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	77
The impact of identity leadership on team functioning and well-being in team sport: Is psychological safety the missing link?	59
Ambulatory assessment for physical activity research: State of the science, best practices and future directions	56
Home advantage during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analyses of European football leagues	55
Does mental practice still enhance performance? A 24 Year follow-up and meta-analytic replication and extension	53
Psychological and physiological stress in non-competitive and competitive esports settings: A systematic review	45
A systematic review and meta-synthesis of mental health position statements in sport: Scope, quality and future directions	44
Assessing physical activity through questionnaires – A consensus of best practices and future directions	43
A dual-process model of affective and instrumental attitudes in predicting physical activity	41
Assessing physical behavior through accelerometry – State of the science, best practices and future directions	40
All for us and us for all: Introducing the 5R Shared Leadership Program	38
Self-compassion, social rank, and psychological distress in athletes of varying competitive levels	37
Reciprocal relations between autonomous motivation from self-determination theory and social cognition constructs from the theory of planned behavior: A cross-lagged panel design in sport injury preve	36
Executive functions in elite athletes – Comparing open-skill and closed-skill sports and considering the role of athletes' past involvement in both sport categories	36
Cumulative lifetime stress exposure, depression, anxiety, and well-being in elite athletes: A mixed-method study	35
The rise and fall of executive functions in high-level football players	34
The effect of a virtual reality environment on gaze behaviour and motor skill learning	33
Physical activity and motor skills in children: A differentiated approach	33
Representative co-design: Utilising a source of experiential knowledge for athlete development and performance preparation	32
To Flourish or Languish, that is the question: Exploring the mental health profiles of Danish elite athletes	29
Effects of school-based interventions on motivation towards physical activity in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis	29
Higher inhibitory control is required to escape the innate attraction to effort minimization	28
Parents about parenting dual career athletes: A systematic literature review.	28
The effectiveness of psychological skills training and behavioral interventions in sport using single-case designs: A meta regression analysis of the peer-reviewed studies	25
What’s a coach to do? Exploring coaches’ perspectives of body image in girls sport	25

Effects of psychological interventions on competitive anxiety in sport: A meta-analysis	23
The role of passion, need satisfaction, and conflict in athletes’ perceptions of burnout	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	22
Too bored for sports? Adaptive and less-adaptive latent personality profiles for exercise behavior	22
Stress mindset in athletes: Investigating the relationships between beliefs, challenge and threat with psychological wellbeing	22
Focusing on the coach’s eye; towards a working model of coach decision-making in talent selection	22
To act or not to act? Student-athlete perceptions of social justice activism	22
Athlete perspectives on the enablers and barriers to nutritional adherence in high-performance sport	22
Elite golfers are characterized by psychomotor refinement in cognitive-motor processes	21
Community sport and physical activity programs as sites of integration: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research conducted with forced migrants	21
Understanding and building clean(er) sport together: Community-based participatory research with elite athletes and anti-doping organisations from five European countries	20
Defining and characterizing organizational resilience in elite sport	20
Coping tendencies and changes in athlete burnout over time	20
Knowledge is power? Outcome probability information impairs detection of deceptive intent	20
Ten essential features of European dual career development environments: A multiple case study	19
Group cohesion and relatedness as predictors of self-determined motivation and burnout in adolescent female athletes	19
Social identity leadership in sport and exercise: Current status and future directions	19
Coach identity leadership behaviours are positively associated with athlete resource appraisals: The mediating roles of relational and group identification	19
Comparing the constraints led approach, differential learning and prescriptive instruction for training opposite-field hitting in baseball	19
Life skills development in physical education: A self-determination theory-based investigation across the school term	18
A citation network analysis of career mentoring across disciplines: A roadmap for mentoring research in sport	18
Qualitative evaluation of a sports-based mental health literacy program for adolescent males	18
Factors associated with adherence to the muscle-strengthening activity guideline among adolescents	17
Reliability and validity of the PL-C Quest, a scale designed to assess children’s self-reported physical literacy	17
Storying sports injury experiences of elite track athletes: A narrative analysis	17
The Daily Mile™: Acute effects on children’s cognitive function and factors affecting their enjoyment	17
Ideas for action: Exploring strategies to address body image concerns for adolescent girls involved in sport	17
