Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychology of Sport and Exercise is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Motor learning without physical practice: The effects of combined action observation and motor imagery practice on cup-stacking speed59
Don’t look back in anger: A cross-sectional and dyadic examination of the Dark Triad, anger, and aggression in athletes55
Personality, motivational, and social cognition predictors of leisure-time physical activity49
Mobility and migration experiences of transnational coaches within the Israeli handball context47
Relationship between perceived physical self-concept and grade in physical education: The mediating role of test anxiety47
Within-person examination of the exercise intention-behavior gap among women in midlife with elevated cardiovascular disease risk33
Mind over body: Interfering with the inner voice is detrimental to endurance performance28
Maltreatment experiences and mental health indicators among elite athletes27
Systems factorial technology provides novel insights into the cognitive processing characteristics of open-skill athletes27
COVID-19: Assessing the impact of lockdown on recreational athletes26
Situational information and the design of representative learning tasks: What impact does a scoreboard have on expert taekwondo fighters' behaviour and affective-cognitive responses?25
Narcissism and antisocial behaviour in sport: The moderating role of self-compassion25
Performance slumps in sport: A systematic review25
The impact of physical load on duration estimation in sport25
“That’s too stereotypical … I don’t want that to be how I identify”: Identity and body-related sport experiences of racialized young women athletes in Canada24
A framework to explain the in-match decision-making of elite Australian football coaches24
Peer and parent influences on youth skateboarding and factors that affect their decision to return to the sport after injury23
Development of the Stressors among Parents in Youth Sport Survey (SPYSS)23
Effects of task difficulty on performance and event-related bradycardia during preparation for action23
Less stick more carrot? Increasing the uptake of deposit contract financial incentives for physical activity: A randomized controlled trial23
Testing the moderative role of automatic-reflective affect divergence in predicting physical activity23
Editorial Board22
The association between morning pleasant anticipation and daily positive incidental affect on adults’ daily steps: An ecological momentary assessment study22
FEPSAC Newsletter21
Canadian athletes' perspectives of mental health care and the importance of clinicians' sport knowledge: A multi-method investigation21
The influence of mental toughness on responses to feedback in snooker: A real-time examination21
The transnational experience of sport psychology practitioners from training to practice20
Contextual information in situations of uncertainty: The value of explicit-information provision depends on expertise level, knowledge acquisition and prior-action congruency20
Testing the Physical Activity Self-Definition Model among low-active adults participating in a physical activity intervention20
Linking psychological risk profiles to running-related injuries and chronic fatigue in long-distance runners: A latent profile analysis20
Unimpaired performance during cognitive and visual manipulations in persons with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction compared to healthy adults20
Why study emotions in sport?19
January 2023 Editorial19
Examining links between coaching behaviors and collegiate athletes’ burnout levels using a longitudinal approach19
Perceiving the inertial properties of actions in anticipation skill19
Long-term efficacy of exercise across diagnostically heterogenous mental disorders and the mediating role of affect regulation skills19
The effect of acute exercise on cognitive and motor inhibition – Does fitness moderate this effect?19
Editorial Board18
Last and fast? – A gender-specific analysis of effort gains in swimming relay events across Olympic Games and World Championships during the past 20 years18
A mixed-methods case study examining the developmental networks of athletes in a wheelchair rugby team18
FEPSAC Newsletter18
Moved to action? Gender differences in perceived effort and motor performance after video-based achievement motive arousal18
Mental fatigue, anticipated effort, and subjective valuations of exercising predict choice to exercise or not: A mixed-methods study18
Prospective associations between physical fitness and executive function in adolescents: The UP&DOWN study18
Do attentional focus cues affect the type or number of explicit rules? Proof of concepts of the self-invoking trigger or explicit knowledge hypotheses17
A cluster randomized trial of a rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) program and a mindfulness-acceptance-commitment (MAC) program, with South African adolescent rugby players17
The role of career adaptability resources in dual career pathways: A person-oriented longitudinal study across elite sports upper secondary school17
Developmental relations of achievement goals and affect in physical education17
It takes two to tango: Using the actor-partner interdependence model for studying the coach-athlete relationship16
Personal strivings of mentally tough Australian Rules footballers16
Development and validation of the Coaching Athlete Purpose Scale (CAPS)16
The Stride program: Feasibility and pre-to-post program change of an exercise service for university students experiencing mental distress16
This Girl Can, can’t she? Perspectives from physical activity providers and participants on what factors influence participation15
The Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ-4): Psychometric evidence of introjected approach regulation in Portuguese health club exercisers15
Communication profiles and sport experiences of collegiate track and field athletes15
Primary school teacher outcomes from online professional development for physical literacy: A randomised controlled trial15
Self-control exertion and caffeine mouth rinsing: Effects on cycling time-trial performance15
Promoting physical activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in Australia: The roles of psychological predictors and commercial physical activity apps15
The impact of variation and autonomy on psychological responses to high intensity interval training exercise15
Women's exercise identity increases after a 16-week exercise RCT and is linked to behavior maintenance at follow-up15
Flow and outdoor adventure recreation: Using flow measures to re-examine motives for participation14
A longitudinal examination of thriving in sport performers14
Trails, traits, and mental states: Psychological differences between competitive and recreational sub-ultra and ultramarathon runners14
Changes in students’ goal pursuits and motivational regulations toward healthy behaviors during the pandemic: A Self-Determination Theory perspective14
Experiences with social support among older adult women participating in gay square dancing14
Perceived motivational climate influences athletes’ emotion regulation strategies, emotions, and psychobiosocial experiences14
An integrated mindfulness and acceptance-based program for young elite female basketball players: Exploratory study of how it works and for whom it works best14
The effects of physical activity timing and complexity on episodic memory: A randomized controlled trial14
Modeling talent development pathways in alpine ski racers14
Associations of cardiorespiratory fitness and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity with latent cognitive abilities in older adults13
Assessing lifetime stressor exposure in sport performers: Associations with trait stress appraisals, health, well-being, and performance13
The effect of learner-adapted practice schedule and task similarity on motivation and motor learning in older adults13
Association of parent, coach, and peer motivational climate with high school athlete burnout and engagement: Comparing mediation and moderation models13
Defining the scope and content of mental health guidelines for community sport in Australia: A Delphi study13
Follow the leader: Identity leadership and moral behaviour in social situations among youth sport teammates13
Improving physical activity using a single personalized consequence-based approach-avoidance training: Effects on self-reported behaviors, attitudes, and choices13
Perceptual-cognitive performance of youth soccer players in a 360°-environment – An investigation of the relationship with soccer-specific performance and the effects of systematic training13
Too bored for sports? Adaptive and less-adaptive latent personality profiles for exercise behavior13
Effects of instagram sports posts on the athletic motivation of female elite athletes: Do they inspire or backfire?13
The effect of augmented feedback on the performance and learning of gross motor and sport-specific skills: A systematic review13
“Icing the shooter” in basketball: The unintended consequences of time-out management when the game is on the line12
The use of heart rate variability in esports: A systematic review12
Qualitative evaluation of a sports-based mental health literacy program for adolescent males12
Physical fitness, cognitive functioning and academic achievement in healthy adolescents12
Examining the reliability and predictive validity of performance assessments by soccer coaches and scouts: The influence of structured collection and mechanical combination of information12
Affordance-based control in deceptive and non-deceptive penalties in soccer goalkeeping: Gender matters!12
Effects of normative feedback on motor learning are dependent on the frequency of knowledge of results12
Effects of acute endurance, strength, and coordination exercise interventions on attention in adolescents: A randomized controlled study12
Teamwork makes the dream work: Testing for shared perceptions on psycho-behavioural skills between athletes, coaches and parents12
Ethnic diversity and cohesion in interdependent youth sport contexts12
Effects of isolated and combined mental and physical fatigue on motor skill and endurance exercise performance12
Integrating technology in psychological skills training for performance optimization in elite athletes: A systematic review11
QEEG markers of superior shooting performance in skilled marksmen: An investigation of cortical activity on psychomotor efficiency hypothesis11
Extraordinary claims in the literature on high-intensity interval training (HIIT): IV. Is HIIT associated with higher long-term exercise adherence?11
Within-person association of volitional factors and physical activity: Insights from an ecological momentary assessment study11
Exergame-based exercise training for depressive symptoms in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis11
Gender-related differences in self-reported problematic exercise symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis11
Focusing on the coach’s eye; towards a working model of coach decision-making in talent selection11
Relationships among behavioural regulations, physical activity, and mental health pre- and during COVID–19 UK lockdown11
Motivational and emotional effects of social comparison in sports11
