Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Article	Citations
The Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ-4): Psychometric evidence of introjected approach regulation in Portuguese health club exercisers	85
Body image experiences in retired Olympians: Losing the embodied self	80
January 2023 Editorial	74
Ego depletion does not negatively impact novice sprinters’ start performance during a timed 20m all-out sprint	64
Situational information and the design of representative learning tasks: What impact does a scoreboard have on expert taekwondo fighters' behaviour and affective-cognitive responses?	57
Less stick more carrot? Increasing the uptake of deposit contract financial incentives for physical activity: A randomized controlled trial	55
Examination of the consistency effect between physical activity levels and approach-avoidance behaviors	55
A grounded theory of youth athlete concussion under-reporting decisions	48
The Stride program: Feasibility and pre-to-post program change of an exercise service for university students experiencing mental distress	47
Mind over body: Interfering with the inner voice is detrimental to endurance performance	45
Measuring leadership in sport: Development and validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory – Youth (ILI-Y)	41
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	41
Within-person association of volitional factors and physical activity: Insights from an ecological momentary assessment study	35
How high-performance practitioners think and intervene to change technique	35
Prospective associations between physical fitness and executive function in adolescents: The UP&DOWN study	34
A framework to explain the in-match decision-making of elite Australian football coaches	33
A randomized controlled trial of school-based exercise on procrastination in high school students: The mediating role of adolescence time management disposition	33
Development of the Stressors among Parents in Youth Sport Survey (SPYSS)	32
The relationship between physical activity environment, mental wellbeing, flourishing and thriving: A mixed method study	32
Why experience fails to foster expertise in athlete selection	31
(Re)conceptualizing cohesion: A theoretical realignment and roadmap for future research	29
Effects of acute aerobic exercise on emotional memory formation in individuals with methamphetamine use disorder: Encoding vs consolidation	28
Mental health in sport: Opportunities for the future of recreational and elite sport psychology	28
Effects of non-functional overreaching and overtraining syndrome on psychological and cognitive functioning in elite athletes: A systematic review	28
Lady and the champ: The shared career experiences and retirement transition of a champion jockey and his partner	27

Controlling the flight on double-handed foiling catamarans: The role of shared equipment on the crew members' mutual modes of regulation	26
FEPSAC Newsletter	26
Running as a way fat women re-story their bodies and construct a runner identity in a North American sociocultural context	26
Do researchers have a shared cognition on team cognition in sports?	25
Daily measures of sport enjoyment, social interaction, and attendance among female adolescent handball players	24
The relationship between mindfulness, competitive anxiety, and self-efficacy in Taekwondo athletes with/without injury: The moderated mediation model	24
Genetic associations with personality and mental toughness profiles of English academy football players: An exploratory study	24
A psychological intervention reduces doping likelihood in British and Greek athletes: A cluster randomized controlled trial	24
Motor competence predicts self-esteem during childhood in typical development children	23
Using video docuseries to explore male professional football head coaches’ well-being experiences throughout a season	23
Advances in the study of perfectionism in sport	23
A longitudinal investigation of the role of perceived autonomy support from coaches in reducing athletes’ experiential avoidance: The mediating role of subjective vitality	23
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)	23
A test of the impact of pain on automatic motivational processes in people with knee osteoarthritis	23
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	23
Uncovering the roles of automatic attitudes and controlled processes in the regulation of physical activity behavior in children	22
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	22
A mixed-methods exploration of how shared athlete leadership influences teamwork	22
More active, more nature-connected? The carry-over effect of physical activity in pro-environmental behavior	22
Examining the effects of increasing then decreasing exercise intensity within a session of aerobic exercise	22
Mental health profiles among 13-16-year-Old Norwegian talent and mainstream students - A prospective person-centered analytical approach	22
“I think the best athletes use it”: Masculinities and self-compassion among men varsity athletes	21
Neural representations of different features in the observation of table tennis actions	21
Identifying moderators of physical literacy interventions using meta-regression	21
