Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Article	Citations
Body image experiences in retired Olympians: Losing the embodied self	72
Development of the Stressors among Parents in Youth Sport Survey (SPYSS)	55
January 2023 Editorial	46
Less stick more carrot? Increasing the uptake of deposit contract financial incentives for physical activity: A randomized controlled trial	42
Measuring leadership in sport: Development and validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory – Youth (ILI-Y)	42
Ego depletion does not negatively impact novice sprinters’ start performance during a timed 20m all-out sprint	40
Examination of the consistency effect between physical activity levels and approach-avoidance behaviors	38
Within-person association of volitional factors and physical activity: Insights from an ecological momentary assessment study	38
The Stride program: Feasibility and pre-to-post program change of an exercise service for university students experiencing mental distress	37
The Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ-4): Psychometric evidence of introjected approach regulation in Portuguese health club exercisers	35
Mind over body: Interfering with the inner voice is detrimental to endurance performance	35
When the going gets tough, what happens to quiet eye? The role of time pressure and performance pressure during basketball free throws	34
A grounded theory of youth athlete concussion under-reporting decisions	33
Promoting physical activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in Australia: The roles of psychological predictors and commercial physical activity apps	33
A mixed-methods case study examining the developmental networks of athletes in a wheelchair rugby team	33
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 training	32
Prospective associations between physical fitness and executive function in adolescents: The UP&DOWN study	32
Effects of instagram sports posts on the athletic motivation of female elite athletes: Do they inspire or backfire?	32
How high-performance practitioners think and intervene to change technique	31
The relationship between physical activity environment, mental wellbeing, flourishing and thriving: A mixed method study	30
Focusing on the coach’s eye; towards a working model of coach decision-making in talent selection	30
Situational information and the design of representative learning tasks: What impact does a scoreboard have on expert taekwondo fighters' behaviour and affective-cognitive responses?	29
A framework to explain the in-match decision-making of elite Australian football coaches	29
The mediational role of executive functions for the relationship between motor ability and academic performance in pediatric cancer survivors	28
FEPSAC Newsletter	28

A longitudinal investigation of the role of perceived autonomy support from coaches in reducing athletes’ experiential avoidance: The mediating role of subjective vitality	28
Running as a way fat women re-story their bodies and construct a runner identity in a North American sociocultural context	27
25 years of relationship research in sport: The quality of the coach-athlete relationship as defined by Closeness, Commitment, Complementarity and Co-orientation (3+1Cs Model)	27
Change in the social context of physical activity across adolescence and its association with moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity	27
Do not drop your gloves: “Winning” a fight in the National Hockey League does not improve chances to win the game	27
Athletic identity, values and self-regulatory efficacy governing hypercompetitive attitudes	27
A test of the impact of pain on automatic motivational processes in people with knee osteoarthritis	26
Controlling the flight on double-handed foiling catamarans: The role of shared equipment on the crew members' mutual modes of regulation	26
More active, more nature-connected? The carry-over effect of physical activity in pro-environmental behavior	25
The Avengers in action: A gamified-based intermittent teaching unit in the Physical Education setting to promote physical activity and its psychological mediators in secondary education students	25
Effects of acute aerobic exercise on emotional memory formation in individuals with methamphetamine use disorder: Encoding vs consolidation	24
Daily measures of sport enjoyment, social interaction, and attendance among female adolescent handball players	24
Motor competence predicts self-esteem during childhood in typical development children	23
A psychological intervention reduces doping likelihood in British and Greek athletes: A cluster randomized controlled trial	23
The performance enhancement attitude scale (PEAS) reached ‘adulthood’: Lessons and recommendations from a systematic review and meta-analysis	22
Mental health profiles among 13-16-year-Old Norwegian talent and mainstream students - A prospective person-centered analytical approach	22
Genetic associations with personality and mental toughness profiles of English academy football players: An exploratory study	22
Uncovering the roles of automatic attitudes and controlled processes in the regulation of physical activity behavior in children	21
Home advantage during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analyses of European football leagues	21
Understanding physical education teachers’ motivational outcomes and feasibility beliefs to implement motivational strategies: The role of perceived pressures from a variable- and person-centered appr	21
Using video docuseries to explore male professional football head coaches’ well-being experiences throughout a season	21
Examining the effects of increasing then decreasing exercise intensity within a session of aerobic exercise	21
