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Social Comparison
Social comparison is a process in which self-appraisals are formed and involves evaluating one's skills, attributes, belongings, and so forth compared with those of others.
Social Comparison Theory
Social comparison theory, proposed by Leon Festinger in 1954, states that individuals have an innate drive to maintain stable and accurate ...
- Career Transition
- Certification, Credentialing, and Roles of Sport and Exercise Psychologists
- Disability
- Emotion
- Exercise Health
- Addiction, Effects of Exercise on
- Adherence
- Affective Responses to Exercise
- Attentional Association and Dissociation
- Cognitive Function
- Ecological Theory
- Effort
- Emotional Responses
- Energy, Effects of Exercise on
- Enjoyment, as Mediator of Exercise Behavior Change
- Exercise Dependence
- Fatigue
- Health Promotion
- Hedonic Theory
- Interventions for Exercise and Physical Activity
- Mental Health
- Multiple Behavior Change
- Obesity
- Personality Traits and Exercise
- Pleasure
- Quality of Life
- Resistance Training
- Runner's High
- Sedentary Behavior
- Sleep and Exercise
- Social Marketing and Message Framing
- Group Dynamics
- History and Foundation
- Leadership
- Athlete Leadership
- Attachment Theory and Coaching
- Autonomy-Supportive Coaching
- Coaching Efficacy
- Decision-Making Styles in Coaching
- Interdependence Theory and the Coach–Athlete Relationship
- Leadership in Sport: Multidimensional Model
- Leadership in Sport: Situational and Contingency Approaches
- Leadership in Sport: Social Cognitive Approaches
- Leadership in Sport: Trait Perspectives
- Leadership in Sport: Transactional and Transformational
- Relational Efficacy Beliefs in Coach–Athlete Relations
- Morality, Aggression, and Ethics in Sport
- Motivation
- Achievement Goal Theory
- Achievement Motive Theory
- Attribution Theory
- Automaticity: Evaluative Priming
- Automaticity: Implicit Attitudes
- CALO-RE Taxonomy of Behavior Change Techniques
- Commitment
- Competence Motivation Theory
- Control Theory
- Dual-Process Theory
- Expectancy-Value Theory
- Habit
- Health Action Process Approach
- Health Belief Model
- Implicit/Self-Theories of Ability
- Intrinsic/Extrinsic Motivation, Hierarchical Model of
- Mastery and Control Beliefs
- Passion
- Protection Motivation Theory
- Reinforcement and Punishment
- Self-Determination Theory
- Social Cognitive Theory
- Strength Model of Self-Control
- Theory of Planned Behavior
- Transformational Parenting
- Transtheoretical Model
- Motor Control
- Coordination
- Errors
- Feedback
- Generalized Motor Program
- Human Factors
- Interference
- Laws of Movement Learning and Control
- Modeling
- Motor Commands
- Motor Control
- Motor Development
- Motor Learning
- Movement
- Neurologic Disorders
- Practice
- Response
- Retention
- Sensory Systems: Auditory, Tactile, Proprioceptive
- Skill Acquisition
- Task Constraints
- Timing
- Transfer
- Perception and Cognition in Sport
- Anticipation
- Attention Theory
- Attention–Performance Relationships
- Attentional Focus
- Automaticity
- Brain Imaging
- Choking
- Chunking/Dechunking
- Cognitive Capabilities
- Cognitive Styles
- Cognitive Task Analysis
- Concentration
- Cue Utilization
- Decision Making
- Developmental Histories
- Dual-Task Paradigm
- Dynamical Systems
- Especial Skills
- Expertise
- Eye Movements/Gaze
- Freezing
- Functional Variability
- Genetics/Nature–Nurture Determinants
- Information Processing
- Knowledge Structure
- Learning
- Memory
- Pattern Recognition and Recall
- Perception
- Priming
- Probabilities
- Recognition and Recall Paradigms
- Self-Awareness Theory
- Sensorimotor Representations
- Situational Awareness
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
- Verbal Protocols
- Vision
- Personality and Psychological Characteristics in Sport
- Psychobiology
- Affective Disorders
- Alcohol Abuse
- Autonomic Nervous System
- Biofeedback, Neurofeedback
- Biopsychosocial Model of Injury
- Brain
- Burnout
- Cardiac Function
- Developmental Considerations
- Diet Drugs
- Drug Use and Control
- Eating Disorders
- Electroencephalograph (EEG)
- Electromyography (EMG)
- Emotional Reactivity
- Female Athlete Triad
- Individual Response Stereotype
- Injury, Psychological Susceptibility to
- Injury, Return to Competition Following
- Limbic System
- Mirror Neurons
- Narcotic Analgesics
- Neuroscience, Exercise, and Cognitive Function
- Overtraining Syndrome
- Performance-Enhancing Drugs
- Psychological Consequences of Sport Injury
- Psychological Well-Being
- Psychopharmacology
- Psychophysiology
- Recreational Drugs
- Resilience
- Sex Differences
- Social Neuroscience
- Stress Reactivity
- Underrecovery Syndrome
- Yips
- Psychosociocultural Considerations
- Self-Concept, Self-Perceptions, and Identity
- Body Awareness
- Body Dissatisfaction
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Muscle Dysmorphia
- Body Image
- Body Self-Esteem
- Hierarchical Self
- Identity
- Possible Selves
- Self-Acceptance
- Self-Appraisal/Assessment/Perception
- Self-Awareness
- Self-Compassion
- Self-Construal
- Self-Criticism
- Self-Discrepancy
- Self-Doubt
- Self-Efficacy
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
- Self-Handicapping
- Self-Monitoring
- Self-Objectification
- Self-Presentation
- Self-Schema
- Social Comparison
- Youth Sport
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