Club representation in the national team: Effects on identity fusion and intra-vs intergroup attitudes	21
Exploring proportions of spontaneous and goal-directed self-talk – It is not always the one or the other	20
The impact of verbal and physical abuse on distress, mental health, and intentions to quit in sports officials	20
Understanding motivational dynamics: Longitudinal associations between motivation and physical activity in children	20
Advancing a grounded theory of parental support in competitive girls’ golf	20
A new Bayesian procedure for the estimation of the referees' decision thresholds and agreement. The case of professional handball refereeing	19
The Multigroup Model of Identity Leadership (Multi-IL) in professional team sports: Navigating group dynamics from the perspective of professional soccer head coaches	19
Editorial Board	19
FEPSAC Newsletter	19
Gender stereotypes and motor performance: How explicit and implicit stereotypes influence girls standing long jump and anxiety	18
Promoting mental health among young males in sporting contexts: A systematic review	18
Switching attentional focus across internal and external cues improves performance in a rowing task in novices	18
Cognitive dual-task does not annihilate the negative effects of gender stereotype threat on girls' motor learning	18
Warm-up plus verbal communications administered as placebo procedure during the training session improves running performance	18
How class cohesion and teachers’ relatedness supportive/thwarting style relate to students’ relatedness, motivation, and positive and negative outcomes in physical education	18
Social identity in sport: A scoping review of the performance hypothesis	17
The physical self-concept across childhood: Measurement development and meaning for physical activity	17
The prospective associations between internalized weight bias and physical activity among adolescents	17
Investigating in-performance transitions between mental states in high-level judoka using video-based stimulated recall	17
The long-term intensive gymnastic training influences functional stability and integration: A resting-state fMRI study	17
Positive youth development through sport: What works, under what circumstances, for whom? And what's next?	17
Do acute and chronic physical activity interventions affect the cognitive function of preschool children? A meta-analysis	17
No transfer of 3D-Multiple Object Tracking training on game performance in soccer: A follow-up study	16
Exploring athletes’ gendered views of coaches and their impact of coach competency ratings	16
Tracking every bite and step: Associations between diet and fitness app use, disordered eating, body image concern and compulsive exercise	16
Short and long-term effects of a self-determination theory-based physical activity intervention on basic psychological needs and their mediating role in adults with depressive symptoms	16

Dance and stress regulation: A multidisciplinary narrative review	16
Athlete burnout and biomarkers: An exploratory, longitudinal N-of-1 study	16
A mixed methods exploration of the parent perspective of talent development environments across a national multi-sport landscape	16
Is Video Assistant Referee (VAR) a disadvantage for the strong and a protection for the weak? The case of Turkish Super League	15
Trajectories of sport exhaustion, cynicism and inadequacy among adolescent student-athletes: A three-year longitudinal study of social influences in the Finnish dual career context	15
Experiences of exercise services for individuals with severe mental illness: A qualitative approach	15
Microsaccade behavior associated with inhibitory control in athletes in the antisaccade task	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
Editorial Board	15
Reflections on non-WEIRD behavior change and the next generation of physical activity research: A commentary on Simpson et al. (2025)	15
FEPSAC Newsletter	15
A uniform approach for advancing athlete assessment: A tutorial on the Lens Model	15
Differences in motivational dynamics between experienced cyclists and untrained participants during an incremental endurance exercise task	15
Macronutrient intake as a prospective predictor of depressive symptom severity: An exploratory study with adolescent elite athletes	15
Positive youth development as a guiding framework in sport research: Is it time to plan for a transition?	15
Move more today, sleep better tonight? Daily associations between physical activity and sedentary behavior with sleep among young adults with and without insomnia symptoms	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
How divergent are children’s divergent movements? The role of cognition and expertise in a class-randomized cross-over trial	15
Greater weekly physical activity linked to left resting frontal alpha asymmetry in women: A study on gender differences in highly active young adults	15
The relationship between prescribed ratings of perceived exertion and force production in repeated isometric contractions	15
What and who the research needs: Maturing the psychology of sport officiating	15
How do new runners maintain their running, and what leads to others stopping? A qualitative, longitudinal study	14
FEPSAC Newsletter	14
