Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Article	Citations
Physical activity is positively associated with college students' positive affect regardless of stressful life events during the COVID-19 pandemic	81
The impact of identity leadership on team functioning and well-being in team sport: Is psychological safety the missing link?	76
Home advantage during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analyses of European football leagues	59
Psychological and physiological stress in non-competitive and competitive esports settings: A systematic review	56
A systematic review and meta-synthesis of mental health position statements in sport: Scope, quality and future directions	55
A dual-process model of affective and instrumental attitudes in predicting physical activity	48
Physical activity and motor skills in children: A differentiated approach	47
Cumulative lifetime stress exposure, depression, anxiety, and well-being in elite athletes: A mixed-method study	45
Executive functions in elite athletes – Comparing open-skill and closed-skill sports and considering the role of athletes' past involvement in both sport categories	44
All for us and us for all: Introducing the 5R Shared Leadership Program	41
Representative co-design: Utilising a source of experiential knowledge for athlete development and performance preparation	37
To Flourish or Languish, that is the question: Exploring the mental health profiles of Danish elite athletes	37
Effects of school-based interventions on motivation towards physical activity in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis	34
Parents about parenting dual career athletes: A systematic literature review.	33
Effects of psychological interventions on competitive anxiety in sport: A meta-analysis	32
Higher inhibitory control is required to escape the innate attraction to effort minimization	30
The effectiveness of psychological skills training and behavioral interventions in sport using single-case designs: A meta regression analysis of the peer-reviewed studies	28
Drop-out from team sport among adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies	28
Athlete perspectives on the enablers and barriers to nutritional adherence in high-performance sport	27
Focusing on the coach’s eye; towards a working model of coach decision-making in talent selection	26
When the final whistle blows: Social identity pathways support mental health and life satisfaction after retirement from competitive sport	25
Stress mindset in athletes: Investigating the relationships between beliefs, challenge and threat with psychological wellbeing	25
Community sport and physical activity programs as sites of integration: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research conducted with forced migrants	25
Ten essential features of European dual career development environments: A multiple case study	25
To act or not to act? Student-athlete perceptions of social justice activism	25

Too bored for sports? Adaptive and less-adaptive latent personality profiles for exercise behavior	24
Defining and characterizing organizational resilience in elite sport	24
Longitudinal analysis of stressors, stress, coping and coping effectiveness in elite esports athletes	23
Storying sports injury experiences of elite track athletes: A narrative analysis	23
Social identity leadership in sport and exercise: Current status and future directions	23
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	23
Extraordinary claims in the literature on high-intensity interval training (HIIT): IV. Is HIIT associated with higher long-term exercise adherence?	23
Decision-making training in sporting officials: Past, present and future	23
Understanding and building clean(er) sport together: Community-based participatory research with elite athletes and anti-doping organisations from five European countries	23
Coach identity leadership behaviours are positively associated with athlete resource appraisals: The mediating roles of relational and group identification	22
How are physical literacy interventions conceptualized? – A systematic review on intervention design and content	22
Comparing the constraints led approach, differential learning and prescriptive instruction for training opposite-field hitting in baseball	21
Reliability and validity of the PL-C Quest, a scale designed to assess children’s self-reported physical literacy	21
Qualitative evaluation of a sports-based mental health literacy program for adolescent males	21
Ideas for action: Exploring strategies to address body image concerns for adolescent girls involved in sport	21
Pregnancy and motherhood in elite sport: The longitudinal experiences of two elite athletes	20
Implications of the identity position for dual career construction: Gendering the pathways to (Dis)continuation	20
Do you find exercise pleasant or unpleasant? The Affective Exercise Experiences (AFFEXX) questionnaire	20
Passion and emotions: The mediating role of cognitive appraisals	20
Acceptance by athletes of a virtual reality head-mounted display intended to enhance sport performance	19
360°-multiple object tracking in team sport athletes: Reliability and relationship to visuospatial cognitive functions	19
Conceptualizing bullying in adult professional football: A phenomenological exploration	19
Motivational and emotional effects of social comparison in sports	19
Flow in youth sport, physical activity, and physical education: A systematic review	19
Factors associated with adherence to the muscle-strengthening activity guideline among adolescents	18
The effect of self- and interpersonal emotion regulation on athletes’ anxiety and goal achievement in competition	18
No fun, no gain: The stress-buffering effect of physical activity on life satisfaction depends on adolescents' intrinsic motivation	18
Towards consensus in conceptualizing and operationalizing physical activity maintenance	18
The social dynamics involved in recovery and return to sport following a sport-related concussion: A study of three athlete-teammate-coach triads	18
A dual process model of affective and instrumental implicit attitude, self-monitoring, and sedentary behavior	18
