Understanding Extreme Sports: A Psychological Perspective

• Other Authors: Brymer, Eric (Editor), Feletti, Francesco (Editor), Monasterio, Erik (Editor), Schweitzer, Robert D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2020
• Subjects: Science: general issues; Psychology; extreme sports; wellbeing; Learning; performance; motivations; definitions
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Extreme sports, those activities that lie on the outermost edges of independent adventurous leisure activities, where a mismanaged mistake or accident would most likely result in death, have developed into a significant worldwide phenomenon (Brymer& Schweitzer, 2017a). Extreme sport activities a...