Details involving a person's observable attributes at the current moment. This may include physical observations, such as a height and weight, as well as psychological observations, such as one's emotional state and/or mental health.

Biopsychological Descriptors

An athlete's ability to control and adjust some of their biopsychological descriptors, such as their breathing and heart rate, and exercise control of their emotions.

Psychological Skills in Sport Psychology

The physical environment, social and organizational influences, and task characteristics and competitive factors something/someone (in sports psychology, this may be an athlete) is exposed to.

External Variables

Michigan State University

Recent research  uses imagery (i.e. "maps") to describe and define sport(s) psychology as a field

Mapping Sports Psychology

Latinjak, A. T., & Hatzigeorgiadis, A. (2021). The Knowledge Map of Sport and Exercise Psychology: An Integrative Perspective. Frontiers in psychology, 12, 661824. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.661824

Learn Before

Related

Learn After