Titlebook: Rethinking Sport and Exercise Psychology Research; Past, Present and Fu Peter Hassmén,Richard Keegan,David Piggott Book 2016 The Editor(s)

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Measuring Constructs,‘an overenhanced valuing of methodology’) threatens to refocus our attention from the empirical data to the tools we use to analyse it. The chapter concludes by describing three constructs: burnout, mood states, and achievement goals and the need to consider each construct versus how it has been operationalised.

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The Status of Theory, of recent research using Self-Determination Theory and also through a critical appraisal of the dominant methodological approach to theory generation: Grounded Theory. The chapter concludes by drawing on Popperian and Lakatosian principles to suggest ways out of this dogmatic dead-end.

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Developments to Enable Progress,titude, a method and a professional ethics for researchers and practitioners. Some of the psychological and sociological reasons why such an approach may be difficult to realise are explored, before the development of counter arguments. The chapter concludes by briefly articulating some of the practical implications for researchers.

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Planning a Post-revolutionary World,erences; and research education—and paints a picture of an alternative, philosophically informed way of doing things. The chapter aims to provide researchers, journal editors, conference organisers and teachers with useful and inspiring ideas for the realisation of a progressive future.

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Why Rethink?,n this introductory chapter we explore four popular yet contrasting views about science and research—those of Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos and Feyerabend—with the aim of establishing a framework for critical enquiry. This framework is illustrated with examples from sport and exercise psychology, inviting r

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The Emerging Field of Sport and Exercise Psychology, valid, so long as guidelines of ‘good research’ are upheld. This can, however, be both a blessing and a curse, because following the early scientists’ recipe for knowledge generation may not be the best way for today or tomorrow. This chapter aims to explain why many of the early researchers with a

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How Do We Know That We Really Know?,y. Critical thinking is therefore more needed nowadays than ever before, to help us ‘distinguish between the wheat and the chaff’; yet it is rarely a subject found even within tertiary education—except possibly as a sideline within a research methods course. With the advent of Open Access Publishing

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The Status of Theory,e field are typically held dogmatically by researchers and, further, that this damages progress in research. This argument is illustrated with a study of recent research using Self-Determination Theory and also through a critical appraisal of the dominant methodological approach to theory generation

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