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Martial Arts and Well-being
Carol Fuller and Viki Lloyd
2019
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Martial Arts and Well-Being explores how martial arts as a source of learning can contribute in important ways to health and well-being, as well as provide other broader social benefits. Using psychological and sociological theory related to behaviour, ritual, perception and reality construction, the book seeks to illustrate, with empirical data, how individuals make sense of and perceive the value of martial arts in their lives. This book draws on data from over 500 people, across all age ranges, and powerfully demonstrates that participating in martial arts can have a profound influence on the construction of behaviour patterns that are directly linked to lifestyle and health. Making individual connections regarding the benefits of practice, improvements to health and well-being – regardless of whether these improvements are ‘true’ in a medical sense – this book offers an important and original window into the importance of beliefs to health and well-being as well as the value of thinking about education as a process of life-long learning. This bookwill be of great interest to a range of audiences, including researchers, academics and postgraduate students interested in sports and exercise psychology, martial art studies and health and well-being. It should also be of interest to sociologists, social workers and martial arts practitioners. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315448084, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Keywords
- Awareness
- behaviour
- behaviour patterns
- Challenging Health Conditions
- Communities
- Connecting
- Drawn Back
- Fuller
- Future Practice
- Health
- healthy foods
- Identity
- Judo
- Karate
- Lloyd
- MA
- Martial arts
- Martial Arts Teacher
- Perception
- psychological theories
- Psychology
- Qi gong
- Ritual
- social
- Sociological Theory
- Tai chi
- Taijiquan
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology
- thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNH Personal and public health / health education::MBNH9 Health psychology
- thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKW Sports injuries and medicine
- thema EDItEUR::S Sports and Active outdoor recreation::SC Sport: general::SCG Sports training and coaching::SCGF Sport science, physical education
- thema EDItEUR::S Sports and Active outdoor recreation::SC Sport: general::SCG Sports training and coaching::SCGP Sports psychology
- Vice Versa
- Well-being
- young man
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DOI: 10.4324/9781315448084Editions