Comparing the efficacy (RCT) of learning a dance choreography and practicing creative dance on improving executive functions and motor competence in 6–7 years old children	18
Prevalence of symptoms of common mental disorders among elite Canadian athletes	18
Gaining perspectives: A scoping review of research assessing depressive symptoms in athletes	18
No ego-depletion effect without a good control task	18
The Daily Mile™: Acute effects on children’s cognitive function and factors affecting their enjoyment	18
Effects of a physical education intervention programme for ninth-graders on physical activity-related health competence: Findings from the GEKOS cluster randomised controlled trial	18
A systematic review of the within-person association between physical activity and affect in children's and adolescents' daily lives	18
The impact of cognitive functions and intellectual impairment on pacing and performance in sports	17
Individual differences in performance and learning of visual anticipation in expert field hockey goalkeepers	17
Creating the conditions for psychological safety and its impact on quality coach-athlete relationships	17
Harnessing the power of ‘us’: A randomized wait-list controlled trial of the 5R shared leadership development program (5RS) in basketball teams	17
Momentary associations between stress and physical activity among children using ecological momentary assessment	17
A psychological intervention reduces doping likelihood in British and Greek athletes: A cluster randomized controlled trial	17
The effects of self-compassion on daily emotion regulation and performance rebound among college athletes: Comparisons with confidence, grit, and hope	17
High school student-athletes’ perceptions and experiences of leadership as a life skill	17
Youth sport participation and parental mental health	16
Effects of a single bout of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity on executive functions in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis	16
Sleep interventions for performance, mood and sleep outcomes in athletes: A systematic review and meta-analysis	16
Inter-individual differences in sport refereeing: A review of theory and practice	16
Relationships among behavioural regulations, physical activity, and mental health pre- and during COVID–19 UK lockdown	16

The role of motivation in the conceptual model of motor development in childhood	15
The effects of self-efficacy on physical and cognitive performance: An analysis of meta-certainty	15
The identity of the sport psychology profession: A multinational perspective	15
COVID-19: Assessing the impact of lockdown on recreational athletes	15
Selection bias in social facilitation theory? Audience effects on elite biathletes' performance are gender-specific	15
Dynamic vision training transfers positively to batting practice performance among collegiate baseball batters	15
Mental health protective factors among flourishing Canadian women university student-athletes	15
Integrating technology in psychological skills training for performance optimization in elite athletes: A systematic review	15
The role of comprehensive education in anti-doping policy legitimacy and support among clean athletes	15
Mental health and elite female athletes: A scoping review	15
Why do new members stop attending health and fitness venues? The importance of developing frequent and stable attendance behaviour	15
Exergame-based exercise training for depressive symptoms in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Specific effect of a cognitive-motor dual-task training on sport performance and brain processing associated with decision-making in semi-elite basketball players	14
Muscularity rationality: An examination of the use of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) upon exercisers at risk of muscle dysmorphia	14
Affective responses to resistance exercise: Toward a consensus on the timing of assessments	14
Holistic movement practices – An emerging category of physical activity for exercise psychology	14
Effects of traditional and immersive video on anticipation in cricket: A temporal occlusion study	14
A need-supportive teaching approach among students with intellectual disability in physical education	14
The transnational migration of mindfulness: A call for reflective pause in sport and exercise psychology	14
The physical self-concept across childhood: Measurement development and meaning for physical activity	13
Understanding action control of resistance training among adults	13
The performance enhancement attitude scale (PEAS) reached ‘adulthood’: Lessons and recommendations from a systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Personality, motivational, and social cognition predictors of leisure-time physical activity	13
The interplay of actual and perceived physical fitness in children: Effects on motivation and physical activity	13
Effects of visualized PETTLEP imagery on the basketball 3-point shot: A comparison of internal and external perspectives	13
Integrating models of self-regulation and optimal experiences: A qualitative study into flow and clutch states in recreational distance running	13
Assembling the sense of home in emigrant elite athletes: Cultural transitions, narrative and materiality	13
The perception of nested affordances: An examination of expert climbers	13
Exploring parent-athlete sport related communication outside of the sport environment with the Electronically Activated Recorder	13
Extraordinary claims in the literature on high-intensity interval training (HIIT): III. Critical analysis of four foundational arguments from an interdisciplinary lens	13
The impact of verbal and physical abuse on distress, mental health, and intentions to quit in sports officials	13
Efficacy of physical activity interventions on psychological outcomes in refugee, asylum seeker and migrant populations: A systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Effect of parent responsiveness on young athletes’ self-perceptions and thriving: An exploratory study in a Belgian French-Community	12
Identity leadership and social identification within sport teams over a season: A social network analysis	12
Memories of school recess predict physical activity enjoyment and social-emotional well-being in adults	12
