Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Article	Citations
Body image experiences in retired Olympians: Losing the embodied self	95
January 2023 Editorial	80
Ego depletion does not negatively impact novice sprinters’ start performance during a timed 20m all-out sprint	70
Less stick more carrot? Increasing the uptake of deposit contract financial incentives for physical activity: A randomized controlled trial	68
Examination of the consistency effect between physical activity levels and approach-avoidance behaviors	65
How high-performance practitioners think and intervene to change technique	57
A randomized controlled trial of school-based exercise on procrastination in high school students: The mediating role of adolescence time management disposition	52
The relationship between physical activity environment, mental wellbeing, flourishing and thriving: A mixed method study	46
Why experience fails to foster expertise in athlete selection	45
Effects of non-functional overreaching and overtraining syndrome on psychological and cognitive functioning in elite athletes: A systematic review	39
The Stride program: Feasibility and pre-to-post program change of an exercise service for university students experiencing mental distress	37
Within-person association of volitional factors and physical activity: Insights from an ecological momentary assessment study	37
Measuring leadership in sport: Development and validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory – Youth (ILI-Y)	36
A grounded theory of youth athlete concussion under-reporting decisions	36
Mental health in sport: Opportunities for the future of recreational and elite sport psychology	34
A framework to explain the in-match decision-making of elite Australian football coaches	34
The Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ-4): Psychometric evidence of introjected approach regulation in Portuguese health club exercisers	33
Mind over body: Interfering with the inner voice is detrimental to endurance performance	32
Development of the Stressors among Parents in Youth Sport Survey (SPYSS)	31
(Re)conceptualizing cohesion: A theoretical realignment and roadmap for future research	31
Lady and the champ: The shared career experiences and retirement transition of a champion jockey and his partner	30
Effects of acute aerobic exercise on emotional memory formation in individuals with methamphetamine use disorder: Encoding vs consolidation	30
FEPSAC Newsletter	29
Daily measures of sport enjoyment, social interaction, and attendance among female adolescent handball players	29
A test of the impact of pain on automatic motivational processes in people with knee osteoarthritis	29

Mental health profiles among 13-16-year-Old Norwegian talent and mainstream students - A prospective person-centered analytical approach	28
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	28
Running as a way fat women re-story their bodies and construct a runner identity in a North American sociocultural context	27
More active, more nature-connected? The carry-over effect of physical activity in pro-environmental behavior	26
A longitudinal investigation of the role of perceived autonomy support from coaches in reducing athletes’ experiential avoidance: The mediating role of subjective vitality	26
Do researchers have a shared cognition on team cognition in sports?	26
Advances in the study of perfectionism in sport	25
Using video docuseries to explore male professional football head coaches’ well-being experiences throughout a season	25
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)	25
Motor competence predicts self-esteem during childhood in typical development children	24
Uncovering the roles of automatic attitudes and controlled processes in the regulation of physical activity behavior in children	24
The relationship between mindfulness, competitive anxiety, and self-efficacy in Taekwondo athletes with/without injury: The moderated mediation model	24
The impact of verbal and physical abuse on distress, mental health, and intentions to quit in sports officials	24
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	24
The Influence of Sport Type and Acute Stress on Biological Motion Working Memory: Adaptive Neuro-Behavioral Performance in Open-Skill Athletes	24
Examining the effects of increasing then decreasing exercise intensity within a session of aerobic exercise	23
“I think the best athletes use it”: Masculinities and self-compassion among men varsity athletes	23
A mixed-methods exploration of how shared athlete leadership influences teamwork	22
Identifying moderators of physical literacy interventions using meta-regression	22
Neural representations of different features in the observation of table tennis actions	22
Understanding motivational dynamics: Longitudinal associations between motivation and physical activity in children	21
Advancing a grounded theory of parental support in competitive girls’ golf	21
Editorial Board	20
FEPSAC Newsletter	20
Club representation in the national team: Effects on identity fusion and intra-vs intergroup attitudes	20
Exploring proportions of spontaneous and goal-directed self-talk – It is not always the one or the other	20
Dance and stress regulation: A multidisciplinary narrative review	19
Positive youth development through sport: What works, under what circumstances, for whom? And what's next?	19
Gender stereotypes and motor performance: How explicit and implicit stereotypes influence girls standing long jump and anxiety	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
The prospective associations between internalized weight bias and physical activity among adolescents	19
Cognitive dual-task does not annihilate the negative effects of gender stereotype threat on girls' motor learning	19
A mixed methods exploration of the parent perspective of talent development environments across a national multi-sport landscape	19
Exploring athletes’ gendered views of coaches and their impact of coach competency ratings	19
Promoting mental health among young males in sporting contexts: A systematic review	19
Warm-up plus verbal communications administered as placebo procedure during the training session improves running performance	19
Social identity in sport: A scoping review of the performance hypothesis	18
Investigating in-performance transitions between mental states in high-level judoka using video-based stimulated recall	18
No transfer of 3D-Multiple Object Tracking training on game performance in soccer: A follow-up study	18