Integrating health and clinical psychology into sport injury research: A necessary theoretical and applied expansion. A comment on “Psychology of sport injury: Selected debates and contemporary issues	14
The specificity hypothesis in physical education: Investigating differentiation of motivational regulations across activities and their links to self-concept	14
Promoting physical activity with open goals: A pilot randomised controlled trial	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
Winner for Life: A three-year study of student-athletes’ life skills development in a training programme for coaches and teachers	14
Global and appearance-contingent self-esteem: Associations with health and attractiveness exercise reasons	14
Examining coping among adolescent athletes in an intensive training centre: A profile analysis	14
Boredom, motivation, and perceptions of pain: Mechanisms to explain the effects of self-control exertion on subsequent physical performance	14
People who approve of one's physical activity vs. people who are influential: A randomized cross-over experiment to compare normative referent elicitation procedures	14
Effects of word presentation during treadmill walking on episodic memory and gait	14
Practitioners in search of an identity: A Delphi study of sport psychology professional identity	14
Health behaviour change: Theories, progress, and recommendations for the next generation of physical activity research	14
The association between trait mindfulness and mental fatigue-related neurocognitive function and endurance performance in athletes	14
Behind the mask: Attentional focus and coping strategies of elite level fencers	14
Effects of 12-week mindfulness-based intervention on executive functioning skills, brain oxygenation, and biomarkers of cognitive function in baseball players: a randomized controlled trial	14
The role of parents toward the group dynamics of youth sport teams	14
The recognition of affective states associated with players’ non-verbal behavior in volleyball	13
FEPSAC Newsletter	13
“Change needs to start at home”: A reflexive thematic analysis of girl athletes' and coaches’ experiences of body image in New Delhi, India	13
Physical activity identity as an axis of dual process motivation and self-regulation processes: Current evidence and future research directions	13
Communication profiles and sport experiences of collegiate track and field athletes	13
Examining the diversity of ultra-running motivations and experiences: A reversal theory perspective	13
Brain dynamics of visual anticipation during spatial occlusion tasks in expert tennis players	13
Reimagining body image research in sport and exercise: Centering interdisciplinarity and cultural humility	13
Association of parent, coach, and peer motivational climate with high school athlete burnout and engagement: Comparing mediation and moderation models	13
A path for transforming esports into a health and performance domain	13
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	13
FEPSAC Newsletter	13
Determinants of physical activity adoption and maintenance in older adults: A dual process approach	13
Temporal passing network in basketball: the effect of time pressure on the dynamics of team organization at micro and meso levels	13
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	13
FEPSAC position statement on safeguarding athletes in sport	12
The influence of mental toughness on responses to feedback in snooker: A real-time examination	12
Psychological well-being and exercise addiction: The treatment effects of an REBT intervention for females	12
FEPSAC Newsletter	12
“Turning around an oil tanker”: Recommendations for a safeguarding program in football	12
Psychology of sport injury: Selected debates and contemporary issues	12
Everything is cool when you're part of a team? The effects of outcome interdependence on appraisal, emotions, and performance under pressure	12
The psychology of rock climbing: A systematic review	12
Dynamic, relational developmental systems-based models of human development: The exemplary sample case of positive youth development through youth sport	12
Exploring the barriers to athlete personal development within UK Olympic and Paralympic sport	12
FEPSAC Newsletter	12
Flow and outdoor adventure recreation: Using flow measures to re-examine motives for participation	12
Brief mindfulness meditation intervention improves attentional control of athletes in virtual reality shooting competition: Evidence from fNIRS and eye tracking	12
Qualified fitness trainers practice scientifically based judgement in prescribing exercise programs	12
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	12
The effects of self-control exertion on subsequent physical performance in an alexithymic population	12
Affective reactions to real-life stressors and the role of physical activity in sports students – An Ambulatory Assessment study	12
Decision-making in action: How international-level professional football players gain an advantage	12
Resilience profiles of elite athletes and their associations with health-related behaviors, well-being, and performance: A latent profile analysis	12
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	11
Dual career (DC) experiences of Korean elite judokas before and at university	11
