The target article describes an interesting study, which provides some challenging findings regarding athletes' pathway to excellence. The suggested links between critical life events, need for success, personal characteristics, and eventual performance level make sense from a psychodynamic perspective. …

Presentatie tijdens de lunchlezing op 24 september 2015 over de visie op stressherstel in een "virtuele vlindertuin".

Optimizing the interaction between coaches and scientists in a community of research. To optimize the interaction between sports practice, research and education, the School of Sportstudies at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences developed four Communities of Research. One of these communities aims …

The worldwide obesity epidemic is a major and complex problem, resulting from the interaction of individual metabolic, genetic, and psychological factors with meso- and macro environmental factors. Adolescents, with their rapid changes in body composition, together with their shift in orientation from …

The aim of the present study was to develop a sport psychological inventory which is meant to help riders (and their coaches) to test their pre-competitive mental skills.