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Sport and Exercise Psychology: A Canadian Perspective, Third Edition, is written specifically for a Canadian introductory undergraduate course in sport and exercise psychology. The book presents an overview of sport and exercise psychology and provides a solid foundation in core concepts required for upper-level undergraduate courses. The organization of the book allows instructors to focus on specific areas of sport and exercise psychology to meet specific academic course requirements.
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Sport and Exercise Psychology A CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE THIRD EDITION This page intentionally left blank Sport and Exercise Psychology A CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE THIRD EDITION EDITED BY PETER R.E. CROCKER UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Toronto Editorial Director: Claudine O’Donnell Executive Acquisitions Editor: Lisa Rahn Senior Marketing Manager: Kimberly Teska Program Manager: Darryl Kamo Project Manager: Richard Di Santo/Rohin Bansal Developmental Editor: Rebecca Ryoji Production Services: Cenveo® Publisher Services Permissions Project Manager: Kathryn O’Handley Photo Permissions Research: Nazveena Begum Syed Text Permissions Research: James Fortney Cover Designer: Alex Li Interior Designer: Cenveo Publisher Services Cover Image: Bikeriderlondon/Shutterstock Credits and acknowledgments for material borrowed from other sources and reproduced, with permission, in this textbook appear on the appropriate page within the text. Original edition published by Pearson Education, Inc., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA. Copyright © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc. This edition is authorized for sale only in Canada. If you purchased this book outside the United States or Canada, you should be aware that it has been imported without the approval of the publisher or the author. Copyright © 2016 Pearson Canada Inc. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. This publication is protected by copyright and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. To obtain permission(s) to use material from this work, please submit a written request to Pearson Canada Inc., Permissions Department, 26 Prince Andrew Place, Don Mills, Ontario, M3C 2T8, or fax your request to 416-447-3126, or submit a request to Permissions Requests at www.pearsoncanada.ca. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 [CKV] Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Sport psychology Sports and exercise psychology : a Canadian perspective / edited by Peter R.E. Crocker, University of British Columbia. – Third edition. First edition published under title Sport psychology. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-13-357391-6 (pbk.) 1. Sports—Psychological aspects—Textbooks. 2. Exercise—Psychological aspects—Textbooks. I. Crocker, Peter R. E. (Peter Ronald Earl) author, editor II. Title. GV706.4.S67 2015 796.01’9 C2014-907952-4 ISBN: 978-0-13-357391-6 About the Editor Peter R.E. Crocker Dr. Peter Crocker is a professor in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and is an associate member in health psychology in the Department of Psychology. His research focuses on stress and adaptation, with a particular interest in understanding sport, exercise, and health-related behaviour. Ongoing research includes investigating perfectionism, stress, and coping in athletes, self-compassion in sport, the link between physical self-perceptions and health behaviour, and the role of self-conscious emotions in motivation in physical activity settings. Dr. Crocker is a two time president of the Canadian Society of Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology (SCAPPS)