Mind-Body Maturity: Psychological Approaches To Sports, Exercise, And Fitness

by Louis Diamant

Overview

A description of the ways in which sport, exercise and fitness affect human psychology and development from before birth to old age. The contributing authors cover psychological attitudes to fitness, environmental factors, adolescent identity and moral development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780891168928
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/01/1991
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Part 1 How psychology relates to sports, exercise and fitness, L. Diamant. Part 2 Developments - growing and maturing: environmental effects of the fetus - the examples of alcohol, cocaine and exercise, L. Eisen et al; athletic activity, body image and adolescent identity, A.E. McCabe et al; moral development and sports participation, I.J. Toner; exercise, fitness and ageing - psychological perspectives, B.G. Gray and T.J. Puglisi. Part 3 Theoretical contributions: behavioural approach to health psychology, P.A. Lamal; Psychological Motivation In Sport, Exercise And Fitness, S.D. Butt; personality traits and athletic performance, L. Diamant et al.