Exercise experiences of adolescents engaged with gender diversity services: A qualitative approach	18
Tracking every bite and step: Associations between diet and fitness app use, disordered eating, body image concern and compulsive exercise	18
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	18
Do acute and chronic physical activity interventions affect the cognitive function of preschool children? A meta-analysis	18
A new Bayesian procedure for the estimation of the referees' decision thresholds and agreement. The case of professional handball refereeing	18
The long-term intensive gymnastic training influences functional stability and integration: A resting-state fMRI study	18
Athlete burnout and biomarkers: An exploratory, longitudinal N-of-1 study	18
Macronutrient intake as a prospective predictor of depressive symptom severity: An exploratory study with adolescent elite athletes	17
Effects of word presentation during treadmill walking on episodic memory and gait	17
An analysis of United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee national governing body policies related to body pressures, body image concerns, and eating pathology	17
The effects of short exercise bouts on error-related negativity (ERN) and academic achievement in children	17

FEPSAC Newsletter	17
Editorial Board	17
How class cohesion and teachers’ relatedness supportive/thwarting style relate to students’ relatedness, motivation, and positive and negative outcomes in physical education	17
The role of parents toward the group dynamics of youth sport teams	17
Typologies of co-occurring experiences of interpersonal violence among adults in Norwegian sport	17
Perspectives towards, and experiences of clean sport in international Cerebral Palsy Football: A cross-cultural qualitative exploration of players and athlete support personnel	17
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	16
The relationship between prescribed ratings of perceived exertion and force production in repeated isometric contractions	16
What and who the research needs: Maturing the psychology of sport officiating	16
Is Video Assistant Referee (VAR) a disadvantage for the strong and a protection for the weak? The case of Turkish Super League	16
A uniform approach for advancing athlete assessment: A tutorial on the Lens Model	16
Differences in motivational dynamics between experienced cyclists and untrained participants during an incremental endurance exercise task	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
Microsaccade behavior associated with inhibitory control in athletes in the antisaccade task	16
How divergent are children’s divergent movements? The role of cognition and expertise in a class-randomized cross-over trial	16
Experiences of exercise services for individuals with severe mental illness: A qualitative approach	15
Reflections on non-WEIRD behavior change and the next generation of physical activity research: A commentary on Simpson et al. (2025)	15
Health behaviour change: Theories, progress, and recommendations for the next generation of physical activity research	15
Behind the mask: Attentional focus and coping strategies of elite level fencers	15
Practitioners in search of an identity: A Delphi study of sport psychology professional identity	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
Relationships between sport and exercise participation and subjective well-being among adults with physical disabilities: Is participation quality more important than participation quantity?	15
FEPSAC Newsletter	15
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	15
Predictors and outcomes of sports coaches’ athlete-invested contingent self-worth	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
Positive youth development as a guiding framework in sport research: Is it time to plan for a transition?	15
People who approve of one's physical activity vs. people who are influential: A randomized cross-over experiment to compare normative referent elicitation procedures	15
How do new runners maintain their running, and what leads to others stopping? A qualitative, longitudinal study	15
Boredom, motivation, and perceptions of pain: Mechanisms to explain the effects of self-control exertion on subsequent physical performance	14
FEPSAC Newsletter	14
Brain dynamics of visual anticipation during spatial occlusion tasks in expert tennis players	14
Global and appearance-contingent self-esteem: Associations with health and attractiveness exercise reasons	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
Differential effect of internal and external entrapment on athlete's well-being: The multilevel moderating role of grateful climate	14
Momentary predictors of weight-motivated exercise among female collegiate athletes	14
FEPSAC Newsletter	14
Examining the diversity of ultra-running motivations and experiences: A reversal theory perspective	14
The recognition of affective states associated with players’ non-verbal behavior in volleyball	14
The specificity hypothesis in physical education: Investigating differentiation of motivational regulations across activities and their links to self-concept	14
The association between trait mindfulness and mental fatigue-related neurocognitive function and endurance performance in athletes	14
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	14
Reimagining body image research in sport and exercise: Centering interdisciplinarity and cultural humility	14
Winner for Life: A three-year study of student-athletes’ life skills development in a training programme for coaches and teachers	14
Promoting physical activity with open goals: A pilot randomised controlled trial	14
Examining coping among adolescent athletes in an intensive training centre: A profile analysis	14
Integrating physical activity promotion into psychological practice: Clinical and ethical considerations	13
Determinants of physical activity adoption and maintenance in older adults: A dual process approach	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
Resilience profiles of elite athletes and their associations with health-related behaviors, well-being, and performance: A latent profile analysis	13
Association of parent, coach, and peer motivational climate with high school athlete burnout and engagement: Comparing mediation and moderation models	13
Decision-making in action: How international-level professional football players gain an advantage	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
