International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The circumplex model of affect in physical activity contexts: a systematic review26
How does exercising make you feel? The associations between positive and negative affect, life satisfaction, self-esteem, and vitality24
Athletes have different dominant cognitive functions depending on type of sport22
Relationship between athlete stress and burnout: a systematic review and meta-analysis21
Body shaming as a form of emotional abuse in sport21
From athletic talent development to dual career development? A case study in a Finnish high performance sports environment20
Home advantage in soccer after the break due to COVID-19 pandemic: does crowd support matter?18
International society of sport psychology position stand: mental health through occupational health and safety in high performance sport18
Thriving in youth sport: the antecedents and consequences15
International Society of Sport Psychology position stand: scientist practitioners15
The relationship between executive functions and sports experience, relative age effect, as well as physical maturity in youth soccer players of different ages14
The efficacy of psychological skills training for enhancing performance in sport: a review of reviews14
Effect of mental fatigue on decision-making skill and visual search behaviour in basketball players: an experimental and randomised study12
Sampling between sports and athlete development: a scoping review12
Trained athletes and cognitive function: a systematic review and meta-analysis12
The effect of explicit, implicit and analogy instruction on decision-making skill for novices under stress12
Normalised step targets in fitness apps affect users’ autonomy need satisfaction, motivation and physical activity – a six-week RCT12
The effects of rational emotive behaviour therapy on performance under pressure in adolescent soccer athletes: a randomised control design12
Group exercise membership is associated with forms of social support, exercise identity, and amount of physical activity11
Mental well-being profiles and physical activity in times of social isolation by the COVID-19: a latent class analysis11
Elite athletes’ achievement goals, burnout levels, psychosomatic stress symptoms, and coping strategies11
Perspective, control, and confidence: perceived outcomes of using psycho-behavioural skills in the developmental trauma experience10
When it is no longer a bit of banter: Coaches’ perspectives of bullying in professional soccer10
The behavioural component of emotions: exploring outward emotional reactions in table tennis10
Psychology of physical activity: a 30-year reflection on correlates, barriers, and theory10
Motor imagery during action observation in virtual reality: the impact of watching myself performing at a level I have not yet achieved10
Head-fake perception in basketball: the relative contributions of expertise, visual or motor training, and test repetition10
The compassionate coach scale as perceived by the athlete: development and initial validation in Portuguese athletes10
Peer and parental processes predict distinct patterns of physical activity participation among adolescent girls and boys9
The dual pandemic: COVID-19, systemic racism, and college student-athletic mental health9
The effects of acute exercise on driving and executive functions in healthy older adults9
The role of visuospatial abilities and the level of expertise in memorising soccer animations9
Take me into the ball game: an examination of a brief psychological skills training and mindfulness-based intervention with baseball players9
The mental health of Chinese elite athletes: revisiting the assessment methods and introducing a management framework9
Adaptation to change: a meta-model of adaptation in sport9
Towards an ecology of athletes’ career transitions: conceptualization and working models9
Contribution of deliberate practice, play, and futsal to the acquisition of decision-making skills in Brazilian professional female soccer players8
The influence of spectators on home advantage and referee bias in national teams matches: insights from UEFA Nations League8
Muscular collision chess: a qualitative exploration of the role and development of cognition, understanding and knowledge in elite-level decision making8
Understanding action control of physical activity among mothers with young children8
Does loving a group mean hating its rivals? Exploring the relationship between ingroup cohesion and outgroup hostility among soccer fans8
Perfectionism and attitudes towards doping in athletes: the mediating role of achievement goal orientations8
Sports lunch breaks, vigor, and creativity at work: a test of the work-home resources model7
Associations of self-compassion with shame, guilt, and training motivation after sport-specific daily stress – a smartphone study7
Personality, grit, and performance in rock-climbing: down to the nitty-gritty7
Sport participants’ well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of nostalgia, resilience, and curiosity7
Psychometric properties of the Brunel Mood Scale among athletes and non-athletes in Singapore7
Effects of a strategic self-talk intervention on attention functions7
Goalkeepers put their money where the coach’s mouth is: Knowing kickers’ preferences enhances anticipation of football goalkeepers7
Doping behaviour in mixed martial arts athletes: the roles of social norms and self-regulatory efficacy7
Emotion regulation among competitive youth athletes: exploring the independent and interactive effects of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression7
