Scoop.It! Online Magazine
Erik M. Norman
American Military University
I chose these articles because I wanted my magazine to illustrate as many different aspects of sports psychology as possible. I included a few articles that do not directly mention sports or athletes, instead these articles discuss how techniques and research findings from sports psychology studies can be applied in ordinary work environments. In the article “Work as an Extrinsic Goal, Play as an Internal Goal”, discusses the difference of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in the work place and how to make employees more productive. The article takes a close look at how important intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, in relation to money, are important to people, for instance the author Nick Ford possess the question “Sure, people like money and affluence but it seems fallacious to me to reduce that to only wanting money or things external to us. Doesn’t the phrase “well off” mean more than that?” (2015). Identifying the factors that keep you motivated are important, but even more important is understanding your personality type. In my magazine I …show more content…
The articles related to relaxation I thought were necessary, because considering the targeted audience, the readers may want to explore new or different strategies related to relaxation techniques. Relaxation techniques have shown to be the most effective when taught and practiced correctly, these techniques can be either somatic or cognitive. In fact Weinberg and Gould point out relaxation is a type of psychological skills training used more often by professional athletes, particularly somatic techniques for anxiety brought on by completion and mental relaxation when coping with non-completion related anxiety (2015,
Erik M. Norman
American Military University
I chose these articles because I wanted my magazine to illustrate as many different aspects of sports psychology as possible. I included a few articles that do not directly mention sports or athletes, instead these articles discuss how techniques and research findings from sports psychology studies can be applied in ordinary work environments. In the article “Work as an Extrinsic Goal, Play as an Internal Goal”, discusses the difference of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in the work place and how to make employees more productive. The article takes a close look at how important intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, in relation to money, are important to people, for instance the author Nick Ford possess the question “Sure, people like money and affluence but it seems fallacious to me to reduce that to only wanting money or things external to us. Doesn’t the phrase “well off” mean more than that?” (2015). Identifying the factors that keep you motivated are important, but even more important is understanding your personality type. In my magazine I …show more content…
The articles related to relaxation I thought were necessary, because considering the targeted audience, the readers may want to explore new or different strategies related to relaxation techniques. Relaxation techniques have shown to be the most effective when taught and practiced correctly, these techniques can be either somatic or cognitive. In fact Weinberg and Gould point out relaxation is a type of psychological skills training used more often by professional athletes, particularly somatic techniques for anxiety brought on by completion and mental relaxation when coping with non-completion related anxiety (2015,