Advancing a grounded theory of parental support in competitive girls’ golf	21
Understanding motivational dynamics: Longitudinal associations between motivation and physical activity in children	20
The impact of verbal and physical abuse on distress, mental health, and intentions to quit in sports officials	20
Exploring proportions of spontaneous and goal-directed self-talk – It is not always the one or the other	20
Identifying moderators of physical literacy interventions using meta-regression	20
“I think the best athletes use it”: Masculinities and self-compassion among men varsity athletes	19
Warm-up plus verbal communications administered as placebo procedure during the training session improves running performance	19
FEPSAC Newsletter	19
Dance and stress regulation: A multidisciplinary narrative review	19
Regulate to facilitate: A scoping review of prefrontal asymmetry in sport and exercise	19
Exploring the mental health of circus artists: Circus factors, psychological resilience, and demographics predict disordered eating and exercise addictions	19
Editorial Board	19
Positive youth development through sport: What works, under what circumstances, for whom? And what's next?	18
Exploring athletes’ gendered views of coaches and their impact of coach competency ratings	18
Tracking every bite and step: Associations between diet and fitness app use, disordered eating, body image concern and compulsive exercise	18
Cognitive dual-task does not annihilate the negative effects of gender stereotype threat on girls' motor learning	18
Social identity in sport: A scoping review of the performance hypothesis	18
Athlete burnout and biomarkers: An exploratory, longitudinal N-of-1 study	18
Gender stereotypes and motor performance: How explicit and implicit stereotypes influence girls standing long jump and anxiety	18
Autonomous motivation and action planning are longitudinally associated with physical activity during adolescence and early adulthood	17
A person-centred approach to understanding dark-side antecedents and students’ outcomes associated with physical education teachers’ motivation	17
Promoting mental health among young males in sporting contexts: A systematic review	17
Psychological pressure and compounded errors during elite-level tennis	17
No transfer of 3D-Multiple Object Tracking training on game performance in soccer: A follow-up study	17
The prospective associations between internalized weight bias and physical activity among adolescents	17
A new Bayesian procedure for the estimation of the referees' decision thresholds and agreement. The case of professional handball refereeing	17
How class cohesion and teachers’ relatedness supportive/thwarting style relate to students’ relatedness, motivation, and positive and negative outcomes in physical education	16
Identity leadership and social identification within sport teams over a season: A social network analysis	16

Investigating in-performance transitions between mental states in high-level judoka using video-based stimulated recall	16
FEPSAC Newsletter	16
A mixed methods exploration of the parent perspective of talent development environments across a national multi-sport landscape	16
The physical self-concept across childhood: Measurement development and meaning for physical activity	16
Longitudinal analysis of stressors, stress, coping and coping effectiveness in elite esports athletes	16
The role of parents toward the group dynamics of youth sport teams	16
Switching attentional focus across internal and external cues improves performance in a rowing task in novices	16
The long-term intensive gymnastic training influences functional stability and integration: A resting-state fMRI study	16
Do acute and chronic physical activity interventions affect the cognitive function of preschool children? A meta-analysis	16
Mindfulness, reinvestment, and rowing under pressure: Evidence for moderated moderation of the anxiety-performance relationship	16
Move more today, sleep better tonight? Daily associations between physical activity and sedentary behavior with sleep among young adults with and without insomnia symptoms	16
A uniform approach for advancing athlete assessment: A tutorial on the Lens Model	15
The effects of self-efficacy on physical and cognitive performance: An analysis of meta-certainty	15
Relationships between sport and exercise participation and subjective well-being among adults with physical disabilities: Is participation quality more important than participation quantity?	15
“You are either sporty or you are not” a qualitative exploration of pre-teen girls of low-socioeconomic position experiences of being physically active	15
Corrigendum to “A cluster randomized trial to evaluate need-supportive teaching in physical education on physical activity of sixth-grade girls: A mixed method study” [Psychology of Sport & Exerci	15
Longitudinal trajectories of emotions among athletes in sports competitions: Does emotional intelligence matter?	15
Microsaccade behavior associated with inhibitory control in athletes in the antisaccade task	14
The role of individual and parental expectations in student-athletes’ career adaptability profiles	14
Macronutrient intake as a prospective predictor of depressive symptom severity: An exploratory study with adolescent elite athletes	14
Specific and general transfer of perceptual-motor skills and learning between sports: A systematic review	14
Practitioners in search of an identity: A Delphi study of sport psychology professional identity	14
The effects of short exercise bouts on error-related negativity (ERN) and academic achievement in children	14