How are physical literacy interventions conceptualized? – A systematic review on intervention design and content	17
Individual differences in performance and learning of visual anticipation in expert field hockey goalkeepers	17
Coping by doping?A qualitative inquiry into permitted and prohibited substance use in competitive rugby	17
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	16
Flow in youth sport, physical activity, and physical education: A systematic review	16
Implications of the identity position for dual career construction: Gendering the pathways to (Dis)continuation	16
Longitudinal analysis of stressors, stress, coping and coping effectiveness in elite esports athletes	16
The relationship between peer servant leadership, social identity, and team cohesion in intercollegiate athletics	16
Momentary associations between stress and physical activity among children using ecological momentary assessment	16
Efficacy of a 7-week dance (RCT) PE curriculum with different teaching pedagogies and levels of cognitive challenge to improve working memory capacity and motor competence in 8–10 years old children	16
Variability and creativity in small-sided conditioned games among elite soccer players	15
When the final whistle blows: Social identity pathways support mental health and life satisfaction after retirement from competitive sport	15
Relationships among behavioural regulations, physical activity, and mental health pre- and during COVID–19 UK lockdown	15
No ego-depletion effect without a good control task	15
Why do new members stop attending health and fitness venues? The importance of developing frequent and stable attendance behaviour	15
The impact of cognitive functions and intellectual impairment on pacing and performance in sports	15
Decision-making training in sporting officials: Past, present and future	15
Drop-out from team sport among adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies	15
The effect of self- and interpersonal emotion regulation on athletes’ anxiety and goal achievement in competition	14
A psychological intervention reduces doping likelihood in British and Greek athletes: A cluster randomized controlled trial	14
Acceptance by athletes of a virtual reality head-mounted display intended to enhance sport performance	14
No fun, no gain: The stress-buffering effect of physical activity on life satisfaction depends on adolescents' intrinsic motivation	14
Conceptualizing bullying in adult professional football: A phenomenological exploration	14

A systematic review of the within-person association between physical activity and affect in children's and adolescents' daily lives	14
Reliable measurement in sport psychology: The case of performance outcome measures	14
The social dynamics involved in recovery and return to sport following a sport-related concussion: A study of three athlete-teammate-coach triads	14
Effects of a physical education intervention programme for ninth-graders on physical activity-related health competence: Findings from the GEKOS cluster randomised controlled trial	14
Passion and emotions: The mediating role of cognitive appraisals	14
Gaining perspectives: A scoping review of research assessing depressive symptoms in athletes	14
Evaluating the Coaching for Life Skills online training program: A randomised controlled trial	13
Dyadic coping in coach-athlete relationships: A grounded theory	13
360°-multiple object tracking in team sport athletes: Reliability and relationship to visuospatial cognitive functions	13
Understanding social networks and social support resources with sports coaches	13
High school student-athletes’ perceptions and experiences of leadership as a life skill	13
Youth sport participation and parental mental health	13
COVID-19: Assessing the impact of lockdown on recreational athletes	13
The affective interval: An investigation of the peaks and valleys during high- and moderate-intensity interval exercise in regular exercisers	13
Dynamic vision training transfers positively to batting practice performance among collegiate baseball batters	13
Mental health protective factors among flourishing Canadian women university student-athletes	13
Long-term effects of a dyadic planning intervention with couples motivated to increase physical activity	12
The effects of self-compassion on daily emotion regulation and performance rebound among college athletes: Comparisons with confidence, grit, and hope	12
Inter-individual differences in sport refereeing: A review of theory and practice	12
The identity of the sport psychology profession: A multinational perspective	12
Do you find exercise pleasant or unpleasant? The Affective Exercise Experiences (AFFEXX) questionnaire	12
Generate, maintain, manipulate? Exploring the multidimensional nature of motor imagery	12
The role of comprehensive education in anti-doping policy legitimacy and support among clean athletes	12
Psychological mechanisms underlying the relationship between commercial physical activity app use and physical activity engagement	12
The transnational migration of mindfulness: A call for reflective pause in sport and exercise psychology	12
How socialization tactics relate to role clarity, cohesion, and intentions to return in soccer teams	12
Psycho-perceptual-motor skills are deemed critical to save the penalty corner in international field hockey	12
Development and validation of the Eating Disorders Screen for Athletes (EDSA): A brief screening tool for male and female athletes	12
Holistic movement practices – An emerging category of physical activity for exercise psychology	12
Muscularity rationality: An examination of the use of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) upon exercisers at risk of muscle dysmorphia	12
