Talk:Sport psychology

message: Hi - I got a message from user Burzmali about removing an external link I had added to a scholarly journal about decisionmaking and judgment in sport and exercise. Sorry; I can't figure out how to reply to him directly. Linking to a journal is not allowed; can someone clarify? Also, the history page indicates that my edit was identified as vandalism. Egads! Can someone help me understand that? I thought vandalism was more malicious than that. I wouldn't want the scourge of vandalism associated with my username.  
User:Mookie25  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mookie25 (talk • contribs) 00:36, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Linking to a journal is allowed - however the external links guidelines forbid linking to sites that require payment to view the content. They seem to be high-quality journal articles so the best way to use them in this article would be to add text to this article citing them as sources - the easiest way to do this would be through the footnote system. Your edit was definitely not vandalism as it was a good faith attempt to improve the article. The person who reverted your edit used a computer program that often labels edits as vandalism - I've seen that program make mistakes before. The program probably thought your edit was vandalism - more specifically spam - because you placed your link at the top of the list; all new external links should be placed at the bottom of a list unless there is a good reason not to do so. You can contact the editor who reverted you directly at user talk:user Burzmali and you can contact me directly at user talk:graham87. The easiest way to add a comment is to use the "+" link next to the "edit this page" link and you can sign comments on talk pages like this one using four tildes like this: "~~~~". Graham87 13:00, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re: Link removal 

message: I've removed the section "History of sports psychology" because it reads more like an essay than an encyclopedia article. There probably is useful data in there but it doesn't need to be presented in this way. The diff of my removal showing the text I removed can be found here. Graham87 11:29, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've put the section back for now because there are several tags on the article that refer to it. I'll do more with the article when I have more time, and on reflection I've decided a wholesale removal of the section would not be the wisest thing to do. Graham87 11:32, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Indeed I think it's just someone at school adding names of friends/enemies/themselves. Just take a look at the contributions of the user who added that text. Graham87 11:42, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of section 

message: The entire article is written like an essay of some sort, most likely more-or-less directly copied from the single source. For instance, the section titles in The History of Sport Psychology ("The Early Years", "The Griffith Era", etc) sound like they were arbitrarily named by the author of the source, and are unencyclopedic. Additionally, titles like "What do Sport Psychologists Do?" are unencyclopedic. All these little things could be reworded, but if the article used numerous other sources, these problems would get watered down by the Invisible Hand of Wikipedia, and we'd have a good article. -M.Nelson (talk) 04:47, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The article was largely a very slightly rewritten copy of "Foundations of sport and exercise psychology". I have removed (deleted) all revisions since the introduction of this copyvio, since it filled the larger part of the article. Fram (talk) 10:38, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Single source, etc. 

message: Positives aspects of recreational sports, the positive aspects of team sports are already mentioned here, as well as the effects of violence in sports on both players and spectators, can also be a part of sports psychology that might be mentioned. Any thoughts?? Natural (talk) 17:15, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sports Violence and Sports Psychology 

message: I have found that there are neither individual pages outlining sport-specific concepts as it is related to sport psychology nor sub-sections of the main page which do so. I would assume a good start on this would be simply adding these sub-sections and expanding from there as is needed, but I wanted to get thoughts on this as it will be my first contribution to the page.
--Justin.Smedley (talk) 15:13, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sport-Specific Sub-sections 

message: Made a couple edits to ensure quotations were compliant with Wikipedia's standards.  Edited a few parts of the History and Applied sections (no major changes, just reworded a couple things).  Added the "Common Areas of Study" and "Exercise Psychology" sections.  Exercise psychology is important to include because it and sport psych go hand-in-hand together.  Common areas of study was written to primarily educate people on what sport psychologists actually research and secondarily to provide brief definitions explaining the terms so people understand what they mean.  I will begin to add digital object identifiers tonight and continue until as many sources are linked up. 4lenza (talk) 22:24, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: More revisions, plus Common Areas and Exercise Psych, and dois

message: Coping with sports injuries can have a physical and psychological effect on an athlete. Its important that we include sports pyschology skills and techniques that would help in recovering faster and to learn to use physical set-backs to become a more confident athlete. Athletes should be made aware of various injuries that can happen during a particular sports, not knowing its operational best practices.  — Preceding [[[User:WheelsDudley|WheelsDudley]] (talk) 01:37, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sport Injury as it relates to Sport Psychology 

message: My intention to improve this article will consist of researching and adding information related to an athletes mental state of mind when faced with a sports injury. This will include coping with stress, accepting responsibility of an injury and maintain a positive attitude. I will also discuss a couple techniques used to cope with a sports injury, such as imagery and discuss common sports psychology mistakes athletes make.  Finally I will touch on the physical and mental stress of competition that can effect an athlete's performance. (WheelsDudley (talk) 05:50, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sports Injury Topic After Revisions 