Motivational processes of the relationship between weight stigma and physical activity: a comparison between France and Mexico7
Which cyclists manage to cope with the corona crisis in a resilient way? The role of motivational profiles6
“I’m a hurler … basically just a hurler”: a mixed methods study of the athletic identity of elite Irish Gaelic Athletic Association dual career athletes6
Home advantage in football after moving to a new stadium: evidence from European professional teams6
The contextualisation of Chinese athletes’ careers in the Chinese Whole Nation System6
What can post qualitative inquiry offer physical activity intervention? An example of intergenerational physical activity6
The reliability and validity of the sport engagement instrument in the Finnish dual career context6
Why do people do yoga? Examining motives across different types of yoga participants6
International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology (IJSEP)6
Dynamic visual support is superior to its static counterpart in learning a series of Judo refereeing gestures5
Compassion and self-compassion motivation and action levels in a high-performance soccer youth academy5
Does executive functions’ performance at rest predict executive function performance during acute physical exercise?5
The effect of a single training session on cognition and mood in young adults – is there added value of a dual-task over a single-task paradigm?5
An interactive cognitive-behavioural multimedia program favourably affects pain and kinesiophobia during rehabilitation after anterior cruciate ligament surgery: an effectiveness trial5
Optimising golf putting5
Unloading the dice: selection and design of comparison and control groups in controlled trials to enhance translational impact within motor learning and control research5
“My teammates think it is alright to fight to protect friends”: collective moral disengagement in team sports5
Sport-based video game causes mental fatigue and impairs visuomotor skill in male basketball players5
Game management by referees to compensate for errors in judgement: a decision flow model5
Pressure makes diamonds? A narrative review on the application of pressure training in high-performance sports5
Effects of mental toughness on athletic performance: a systematic review and meta-analysis5
Coaches’ pointing gestures as means to convey tactical information in basketball: an eye-tracking study5
Early specialisation among Swedish aesthetic performers: exploring motivation and perceptions of parental influence5
Does life skills development within sport predict the social behaviours and sports values of youth futsal players?5
Associations between resistance training motivation, behaviour and strength5
How COVID-19 lockdown affected physical activity levels and wellbeing: an Italian Survey5
Building a case for infusing posthumanist thinking in the qualitative training of sport and exercise psychology researchers5
The mediating effect of parental warmth on the association of parent pressure and athlete perfectionism in adolescent soccer5
Effects of behavioural skill training on cognitive antecedents and exercise and sport behaviour in high school students: a cluster-randomised controlled trial5
The dynamics of Quiet Eye under stress in elite table tennis performance5
Study-to-sports spillover among competitive athletes: a field study4
Predicting students’ basic psychological needs, motivation, and well-being in online physical education: a semester-term longitudinal study4
The impact of intra-team communication and support relationships on team identification and collective efficacy in elite team sport: a social network analysis4
Motives for physical activity participation: does religious faith play a mediating role?4
Pathways through acute athlete care during training and major tournaments: a multi-national conceptualised process4
The effects of social identity and social identity content on cohesion, efficacy, and performance across a competitive rugby league season4
“# FITNESS”: impact of Instagram on exercise adherence and self-efficacy4
Peripheral perception as discriminant factor of tactical behaviour efficiency of young soccer players4
Relationships between mindfulness, self-compassion, and grit among Thai national athletes: the mediating role of self-regulation4
Instrumental vs. experiential attitudes in the theory of planned behaviour: two studies on intention to perform a recommended amount of physical activity4
Exploring social networks relative to various types of exercise self-efficacy within CrossFit participants4
Cognitive reappraisal mitigates affective valence declines during exercise at the ventilatory threshold4
Problematic mobile phone use among youth athletes: a topic modelling approach4
Factors contributing to the quality of the junior-to-senior transition in Greek athletes4
Adult-oriented coaching practices are positively associated with quality sport experience criteria4
Problematic mobile phone use among youth athletes: a qualitative investigation using focus groups4
Validation of the Interpersonal Regulation Questionnaire in sports: measuring emotion regulation via social processes and interactions4
Understanding the intention-to-behaviour relationship for adolescents: an application of the multi-process action control model4
ISSP position stand: competent supervision in sport psychology4
Free throw shooting performance under pressure: a social psychology critical review of research4
Individual attention capacity enhances in-field group performances in soccer4