Predictors and outcomes of sports coaches’ athlete-invested contingent self-worth	14
Experiences of exercise services for individuals with severe mental illness: A qualitative approach	14
Greater weekly physical activity linked to left resting frontal alpha asymmetry in women: A study on gender differences in highly active young adults	14
How divergent are children’s divergent movements? The role of cognition and expertise in a class-randomized cross-over trial	14
Positive youth development as a guiding framework in sport research: Is it time to plan for a transition?	13
Differences in motivational dynamics between experienced cyclists and untrained participants during an incremental endurance exercise task	13
Is Video Assistant Referee (VAR) a disadvantage for the strong and a protection for the weak? The case of Turkish Super League	13
Winner for Life: A three-year study of student-athletes’ life skills development in a training programme for coaches and teachers	13
Editorial Board	13
How do new runners maintain their running, and what leads to others stopping? A qualitative, longitudinal study	13
Health behaviour change: Theories, progress, and recommendations for the next generation of physical activity research	13
FEPSAC Newsletter	13
Behind the mask: Attentional focus and coping strategies of elite level fencers	13
The relationship between prescribed ratings of perceived exertion and force production in repeated isometric contractions	13
Effects of word presentation during treadmill walking on episodic memory and gait	13
People who approve of one's physical activity vs. people who are influential: A randomized cross-over experiment to compare normative referent elicitation procedures	13
The specificity hypothesis in physical education: Investigating differentiation of motivational regulations across activities and their links to self-concept	13
Coping with the loan transition in professional association football	12
Dissociating the contributions of motivational and information processing factors to the self-controlled feedback learning benefit	12
Effects of different types of analogy instruction on the performance and inter-joint coordination of novice darts learners	12
Facilitating transition into a high-performance environment: The effect of a stressor-coping intervention program on elite youth rugby league players	12
Associations of cardiorespiratory fitness and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity with latent cognitive abilities in older adults	12
Examining the diversity of ultra-running motivations and experiences: A reversal theory perspective	12
The influence of absent crowds on National Rugby League match player statistics and running metrics	12
Boredom, motivation, and perceptions of pain: Mechanisms to explain the effects of self-control exertion on subsequent physical performance	12
Temporal passing network in basketball: the effect of time pressure on the dynamics of team organization at micro and meso levels	12
The influence of an esports-adapted coping effectiveness training (E-CET) on resilience, mental health, and subjective performance among elite league of Legends players: A pilot study	12
Situation Awareness in sports: A scoping review	12
The recognition of affective states associated with players’ non-verbal behavior in volleyball	12
Brain dynamics of visual anticipation during spatial occlusion tasks in expert tennis players	12
Global and appearance-contingent self-esteem: Associations with health and attractiveness exercise reasons	12
Decision-making in action: How international-level professional football players gain an advantage	12
Brief mindfulness meditation intervention improves attentional control of athletes in virtual reality shooting competition: Evidence from fNIRS and eye tracking	11
Everything is cool when you're part of a team? The effects of outcome interdependence on appraisal, emotions, and performance under pressure	11
Development and validation of the Coaching Athlete Purpose Scale (CAPS)	11
Psychology of sport injury: Selected debates and contemporary issues	11
Physical activity identity as an axis of dual process motivation and self-regulation processes: Current evidence and future research directions	11
A cluster randomized trial of a rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) program and a mindfulness-acceptance-commitment (MAC) program, with South African adolescent rugby players	11
“Change needs to start at home”: A reflexive thematic analysis of girl athletes' and coaches’ experiences of body image in New Delhi, India	11
FEPSAC Newsletter	11
Resilience profiles of elite athletes and their associations with health-related behaviors, well-being, and performance: A latent profile analysis	11
An integrated mindfulness and acceptance-based program for young elite female basketball players: Exploratory study of how it works and for whom it works best	11
FEPSAC position statement on safeguarding athletes in sport	11
FEPSAC Newsletter	11
The psychology of rock climbing: A systematic review	11
Communication profiles and sport experiences of collegiate track and field athletes	11
Determinants of physical activity adoption and maintenance in older adults: A dual process approach	11
Qualitative evaluation of a sports-based mental health literacy program for adolescent males	11
Association of parent, coach, and peer motivational climate with high school athlete burnout and engagement: Comparing mediation and moderation models	11
Testing the Physical Activity Self-Definition Model among low-active adults participating in a physical activity intervention	11
Flow and outdoor adventure recreation: Using flow measures to re-examine motives for participation	11
