• ARTICLES, Special Section, XIVth Biennial Conference of the EPCA - 2018

Sport psychology from a comprehensive PCP point of view

Del Rizzo, F.

Keywords:
constructivist sport psychology, sociality corollary.

Abstract:
The range of convenience of PCP has proved to be quite large, and one of the fields in which it can fully prove its usefulness is sport psychology. In the past, thanks in particular to the contributions of Richard Butler and David Savage, we had important examples of the way in which PCP tools can help understand and facilitate athletes' and coaches' experiences. In this paper I will try to look at sportspersons' experience through the lenses of PCP and in particular of the Sociality Corollary. In the first part I will outline my tentative effort to subsume athletic experience by means of PCP professional constructs. In the second part I will illustrate my constructivist approach by means of a case study.