
- SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
This sociology research database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus. Contains full-text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full-text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full-text for over 16,800 conference papers.
- Sports Medicine & Education Index (ProQuest)
This database provides curated abstract and index resources in the field of physical education. The database covers a wide range of topics, from physical and health education to fitness and recreation and the business of sports, as well as kinesiology, physical therapy, motor learning, and sport sociology and psychology. Coverage: 1970 - current
- Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video
This resource is an extensive collection of videos that focus on the areas of fitness and health assessment, disease management, injury treatment, nutrition, medical fitness, sport science, work-site wellness, exercise adherence, and more.
- American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)Their mission is to educate and empower professionals to advance the science and practice of health and human performance.
- Psychology Today: Sport & Competition ResourcesTopic page provides sport and competition resources.