Editorial
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It has been nearly seven years since Miguel Humara dreamed Athletic Insight, the online peer reviewed journal of sport psychology, into existence. Since, AI has undergone extensive change. One such change has been in terms of staff categorization. Most recently, we have opted to classify our reviewing staff into junior and senior categories. Our junior staff is comprised of promising academic researchers and applied practitioners with a minimum of completed graduate level education. These promising members of the AI Team will have the opportunity, from the present onward, to respond to some of the many letters we receive from aspiring athletes, coaches, and parents. In addition, our junior reviewers will be provided with the opportunity to hone their reviewing skills with book review submissions and short applied articles alongside some of our more experienced senior reviewers. Our junior review staff is comprised of Dwayne Ham, Danelle Kabush, Matt Kelly, Adam Nicholls, Brandon Pleaner, Eric J. Sanders, and Melina Timson-Katchis. We would like to welcome these relative newcomers to the AI Team. You will also find that we have an ever increasing number of Senior Reviewers, all of whom are highly competent authors within their respective topic areas. Some of our Senior Reviewers have remained with us for a number of years, and continue to provide fantastic turn around despite increased demand from a growing number of well regarded authors, worldwide. We would like to thank Dr. Krista Munroe Chandler, Dr. Mark Eys, Dr. Michael Emond, Dr. Lisa Fender-Scarr, Dr. Lena Fung, Dr. James Hardy, Dr. Wayne Halliwell, Dr. Sandy Kimbrough, Dr. Alan Kornspan, Dr. Karla Kubitz, Dr. Todd M. Loughead, Dr. Kevin Ludlum, Dr. John Mills, Dr. Eduardo Remor, Dr. Sandra Short, Dr. Robert Udewitz, and Dr. Michael Voight. As you can see by the increased number of well regarded academics and practitioners, Athletic Insight’s future is guaranteed, and it is solid. Dr. Humara and I would also like to thank Dr. Tom Ferraro for his continued service as an Assistant Editor to Athletic Insight. Dr. Ferraro is an eminent applied sport psychologist, and we are both delighted by his continued involvement with AI. Applied Sport Psychology plays an important part within our domain as the relevance and timeliness of applied sport psychology discussions are considered. Dr. Ferraro’s sage advice will help guide our staff in this regard in the years to come, and he will continue to play a role in the applied flavor of Athletic Insight. Further, his knowledge and mentoring skills will be employed by our reviewers as they respond to applied submissions and applied questions from our ever growing readership. Onward to where we currently are: the release of our December, 2004 installment. As you will see, our most recent of contributors cover a wide number of topic areas, and they hail from three different continents and five countries. We are delighted that our readership continues to be exposed to different sport psychology perspectives, reflecting different cultures, and different geographical locations. One such article is authored by K. Mummery, G. Schofield and C. Perry, all from countries within the Oceana region. Their article “Bouncing Back: The Role of Coping Style, Social Support and Self-Concept in Resilience of Sport Performance” addresses all of the aforementioned factors in relation to their potential effects after negative performances among competitive swimmers. A. J. Ross, J. B. Davies, and P. Clarke, hailing from Scotland, have taken the attribution literature one step further with the development of a qualitative method through which they evaluate post-performance explanations, in their article titled “Attributing to Positive and Negative Sport Outcomes: A Structural Analysis”. S. E. Short, J. Reuter, J. Brandt, M. Short, and A. P. Kontos from the United States consider the relationship among three discrete factors that contribute to athlete perceived risk of injury within contact sport in their article “The Relationship Among Three Components of Perceived Risk of Injury, Previous Risk of Injuries and Gender in Contact Sport Athletes”. G. J. Lotysz and S. E. Short, again from the United States address the struggles experienced by one athlete undergoing career termination at the highest level of professional sport in their submission, aptly titled “What Ever Happened to…The Effects of Career Termination from the National Football League”. Finally, R. T. Couture and J. Bocksnick from Canada engage in an increasingly relevant exercise adherence discussion given the aging population we are now experiencing as a result of the baby boom. Couture and Bocksnick consider the effects of brisk walking on the somatic anxiety levels of female senior citizens with their article titled: “Acute Exercise and Lower Somatic Anxiety”. As you can see, the submissions accepted as part of this installment cover a wide array of topics within sport and exercise psychology. The variety of content found within the current installment of AI is in keeping with the varied interests of our readership. We welcome you to Athletic Insight, if you have not found this journal before, and wish you happy reading as you comb through the most recent of AI’s submissions, and the topics that are most relevant to you, the reader. Finally, we wish you, the reader, the warmest of season’s greetings from Athletic Insight and its entire staff. Robert Schinke, Ed.D. CMTR
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