Disentangling general and sport-specific risk factors for anxiety and depression in a mixed sample of athletes and non-athletes	11
“Nothing was lost sailing-wise and lots is gained on a personal level”: Practitioners’ behaviors and athletes’ perceptions of working in online environments	11
The examination of factors influencing the recognition of affective states associated with tennis players’ non-verbal behaviour	11
Perceived self-efficacy by Under-10 tennis players when scaling the equipment and play area	11

A conceptual model for mental health and performance of North American athletes: A mixed methods study	11
It's in the water: A qualitative exploration of the perceived effects of outdoor open water swimming on swimmers' psychological well-being	11
Motivation, movement, and vitality: Self-determination theory and its organismic perspective on physical activity as part of human flourishing	11
Some pressures are more equal than others: Effects of isolated pressure on performance	11
Editorial Board	11
Development of the multidimensional inventory of physical activity identity	11
“I’m more than my sport”: Exploring the dynamic processes of identity change in athletic retirement	11
An initial investigation into the mental health difficulties in athletes who experience choking under pressure	11
The interplay between parental behaviors and adolescents' sports-related values in understanding adolescents' dropout of organized sports activities	10
Editorial Board	10
Climbing anxiety scale (CAS-20): Preliminary development and validation	10
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	10
Get active now or later? The association between physical activity and risk and time preferences	10
Corrigendum to “Optimizing exercise for perinatal depressive symptoms: A network meta-analysis of effective modalities and doses” [Psychology of Sport & Exercise 82 (2025) 102980	10
Tales from the peloton: Stress and coping in professional women's road cycling	10
Response suppression and decision-making in association football referees	10
Searching for meaning and purpose in elite sport: A narrative review of sport psychology literature with theoretical insights from psychology	10
How does the manipulation of time pressure during soccer tasks influence physical load and mental fatigue?	10
A psychological intervention reduces doping likelihood in Italian athletes: A replication and extension	10
Understanding the meta-transition experiences of Chinese table tennis athletes during the transition to first level teams: Group reflective practice interviews	10
Self-determination theory based instructional interventions and motivational regulations in organized physical activity: A systematic review and multivariate meta-analysis	10
Exploring an athletic talent development environment in China: A case study of a sport-friendly high school	10
Attraction toward physical activity as a moderator of socio-cognitive predictors of physical activity	10
Acute effects of mindful interval exercise on cognitive performance in a higher education setting	10
Compassion matters in elite sports environments: Insights from high-performance coaches	10
The impact of religious–psychological factors on self-perceived sport performance among religious athletes in Malaysia	10
Caregiver gender bias in youth sport: The effects of implicit and explicit gender associations on support and pressure	10
Dual career in sport and non-sport work: Exploring experiences of North American professional female ice hockey players	10
Differential associations between physical activity and affect in the context of daily life: Insights from a daily diary study of adolescent girls	10
“We’re stronger as a family”: Family experiences and relationships in an adapted physical activity camp	10
Automatic processes moderate the association between reflective processes and movement behavior: A cross-sectional study	10
Editorial Board	10
The association of motor competence and executive function across primary school years	10
Self-confidence, mental toughness, and psychobiosocial experiences in elite rugby players	10
Interpersonal interactions improve the representativeness of embodied decision-making behaviour in football	9
Applying state space grids methods to characterize counsellor-client interactions in a physical activity behavioural intervention for adults with disabilities	9
Effortful self-control as a potential target for physical activity maintenance	9
Editorial Board	9
Irish dual career athlete transitions into the US collegiate system	9
Feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a theory-informed resistance exercise training single-arm intervention for major depression	9
24h movement behaviors and self-regulation in preschoolers: Cross-sectional associations using compositional and isotemporal analyses	9
Bridge over calm waters: a comment on Stambulova and Henriksen's career transitions in sport	9
FEPSAC Newsletter	9
Latent profile analysis of physical activity motivation during behavioral weight loss treatment	9
Beyond stereotypes: The role of exposure in reshaping Children's biases towards women as coaches in sports	9
“I’m just not feeling it”: Affective processing of episodic physical activity memories differs between physically active and inactive individuals	9
