Seppo Ensio Iso-ahola

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Social Psychology

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#359

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Psychology

Seppo Ensio Iso-ahola's Degrees

PhD Social Psychology University of Helsinki
Masters Social Psychology University of Helsinki
Bachelors Psychology University of Helsinki

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Seppo Ensio Iso-ahola's Published Works

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Published Works

Toward a social psychological theory of tourism motivation: A rejoinder (1982) (1171)
The Social Psychology of Leisure and Recreation (1980) (830)
Psychological nature of leisure and tourism experience (1987) (812)
Leisure and health: the role of social support and self-determination. (1993) (722)
Sightseeing tourists' motivation and satisfaction (1991) (510)
Leisure-Related Social Support and Self-Determination as Buffers of Stress-Illness Relationship (1996) (332)
Perceptions of Boredom in Leisure: Conceptualization, Reliability and Validity of the Leisure Boredom Scale (1990) (253)
Basic dimensions of definitions of leisure. (1979) (208)
Starting, Ceasing, and Replacing Leisure Activities over the Life-Span (1994) (197)
Towards a social psychology of recreational travel. (1983) (191)
Adolescent substance abuse and leisure boredom. (1991) (182)
Leisure and Boredom (1987) (139)
The dynamics of leisure motivation: the effects of outcome on leisure needs. (1982) (122)
Enhancing a sense of independence and psychological well-being among the elderly: A field experiment. (1995) (115)
“Psychological Momentum”: A Phenomenon and an Empirical (Unobtrusive) Validation of its Influence in a Competitive Sport Tournament (1980) (106)
A psychological analysis of leisure and health (2006) (104)
A theory of substitutability of leisure behavior. (1986) (102)
Social psychological perspectives on leisure and recreation (1980) (102)
Social and psychological constraints on leisure. (1985) (99)
Social psychological techniques and strategies for studying leisure experiences. (1980) (97)
Toward a Theory of Exercise Motivation (2000) (90)
Psychological Momentum: Why Success Breeds Success (2014) (89)
Social psychological foundations of leisure and resultant implications for leisure counseling. (1984) (79)
Psychology of Sports: A Social Psychological Approach (1986) (75)
Perceived competence as a mediator of the relationship between high risk sports participation and self-esteem. (1989) (75)
Burnout and Leisure (1998) (70)
Determinants of Parents' Sideline-Rage Emotions and Behaviors at Youth Soccer Games (2008) (64)
Some social psychological determinants of perceptions of leisure: Preliminary evidence (1979) (62)
Psychological Momentum in Target Shooting: Cortical, Cognitive-Affective, and Behavioral Responses (2000) (61)
Examining the long term effects of leisure education on a sense of independence and psychological well-being among the elderly. (1998) (56)
Intrapersonal and interpersonal factors in athletic performance * (1995) (52)
Psychological Momentum and Competitive Sport Performance: A Field Study (1986) (50)
INTRINSIC LEISURE MOTIVATION, PERSONALITY AND PHYSICAL HEALTH (1984) (49)
Promoting Sportsmanship in Youth Sports (2006) (35)
Psychological Momentum—A Key to Continued Success (2016) (34)
Determinants of leisure behaviour among retired adults. (1988) (33)
On the Theoretical Link between Personality and Leisure (1976) (28)
Immediate attributional effects of success and failure in the field: Testing some laboratory hypotheses† (1977) (28)
Effects of Psychosocial Resources on Elite Soldiers' Completion of a Demanding Military Selection Program (2009) (27)
Exercise: Why It is a Challenge for Both the Nonconscious and Conscious Mind (2013) (26)
Reproducibility in Psychological Science: When Do Psychological Phenomena Exist? (2017) (25)
Leisure behavior and group dynamics: the case of the family. (1980) (24)
Effects of team outcome on children's self-perception: little league baseball. (1977) (22)
Effects of a control-relevant intervention on nursing home residents' perceived competence and self-esteem. (1989) (20)