“When are you gonna commit?” Exploring the experiences of youth athletes and their parents prior to a sporting transition4
External focus facilitates cognitive stability and promotes motor performance of an interceptive task in children4
Relationship between self-concept clarity, mental toughness, athlete engagement, and athlete burnout in swimmers during and after the COVID-19 pandemic4
Development and preliminary validation of the sport injury-related growth inventory3
The influence of colour in the context of sport: a meta-analysis3
Exploring the effects of physical fatigue on cognitive performance of youth soccer players3
An empirical investigation of sport stakeholders’ beliefs about whistleblowing against doping behaviour3
Women’s views and experiences of a perinatal exercise counselling intervention: a qualitative study3
Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and risk of all-cause mortality in people with anxiety disorders in South Korea3
Temporal dynamics of the quality of the coach-athlete relationship over one season among adolescent handball players: a latent class analysis approach3
Identity gripping or identity flight? Two distinct experiences correlated with self-reported depression in retired professional ice hockey players3
Task-efficacy predicts perceived enjoyment and subsequently barrier-efficacy: investigating a psychological process underpinning schoolchildren’s physical activity3
The Team Denmark applied model of athlete mental health3
High versus low motivating music on intermittent fitness and agility in young well-trained basketball players3
A model for formulating the relationship between religion and sport performance: a grounded theory approach3
Effects of a school-based Brazilian jiu-jitsu programme on mental health and classroom behaviour of children from Abu Dhabi: a randomised trial3
Psychological and psychophysiological mechanisms underlying the effects of meditation during moderate-intensity exercise3
Perfectionistic concerns cognitions predict burnout in college athletes: a three-month longitudinal study3
Sport as cognition enhancer from childhood to young adulthood: a systematic review focused on sport modality3
Fundamental movement skill interventions in young children: a systematic review3
Physical activity intention-behavior gap during the COVID-19 pandemic: the moderating role of motivation and health-belief3
Emotional determinants and consequences of flow experience of young elite athletes involved in intensive training centers across the competitive season3
The role of life purpose and passion for coaching in subjective well-being of sport coaches3
Developing and testing the Expanded Sport Official’s Decision-Making Model3
Lifestyle challenges and mental health of professional tennis players: an exploratory case study3
The influence of gender on the relationship between the basic psychological needs and mental health in high school student-athletes3
The effects of self-control on bullying behaviour among martial arts practicing adolescents: based on the analyses of multiple mediation effects3
The effects of the 2020–2021 Coronavirus pandemic change-event on football refereeing: evidence from the Israeli and Portuguese leagues3
Migration and meaning: an exploration of elite refugee athletes’ transitions into the Canadian sports system3
Desired coaching behaviours of elite divers during competition3
Short- and longer-term psychological and behavioral effects of exergaming and traditional aerobic training: A randomized controlled trial3
Anxiety and sportsmanship in adolescent athletes: the multiple mediating effects of athlete burnout and exercise cognition3
High income but high stress: cross over effects of work and family role conflict in professional athletes and their partners3
Cognitive, affective, and global attitude toward physical activity with different intensities3
Applying skill-oriented and spirit-oriented psychological training to Chinese national archery team athletes: a single-case mixed-methods study3
The mediating roles of pre-competitive coping and affective states in the relationships between coach-athlete relationship, satisfaction and attainment of achievement goals3
The role of moral identity and regret on cheating in sport3
Reciprocal relationships between teamwork execution, emergent states, and perceived team performance: a longitudinal study2
Excellence and expert performance in sports: what do we know and where are we going?2
“What am I doing here?” Experiences of unsuccessful and delayed successful crisis transitions during athlete migration2
Examining the effectiveness of focus of attention instructions on the learning of a badminton long serve in novice students: movement automaticity hypothesis2
Influence of pre-induced mental fatigue on tactical behaviour and performance among young elite football players2
Impact of videos targeting intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation on exercise experience and effort2
Crowd social pressure in the Brazilian soccer league: testing home advantage and referees’ bias during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Understanding 24-hour movement guideline adherence and links to school achievement, social-behavioural problems, and emotional functioning among children and adolescents with learning disabilities2
Identification with a National Soccer Team and expectancies regarding success: two experiments on manipulated team salience2
The effects of strategic self-talk on divided attention following physical exhaustion2