Towards consensus in conceptualizing and operationalizing physical activity maintenance	12
Harnessing the power of ‘us’: A randomized wait-list controlled trial of the 5R shared leadership development program (5RS) in basketball teams	11
The influence of social networks within sports teams on athletes’ eating and exercise psychopathology: A longitudinal study	11
The constraint-led approach to enhancing team synergies in sport - What do we currently know and how can we move forward? A systematic review and meta-analyses	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
Overweight and obese men’s experiences in a sport-based weight loss intervention for men	11
Extraordinary claims in the literature on high-intensity interval training (HIIT): IV. Is HIIT associated with higher long-term exercise adherence?	11
The rebalancing act: Injured varsity women athletes’ experiences of global and sport psychological well-being	11
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	11
A dual process model of affective and instrumental implicit attitude, self-monitoring, and sedentary behavior	11
Mental health of circus artists: Psychological resilience, circus factors, and demographics predict depression, anxiety, stress, and flourishing	11
The effects of exercise at different temperatures on cognitive function: A systematic review	11
Effects of traditional and immersive video on anticipation in cricket: A temporal occlusion study	11
An investigation of the effects of self-reported self-control strength on shooting performance	11
Specific internal and external attentional focus instructions have differential effects on rowing performance	11
Effect of parent responsiveness on young athletes’ self-perceptions and thriving: An exploratory study in a Belgian French-Community	11
Imagery training in school-based physical education improves the performance and the mental representation of a complex action in comprehensive school students	11
Sleep interventions for performance, mood and sleep outcomes in athletes: A systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Prevalence of symptoms of common mental disorders among elite Canadian athletes	11
Motivational and emotional effects of social comparison in sports	11
Selection bias in social facilitation theory? Audience effects on elite biathletes' performance are gender-specific	10
Online public shaming of professional athletes: Gender matters	10
Effects of visualized PETTLEP imagery on the basketball 3-point shot: A comparison of internal and external perspectives	10
Memories of school recess predict physical activity enjoyment and social-emotional well-being in adults	10
Mental health and elite female athletes: A scoping review	10
Assembling the sense of home in emigrant elite athletes: Cultural transitions, narrative and materiality	10
Short-term effect of competition rule changes on collective effectiveness and self-efficacy in youth football players	10
Physical activity to address multimorbidity among survivors of sexual violence: A comprehensive narrative review	10
New insights into visual-motor integration exploring process measures during copying shapes	10
Mindfulness, reinvestment, and rowing under pressure: Evidence for moderated moderation of the anxiety-performance relationship	10
Exploring parent-athlete sport related communication outside of the sport environment with the Electronically Activated Recorder	10
Perceived anger profiles in table tennis players: Relationship with burnout and coping	10
Integrating models of self-regulation and optimal experiences: A qualitative study into flow and clutch states in recreational distance running	10
Unpacking the debate: A qualitative investigation of first-time experiences with interval exercise	10
Personality, motivational, and social cognition predictors of leisure-time physical activity	10
Development and initial validation of the coaching life skills in sport questionnaire	10
Affective responses to resistance exercise: Toward a consensus on the timing of assessments	10
Psychological pressure and compounded errors during elite-level tennis	10
Exploring perceptions about the feasibility of educational video resources as a strategy to support parental involvement in youth soccer	10
Self-compassion and body-related self-conscious emotions: Examining within- and between-person variation among adolescent girls in sport	10
Understanding action control of resistance training among adults	10
Examining the day-level impact of physical activity on affect during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: An ecological momentary assessment study	10
Processing deceptive information in sports: Individual differences for responding to head fakes depends on the attentional capability of the observer	9
The impact of social relationships on initiation in adapted physical activity for individuals with acquired disabilities	9
Integrating technology in psychological skills training for performance optimization in elite athletes: A systematic review	9
Canadian athletes' perspectives of mental health care and the importance of clinicians' sport knowledge: A multi-method investigation	9
The assistant referees’ activity in refereeing elite football: Preoccupations when not judging offside	9
Specific effect of a cognitive-motor dual-task training on sport performance and brain processing associated with decision-making in semi-elite basketball players	9
Identity leadership and social identification within sport teams over a season: A social network analysis	9
Physical activity and posttraumatic growth: A systematic review of quantitative and qualitative studies	9

Achievement motive, autonomous motivation, and attendance at fitness center: A longitudinal prospective study	9