Associations of physical activity dose and movement quality with executive functions in socioeconomically disadvantaged children aged 5–6 years11
When the going gets tough, what happens to quiet eye? The role of time pressure and performance pressure during basketball free throws11
Brief mindfulness meditation intervention improves attentional control of athletes in virtual reality shooting competition: Evidence from fNIRS and eye tracking11
Pregnancy and motherhood in elite sport: The longitudinal experiences of two elite athletes11
Playing it safe: The relationship between parent attitudes to risk and injury, and children’s adventurous play and physical activity11
Effectiveness of an affect-adjusted, supervised, multimodal, online and home-based exercise group protocol for major depression: A randomized controlled trial10
Benefits of a group-based running session on feelings of energy and fatigue: No augmenting effect of green exercise during the defoliation season10
Expertise advantage of automatic prediction in visual motion representation is domain-general: A meta-analysis10
Editorial Board10
Fostering health behaviour change in overweight male football fans through the European Fans in Training (EuroFIT) program: A Self-Determination Theory perspective10
The psychology of rock climbing: A systematic review10
Everything is cool when you're part of a team? The effects of outcome interdependence on appraisal, emotions, and performance under pressure10
Examining football players' perceived social support across organizational levels and its links to holistic talent development outcomes in German youth academies10
The relationship between physical activity environment, mental wellbeing, flourishing and thriving: A mixed method study10
Decision-making in action: How international-level professional football players gain an advantage10
“Change needs to start at home”: A reflexive thematic analysis of girl athletes' and coaches’ experiences of body image in New Delhi, India10
The effects of coaches’ pride and shame expressions on field hockey players’ emotions and performance10
A grounded theory of youth athlete concussion under-reporting decisions9
Measuring leadership in sport: Development and validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory – Youth (ILI-Y)9
Barriers and enablers in doping, anti-doping, and clean sport: A qualitative meta-synthesis informed by the theoretical domains framework and COM-B model9
Dual career (DC) experiences of Korean elite judokas before and at university9
Professional development of sport psychology practitioners: From systematic review to a model of development9
Executive functions in children engaging in open- and closed-skilled sports9
Ego depletion does not negatively impact novice sprinters’ start performance during a timed 20m all-out sprint9
Relationships influencing organisational culture in men’s elite football clubs in Norway9
Mental health in athletes: Does authentic leadership matter?9
Optimal psychological states in advanced climbers: Antecedents, characteristics, and consequences of flow and clutch states9
The effect of COVID-19 on home advantage in high- and low-stake situations: Evidence from the European national football competitions9
Editorial Board9
Resilience profiles of elite athletes and their associations with health-related behaviors, well-being, and performance: A latent profile analysis9
The power of human touch: Physical contact improves performance in basketball free throws9
Factors contributing to elite athletes’ mental health in the junior-to-senior transition: A mixed methods study9
Psychological well-being and exercise addiction: The treatment effects of an REBT intervention for females9
Six-month stability of individual differences in sports coaches’ burnout, self-compassion and social support9
“What we talk about is creating a probability”: Exploring the interaction between the anticipation and decision-making processes of professional bowlers and batters in Twenty20 cricket8
Sleep disturbances and depression are bidirectionally associated among college student athletes across COVID-19 pandemic exposure classes8
360°-multiple object tracking in team sport athletes: Reliability and relationship to visuospatial cognitive functions8
Depression severity and psychosocial determinants of physical activity behavior in in-patients with major depressive disorders8
The introduction of the Video Assistant Referee supports the fairness of the game – An analysis of the home advantage in the German Bundesliga8
Genetic associations with personality and mental toughness profiles of English academy football players: An exploratory study8
The relation of learning disabilities to the long-term outcomes of concussion8
Predicting high quality of participation in adaptive snow-sports for individuals with disabilities: An exploratory study8
Parent and child car-ride interactions before and after sport competitions and practices: Video analysis of verbal and non-verbal communication8
A conceptual model for mental health and performance of North American athletes: A mixed methods study8
“Nothing was lost sailing-wise and lots is gained on a personal level”: Practitioners’ behaviors and athletes’ perceptions of working in online environments8
Understanding physical education teachers’ motivational outcomes and feasibility beliefs to implement motivational strategies: The role of perceived pressures from a variable- and person-centered appr8
Momentary affective response to bouts of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity predicts changes in physical activity and sedentary behavior during behavioral weight loss8
The Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire adapted for youth with intellectual disabilities (TEOSQ-ID)8