The effect of 4 weeks motor imagery training on simulated BMX race performance2
A wolf in (black) sheep’s clothing? Subjective group dynamics in sports fans2
The satisfaction of basic psychological needs mediates the relation between perfectionism and sport performance: a longitudinal cross-national investigation2
Emotional competencies training for tennis players: effectiveness of an online individualised psychological support program2
Integrating mindfulness in fitness classes: self-compassion and mental health outcomes in a pilot study featuring longitudinal mediational analysis2
Effects of coach encouragement on psychophysiological responses and technical actions in different small-sided soccer games2
Life skills development and learning contexts among members of China women's national soccer teams2
The effects of acute aerobic and resistance exercise on the planning aspect of executive functions in children with preterm birth2
A narrative review of the role of psychological skills and characteristics in navigating the pathway to professional rugby union2
Volleyball serves impact sound intensity and frequency spectrum affect the predictions of the future ball’s landing point according to the level of auditory-motor experience2
Ingroup cooperation among Japanese baseball fans using the one-shot prisoner’s dilemma game2
Exploring the relationship between sleep and expertise in endurance sport athletes2
Applied imagery for motivation: a person-centred model2
The quadripartite approach to passion in sport: a prospective and cross-domain analysis with intercollegiate student-athletes2
Perceiving and experiencing subgroups in sport: a proposed conceptual framework2
Exploring correlates of physical activity using the multi-process action control framework: is there a moderating role for mental health?2
Transgender inclusion in competitive sport: athletes’ attitudes toward transgender athlete participation in intercollegiate sport2
The effect of a mental health literacy intervention on Chinese team officials and staff in elite sports: a two-arm non-randomised controlled trial2
“I hate it when that happens too!”: observed and perceived exchanges of social support between university student-athletes during discussions of stressors2
A RE-AIM evaluation of a sport-based trauma-sensitive youth development programme2
Effect of a home-based exercise programme on mental health and well-being in children during COVID-19 pandemic2
A critical overview of sport development in Botswana2
Effectiveness of short-term exercise on drug rehabilitation effect for drug abusers: a systematic review and meta-analysis2
Factors impacting the anticipated pleasure of potential physical activity experiences: a conjoint investigation across involvement segments2
Interactive effects of sex and pain on elevated depressive symptoms in university student athletes2
The effects of acute yoga practice on heart rate and heart rate variability responses to mental stress2
Relationships of automatic associations, affect, and outcome expectations with adolescents’ impulsive decision to opt into physical activity2
Effects of a concurrent maximum performance aerobic exercise test and cognitive task on physical and cognitive performance and effort2
Effects of motor imagery training on service performance in novice tennis players: the role of imagery ability2
“Don't think, just shoot” – The paradox of shooting three-point shots in basketball1
The development and validation of the Youth Sport Parental Support-Questionnaire (YSPS-Q)1
Conscious processing and rowing: a field study1
Good performance-high attractiveness effect: an empirical study on the association between athletes’ rankings and their facial attractiveness1
Perception of competence and self-regulation for physical activity in women with breast cancer1
Executive functions and psycho-behavioural skills in artistic gymnasts: age, developmental stage and sex-related differences1
Preference and tolerance for high-intensity exercise performance and enjoyment1
Online exercise during the COVID-19 pandemic and factors promoting or hindering participation in adults: a scoping review1
Effects of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise on cognitive fatigue relief: a randomised self-controlled study1
Effects of past and current motor experiences as soccer players in decision-making of amateur soccer referees1
Psychometric analysis of the International Olympic Committee's Sport Mental Health Assessment Triage Tool among non-elite amateur adult athletes1
Multisensory integration in anticipation: moderating effects of time and task constraints1
A new team sport club aggression scale and its relationship with fans’ hatred, depression, self-reported aggression, and acceptance of aggression1
The contributions of executive functions to decision-making in sport1
Conceptualisation, measurement, and associated factors of eudaimonic well-being of athletes: a systematic review1
Does stress type and level affect gut decisions in sport?1
Acute exercise on complex motor memory retention: the role of task cognitive demands1
ISSP position stand on cultural praxis in sport psychology: reaffirming our commitments to the ethics of difference, cultural inclusion, and social justice1
A thematic-synthesis of self-care in sport psychology practitioners1
An evaluation of a custom intervention programme to address problematic mobile phone use of youth athletes in Singapore: a hybrid mixed-methods research design1
Creating sport environments for youth to thrive: understanding the mechanism to intentions to continue sport and subjective well-being1
