Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Papers
(The TQCC of Psychology of Sport and Exercise is 8. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Prospective associations between physical fitness and executive function in adolescents: The UP&DOWN study71
Promoting physical activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in Australia: The roles of psychological predictors and commercial physical activity apps67
Body image experiences in retired Olympians: Losing the embodied self64
The Stride program: Feasibility and pre-to-post program change of an exercise service for university students experiencing mental distress53
Situational information and the design of representative learning tasks: What impact does a scoreboard have on expert taekwondo fighters' behaviour and affective-cognitive responses?53
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 training41
January 2023 Editorial36
A mixed-methods case study examining the developmental networks of athletes in a wheelchair rugby team36
Development of the Stressors among Parents in Youth Sport Survey (SPYSS)35
Measuring leadership in sport: Development and validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory – Youth (ILI-Y)35
A grounded theory of youth athlete concussion under-reporting decisions31
Less stick more carrot? Increasing the uptake of deposit contract financial incentives for physical activity: A randomized controlled trial31
Ego depletion does not negatively impact novice sprinters’ start performance during a timed 20m all-out sprint30
The Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ-4): Psychometric evidence of introjected approach regulation in Portuguese health club exercisers29
When the going gets tough, what happens to quiet eye? The role of time pressure and performance pressure during basketball free throws29
Mind over body: Interfering with the inner voice is detrimental to endurance performance29
Effects of instagram sports posts on the athletic motivation of female elite athletes: Do they inspire or backfire?29
The relationship between physical activity environment, mental wellbeing, flourishing and thriving: A mixed method study29
A psychological intervention reduces doping likelihood in British and Greek athletes: A cluster randomized controlled trial28
A framework to explain the in-match decision-making of elite Australian football coaches28
Mental health profiles among 13-16-year-Old Norwegian talent and mainstream students - A prospective person-centered analytical approach28
Focusing on the coach’s eye; towards a working model of coach decision-making in talent selection28
Within-person association of volitional factors and physical activity: Insights from an ecological momentary assessment study28
The mediational role of executive functions for the relationship between motor ability and academic performance in pediatric cancer survivors27
Understanding physical education teachers’ motivational outcomes and feasibility beliefs to implement motivational strategies: The role of perceived pressures from a variable- and person-centered appr27
A test of the impact of pain on automatic motivational processes in people with knee osteoarthritis26
Assembling the sense of home in emigrant elite athletes: Cultural transitions, narrative and materiality26
Genetic associations with personality and mental toughness profiles of English academy football players: An exploratory study26
Controlling the flight on double-handed foiling catamarans: The role of shared equipment on the crew members' mutual modes of regulation26
Athletic identity, values and self-regulatory efficacy governing hypercompetitive attitudes25
Do not drop your gloves: “Winning” a fight in the National Hockey League does not improve chances to win the game25
The right man in the right place? Substitutions and goal-scoring in soccer25
Change in the social context of physical activity across adolescence and its association with moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity25
FEPSAC Newsletter24
Running as a way fat women re-story their bodies and construct a runner identity in a North American sociocultural context24
A longitudinal investigation of the role of perceived autonomy support from coaches in reducing athletes’ experiential avoidance: The mediating role of subjective vitality24
Using video docuseries to explore male professional football head coaches’ well-being experiences throughout a season23
The performance enhancement attitude scale (PEAS) reached ‘adulthood’: Lessons and recommendations from a systematic review and meta-analysis23
Motor competence predicts self-esteem during childhood in typical development children22
Uncovering the roles of automatic attitudes and controlled processes in the regulation of physical activity behavior in children21
Examining the effects of increasing then decreasing exercise intensity within a session of aerobic exercise21
Advancing a grounded theory of parental support in competitive girls’ golf21
Different task success criteria affect expectancies of success but do not improve golf putting performance21
Home advantage during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analyses of European football leagues21
Exploring proportions of spontaneous and goal-directed self-talk – It is not always the one or the other20
Effects of a physical education intervention programme for ninth-graders on physical activity-related health competence: Findings from the GEKOS cluster randomised controlled trial20
Exploring the mental health of circus artists: Circus factors, psychological resilience, and demographics predict disordered eating and exercise addictions20
The impact of verbal and physical abuse on distress, mental health, and intentions to quit in sports officials20
Regulate to facilitate: A scoping review of prefrontal asymmetry in sport and exercise20