FEPSAC Newsletter8
Controlling the flight on double-handed foiling catamarans: The role of shared equipment on the crew members' mutual modes of regulation8
A Developmental Perspective on Motor-Cognitive Interactions and Performance in Sports8
Negotiating a transnational career around borders: Women's stories in boundaryless academia8
The effects of rational emotive behavior therapy and motivational interviewing on emotions, automatic thoughts, and perceived performance of elite female volleyball players8
Affective reactions to real-life stressors and the role of physical activity in sports students – An Ambulatory Assessment study8
What do we know about the effects of mental training applied to combat sports? A systematic review8
Assembling the sense of home in emigrant elite athletes: Cultural transitions, narrative and materiality8
Efficacy of physical activity interventions on psychological outcomes in refugee, asylum seeker and migrant populations: A systematic review and meta-analysis8
Validation of a revised version of the Physical Self-Inventory – Very Short form for youth with intellectual disabilities (PSI-VS-ID-R): A Bayesian structural equation modeling approach8
The impact of living in a bio-secure bubble on mental health: An examination in elite cricket8
‘On-the ground’ strategy matrix for fostering quality participation experiences among persons with disabilities in community-based exercise programs8
Exploring the “clutch” in clutch performance: A qualitative investigation of the experience of pressure in successful performance8
Pacing strategy in trail running: A cognitive subtractive model of the affective balance between effort and pleasure?8
Perceived self-efficacy by Under-10 tennis players when scaling the equipment and play area8
Editorial Board8
Using video docuseries to explore male professional football head coaches’ well-being experiences throughout a season8
The role of team and sport social contexts: Are three-level models needed in studies of sport conduct?7
Editorial Board7
A longitudinal investigation of the role of perceived autonomy support from coaches in reducing athletes’ experiential avoidance: The mediating role of subjective vitality7
Editorial Board7
A test of the impact of pain on automatic motivational processes in people with knee osteoarthritis7
The performance enhancement attitude scale (PEAS) reached ‘adulthood’: Lessons and recommendations from a systematic review and meta-analysis7
FEPSAC Newsletter7
Running as a way fat women re-story their bodies and construct a runner identity in a North American sociocultural context7
Towards a framework of cognitive processes during competitive golf using the Think Aloud method7
The examination of factors influencing the recognition of affective states associated with tennis players’ non-verbal behaviour7
Editorial Board7
FEPSAC Newsletter7
Dimensions of social identification with the team as predictors of the coach-created training climate in rugby: A group-actor partner interdependence modelling perspective7
Motivation beliefs, emotions, leisure time physical activity, and sedentary behavior in university students: A full longitudinal model of mediation7
A psychological intervention reduces doping likelihood in British and Greek athletes: A cluster randomized controlled trial7
Does messaging matter? A registered report on appearance-versus health-based message framing in exercise appeals targeted towards women7
Change in the social context of physical activity across adolescence and its association with moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity7
A sports-based intervention for pupils excluded from mainstream education: A systems approach to intervention acceptability and feasibility7
The mediational role of executive functions for the relationship between motor ability and academic performance in pediatric cancer survivors7
Exploring the interplay between sport modality and cognitive function in open- and closed-skill athletes7
Athletic identity, values and self-regulatory efficacy governing hypercompetitive attitudes7
Professional migration from the United States to Europe: Composite vignettes of black male basketball players from underserved communities7
The effects of an authentic coaching intervention on athlete outcomes: A pilot randomised controlled trial7
Trainee clinical, and sport and exercise psychologists’ experiences of professional development: A longitudinal study7
Editorial Board7
Screen-based and non-screen-based sedentary behaviors are differentially associated with affective states in older adults7
I AM FAMILY: Understanding the adapted sport experiences of family members of military personnel with physical and psychological illnesses and injuries through the lens of the Invictus Games7
FEPSAC Newsletter7
Team identification and athlete burnout: Testing longitudinal serial mediation via perceived support and stress7
The right man in the right place? Substitutions and goal-scoring in soccer7
Understanding organizational resilience in elite sport: An exploration of psychosocial processes7
Do not drop your gloves: “Winning” a fight in the National Hockey League does not improve chances to win the game7
Drop-out from team sport among adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies6
Motor competence predicts self-esteem during childhood in typical development children6
A longitudinal analysis of reciprocal relationships between actual and perceived motor competencies and physical self-concept in primary-school age children6
Passion and performance anxiety: How it affects the incidence of musculoskeletal disorders in dancers6
Substitutions of physical activity and sedentary behavior with negative emotions and sex difference among college students6
