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Papers

(The median citation count of Sport Psychologist is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

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An Insight Into the Use of Personality Assessment by U.K. Sport Psychology Consultants	24
Let’s Hear It From the Kids! Examining the Experiences, Views, and Needs of Highly Committed Children Involved in Youth Sport	21
Reexamining the Association Between Preseason Challenge and Threat States and Performance Across the Season	17
The Effect of Transformational Leadership and Well-Being on Performance of Soccer Players: An Inclusive Model	16
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The Mediating Role of Self-Compassion on the Relationship Between Goal Orientation and Sport-Confidence	10
Coach Servant Leadership and Athlete Serving Behaviors: The Role of Intrinsic Motivation and Positive Affect	9
Two Confessional Tales of Trainee Sport Psychology Practitioners’ Experiences of Operating in Trinidad and Tobago	7
Relationship Between Imagery Ability, Performance, and Variables Related to Performance	7
A Yearlong Psychological-Skills-Training Program With Chinese Athletes: A Narrative Exploration	6
Identifying Predictors of Burnout and Health of Certified Mental Performance Consultants	6
In Pursuit of Excellence: How to Win in Sport and Life Through Mental Training (5th Ed.)	6
Kenshi’s Experiences of Sword Fighting in Kendo: The Way of Ippon With Soul, Sword, and Body	5
A Longitudinal Examination of Stress and Mental Ill-/Well-Being in Elite Football Coaches	5
Association of Coping Strategies With Symptoms of Burnout in Young Football Players in a Career Transition Phase: Are Professionalization and Occurrence of Injuries Mediating Factors?	5
The Relationship of Coach-Created Motivational Climate to Teamwork Behaviors in Female Collegiate Athletes	5
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Client-Led Applied Sport Psychology Practitioners’ Narratives About Helping Athletes	5
Stress-Related Growth in Elite Sport Performers: Qualitative Differentiators in Psychosocial Mechanisms	4
Distinguishing Characteristics Between High and Low Adherence Patients Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Qualitative Examination	4
Stress and Coping Experiences of U.K. Professional Football Managers During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Sustained and Selective Attention in Young Top-Level Athletes in a School Training Setting: A Randomized Control Trial Study	4
Exploring the Implementation and Practices of the Parent–Coach Dual Role	4
Erratum. “Keep the Pace! You’ve Got This!”: The Content and Meaning of Impactful Crowd Encouragement at Mass Running Events	4
Developing and Implementing an App-Based Blended Psychological Skills Training: A Case Study	4

“It’s Necessary Work”: Stories of Competitive Youth Sport Coaches’ Developing Critical Praxes	3
Attentional Foci and Coping Strategies During Matches of Young Fencers in a Training Center: A Naturalistic Video-Assisted Study	3
Mental Health Literacy Intervention to Reduce Stigma Toward Mental Health Symptoms and Disorders in Women Rugby Players: A Feasibility Study	3
“Women Are Cancer, You Shouldn’t Be Working in Sport”: Sport Psychologists’ Lived Experiences of Sexism in Sport	3
A Second-Generation Mindfulness-Based Intervention Focusing on Flow State: A Samatha-Based Training	3
Erratum. “Keep the Pace! You’ve Got This!” The Content and Meaning of Impactful Crowd Encouragement at Mass Running Events	3
The Philosophical Underpinning of Athlete Lifestyle Support: An Existential-Humanistic Perspective	3
Applying Educational Psychology in Coaching Athletes	2
The Relationship Between Cold-Water-Immersion Activities, Mental Health, Self-Efficacy, Resilience, and Mental Toughness	2
“My Life Sucks Right Now”: Student-Athletes’ Pandemic-Related Experiences With Screen Time and Mental Health	2
Journey From Control to Liberation: Exploring Student-Athletes’ Physical Activity Perceptions and Experiences in the Transition Out of Collegiate Sport	2
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The Effects of an Exploratory Mindfulness Intervention on Collegiate Performance	2
Case-Conceptualization Practices in Sport and Performance Psychology	2
A Comprehensive and Updated Review of the Performance Profile Technique	2
“I Love What I Do; That’s The Bottom Line”: Theory of Women’s Career Attraction and Retention in Sport Psychology	2
A Life-Span Approach to Understanding and Managing Choking With a Youth Athlete	2
