title: What goes around comes around: re-emerging themes in sport and exercise psychology.
abstract: Sport and exercise psychology research appearing in Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (RQES) over the past 75 years can be characterized by re-emerging themes-hot topics in the 1930s remain hot topics now. Re-emerging themes include sportsmanship/moral development, social development/significant others, self-perceptions, attitudes/motivation, modeling/observational learning, emotion/arousal/anxiety, competition/achievement orientations, and gender roles. Although research paradigms and methodologies have changed, these topics have endured. We also identified dominant emergent themes appearing in RQES over the last 25 years: measurement development and validation; physical activity adoption and adherence; and multidisciplinary approaches to psychological issues. Given the many specialty journals and trends toward integrating models and methods from multiple disciplines, we suggest that RQES adopt a multidisciplinary focus for research in the field of kinesiology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Services, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22093-4407, USA. mrw5d@virginia.edu
authors.forename: Maureen R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Weiss
authors.forename: Diane L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Gill
mesh_terms: D015444:Exercise / Q000523:psychology*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D012106:Research / Q000266:history / Q000639:trends*; D012107:Research Design; D013177:Sports / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States