Competitive sport evokes a wide range of feelings and emotions. The study of emotions-performance linkage has been predominantly guided by the Individual Zones of Optimal Functioning (IZOF) and the Individual Affect-related Performance Zones (IAPZ) concepts. These theoretical and practical concepts are grounded on the assumption that the intensity of positive and negative emotions have functional or dysfunctional effects on athletic performance. Consequently, when peak performance is required as often occurs in sport, one should possess the ability to evaluate their emotional state as well as to compare it with their optimal functional emotional state. Then, if adjustments are necessary, one must have the appropriate toolkit to regulate their emotions from the suboptimal state to the optimal one. The complexity of these processes furthers as they depend on various variables (e.g., the task at hand, the environment, the score, etc.) requiring supreme awareness and emotional regulation toolkit.
While the emotion anxiety has received considerable interest, other emotions (e.g., frustration, envy, anger, sadness, & courage) in sport have been under-investigated. Additionally, little is known on issues related to team emotions (e.g., interpersonal emotional influences and emotional contagion), emotional regulation interventions, and emotional intelligence effects on athletes' well-being and performance. Recent issues pertaining to emotions have focused on (a) sport organizational attributes such as the effect of spectators’ emotional experience on marketing consequences, (b) the emotions involved in physical activity. We aim at presenting new research directions in the study of individual and team-shared emotions along with their effect on athletic performance.
We will welcome international submissions featuring original research papers, brief research reports, or case-reports presenting new insights into the following (but not limited to) topics:
• Discrete emotions in athletic performance
• Measurement of emotions
• Differences between emotions, feelings, and mood
• Emotional intelligence effect on athletic performance and well-being
• Emotions in athletic injury and rehabilitation
• Emotions in sport teams - interpersonal emotions and emotional contagion
• Emotions in E-Sports
• Intervention programs for emotional regulation
• Post-performance emotions effect on future motivation, participation, and performance
• Emotions effect on information processing and decision-making
• Emotional intelligence among coaches and the coaching team
• The effect of social media on athletes' emotional well-being
• Emotional disorders among athletes (e.g., depression)
• Youth sport and emotions
Competitive sport evokes a wide range of feelings and emotions. The study of emotions-performance linkage has been predominantly guided by the Individual Zones of Optimal Functioning (IZOF) and the Individual Affect-related Performance Zones (IAPZ) concepts. These theoretical and practical concepts are grounded on the assumption that the intensity of positive and negative emotions have functional or dysfunctional effects on athletic performance. Consequently, when peak performance is required as often occurs in sport, one should possess the ability to evaluate their emotional state as well as to compare it with their optimal functional emotional state. Then, if adjustments are necessary, one must have the appropriate toolkit to regulate their emotions from the suboptimal state to the optimal one. The complexity of these processes furthers as they depend on various variables (e.g., the task at hand, the environment, the score, etc.) requiring supreme awareness and emotional regulation toolkit.
While the emotion anxiety has received considerable interest, other emotions (e.g., frustration, envy, anger, sadness, & courage) in sport have been under-investigated. Additionally, little is known on issues related to team emotions (e.g., interpersonal emotional influences and emotional contagion), emotional regulation interventions, and emotional intelligence effects on athletes' well-being and performance. Recent issues pertaining to emotions have focused on (a) sport organizational attributes such as the effect of spectators’ emotional experience on marketing consequences, (b) the emotions involved in physical activity. We aim at presenting new research directions in the study of individual and team-shared emotions along with their effect on athletic performance.
We will welcome international submissions featuring original research papers, brief research reports, or case-reports presenting new insights into the following (but not limited to) topics:
• Discrete emotions in athletic performance
• Measurement of emotions
• Differences between emotions, feelings, and mood
• Emotional intelligence effect on athletic performance and well-being
• Emotions in athletic injury and rehabilitation
• Emotions in sport teams - interpersonal emotions and emotional contagion
• Emotions in E-Sports
• Intervention programs for emotional regulation
• Post-performance emotions effect on future motivation, participation, and performance
• Emotions effect on information processing and decision-making
• Emotional intelligence among coaches and the coaching team
• The effect of social media on athletes' emotional well-being
• Emotional disorders among athletes (e.g., depression)
• Youth sport and emotions
