Unit PSYCHOLOGY OF MOTOR ACTIVITIES
- Course
- Sciences and tecniques of sports and preventive and adapted physical activity
- Study-unit Code
- 50998504
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Claudia Mazzeschi
- Teachers
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- Claudia Mazzeschi
- Livia Buratta (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 16 ore - Claudia Mazzeschi
- 16 ore (Codocenza) - Livia Buratta
- CFU
- 4
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2025
- Offered
- 2026/27
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline psicologiche e pedagogiche
- Sector
- M-PSI/05
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course is devoted to introduce students to physical activity' psychology in preventive and clinical context, both for adulthood and childhood.
- Reference texts
- Lucidi, F. (2011). Sportivamente. Temi di psicologia dello sport. LED Editore.
Scientific articles (in English).
Slide of the course - Educational objectives
- The course aims to:
- Develop Knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of psychology applied to sport and motor activities, both in the contexts of prevention and in the specialty, for adults and developmental age.
- Enable the student to apply this knowledge to resolve new situations related to the design of work (intervention, research, individual case, group) based on sport and motor activity, contemplating the psychological aspects as elements that promote and support the work or as friction factors.
- Develop Autonomy of Judgement: it is expected that the student will be able to integrate knowledge acquired at a theoretical level with the specificity of concrete cases that he/she may encounter in work contexts.
- Develop communication skills that will enable him/her to communicate with specialists (and non-specialists) in the sector and/or in an interdisciplinary manner.
- Develop learning skills, and competence in the autonomous study and research of specialized material in the sector also and through the use of bibliographic research in sector databases. - Prerequisites
- The student must possess basic knowledge of General Psychology.
This knowledge must be possessed to understand the course content. - Teaching methods
- The course will take place as face-to-face class and, if possible, classroom exercises.
- Other information
- The student can check the course material and any announcements/notices from the Professor on UniStudium during the course.
- Learning verification modality
- The student can check the course material and any announcements/notices from the Professor on UniStudium during the course.
- Extended program
- The course aims to introduce the student to the study of psychology applied to sport and motor activity with reference also to the contexts of prevention and 'specialty', both for adulthood and developmental age, to also develop planning and implementation skills from a multidisciplinary perspective.