Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise Psychology:Reflection and Prospect

In recent ten years, the number of qualitative research showed increasing trend in sport and exercise psychology, the topics are relate to the emotion regulation of athletes, coach behavior, exercise representation, social support of exercise, career development of elite athletes, experience of competition, patient psychological social experience in sport and consultant of sport psychology.Positivist/postposivtivist approaches maintain a predominant position in sport psychology research.Case, phenomenology and grounded theory are used in mostly study, parallel perspective are viewed as criteria to judge quality.The integration between naturalist tradition and explanation based on different social cultural and times, will dominate the development of qualitative theory and practice.Sport and exercise psychologist will present understanding on sport/exercise participation in ethnological works return to Chinese native culture.