The influence of mental toughness on responses to feedback in snooker: A real-time examination	11
Editorial Board	10
Disentangling general and sport-specific risk factors for anxiety and depression in a mixed sample of athletes and non-athletes	10
An initial investigation into the mental health difficulties in athletes who experience choking under pressure	10
A conceptual model for mental health and performance of North American athletes: A mixed methods study	10
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 approach	10

Psychological well-being and exercise addiction: The treatment effects of an REBT intervention for females	10
Negotiating a transnational career around borders: Women's stories in boundaryless academia	10
Editorial Board	10
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 cycle	10
The examination of factors influencing the recognition of affective states associated with tennis players’ non-verbal behaviour	10
A Co-design approach to develop a motivational intervention to promote physical activity engagement and maintenance among individuals in residential substance use disorder treatment settings	10
It's in the water: A qualitative exploration of the perceived effects of outdoor open water swimming on swimmers' psychological well-being	10
Dual career (DC) experiences of Korean elite judokas before and at university	10
FEPSAC Newsletter	10
Perceived self-efficacy by Under-10 tennis players when scaling the equipment and play area	10
Affective reactions to real-life stressors and the role of physical activity in sports students – An Ambulatory Assessment study	10
“Nothing was lost sailing-wise and lots is gained on a personal level”: Practitioners’ behaviors and athletes’ perceptions of working in online environments	10
Qualified fitness trainers practice scientifically based judgement in prescribing exercise programs	10
Dynamic, relational developmental systems-based models of human development: The exemplary sample case of positive youth development through youth sport	10
Attraction toward physical activity as a moderator of socio-cognitive predictors of physical activity	9
Automatic processes moderate the association between reflective processes and movement behavior: A cross-sectional study	9
Searching for meaning and purpose in elite sport: A narrative review of sport psychology literature with theoretical insights from psychology	9
Tales from the peloton: Stress and coping in professional women's road cycling	9
“I’m more than my sport”: Exploring the dynamic processes of identity change in athletic retirement	9
Self-confidence, mental toughness, and psychobiosocial experiences in elite rugby players	9
Exploring an athletic talent development environment in China: A case study of a sport-friendly high school	9
Response suppression and decision-making in association football referees	9
FEPSAC Newsletter	9
The impact of religious–psychological factors on self-perceived sport performance among religious athletes in Malaysia	9
Self-compassion and body-related self-conscious emotions: Examining within- and between-person variation among adolescent girls in sport	9
The effects of an authentic coaching intervention on athlete outcomes: A pilot randomised controlled trial	9
Understanding action control of resistance training among adults	9
Motivation, movement, and vitality: Self-determination theory and its organismic perspective on physical activity as part of human flourishing	9
Some pressures are more equal than others: Effects of isolated pressure on performance	9
The interplay between parental behaviors and adolescents' sports-related values in understanding adolescents' dropout of organized sports activities	9
Self-determination theory based instructional interventions and motivational regulations in organized physical activity: A systematic review and multivariate meta-analysis	9
Get active now or later? The association between physical activity and risk and time preferences	9
Editorial Board	9
Editorial Board	9
Optimal psychological states in advanced climbers: Antecedents, characteristics, and consequences of flow and clutch states	9
The association of motor competence and executive function across primary school years	9
Compassion matters in elite sports environments: Insights from high-performance coaches	9
Working memory, sustained attention, and physical activity: An intraindividual study	9
Acute effects of mindful interval exercise on cognitive performance in a higher education setting	9
Role of psychological ownership and authenticity strength in the relationship between authentic leadership and sport team performance: A multilevel analysis	8
Exercise as a coping strategy and its impact on the psychological well-being of Japanese community-dwelling older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study	8
Climbing anxiety scale (CAS-20): Preliminary development and validation	8
Dual career in sport and non-sport work: Exploring experiences of North American professional female ice hockey players	8
Effortful self-control as a potential target for physical activity maintenance	8
Forward-looking questions regarding ego depletion and mental fatigue in sport psychology: Comment on Englert	8
Mental health challenges in elite sports, barriers to treatment, and quality of psychiatric care at an elite sports-centered mental health clinic—a mixed-methods study	8
Temporal perception in closed-skill sports: An experimental study on expert swimmers and runners	8
Links between environmental features and developmental outcomes of elite youth athletes: A cross-sectional study within the German talent pathway	8
Reliability and validity of the PL-C Quest, a scale designed to assess children’s self-reported physical literacy	8