No transfer of 3D-Multiple Object Tracking training on game performance in soccer: A follow-up study19
“I think the best athletes use it”: Masculinities and self-compassion among men varsity athletes19
FEPSAC Newsletter19
A person-centred approach to understanding dark-side antecedents and students’ outcomes associated with physical education teachers’ motivation19
Investigating in-performance transitions between mental states in high-level judoka using video-based stimulated recall19
A new Bayesian procedure for the estimation of the referees' decision thresholds and agreement. The case of professional handball refereeing19
The long-term intensive gymnastic training influences functional stability and integration: A resting-state fMRI study18
Longitudinal analysis of stressors, stress, coping and coping effectiveness in elite esports athletes18
Exploring athletes’ gendered views of coaches and their impact of coach competency ratings18
Editorial Board18
How class cohesion and teachers’ relatedness supportive/thwarting style relate to students’ relatedness, motivation, and positive and negative outcomes in physical education18
Social identity in sport: A scoping review of the performance hypothesis18
Dance and stress regulation: A multidisciplinary narrative review18
Warm-up plus verbal communications administered as placebo procedure during the training session improves running performance18
Autonomous motivation and action planning are longitudinally associated with physical activity during adolescence and early adulthood18
Switching attentional focus across internal and external cues improves performance in a rowing task in novices18
Do acute and chronic physical activity interventions affect the cognitive function of preschool children? A meta-analysis17
The prospective associations between internalized weight bias and physical activity among adolescents17
Gender stereotypes and motor performance: How explicit and implicit stereotypes influence girls standing long jump and anxiety17
Identity leadership and social identification within sport teams over a season: A social network analysis17
Cognitive dual-task does not annihilate the negative effects of gender stereotype threat on girls' motor learning17
Promoting mental health among young males in sporting contexts: A systematic review17
A mixed methods exploration of the parent perspective of talent development environments across a national multi-sport landscape17
The physical self-concept across childhood: Measurement development and meaning for physical activity17
Psychological pressure and compounded errors during elite-level tennis17
The relationship between prescribed ratings of perceived exertion and force production in repeated isometric contractions17
Momentary associations between stress and physical activity among children using ecological momentary assessment16
Move more today, sleep better tonight? Daily associations between physical activity and sedentary behavior with sleep among young adults with and without insomnia symptoms16
Mindfulness, reinvestment, and rowing under pressure: Evidence for moderated moderation of the anxiety-performance relationship16
The role of parents toward the group dynamics of youth sport teams16
“You are either sporty or you are not” a qualitative exploration of pre-teen girls of low-socioeconomic position experiences of being physically active16
The role of individual and parental expectations in student-athletes’ career adaptability profiles16
How do new runners maintain their running, and what leads to others stopping? A qualitative, longitudinal study16
Practitioners in search of an identity: A Delphi study of sport psychology professional identity16
Differences in motivational dynamics between experienced cyclists and untrained participants during an incremental endurance exercise task15
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 & Exerci15
Macronutrient intake as a prospective predictor of depressive symptom severity: An exploratory study with adolescent elite athletes15
Greater weekly physical activity linked to left resting frontal alpha asymmetry in women: A study on gender differences in highly active young adults15
Effects of word presentation during treadmill walking on episodic memory and gait15
Doing it for the team: Soccer coaches' identity leadership predicts players' effort, turnover intentions, and performance15
FEPSAC Newsletter15
How divergent are children’s divergent movements? The role of cognition and expertise in a class-randomized cross-over trial14
Predictors and outcomes of sports coaches’ athlete-invested contingent self-worth14
A uniform approach for advancing athlete assessment: A tutorial on the Lens Model14
Brain dynamics of visual anticipation during spatial occlusion tasks in expert tennis players14
Editorial Board14
Relationships between sport and exercise participation and subjective well-being among adults with physical disabilities: Is participation quality more important than participation quantity?14
Longitudinal trajectories of emotions among athletes in sports competitions: Does emotional intelligence matter?14
The effects of self-efficacy on physical and cognitive performance: An analysis of meta-certainty14
Positive youth development as a guiding framework in sport research: Is it time to plan for a transition?14
The recognition of affective states associated with players’ non-verbal behavior in volleyball14
Situation Awareness in sports: A scoping review14
Experiences of exercise services for individuals with severe mental illness: A qualitative approach14
Specific and general transfer of perceptual-motor skills and learning between sports: A systematic review14
Microsaccade behavior associated with inhibitory control in athletes in the antisaccade task14