The influence of mental toughness on responses to feedback in snooker: A real-time examination	13
FEPSAC position statement on safeguarding athletes in sport	13
A path for transforming esports into a health and performance domain	13
Brief mindfulness meditation intervention improves attentional control of athletes in virtual reality shooting competition: Evidence from fNIRS and eye tracking	13
Flow and outdoor adventure recreation: Using flow measures to re-examine motives for participation	13
Everything is cool when you're part of a team? The effects of outcome interdependence on appraisal, emotions, and performance under pressure	13
Communication profiles and sport experiences of collegiate track and field athletes	13
The psychology of rock climbing: A systematic review	13
Psychology of sport injury: Selected debates and contemporary issues	13
Temporal passing network in basketball: the effect of time pressure on the dynamics of team organization at micro and meso levels	13
Physical activity identity as an axis of dual process motivation and self-regulation processes: Current evidence and future research directions	13
Motivation, movement, and vitality: Self-determination theory and its organismic perspective on physical activity as part of human flourishing	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	12
“Turning around an oil tanker”: Recommendations for a safeguarding program in football	12
The effects of self-control exertion on subsequent physical performance in an alexithymic population	12
Exploring the barriers to athlete personal development within UK Olympic and Paralympic sport	12
It's in the water: A qualitative exploration of the perceived effects of outdoor open water swimming on swimmers' psychological well-being	12
FEPSAC Newsletter	12
Dynamic, relational developmental systems-based models of human development: The exemplary sample case of positive youth development through youth sport	12
Affective reactions to real-life stressors and the role of physical activity in sports students – An Ambulatory Assessment study	12
Editorial Board	12
Development of the multidimensional inventory of physical activity identity	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
“Nothing was lost sailing-wise and lots is gained on a personal level”: Practitioners’ behaviors and athletes’ perceptions of working in online environments	12
Dual career (DC) experiences of Korean elite judokas before and at university	11
Compassion matters in elite sports environments: Insights from high-performance coaches	11

Attraction toward physical activity as a moderator of socio-cognitive predictors of physical activity	11
Editorial Board	11
Automatic processes moderate the association between reflective processes and movement behavior: A cross-sectional study	11
The interplay between parental behaviors and adolescents' sports-related values in understanding adolescents' dropout of organized sports activities	11
Disentangling general and sport-specific risk factors for anxiety and depression in a mixed sample of athletes and non-athletes	11
“I’m more than my sport”: Exploring the dynamic processes of identity change in athletic retirement	11
Perceived self-efficacy by Under-10 tennis players when scaling the equipment and play area	11
Tales from the peloton: Stress and coping in professional women's road cycling	11
Corrigendum to “Optimizing exercise for perinatal depressive symptoms: A network meta-analysis of effective modalities and doses” [Psychology of Sport & Exercise 82 (2025) 102980	11
The impact of religious–psychological factors on self-perceived sport performance among religious athletes in Malaysia	11
Some pressures are more equal than others: Effects of isolated pressure on performance	11
Psychological well-being and exercise addiction: The treatment effects of an REBT intervention for females	11
An initial investigation into the mental health difficulties in athletes who experience choking under pressure	11
Response suppression and decision-making in association football referees	11
Acute effects of mindful interval exercise on cognitive performance in a higher education setting	11
Promoting approach under unavoidable evaluation in university physical education: A randomized controlled trial of a combined mindset reframing intervention	11
Athlete doping confrontation efficacy and confrontation likelihood	10
Feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a theory-informed resistance exercise training single-arm intervention for major depression	10
Differential associations between physical activity and affect in the context of daily life: Insights from a daily diary study of adolescent girls	10
Editorial Board	10
A psychological intervention reduces doping likelihood in Italian athletes: A replication and extension	10
Searching for meaning and purpose in elite sport: A narrative review of sport psychology literature with theoretical insights from psychology	10
24h movement behaviors and self-regulation in preschoolers: Cross-sectional associations using compositional and isotemporal analyses	10
Bridge over calm waters: a comment on Stambulova and Henriksen's career transitions in sport	10
The association of motor competence and executive function across primary school years	10
Get active now or later? The association between physical activity and risk and time preferences	10
Self-determination theory based instructional interventions and motivational regulations in organized physical activity: A systematic review and multivariate meta-analysis	10
Caregiver gender bias in youth sport: The effects of implicit and explicit gender associations on support and pressure	10
Applying state space grids methods to characterize counsellor-client interactions in a physical activity behavioural intervention for adults with disabilities	10
“I’m just not feeling it”: Affective processing of episodic physical activity memories differs between physically active and inactive individuals	10
Interpersonal interactions improve the representativeness of embodied decision-making behaviour in football	10
“We’re stronger as a family”: Family experiences and relationships in an adapted physical activity camp	10
Exploring an athletic talent development environment in China: A case study of a sport-friendly high school	10
Self-confidence, mental toughness, and psychobiosocial experiences in elite rugby players	10
Editorial Board	10
Climbing anxiety scale (CAS-20): Preliminary development and validation	10