A Penny for Your Thoughts: Athletes’ and Trainee Sport Psychologists’ Internal Dialogue During Consultations	2
A Solution-Focused Approach to Shared Athlete Leadership Development Using Mixed Methods	2
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Revisiting Perfectionism in High-Level Ballet: A Longitudinal Collective Instrumental Case Study	2
Encouraging Togetherness During a National Lockdown: The Influence of Relationship-Oriented Personal-Disclosure Mutual-Sharing on Team Functioning in Academy Soccer Coaches	1
A Qualitative Exploration of Sport and Exercise Psychology Practitioners’ Perceptions and Experiences of Using Think Aloud in Applied Practice	1
Mental Qualities and Techniques in Tactical Populations: A Systematic Review	1
Having a Goal Up Your Sleeve: Promoting a Mastery Climate in a Youth Football Academy Team	1
Organizational Systems in British Sport and Their Impact on Athlete Development and Mental Health	1
The Impact of an Online Sport Psychology Intervention for Middle-Distance Runners: Should Self-Regulation or Mindfulness Be Prioritized?	1
Investigating “What Works” in an Online Well-Being Intervention for Competitive and High-Performance Swimmers	1
Features and Effects of Athlete Burnout Among Top Amateur Female Rugby Union Players	1
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Adaptation to Change: A Case Study of a Sailor Who Experienced Multiple Career-Change Events and Became a World Champion	1
“Think Aloud” as a Facilitator of Self-Regulation in Golfers	1
A Phenomenological Evaluation of the Psychological Factors That Influence Motorsports Performance	1
The Effects of Instructional Self-Talk on Quiet-Eye Duration and Golf-Putting Performance	1
On the Frontline of Athlete Mental Health: The Mental Health Literacy of NCAA Coaches	1
A Longitudinal Multicase Study About the Board-Game Format of an Educational Self-Talk Intervention	1
Gender (Dis)Similarity in Mentorship Among Intercollegiate Coaches: Implications for Leader Development	1
A Longitudinal Study of Organizational Stressors and Mental Health in the Irish Olympic Team Before and After the “Tokyo 2020” (2021) Olympic Games	1
Korean Dual-Career Judokas’ Junior-to-Senior Transition: A Longitudinal Study	1
Stress and Mental Well-Being Experiences of Professional Football Coaches	0
Supervision in Private Practice: Logistics, Challenges, and Strategies	0
Cohesion and Heterosexist Attitudes in Men’s Collegiate Athletics	0
Australian Football Coaches’ Tales of Mental Toughness: Exploring the Sociocultural Roots	0
“As Many as Possible for as Long as Possible”—A Case Study of a Soccer Team That Fosters Multiple Outcomes	0
Differences in Body Appreciation and Functionality Appreciation Outside of and Directly Following Sport Among Collegiate Student-Athletes	0
How Psychologists in Men’s English Football Academies Evaluate Their Working Context and Adopt an Appropriate Professional Practice Framework	0
A Coach Perspective on a Mastery Motivational Climate in the Competitive Youth Soccer Context	0
“Keep the Pace! You’ve Got This!”: The Content and Meaning of Impactful Crowd Encouragement at Mass Running Events	0
Assessing and Maximizing Collegiate Athletes’ Psychological Skills Under Constraints: A Preseason Brief Intervention Approach	0
The Effectiveness of Progressive Muscle-Relaxation Techniques in Improving Affective Well-Being Among Female Athletes During Menstruation: A Randomized Controlled Study	0

Too Many Cooks, Not Enough Gourmets: Examining Provision and Use of Feedback for the Developing Athlete	0
Coaches’ Perceptions of Mental Toughness in Adolescent Athletes: A Phenomenological Exploration	0
“I Realized It Was a Different Kind of Culture to Other Sports”: An Exploration of Sport Psychology Service Provision and Delivery in Gaelic Games	0
Wearing a “Self-Compassion Suit” May Offer a Performance Edge: A Qualitative Study of Serial-Winning High-Performance Coaches	0
“Short and Sweet”: A Randomized Controlled Initial Investigation of Brief Online Psychological Interventions With Endurance Athletes	0
Self-Expectations, Socially Prescribed Expectations, and Wellness in 14- to 15-Year-Old Athletes, Ballet, and Music Students in Norwegian Talent Schools—An Interview Study	0
Transitioning From Traditional Sport to Esport: Exploring Sport Psychology Practitioners’ Experiences	0
Exploring Elite Athlete Experiences of Growth: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Well-Being	0
Exploring the Relationship Between Athletes’ Perceptions of Their Team Motivational Climate and Their Sport Shame	0
#SportPsychMapping: An Exploratory Interview Framework for Sport and Exercise Psychology	0
