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Sport enjoyment, or fun in children’s terms, is the most important and most studied positive emotion in youth, adolescent, and elite sport. Early youth sport research found that fun was one of the most imp

How Does Enjoyment Affect Athletes’ Motivation in Sport? Sport enjoyment has important motivational consequences and is incorporated into many theories dealing with athletes’ participation, persistence, and exertion of effort in their sport. Findings show that the higher the enjoyment experienced, the more athletes elect to participate and persist in their sport, the more they feel

Psychological skills comprise the deliberate use of pre-prepared and structured sequences of specific thoughts and behaviors by athletes and exercisers to regulate their psychological state (e.g., feelings of confiden

Within current theory, it is proposed that a performer’s psychological state (e.g., self-confidence, motivation, anxiety, and attention) is considered to affect his or her performance on tasks of interest such as throwing the javelin or completing an exhausting workout. Certain psychological states are considered more facilitative to performance than others. The nature of the relationship

Memory is a cognitive module in action organization in which information about objects, movements, events, environmental elements, and the action-related constellations between these entities are stored. Memory could be des

The study of human memory has a long history, making it one of the oldest and most investigated topics in psychology. The initial scientific studies of memory are usually ascribed to Hermann Ebbinghaus’s work in 1885. He investigated the serial learning and forgetting of new information (nonsense syllables) and described the speed of forgetting by