The emergence of work and leisure ethic from early adolescence to early adulthood. (1981) (20)
Toward a dialectical social psychology of leisure and recreation. (1980) (19)
A psychophysiological profile of winners and losers in sport competition (2013) (15)
On the Measurement of Work and Leisure Ethics and Resultant Intercorrelations (1982) (15)
Experience‐related factors as determinants of leisure satisfaction (1982) (14)
Sex-Role Stereotypes and Causal Attributions for Success and Failure in Motor Performance (1979) (14)
Aging and leisure: a social psychological perspective. (1980) (12)
The Effects of Team Environment on Attentional Resource Allocation and Cognitive Workload (2013) (12)
Conscious versus Nonconscious Mind and Leisure (2015) (11)
Causal attributions following success and failure at an achievement motor task. (1977) (10)
The effects of team environment on cerebral cortical processes and attentional reserve. (2014) (9)
Self-Controlled Practice to Achieve Neuro-Cognitive Engagement: Underlying Brain Processes to Enhance Cognitive-Motor Learning and Performance (2019) (9)
Effects of self-enhancement and consistency on causal and trait attributions following success and failure in motor performance. (1977) (9)
Motivational effects of outcome feedback on motor performance. (1976) (7)
Environment-behavior research: implications for the study of leisure and recreation behavior. (1980) (7)
Momentum and Elite Performance (2017) (7)
Work constraints on leisure: a social psychological analysis. (1985) (6)
Replication and the Establishment of Scientific Truth (2020) (6)
Psychological Momentum—Not a Statistical but Psychological Phenomenon: Response to Commentary by Avugos and Bar-Eli (2015) (2015) (6)
The social psychology of leisure. (1988) (5)
Research in Therapeutic Recreation (1988) (5)
Exercise and freedom (2009) (5)
Contextual priming of a complex behavior: Exercise. (2016) (5)
Leisure Patterns of American and Finnish Youth (1975) (5)
The Relationship Between Recreation Participation and Depression in Psychiatric Patients (1985) (4)
Who's Turning Children's Little League Play into Work?. (1980) (4)
Self-Concepts of Children in Summer Baseball Programs (1980) (4)
Self-Enhancement and Consistency as Determinants of Causal and Trait Attributions of Outcome (1976) (4)
Constraints to Exercise: Attitudinal Antecedents and Motivational Consequences (2006) (4)
Social psychological foundations of therapeutic recreation: an attributional analysis. (1980) (3)
Conscious-Nonconscious Processing Explains Why Some People Exercise but Most Don’t (2017) (3)
Starting, replacing and ceasing leisure activity participation across the human lifespan. (1992) (3)
Social psychology and leisure behavior: a frame of reference and implications for research. (1980) (3)
Conceptual and methodological problems in the analysis of self-serving causal attributions of success and failure (1985) (2)
Determinants of evaluation of team performance (1976) (2)
Improving performance by anchoring movement and "nerves". (2016) (2)
Toward a theory of conscious–nonconscious processing and getting hard (and easy) things done in everyday life. (2021) (2)
Perceiving the causes of objective and subjective outcomes following motor performance. (1978) (2)
People today: withdrawing, coping, adapting. (1982) (2)
Human Mind: Both the Cause and Solution to the Global Pandemic of Physical Inactivity (2018) (1)
Perceived control and responsibility as mediators of the effects of therapeutic recreation on the institutionalized aged. (1980) (1)
Intrinsic Motivation--An Overlooked Basis for Evaluation. (1982) (1)
Evaluation of Self and Team Performance and Feelings of Satisfaction after Success and Failure (1976) (1)
Effects of outcome feedback on perception of dispositional and situational control in motor skill performance. (1979) (1)
Leisure and meaning in life (2023) (0)
Sportsmanship in Youth Sports (2006) (0)
Mastery of Evaluation Techniques for the Undergraduate Major (1980) (0)
The Flagship Journal and its Role in Advancing New Knowledge and the Field of Inquiry (2009) (0)
Replication and Reproducibility in Psychological, Medical and other Sciences (2022) (0)