Macronutrient intake as a prospective predictor of depressive symptom severity: An exploratory study with adolescent elite athletes6
Effects of Stroop task duration on subsequent cognitive and physical performance6
Examining the day-level impact of physical activity on affect during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: An ecological momentary assessment study6
An initial investigation into the mental health difficulties in athletes who experience choking under pressure6
Meaning, trust, and belonging: Exploring the factors that foster elite forced migrant athletes’ growth6
Multiple domain-general assessments of cognitive functions in elite athletes: Contrasting evidence for the influence of expertise, sport type and sex6
Physical activity and motor skills in children: A differentiated approach6
Exploration of the moderator effect of cultural diversity on team performance across 45 professional football leagues: An ecological dynamics perspective on cross-cultural research6
Do you find exercise pleasant or unpleasant? The Affective Exercise Experiences (AFFEXX) questionnaire6
Use your imagination for better performance. Effects of analogy instruction in motor skills. A systematic review and meta-analysis6
Associations between moral disengagement and prosocial and antisocial behavior in sport: A systematic review and meta-analysis6
Examining the relationship between response inhibition and Taekwondo performance: The importance of ecological validity6
Creating optimally safe and enjoyable youth sporting experiences within the United Kingdom6
Capturing coaches' identity leadership within youth sport6
Corrigendum to “Pain intensity and pain unpleasantness in triathletes: A study examining their associations with pain catastrophizing and pain expectations” [Psychology of Sport and Exercise 55 (2021)6
“We are on the outside but it’s okay”: A grounded theory of cooperation between parents, coaches, and administrators in professional youth soccer academies6
Exploring coaches' experiences and perceptions of a virtual parasport coach mentorship program6
Qualified fitness trainers practice scientifically based judgement in prescribing exercise programs6
Compassion matters in elite sports environments: Insights from high-performance coaches6
Storying sports injury experiences of elite track athletes: A narrative analysis6
Mental health profiles among 13-16-year-Old Norwegian talent and mainstream students - A prospective person-centered analytical approach6
How affective and instrumental physical activity outcomes are associated with motivation, intentions, and engagement in subsequent behavior6
A cluster randomized trial to evaluate need-supportive teaching in physical education on physical activity of sixth-grade girls: A mixed method study6
Sleep interventions for performance, mood and sleep outcomes in athletes: A systematic review and meta-analysis6
Cognitive-behavioural processes during route previewing in bouldering6
Some pressures are more equal than others: Effects of isolated pressure on performance6
“I’m more than my sport”: Exploring the dynamic processes of identity change in athletic retirement6
Pain intensity and pain unpleasantness in triathletes: A study examining their associations with pain catastrophizing and pain expectations6
Disentangling general and sport-specific risk factors for anxiety and depression in a mixed sample of athletes and non-athletes6
Towards consensus in conceptualizing and operationalizing physical activity maintenance6
Exploring the role of mindfulness in the stress-recovery balance: 10-Day monitoring of young BMX riders in an intensive training center during a pre-competition cycle6
Examining the roles of experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion on the effects from mindfulness to athlete burnout: A longitudinal study6
Flow in youth sport, physical activity, and physical education: A systematic review6
Prevalence of symptoms of common mental disorders among elite Canadian athletes6
The influence of identity leadership principles on followers' challenge and threat states and motor performance5
A quantitative assessment of the predictive utility of grit in sport5
Effect of acute concurrent exercise training and the mediating role of lactate on executive function: An ERP study5
Olympic coaching excellence: A quantitative study of psychological aspects of Olympic swimming coaches5
Integrating models of self-regulation and optimal experiences: A qualitative study into flow and clutch states in recreational distance running5
Perfectionism and performance in sport: Exploring non-linear relationships with track and field athletes5
The roles of readiness and dosage in predicting outcomes of a mindful sport performance enhancement intervention with U.S. college student-athletes5
The interplay between parental behaviors and adolescents' sports-related values in understanding adolescents' dropout of organized sports activities5
Negative self-talk in runners: Emotional intelligence and perceived stress as explanatory factors5
Can discrepancies between impulsive and reflective processes be associated with movement behavior among the elderly? The facilitating role of inhibitory control5
Automatic processes moderate the association between reflective processes and movement behavior: A cross-sectional study5
The effects of exercise at different temperatures on cognitive function: A systematic review5
Further evidence for the validity of a survey for self-regulated learning in sport practice5
Are trait self-control and self-control resources mediators of relations between executive functions and health behaviors?5
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