An investigation of the effects of self-reported self-control strength on shooting performance	12
One group’s pain is another group’s pleasure: Examining schadenfreude in response to failures of football teams during the World Cup 2018	12
Psychological mechanisms underlying the relationship between commercial physical activity app use and physical activity engagement	12
Skating through pregnancy and motherhood: A narrative analysis of digital stories of elite figure skating expectant mothers	12
Imagery training in school-based physical education improves the performance and the mental representation of a complex action in comprehensive school students	12
Psycho-perceptual-motor skills are deemed critical to save the penalty corner in international field hockey	12
Effects of the function-specific instruction approach to neurofeedback training on frontal midline theta waves and golf putting performance	12
Toward understanding of coaches’ role in athletes’ eating pathology: A systematic review and ecological application to advance research	12
Mental health of circus artists: Psychological resilience, circus factors, and demographics predict depression, anxiety, stress, and flourishing	12
Self-compassion and body-related self-conscious emotions: Examining within- and between-person variation among adolescent girls in sport	12
The introduction of the Video Assistant Referee supports the fairness of the game – An analysis of the home advantage in the German Bundesliga	12
Physical activity to address multimorbidity among survivors of sexual violence: A comprehensive narrative review	12
The influence of social networks within sports teams on athletes’ eating and exercise psychopathology: A longitudinal study	11
Mindfulness, reinvestment, and rowing under pressure: Evidence for moderated moderation of the anxiety-performance relationship	11
Psychological pressure and compounded errors during elite-level tennis	11
Inpatient perspectives on physical activity in a secure mental health setting	11
Examining the day-level impact of physical activity on affect during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: An ecological momentary assessment study	11
Development and initial validation of the coaching life skills in sport questionnaire	11
Do women athletes’ experiences of menstrual function and dysfunction vary across competition levels? A mixed methods exploration	11
Online public shaming of professional athletes: Gender matters	11
Acute exercise and children’s cognitive functioning: What is the optimal dose of cognitive challenge?	11
The effects of exercise at different temperatures on cognitive function: A systematic review	11
Exploring the “clutch” in clutch performance: A qualitative investigation of the experience of pressure in successful performance	11
The effects of coaches' emotional expressions on players' performance: Experimental evidence in a football context	11
Perceptual-cognitive performance of youth soccer players in a 360°-environment – Differences between age groups and performance levels	11
When time is of the essence: The use of rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) informed single-session therapy (SST) to alleviate social and golf-specific anxiety, and improve wellbeing and performa	11
Is a pandemic as good as a rest? Comparing athlete burnout and stress before and after the suspension of organised team sport due to Covid-19 restrictions, and investigating the impact of athletes’ re	11
Self-determination theory based instructional interventions and motivational regulations in organized physical activity: A systematic review and multivariate meta-analysis	11
The effect of augmented feedback on the performance and learning of gross motor and sport-specific skills: A systematic review	11
Longitudinal trajectories of emotions among athletes in sports competitions: Does emotional intelligence matter?	10
Congruence of efficacy beliefs on the coach-athlete relationship and athlete anxiety: Athlete self-efficacy and coach estimation of athlete self-efficacy	10
Unpacking the debate: A qualitative investigation of first-time experiences with interval exercise	10
Perceived motivational climate influences athletes’ emotion regulation strategies, emotions, and psychobiosocial experiences	10
Effects of chronic exercise on attentional bias among individuals with methamphetamine use disorder	10
Intervention-enabled autonomy-supportive teaching improves the PE classroom climate to reduce antisocial behavior	10
Promoting positive development among youth from refugee and migrant backgrounds: The case of Kicking Goals Together	10
Student-athletes’ dual commitment to school and sport: Compatible or conflicting?	10
Promoting physical activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in Australia: The roles of psychological predictors and commercial physical activity apps	10
Protective effect of aerobic fitness on the detrimental influence of exhaustive exercise on information processing capacity	10
Imagery ability classification: Commentary on «Kinaesthetic imagery ability moderates the effect of an AO+MI intervention on golf putt performance: A pilot study» by McNeill et al. (2020)	10
Achievement goal theory-based psychological skills training session buffers youth athletes’ psychophysiological responses to performance stress	10
The mediational role of motivation in the model of motor development in childhood: A longitudinal study	10
Assessing lifetime stressor exposure in sport performers: Associations with trait stress appraisals, health, well-being, and performance	10
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	10
New insights into visual-motor integration exploring process measures during copying shapes	10

The impact of differing audience sizes on referees and team performance from a North American perspective	9
Martial arts, combat sports, and mental health in adults: A systematic review	9
Compositional insights on the association between physical activity and sedentary behavior on momentary mood in daily life	9
Dissociating the contributions of motivational and information processing factors to the self-controlled feedback learning benefit	9
