Stress in College Athletics : Causes, Consequences, Coping

ISBN-13: 9780789009340 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 202 str.

James Harry Humphrey

Opis

Helps athletes, coaches, and administrators identify stressors and gives tips on alleviating stress in the environment. Explores developmental differences between men and women and their reactions to stress, and discusses coping techniques such as recreation, biofeedback, meditation, health maintenance, and behavior modification. Humphrey is affili

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Contents Foreword

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
•  Chapter 1. Understanding Stress
• The Meaning of Stress and Related Terms
•  Theories of Stress
•  Reactions to Stress
•  Classifications of Stress
• Causes of Stress
• Effects of Stress
•  Chapter 2. Perceptions of Stress in College Athletics
•   Perceptions of Coaches
• Perceptions of Athletic Directors
•   Perceptions of Athletes
• Summary
• Chapter 3. Stress Among College Athletes
•  Gender Differences
• Causes of Stress Among College Athletes
•  Consequences of Stress Among Athletes
•  Coping with Stress Among Athletes
•  Chapter 4. Stress Among Coaches and Athletic Directors
•  Stress Among Coaches
• Stress Among Athletic Directors
• Chapter 5. Dealing with Emotions in College Athletics
• Factors Related to Emotional Stability
•  Emotional Reactivity of Coaches Under the Stress of Competition
• Opportunities for the Development of Emotional Stability in the Athletics Environment
•  Evaluating Influences of the Environment on the Development of Emotional Stability
•  Emotionally Healthy Persons
•  Chapter 6. A Healthful Stress-Management Lifestyle
• The Meaning of Health
• A Lifestyle that Encompasses the Health and Fitness Triangle
• Chapter 7. Reducing Stress Through Relaxation
• The Meaning of Relaxation
• Progressive Relaxation
• The Quieting Reflex
• Mental Practice and Imagery in Relaxation
•  Chapter 8. Reducing Stress Through Meditation
• Types of Meditation
•  A Procedure for Meditating
•  Scientific Evidence Supporting the Benefits of Mediation
• Chapter 9. Reducing Stress Through Biofeedback
• The Meaning of Biofeedback
• Biofeedback Instrumentation
• Chapter 10. Reducing Stress Through Self-Modification of Behavior
• Toward an Understanding of Self
•  Self Concerns That Can Induce Stress
• Processes of Behavioral Adjustment
•  Some General Procedures for Self-Modification of Behavior
•  Systematic Self-Desensitization
•  Afterword
• Notes
•  Suggestions for Further Reading
•  Index         

O autorze

Stevens, Robert E; Loudon, David L; Yow, Deborah A; Bowden, William W; Humphrey, James H