Athlete doping confrontation efficacy and confrontation likelihood	9
OPTIMAL theory’s claims about motivation lack evidence in the motor learning literature	9
Doping in disabled elite sport: Perceptions, knowledge and opinions from the perspective of German and UK coaches	9
Abandoning The Big Mick: A commentary on Smith et al.’s 25 years of qualitative research in sport and exercise psychology	9
Editorial: Psychology of sport and exercise supports diversity, equity, inclusion, unity and resilience	8
Do gender stereotype threats have a spillover effect on motor tasks among children? A mixed-model design investigation	8
The “three-point shooting paradox”: An artifact or a real phenomenon? Replication with large-scale National Basketball Association (NBA) data	8
Effects of a staff physical activity professional development intervention on preschoolers' mental health and self-regulation: The active learning Norwegian Preschool(er)s (ACTNOW) cluster randomised	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
Links between environmental features and developmental outcomes of elite youth athletes: A cross-sectional study within the German talent pathway	8
The explore-exploit trade-off in sports and exercise: a primer on empirical and computational approaches	8
Analysing experienced and inexperienced cyclists’ attentional focus and self-regulatory strategies during varying intensities of fixed perceived effort cycling: A mixed method study	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
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
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
From Arbitrary Metrics to Meaningful Change: Empirical Smallest Effect Sizes of Interest for the Feeling Scale During Exercise	8
Affective responses to resistance exercise: Toward a consensus on the timing of assessments	8
Memory of affective responses to physical activity (study 1) and a pilot intervention to reduce negative memory bias (study 2) in adults with overweight or obesity	8
Forward-looking questions regarding ego depletion and mental fatigue in sport psychology: Comment on Englert	8
Moral behaviour in sport: Tracing the past and looking to the future	8
The multifaceted implications of mental fatigue on women's football players' performance in small-sided games	8
A systematic review of behaviour change techniques employed in interventions aimed to change physical activity behaviour in autistic individuals	8
Acceptance by athletes of a virtual reality head-mounted display intended to enhance sport performance	8
Only my group will do: Evidence that social support protects athletes from burnout when they identify with those who provide it	8
FEPSAC Position Statement: Athletes’ dual careers in the European context	8
Critical reflections on second-generation mindfulness-based interventions	8
Motor experience enhances dimension-specific action anticipation: Evidence from electroencephalography and computational modeling	8
Reinvestment in one versus one in-field and shoot-out field hockey performance	8
Temporal perception in closed-skill sports: An experimental study on expert swimmers and runners	8
Upsetting the apple cart: Within-team profiles of intragroup conflict and their associations with narcissism	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
Martial arts, combat sports, and mental health in adults: A systematic review	8
Exploring female dancer’s emotions and coping experiences following deselection: An interpretative phenomenological analysis	8
A multi-design investigation of perfectionism risk profiles for traumatic injury in sport	8
The Transtheoretical model’s processes of change in the heart of a physical activity intervention: A series of n-of-1	8
Passion transfer in former competitive athletes: The mediating role of the social environment and personal values	8
Relationships influencing organisational culture in men’s elite football clubs in Norway	7
Playing it safe: The relationship between parent attitudes to risk and injury, and children’s adventurous play and physical activity	7
Optimizing exercise for perinatal depressive symptoms: A network meta-analysis of effective modalities and doses	7
Gender-related differences in self-reported problematic exercise symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Improving physical activity using a single personalized consequence-based approach-avoidance training: Effects on self-reported behaviors, attitudes, and choices	7
Effects of acute endurance, strength, and coordination exercise interventions on attention in adolescents: A randomized controlled study	7
Toward a Differentiated Model of Athlete Performance Development (DMAPD): Preliminary version and testing based on a German sample representing six sports	7
Experiences with social support among older adult women participating in gay square dancing	7
Do attentional focus cues affect the type or number of explicit rules? Proof of concepts of the self-invoking trigger or explicit knowledge hypotheses	7
Effects of isolated and combined mental and physical fatigue on motor skill and endurance exercise performance	7
Can't hold any more! A large survey on cycling subjective experience at the limit of effort	7