The relationship between attitudes and behavioural intentions related to doping: the role of attitude certainty1
Validation of modified youth experience survey for sport (MYES-S) using multidimensional Rasch model1
The assessment of the halo-effect in a questionnaire rating dimensions of coaches’ competence1
Dancing without seeing: The influence of vision on movement sequence learning and motor imagery in dance1
Mild traumatic brain injury and the propensity for movement specific reinvestment1
Examining the psychological characteristics of developing excellence profiles of male English youth soccer players: differences across ages and performance levels1
What constitutes editorial virtuous leadership1
Acute effects of continuous exercise, interval exercise, and sedentary colouring on anxiety, mood, and physical activity enjoyment1
Achievement motivation and grit’s perseverance of effort among collegiate athletes1
“Less healthy, unfit, weaker” effects of the emerging nonexerciser stereotype on performance on a fatiguing task1
Assessing the validity and reliability of a baseball pitch discrimination online task1
A mixed-methods examination of a mental health awareness program in elite ice hockey1
Examining the factor structure and validity of the social motivational orientations in sport scale1
External and global internal focus of attention on whole-body similarly increases the vertical jump performance: a randomised, controlled and crossover study1
An exploratory examination of the relationship between harmonious and obsessive passion and specific symptoms of exercise dependence1
Efficacy and mechanisms of a brief adaptive goal-setting intervention for physical activity: A randomised pilot trial1
Perceived and received social support functions among UEFA B licensed women football coaches1
Emotional intelligence and drawing inferences from nonverbal cues in sports1
Exploring the influence of goals at different levels of abstraction on self-reported and electronically measured exercise frequency: an experimental field study1
Effects of mental fatigue and attentional focus on muscular endurance performance1
Exercise addiction measured at a naturalistic marathon-event – associations of the EAI with the general level of functioning, affect and performance parameters1
Coaches’ perspectives on contribution1
Personality, social status, and willingness to mentor teammates among NCAA athletes1
Mental ill-health in semi-elite women’s soccer in England: a mixed-methods approach1
The effects of a single bout of high-intense strength exercise on cognitive function and postural dual-task control in older adults1
The longitudinal associations between wearable technology, physical activity and self-determined motivation1
Students’ efficacy profiles and outcomes of perceived relation-inferred self-efficacy support in physical education1
Can the Dunning-Kruger effect occur in the motor performance domain?1
The effect of domain-specific exercise on high- and low-level cognitive processing during anticipation1
Associations between behavioural correlates of muscle-strengthening exercise guideline adherence in adults: a cross-sectional study1
Variables of influence on the fluctuation of the mood profile among professional basketball players during a competitive period1
The effect of instructional and motivational self-talk on accuracy and electromyography of active and passive muscles in elbow joint position sense test1
Cumulative lifetime stressor exposure and health in elite athletes: the moderating role of perfectionism1
An autoethnographic account and interpretation of sport related life skills and personal development1
Discussing safe sport in the digital space: the #gymnastalliance movement1
Home advantage in tennis exists independent of competition level, gender and COVID-19 restrictions: evidence from German team tennis competitions1
Pathways of cognitive and affective attitude influencing leisure-time physical activity: based on an integrated model1
Association of working memory with gross motor skills in early childhood1
Social justice attitudes and behavioural intentions of NCAA student-athletes: the role of life skills1
How do psychological and physiological performance determinants interact within individual athletes? An analytical network approach1
The future-oriented hopes and goals of adolescent student-athletes in Finnish sport high schools1
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and sport and exercise psychology (SEP): looking back and looking forward1
Skill shapes functional movement variability and exploration tendencies: the effect of skill under changing environmental constraints on the emergence of creative action in a divergent kickboxing task1
Is receipt of body-related comments associated with exercise motivation: a case study based on self-determination theory1
International society of sport psychology position stand: elite athlete mental health revisited1
Detecting the hot hand in amateur bowlers1
Promoting psychological integration within culturally diverse school classes: a motivational climate intervention in the physical education context1
Effectiveness of the mindfulness–acceptance–commitment approach: a meta-analysis1
Athletic identity and career engagement as predictors of mental well-being in North American professional athletes1
The effect of expertise upon perceived reach- and grasp-ability in rock climbers1
You can’t con a conman: the perception of deceptive actions performed by the self and others1
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