UrFU Scientists Publish a Special Issue of a Spanish Journal on Sports Psychology

09:11, July 22, 2020

A special issue of Revista de Psicologia del Deporte (RPD) is published in three languages: Spanish, English, and Russian

Scientists from the Institute of Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Policy of UrFU with colleagues from Spain have prepared a special issue of an international journal on sports psychology, indexed in the Scopus and Web of Science databases.

The joint international project on the issue of the Spanish journal Revista de Psicologia del Deporte ("Journal of Sports Psychology") was initiated by Valery Malkin, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory of Physical Culture and supported by the University leadership. The issue is issued electronically in three languages ​​- Russian, Spanish and English.

“The purpose of the issue was, on the one hand, to increase the interest of foreign scientists in research carried out within the framework of the Russian school of sports psychology, and on the other, to prepare joint scientific articles,” says Lyudmila Rogaleva, associate professor of the Department of Theory of Physical Culture. - "Vladimir Kruzhaev, First Deputy Vice-Rector for Science of UrFU, played an important role in the implementation of the idea. Also, the great merit in promoting the project belongs to the professor of the University of the Balearic Islands Alex Garcia Mas."

The special issue is divided into two sections. The first includes articles by foreign authors, and the second consists of articles by Russian authors and foreign co-authors, eight of which belong to the staff of UrFU. Articles are grouped in four areas. The first is connected with the disclosure of the history and development of sports psychology in Russia, the second - with the actual problems of children, youth and elite sports, the third - with the issues of involving different groups of the population in physical culture and adaptive sports, and the fourth introduces the results of the introduction of new psychophysiological and psychodiagnostic methods in the practice of sports psychologists.

All articles included in the journal are indexed in WoS. Impact factor of the journal - Q4. Indexing in the Scopus database is planned.