A Collective Case Study of Parent–Athlete–Coach Triads in British Youth Tennis	0
“It’s Absolutely Essential”: Sport and Performance Psychology Practitioners’ Perspectives on Training, Use, and Importance of Debriefing in Applied Work	0
A Two-Sample Examination of the Relationship Between Trait Emotional Intelligence, Burnout, and Coping Strategies in Athletes	0
Erratum: Taylor and Collins (2020)	0
Alexithymia and the Anxiolytic Effect of Endurance Running	0
Effective Delivery of Pressure Training: Perspectives of Athletes and Sport Psychologists	0
It’s a MuSt Win: The Effects of Self-Talk to Enhance Passing Performance Under Pressure in Elite Football Players	0
A Survey of Applied Impact of Literature in Sport Psychology	0
Masters Athletes’ Views on Sport Psychology for Performance Enhancement and Sport Lifestyle Adherence	0
Stressors Experienced by Professional Jockeys	0
Evaluating Sport Psychology Service Delivery for Elite USA Track and Field Athletes: Findings and Recommendations	0
Sport Psychology Consultants’ Views on Working With Perfectionistic Elite Athletes	0
An Exploration of Sport Psychology Professional Quality of Life in British Neophyte Practitioners	0
We Know That We Are All Together: A Case Study of the Communal Coping Process in a Professional Ice Hockey Team	0
Missing Out, as Well: The Absence of Youth Sports and Its Effect on Parents During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic	0
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Mindfulness and Performance	0
A Proposed Three-Stage Postperformance-Routine Framework	0
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The Importance of the Leaders’ and Coaches’ Motivating Style for Sports Club Members’ Motivation to Participate in Organized Sports: Study of Trickle-Down Effects	0
Understanding the Leadership and Environmental Mechanisms in a Super League Netball Club	0
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Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement With an American College Rugby Team: A Consensual Qualitative Research Study	0
The Self-Regulation and Smartphone Usage Model: A Framework to Help Athletes Manage Smartphone Usage	0
A Buffering Effect of Mental Toughness on the Negative Impact of Basic Psychological Need Thwarting on Positive Youth Athlete Functioning	0
Profiling Coach Openness to Positive Youth Development Before, During, and After Their Participation in a Coach Education Course	0
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From the Lesson Tee to the Course: A Naturalistic Investigation of Attentional Focus in Elite Golf	0
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National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Assistant Coaches’ Understanding and Use of Mental Performance and Mental Health Services	0
Exploring Female University Athlete Experiences of Coping With Protracted Concussion Symptoms	0
A Novel Exploration of Occupational Recovery in Certified Mental Performance Consultants	0
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The Effects of a Brief Online Rational-Emotive-Behavioral-Therapy Program on Coach Irrational Beliefs and Well-Being	0
The Impact of Sexual Orientation on College Athlete Sport-Related Belonging and Well-Being	0
Multicultural Training and Program Climate in Master’s Degree Sport Psychology Programs	0
Usual and Pressure-Affected Thinking in Skilled Golfers: A Survey of Preparation and Execution Thought Processes	0
Effect of Preperformance Routine on Advanced Swimmers’ Performance and Motor Efficiency, Self-Efficacy, and Idiosyncratic Emotions	0
The Inducers of an Elite Male Table Tennis Player’s Emotional Experience Throughout His Career: A Single Case Study Based on the Critical-Incident Method	0
Exploring the Athletic Identity, Anxiety, and Mental Health of Division II Collegiate Athletes in the COVID-19 Era	0
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Across the Pond: An Exploration of the American Collegiate System as a Pathway for Elite British Female Gymnasts	0
Having Impact and Doing It Quickly: The Place for Brief and Single-Session Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies in Sport Psychology Practice	0
From Imaginative Experiments to Inventive Performances: On the Role of Creativity in the Developmental Experiences of Professional Ice Hockey Players	0
How to Support Athlete Autonomy in University Sports: Coaches’ Experience of the reROOT Program	0
Increasing Anaerobic Power in Cycling By Implementing Embodied Self-Talk	0
Fostering Psychosocial Characteristics Within an English Soccer Academy	0
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