A systematic review and meta-synthesis of mental health position statements in sport: Scope, quality and future directions14
Formalising a hypothesis for the development of anticipatory skill in time-constrained interceptive actions: Implications for the design of junior sport14
The influence of absent crowds on National Rugby League match player statistics and running metrics14
Coping with the loan transition in professional association football13
Facilitating transition into a high-performance environment: The effect of a stressor-coping intervention program on elite youth rugby league players13
FEPSAC Newsletter13
Dissociating the contributions of motivational and information processing factors to the self-controlled feedback learning benefit13
Winner for Life: A three-year study of student-athletes’ life skills development in a training programme for coaches and teachers13
People who approve of one's physical activity vs. people who are influential: A randomized cross-over experiment to compare normative referent elicitation procedures13
Behind the mask: Attentional focus and coping strategies of elite level fencers13
Boredom, motivation, and perceptions of pain: Mechanisms to explain the effects of self-control exertion on subsequent physical performance12
Global and appearance-contingent self-esteem: Associations with health and attractiveness exercise reasons12
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 study12
Examining the diversity of ultra-running motivations and experiences: A reversal theory perspective12
A cluster randomized trial of a rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) program and a mindfulness-acceptance-commitment (MAC) program, with South African adolescent rugby players12
A dual-process model of affective and instrumental attitudes in predicting physical activity12
Passion and emotions: The mediating role of cognitive appraisals12
Qualitative evaluation of a sports-based mental health literacy program for adolescent males12
The influence of mental toughness on responses to feedback in snooker: A real-time examination12
Effects of different types of analogy instruction on the performance and inter-joint coordination of novice darts learners12
Development and initial validation of the Life Skills Scale for Sport – Transfer Scale (LSSS-TS)12
A longitudinal examination of thriving in sport performers12
Association of parent, coach, and peer motivational climate with high school athlete burnout and engagement: Comparing mediation and moderation models11
Development and validation of the Coaching Athlete Purpose Scale (CAPS)11
“Change needs to start at home”: A reflexive thematic analysis of girl athletes' and coaches’ experiences of body image in New Delhi, India11
Testing the Physical Activity Self-Definition Model among low-active adults participating in a physical activity intervention11
Dual career (DC) experiences of Korean elite judokas before and at university11
The psychology of rock climbing: A systematic review11
Last and fast? – A gender-specific analysis of effort gains in swimming relay events across Olympic Games and World Championships during the past 20 years11
Decision-making in action: How international-level professional football players gain an advantage11
An integrated mindfulness and acceptance-based program for young elite female basketball players: Exploratory study of how it works and for whom it works best11
Communication profiles and sport experiences of collegiate track and field athletes11
Resilience profiles of elite athletes and their associations with health-related behaviors, well-being, and performance: A latent profile analysis11
Flow and outdoor adventure recreation: Using flow measures to re-examine motives for participation11
Determinants of physical activity adoption and maintenance in older adults: A dual process approach11
Associations of cardiorespiratory fitness and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity with latent cognitive abilities in older adults11
The effect of learner-adapted practice schedule and task similarity on motivation and motor learning in older adults11
Everything is cool when you're part of a team? The effects of outcome interdependence on appraisal, emotions, and performance under pressure11
Brief mindfulness meditation intervention improves attentional control of athletes in virtual reality shooting competition: Evidence from fNIRS and eye tracking11
FEPSAC Newsletter11
The effects of an authentic coaching intervention on athlete outcomes: A pilot randomised controlled trial10
An initial investigation into the mental health difficulties in athletes who experience choking under pressure10
A conceptual model for mental health and performance of North American athletes: A mixed methods study10
Editorial Board10
Qualified fitness trainers practice scientifically based judgement in prescribing exercise programs10
Some pressures are more equal than others: Effects of isolated pressure on performance10
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 cycle10
Disentangling general and sport-specific risk factors for anxiety and depression in a mixed sample of athletes and non-athletes10
FEPSAC Newsletter10
FEPSAC Newsletter10
Negotiating a transnational career around borders: Women's stories in boundaryless academia10
Affective reactions to real-life stressors and the role of physical activity in sports students – An Ambulatory Assessment study10
“I’m more than my sport”: Exploring the dynamic processes of identity change in athletic retirement10
A Co-design approach to develop a motivational intervention to promote physical activity engagement and maintenance among individuals in residential substance use disorder treatment settings10
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 approach10
The examination of factors influencing the recognition of affective states associated with tennis players’ non-verbal behaviour10
