国外锻炼心理学研究的科学知识图谱分析

在Web of Science数据库中,以锻炼心理学作主题词进行检索,并对所得文献数据进行科学图谱分析,梳理国外锻炼心理学研究脉络,以呈现学科研究的热点与前沿。分析表明,国外锻炼心理学在研究者群体中尚未形成研究热点;引领学科研究的团队和机构集中在英美两国的著名大学;作为一门应用性学科,锻炼心理学的重要理论基础来源于社会认知心理学,而学科研究的信效度问题成为国外研究者们的焦点议题;锻炼心理学中质性研究和青少年问题成为当前的国外研究前沿。

Knowledge Mapping of Overseas Exercise Psychology

The ’exercise psychology’ as the topical term was used to retrieve bibliographic records from the Web of Science.In this article,CiteSpaceⅡ visualization technique was applied to the collected data for reviewing the hot domains and research trends of overseas exercise psychology.Key findings indicate that 1) overseas exercise psychology has not been given more prominence in the literature,2)the study of exercise psychology is mainly led by some famous universities from USA and UK,3)as a applied field of scholarly research,exercise psychology is based on the theories of social cognitive psychology,and the key issues surrounding validity and reliability were discussed among researchers,4) qualitative research and youth issues are detected as the emerging research fronts in overseas exercise psychology.