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I will add more sources as my research continues (WheelsDudley (talk) 05:11, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: References for Sports Injury relative to Sports Psychology

message: Recent edits accidentally removed headers (Coaching, Exercise Psychology), so they were restored.  Removed unscientific links (to brainmac).  Please be careful when making edits so the page is not changed in ways it shouldn't.  Also, use peer-reviewed sources, not links to popular websites.
Removed the Cleanup and Reference warnings.  The page is a lot better than it was a month ago, in that it is a fairly complete overview of sport psychology, uses a variety of references, contains specific page numbers in those references, and the references are all peer-reviewed and of good quality.
Removed the "sport psychology terminology" section and replaced it with "Commonly Used Techniques."  What was contained in the "terminology" section was either rewritten and improved (imagery, "internal monologue"), explained elsewhere (cohesion, motivation), or had no citations, or was incorrect (criticism).  The old section is copied/pasted below:
A few terms used in sport psychology:
* Cohesion – Group cohesion refers to the extent to which a team or group shares a sense of shared task or social bond
* Imagery – Refers to "imagined" sensations, for example visual imagery is known as "visualization"
* Attention focus – Being able to block everything out, e.g., a crowd.
* Motivation – Recent research implies that sports-related achievement motivation is composed of several traits that together form a general orientation of a person towards achievement in sports. This research refers to The Achievement Motivation Inventory (AMI) (Schuler, Thornton, Frintrup & Mueller-Hanson, 2003) which is a broad-spectrum assessment of achievement-motivation in business, and has been used to develop the Sports Performance Indicator.
* Internal monologue – Maintaining positive thoughts during competition by keeping a running conversation going in one's mind
* Criticism – A tenet of motivational theory that is necessary to improve performance. The proper delivery of that criticism is imperative, as criticism can either better performance or drastically worsen it. There are three types of criticism: destructive, self, and constructive. The best method of delivering constructive criticism is the "sandwich" approach; here, one first offers a compliment, then offers critical feedback and useful directions to improve in that particular area, and then end with another compliment.
* In-the-zone - "a higher level of concentration  and being totally engrossed in an endeavor to the point where time almost stands still and outside distractions almost disappear."(WheelsDudley (talk) 04:16, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Fixing recent edits, adding Commonly Used Techniques, removed Cleanup and Reference warnings

message: As athletes or students, we can all appreciate the feeling of stepping into the 1st tee or preparing for a test and having thoughts of failure enter the mind even though properly prepared. Instead of succumbing to what might seem like inevitable doom, there are a few ways to overcome these debilitating thoughts before they sink your so-called ship. One way is to use a technique called Thought Stopping developed by Dr. Robert Weinberg and Dr. Daniel Gould described in the textbook Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology. According to the Weinberg and Gould text, this technique involves stopping potential negative self-talk before it has a chance to germinate any further than an initial thought. By using simple words as "Stop" or "No", this re-direct could halt the negative thought(s) from getting a foot hold in the mind.
Another technique is to acknowledge a negative thought by writing it down on a piece of paper and then putting it away. According to University of Chicago cognitive psychology professor Dr. Sian Beilock in her book Choke, writing down negative thoughts signals the subconscious mind that you are aware of the thought but will deal with it at a later date making it less likely to occur. Beilock states focusing on what you want instead of trying to avoid failure is a way to keep the mind focused on success.
Lastly, keeping your expectations in check and realistic is a major key in overcoming negative self-talk. Quoting the book How To Win The US Open, overcoming perfectionism and ego, will give the athlete or student a little psychological breathing room.
(Richard Trammel 00:11, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Techniques For Re-Directing Negative Self-Talk 

message: Just wondering.  Plenty of references for a person with this 'job/title' in sports clubs.  Also if there is an (direct/indirect) association, would some information in this wikipedia entry be beneficial to elaborate on this?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.76.64.134 (talk) 23:57, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sports psychology (psychologist), Mental Coach - One and the same? 

message: The article states "Generally, there are two different types of sport psychologists: educational and clinical." and goes on to describe clinical sport psychologists (under the heading 'Educational Sport Psychologists')... but omits a similar mention of clinical sport psychologists! idfubar (talk) 00:38, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I found a textbook to source that speaks of educational and clinical sports psychologists and added context to the original phrasing of the sentence you quoted and added a citation. I am working on revising the follow-up information to include the mention of clinical sport psychologists.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anjdarji (talk • contribs) 14:46, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing Section? ('Clinical Sport Psychologists') 

message: "Performance Psychology" redirects to "Sports Psychology" while "Performance psychology" redirects to "Performance Science". Seems like an incomplete effort that is misleading.
Performance psychology is the parent of psychology that applies to sport, music, military and more. Like in the "see also" section of "Performance Science".
I'm not sure how to make these changes so I leave this for discussion and closure by others. M) (talk) 02:13, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Performance Psychology versus Performance psychology (note the case differences) 

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message: We will add a topic section focusing on mental health in athletes and try to target student-athletes in this study.
Add citations to the article about our topic of Mental Health.
Propose ideas of how Mental health has negatively impacted athletes, what studies are being done to test how mental health effects the athlete's performance, and what can be done to relax the stressors causing negative mental health implications. 
Article body- for our Wikipedia article we were given Sports Psychology. We noticed that in our article, they hit every detail about what sports are and the psychology behind them. However, we noticed that there was no information given on how mental health affects athletes and decided it would be beneficial if we added a segment on how mental health affects athletes. We will not be making changes to the article itself, just adding our own summary on mental health in athletes.
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message: Hello, I am a student from a clinical psychology course hoping to add on to the mental health in sports psychology section. I noticed most of the sources of research were cited from 2016 or before, I am hoping to add information from more recent research. Specifically, I want to add on to the existing point that athletes use the sport as a way of escape. I found a systematic review from 2023 that explains how sports participation is generally associated with better mental health and psychological well-being. I will mention the flaws of the study to make sure there is no false information/bias. BT28 (talk) 04:02, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding to the 'Mental Health in Sport Psychology' 

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