Editorial Board10
Professional migration from the United States to Europe: Composite vignettes of black male basketball players from underserved communities10
Exploring the “clutch” in clutch performance: A qualitative investigation of the experience of pressure in successful performance10
Perceived self-efficacy by Under-10 tennis players when scaling the equipment and play area10
Efficacy of physical activity interventions on psychological outcomes in refugee, asylum seeker and migrant populations: A systematic review and meta-analysis9
Compassion matters in elite sports environments: Insights from high-performance coaches9
“Nothing was lost sailing-wise and lots is gained on a personal level”: Practitioners’ behaviors and athletes’ perceptions of working in online environments9
Self-compassion and body-related self-conscious emotions: Examining within- and between-person variation among adolescent girls in sport9
Working memory, sustained attention, and physical activity: An intraindividual study9
Psychological well-being and exercise addiction: The treatment effects of an REBT intervention for females9
Automatic processes moderate the association between reflective processes and movement behavior: A cross-sectional study9
Judgments of happiness during trail running: Pleasure, engagement, and meaning9
Self-confidence, mental toughness, and psychobiosocial experiences in elite rugby players9
Optimal psychological states in advanced climbers: Antecedents, characteristics, and consequences of flow and clutch states9
Searching for meaning and purpose in elite sport: A narrative review of sport psychology literature with theoretical insights from psychology9
Editorial Board9
Acute effects of mindful interval exercise on cognitive performance in a higher education setting9
Role of psychological ownership and authenticity strength in the relationship between authentic leadership and sport team performance: A multilevel analysis8
Feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a theory-informed resistance exercise training single-arm intervention for major depression8
Links between environmental features and developmental outcomes of elite youth athletes: A cross-sectional study within the German talent pathway8
Editorial Board8
Upsetting the apple cart: Within-team profiles of intragroup conflict and their associations with narcissism8
Understanding action control of resistance training among adults8
Exploring an athletic talent development environment in China: A case study of a sport-friendly high school8
The impact of religious–psychological factors on self-perceived sport performance among religious athletes in Malaysia8
OPTIMAL theory’s claims about motivation lack evidence in the motor learning literature8
Critical reflections on second-generation mindfulness-based interventions8
An exploration of doping-related perceptions and knowledge of disabled elite athletes in the UK and Austria8
Doping in disabled elite sport: Perceptions, knowledge and opinions from the perspective of German and UK coaches8
“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 athlete8
How does the manipulation of time pressure during soccer tasks influence physical load and mental fatigue?8
A psychosocial investigation of exercise preferences in real and virtual environments8
Climbing anxiety scale (CAS-20): Preliminary development and validation8
“We’re stronger as a family”: Family experiences and relationships in an adapted physical activity camp8
Self-regulatory processes in goal striving during excellent distance-running performances: A qualitative study8
The interplay between parental behaviors and adolescents' sports-related values in understanding adolescents' dropout of organized sports activities8
Get active now or later? The association between physical activity and risk and time preferences8
Self-determination theory based instructional interventions and motivational regulations in organized physical activity: A systematic review and multivariate meta-analysis8
Athlete doping confrontation efficacy and confrontation likelihood8
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 study8
Editorial Board8
Reliability and validity of the PL-C Quest, a scale designed to assess children’s self-reported physical literacy8
Applying state space grids methods to characterize counsellor-client interactions in a physical activity behavioural intervention for adults with disabilities8
Inter-individual differences in sport refereeing: A review of theory and practice8
Resilience in elite sport and at work – A comparative analysis among German elite athletes and employees8
FEPSAC Newsletter8
Beyond stereotypes: The role of exposure in reshaping Children's biases towards women as coaches in sports8
“I’m just not feeling it”: Affective processing of episodic physical activity memories differs between physically active and inactive individuals8
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 Study8
Dual career in sport and non-sport work: Exploring experiences of North American professional female ice hockey players8
EEG neurofeedback improves cycling time to exhaustion8
Attraction toward physical activity as a moderator of socio-cognitive predictors of physical activity8
Latent profile analysis of physical activity motivation during behavioral weight loss treatment8
Reinvestment in one versus one in-field and shoot-out field hockey performance8
Every Boy’s dream: A mixed method study of young professional Danish football player’s transnational migration8
Resilience and Enhancement in Sport, Exercise, & Training (RESET): A brief self-compassion intervention with NCAA student-athletes8
A psychological intervention reduces doping likelihood in Italian athletes: A replication and extension8
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