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  2. Sport psychology - Wikipedia

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    Athletes who experience burnout may have different contributing factors, but the more frequent reasons include perfectionism, boredom, injuries, excessive pressure, and overtraining. [68] Burnout is studied in many different athletic populations (e.g., coaches), but it is a major problem in youth sports and contributes to withdrawal from sport.

  3. Sports fandom - Wikipedia

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    Supporters from Leksand IF, Swedish ice hockey team.. Sports fandom refers to the community of fans sharing interests in sports. [1]: 311 [2] [3]Emerging as a significant cultural phenomenon in the late 19th century, sports fandom has evolved alongside the commercialization and globalization of sports, shaping modern entertainment and social identities.

  4. Exercise addiction - Wikipedia

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    Exercise addiction is a state characterized by a compulsive engagement in any form of physical exercise, despite negative consequences. While regular exercise is generally a healthy activity, exercise addiction generally involves performing excessive amounts of exercise to the detriment of physical health, spending too much time exercising to the detriment of personal and professional life ...

  5. Sociology of sport - Wikipedia

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    Sociology of sport, alternately referred to as sports sociology, is a sub-discipline of sociology which focuses on sports as social phenomena. It is an area of study concerned with the relationship between sociology and sports, and also various socio-cultural structures, patterns, and organizations or groups involved with sport.

  6. Social inhibition - Wikipedia

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    Social anxiety is marked by a tendency to have high anxiety before a social interaction, but not experience the avoidance of the social activity that is associated with social phobia. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] Social phobia and social inhibition are linked in a few different ways, one being physiologically .

  7. Asociality - Wikipedia

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    Many cases of social anhedonia are marked by extreme social withdrawal and the complete avoidance of social interaction. [12] One research article studying the individual differences in social anhedonia [13] [14] discusses the negative aspects of this form of extreme or aberrant asociality. Some individuals with social anhedonia are at higher ...

  8. Yips - Wikipedia

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    In sports, the yips are a sudden and unexplained loss of ability to execute certain skills in experienced athletes. Symptoms of the yips are losing fine motor skills and psychological issues that impact the muscle memory and decision-making of athletes, leaving them unable to perform basic skills of their sport.

  9. Activity theory - Wikipedia

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    A simple example of an activity within a call centre might be a telephone operator (subject) who is modifying a customer's billing record (object) so that the billing data is correct (outcome) using a graphical front end to a database (tool). [citation needed] Kuutti formulates activity theory in terms of the structure of an activity.