Beyond stereotypes: The role of exposure in reshaping Children's biases towards women as coaches in sports	8
“We’re stronger as a family”: Family experiences and relationships in an adapted physical activity camp	8
“I’m just not feeling it”: Affective processing of episodic physical activity memories differs between physically active and inactive individuals	8
A psychological intervention reduces doping likelihood in Italian athletes: A replication and extension	8
Latent profile analysis of physical activity motivation during behavioral weight loss treatment	8
How does the manipulation of time pressure during soccer tasks influence physical load and mental fatigue?	8
Athlete doping confrontation efficacy and confrontation likelihood	8
From “blessing in disguise” to “what do I do now?”: How Canadian Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls perceived, experienced, and coped with the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Games	8
Do gender stereotype threats have a spillover effect on motor tasks among children? A mixed-model design investigation	8
Resilience and Enhancement in Sport, Exercise, & Training (RESET): A brief self-compassion intervention with NCAA student-athletes	8
Self-regulatory processes in goal striving during excellent distance-running performances: A qualitative study	8
OPTIMAL theory’s claims about motivation lack evidence in the motor learning literature	8
Mindfulness and mental wellbeing among elite athletes: The mediating role of gratitude and self-compassion	8
A psychosocial investigation of exercise preferences in real and virtual environments	8
“By the time I got to London I was like a coke bottle that had been shaken up and was about to explode!” A case study of performance expectations with a retired athlete	8
Applying state space grids methods to characterize counsellor-client interactions in a physical activity behavioural intervention for adults with disabilities	8
Understanding the meta-transition experiences of Chinese table tennis athletes during the transition to first level teams: Group reflective practice interviews	8
Resilience in elite sport and at work – A comparative analysis among German elite athletes and employees	8
Applicability of a supramaximal high-intensity interval training program for older adults previously not engaged in regular exercise; analyses of secondary outcomes from the Umeå HIT Study	8
Perceptual-cognitive performance of youth soccer players in a 360°-environment – Differences between age groups and performance levels	8
Specific effect of a cognitive-motor dual-task training on sport performance and brain processing associated with decision-making in semi-elite basketball players	8
The effects of self-compassion on daily emotion regulation and performance rebound among college athletes: Comparisons with confidence, grit, and hope	8
Feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a theory-informed resistance exercise training single-arm intervention for major depression	8
Upsetting the apple cart: Within-team profiles of intragroup conflict and their associations with narcissism	8
Doping in disabled elite sport: Perceptions, knowledge and opinions from the perspective of German and UK coaches	8
The Daily Mile™: Acute effects on children’s cognitive function and factors affecting their enjoyment	7
Decision-making training in sporting officials: Past, present and future	7
Exploring female dancer’s emotions and coping experiences following deselection: An interpretative phenomenological analysis	7
Motivational profiles and their relation to wellbeing, burnout, and drop-out intentions in university football players in the UK: A mixed methods approach.	7
Towards a better understanding of the role of perceived task variety in Physical Education: A self-determination theory approach	7
Analysing experienced and inexperienced cyclists’ attentional focus and self-regulatory strategies during varying intensities of fixed perceived effort cycling: A mixed method study	7
Adventure-based mindsets helped maintain psychological well-being during COVID-19	7
Critical reflections on second-generation mindfulness-based interventions	7
Passion transfer in former competitive athletes: The mediating role of the social environment and personal values	7
A multi-design investigation of perfectionism risk profiles for traumatic injury in sport	7
Acceptance by athletes of a virtual reality head-mounted display intended to enhance sport performance	7
One group’s pain is another group’s pleasure: Examining schadenfreude in response to failures of football teams during the World Cup 2018	7
The impact of differing audience sizes on referees and team performance from a North American perspective	7
Football belongs to the people: A social identity perspective on attitudes toward the European Super League in the English Premier League	7
Editorial: Psychology of sport and exercise supports diversity, equity, inclusion, unity and resilience	7
Only my group will do: Evidence that social support protects athletes from burnout when they identify with those who provide it	7
FEPSAC Position Statement: Athletes’ dual careers in the European context	7
Affective responses to resistance exercise: Toward a consensus on the timing of assessments	7
Golf skill learning: An external focus of attention enhances performance and motivation	7
Effects of chronic exercise on different central features of depression in adults with depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis of random controlled trials	7
The role of comprehensive education in anti-doping policy legitimacy and support among clean athletes	7