The effects of goal types on psychological outcomes in active and insufficiently active adults in a walking task: Further evidence for open goals	9
The effect of augmented feedback on the performance and learning of gross motor and sport-specific skills: A systematic review	9
A longitudinal transitional perspective on why adolescents choose to quit organized sport in Norway	9
Perception and action in a far-aiming task: Inhibition demands and the functionality of the Quiet Eye in motor performance	9
Achievement goal theory-based psychological skills training session buffers youth athletes’ psychophysiological responses to performance stress	9
Inpatient perspectives on physical activity in a secure mental health setting	9
Exploring the “clutch” in clutch performance: A qualitative investigation of the experience of pressure in successful performance	9
Pregnancy and motherhood in elite sport: The longitudinal experiences of two elite athletes	9
The perception of nested affordances: An examination of expert climbers	9
The role of motivation in the conceptual model of motor development in childhood	9
The effects of aerobic exercise on working memory in methamphetamine-dependent patients: Evidence from combined fNIRS and ERP	9
The physical self-concept across childhood: Measurement development and meaning for physical activity	9
The impact of exercise environments on adolescents’ cognitive and psychological outcomes: A randomised controlled trial	9
Student-athletes’ dual commitment to school and sport: Compatible or conflicting?	8
Motivation beliefs, emotions, leisure time physical activity, and sedentary behavior in university students: A full longitudinal model of mediation	8
Mental fatigue, anticipated effort, and subjective valuations of exercising predict choice to exercise or not: A mixed-methods study	8
Body image and disordered eating prevention in girls’ sport: A partner-driven and stakeholder-informed scoping review of interventions	8
The transnational experience of sport psychology practitioners from training to practice	8
A need-supportive teaching approach among students with intellectual disability in physical education	8
Within-person examination of the exercise intention-behavior gap among women in midlife with elevated cardiovascular disease risk	8
Confinement during Covid-19 outbreak modifies athletes’ self-based goals	8
Promoting positive development among youth from refugee and migrant backgrounds: The case of Kicking Goals Together	8
The changing meaning of sport during forced immigrant youths' acculturative journeys	8
Longitudinal trajectories of emotions among athletes in sports competitions: Does emotional intelligence matter?	8
Development of a mental skills training intervention for the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command: An intervention mapping approach	8
Living in the mo(ve)ment: An ethnographic exploration of hospice patients’ experiences of participating in Tai Chi	8
More than “just a driver”: A study of professional women racecar drivers' agency in motorsport	8
Psychobiosocial experiences in sport: Development and initial validation of a semantic differential scale	8
Assessing lifetime stressor exposure in sport performers: Associations with trait stress appraisals, health, well-being, and performance	8
Dissociating the contributions of motivational and information processing factors to the self-controlled feedback learning benefit	8
Does game pressure affect hand selection of NBA basketball players?	8
A re-examination of the 2x2 model of perfectionism, burnout, and engagement in sports	8
Exergame-based exercise training for depressive symptoms in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
One group’s pain is another group’s pleasure: Examining schadenfreude in response to failures of football teams during the World Cup 2018	8
The effects of self-efficacy on physical and cognitive performance: An analysis of meta-certainty	8
Toward understanding of coaches’ role in athletes’ eating pathology: A systematic review and ecological application to advance research	8
Extraordinary claims in the literature on high-intensity interval training (HIIT): III. Critical analysis of four foundational arguments from an interdisciplinary lens	8
Autonomous motivation and action planning are longitudinally associated with physical activity during adolescence and early adulthood	8
Efficacy of physical activity interventions on psychological outcomes in refugee, asylum seeker and migrant populations: A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Perceived motivational climate influences athletes’ emotion regulation strategies, emotions, and psychobiosocial experiences	8
Protective effect of aerobic fitness on the detrimental influence of exhaustive exercise on information processing capacity	8
An investigation of expertise in cycling: Eye tracking, Think Aloud and the influence of a competitor	8
The interplay of actual and perceived physical fitness in children: Effects on motivation and physical activity	8
Promoting physical activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in Australia: The roles of psychological predictors and commercial physical activity apps	8
The impact of differing audience sizes on referees and team performance from a North American perspective	8
The effects of coaches' emotional expressions on players' performance: Experimental evidence in a football context	8
An exploration of doping-related perceptions and knowledge of disabled elite athletes in the UK and Austria	8
Perfectionism and athlete engagement: A multi-sample test of the 2 × 2 model of perfectionism	8
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	8