Optimal psychological states in advanced climbers: Antecedents, characteristics, and consequences of flow and clutch states	9
Motivation beliefs, emotions, leisure time physical activity, and sedentary behavior in university students: A full longitudinal model of mediation	9
Canadian athletes' perspectives of mental health care and the importance of clinicians' sport knowledge: A multi-method investigation	9
Women's exercise identity increases after a 16-week exercise RCT and is linked to behavior maintenance at follow-up	9
Maximizing data quality and shortening survey time: Three-form planned missing data survey design	9
A longitudinal transitional perspective on why adolescents choose to quit organized sport in Norway	9
Development and initial validation of the Life Skills Scale for Sport – Transfer Scale (LSSS-TS)	9
Weight on the bar vs. weight on the scale: A qualitative exploration of disordered eating in competitive female powerlifters	9
Achievement motive, autonomous motivation, and attendance at fitness center: A longitudinal prospective study	9
Executive functions in children engaging in open- and closed-skilled sports	9
A dynamic view of coach transformational leadership: How leadership perceptions relate to task cohesion and team potency	9
When the going gets tough, what happens to quiet eye? The role of time pressure and performance pressure during basketball free throws	9
When in doubt, it’s not out: Match format is associated with differences in elite-level cricket umpires’ leg-before-wicket decisions	9
The effects of linear, nonlinear, and differential motor learning methods on the emergence of creative action in individual soccer players	9
Digital media and mental health in adolescent athletes	9
Psychobiosocial experiences in sport: Development and initial validation of a semantic differential scale	9
Processing deceptive information in sports: Individual differences for responding to head fakes depends on the attentional capability of the observer	9
Self-efficacy, mental models and team adaptation: A first approach on football and futsal refereeing	9
Does game pressure affect hand selection of NBA basketball players?	9
Within-person examination of the exercise intention-behavior gap among women in midlife with elevated cardiovascular disease risk	9
Positive affect moderates inhibitory control and positive affect following a single bout of self-select aerobic exercise	8
More than “just a driver”: A study of professional women racecar drivers' agency in motorsport	8
Effect of brief mindfulness and relaxation inductions on anxiety, affect and brain activation in athletes	8
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	8
Confinement during Covid-19 outbreak modifies athletes’ self-based goals	8
The use of heart rate variability in esports: A systematic review	8
Facilitating transition into a high-performance environment: The effect of a stressor-coping intervention program on elite youth rugby league players	8
A systematic review of research into coach perspectives and behaviours regarding doping and anti-doping	8
Meta-analysis of the reduced relative feedback frequency effect on motor learning and performance	8
Transitioning from sport: Life satisfaction, depressive symptomatology, and body satisfaction among retired female collegiate athletes	8
Whistleblowing of bullying in professional football: To report or not to report?	8
Stimulating performance: A scoping review on transcranial electrical stimulation effects on olympic sports	8
“Women easily feel that they have lost a year if they don’t ski faster”: Finnish ski coaches’ discursive constructions of gendered dual career pathways	8
Examining the roles of experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion on the effects from mindfulness to athlete burnout: A longitudinal study	8
Mental fatigue, anticipated effort, and subjective valuations of exercising predict choice to exercise or not: A mixed-methods study	8
Towards a better understanding of the role of perceived task variety in Physical Education: A self-determination theory approach	8
QEEG markers of superior shooting performance in skilled marksmen: An investigation of cortical activity on psychomotor efficiency hypothesis	8
Proposing an ontological shift from intervention to intravention in sport and exercise psychology	8
The experiences of high-performance coaches in the management of difficult athletes	8
A re-examination of the 2x2 model of perfectionism, burnout, and engagement in sports	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
Getting a grip on the resilience to blur: The impact of simulated vision loss on a visually guided combat sports interaction	8
A person-centred approach to understanding dark-side antecedents and students’ outcomes associated with physical education teachers’ motivation	8
Autonomous motivation and action planning are longitudinally associated with physical activity during adolescence and early adulthood	8
The National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic: Change and duration of psychological outcomes	8
A cluster randomized trial to evaluate need-supportive teaching in physical education on physical activity of sixth-grade girls: A mixed method study	8
The transnational experience of sport psychology practitioners from training to practice	8
Pinning down the problems and influences: Disordered eating and body satisfaction in male wrestlers	8
Modeling talent development pathways in alpine ski racers	8
The Flow-Clutch Scale: Development and preliminary validation in sport and exercise	8
Who's to blame? The role of power and attributions in susceptibility to match-fixing	8
Body image and disordered eating prevention in girls’ sport: A partner-driven and stakeholder-informed scoping review of interventions	8
An exploration of doping-related perceptions and knowledge of disabled elite athletes in the UK and Austria	8
The changing meaning of sport during forced immigrant youths' acculturative journeys	8
Resilience and Enhancement in Sport, Exercise, & Training (RESET): A brief self-compassion intervention with NCAA student-athletes	8
Self-modelled versus skilled-peer modelled AO+MI effects on skilled sensorimotor performance: A stage 2 registered report	8