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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Leading “us” to better health: exercise instructors’ engagement in identity leadership behaviours promotes perceptions of effort, positive affect, mental well-being, and physical health35
Assessing the relationship between pre- and post-game interpersonal emotions in women’s soccer teams35
Physical activity intention-behavior gap during the COVID-19 pandemic: the moderating role of motivation and health-belief31
The relationship among perceived parental psychological control, socially prescribed perfectionism, fear of failure, and performance of adolescent athletes30
Adverse childhood experiences and psychological distress among Chinese college students: the moderating effects of physical activity and sleep duration27
Men’s goal-oriented motives, physical activity experiences and body-related perceptions: a latent profile analysis25
The future-oriented hopes and goals of adolescent student-athletes in Finnish sport high schools25
Patterns of reasons for retirement in Olympic athletes from Switzerland: a person-oriented study22
How small differences grow over time – the snowball effect of grit on practice in sport22
“If I talk about it, I'm weak, and I'm supposed to be strong”: experiences of body-related shame in women athletes20
A multilevel analysis of collegiate student-athletes’ goals, character strengths, and well-being18
The mediating role of self-esteem in the association between physical fitness and risk of depression in adolescents: DADOS Study17
Influence of pre-induced mental fatigue on tactical behaviour and performance among young elite football players17
What constitutes editorial virtuous leadership16
Can they walk the talk? Exploring exercise intention and adherence among Chinese leisure cyclists16
Multisensory integration in anticipation: moderating effects of time and task constraints16
Career trajectories of junior athletes in Latin America and the Caribbean and their relationship with mental health16
The relationship between attitudes and behavioural intentions related to doping: the role of attitude certainty16
A mixed-methods examination of a mental health awareness program in elite ice hockey15
Effects of coach encouragement on psychophysiological responses and technical actions in different small-sided soccer games15
High consistency of interest but not perseverance of effort is related to doping via moral disengagement: a cross-sectional study of grit14
Understanding the intention-to-behaviour relationship for adolescents: an application of the multi-process action control model14
The impact of intra-team communication and support relationships on team identification and collective efficacy in elite team sport: a social network analysis13
Students’ efficacy profiles and outcomes of perceived relation-inferred self-efficacy support in physical education11
Coaches’ pointing gestures as means to convey tactical information in basketball: an eye-tracking study11
Transgender inclusion in competitive sport: athletes’ attitudes toward transgender athlete participation in intercollegiate sport11
Mental toughness in sport: testing the goal-expectancy-self-control (GES) model among runners and cyclists using cross-sectional and experimental designs11
Migration and meaning: an exploration of elite refugee athletes’ transitions into the Canadian sports system11
International Society of Sport Psychology position stand: scientist practitioners11
Testing fear of COVID-19, difficulties in emotion regulation, state anxiety as predictors of withdrawal effects in individuals with problematic exercise behaviour: a serial mediation model11
A wolf in (black) sheep’s clothing? Subjective group dynamics in sports fans11
Integration of sport and education in China: a case study of a dual career development environment of a Shanghai junior men’s basketball team10
Effects of free dance on the mood state, aging perspective and optimism of women undergoing breast cancer surgery: a randomised clinical trial10
Excellence and expert performance in sports: what do we know and where are we going?10
Sport psychology consultants’ views on mental training with elite Deaf sport athletes10
Correction10
Development and validation of the Sports Grit Scale10
Towards an explanatory model of the enjoyment of physical activity based on physical self-concept10
Investigating the relationships among athlete leadership behaviours, perceptions of athlete leader fairness, and cohesion10
Training of the eSport FIFA enhances cognitive performance of planning and decision making in cognitive tests9
Caring coaching climates emerge as key factor in promoting high school athletes’ well-being and motivation, complimented by a task-involving climate9
Examining the psychological characteristics of developing excellence profiles of male English youth soccer players: differences across ages and performance levels9
The dual pandemic: COVID-19, systemic racism, and college student-athletic mental health9
The relationship between effort-reward imbalance and burnout among sport coaches: the moderating role of over-commitment and job control9
The impact of action observation on the intention for action engagement9
Improving service performance in young tennis players: the superiority of dynamic over static motor imagery9
The effect of instructional and motivational self-talk on accuracy and electromyography of active and passive muscles in elbow joint position sense test9
Development and preliminary validation of the RESilience qualities In SporT (RESIST) scale8
The effects of social identity and social identity content on cohesion, efficacy, and performance across a competitive rugby league season8
Technical fouls as a trigger of momentum change: analysis of two decades of NBA data8
Effects of acute aerobic exercise with self-selected music on working memory and alpha oscillation8
The effects of acute yoga practice on heart rate and heart rate variability responses to mental stress8
Social networks and levels of physical activity in Dutch adults – the SaNAE study8
Emotion regulation among competitive youth athletes: exploring the independent and interactive effects of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression8
The role of moral identity and regret on cheating in sport8
How COVID-19 lockdown affected physical activity levels and wellbeing: an Italian Survey8
“There’s no good, it’s just satisfactory”: perfectionism, performance, and perfectionistic reactivity in NCAA student-athletes8
Are college perfectionists more likely to be addicted to exercise? The promotion effect of psychological needs and motivation7
The impact of Chinese calligraphy practice on athletes’ self-control7
Semantic and affective processing of implicit associations are related to the regularity of running behaviour in young women: an ERP study7
Effect of a home-based exercise programme on mental health and well-being in children during COVID-19 pandemic7
The effect of structured brain gym and brisk walking training on the executive functions of university students: a single-blinded randomised controlled trial7
Antecedents and mediators of the association between adolescents’ intention and physical activity: a cross-sectional study in seven European countries7
Impact of open and closed-skill sports on inhibitory control: evidence from event related potentials7
A symptom network analysis of exercise addiction and personality on ultra-marathon runners with serious complications7
Exploring perceptions of depression: a performer perspective7
Evaluating a Brazilian online parent education programme in sport using the RE-AIM framework7
Sport participants’ well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of nostalgia, resilience, and curiosity7
Context matters: an examination of game management in refereeing7
Comparative acute effects of aerobic versus resistance exercise on ameliorating cravings and associated emotional and cognitive factors in individuals with methamphetamine use disorders7
Functional connectivity in table tennis players under cognitive task demands: dynamic regulation by the dominant hemisphere7
Sprinting beyond sexism and gender stereotypes: Indian female fans’ experiences in the sports fandom6
Parent–child co-participation in sport and physical activity: a scoping review6
Temporal dynamics of the quality of the coach-athlete relationship over one season among adolescent handball players: a latent class analysis approach6
Social norms and emotion regulation among youth athletes6
Promote “ we ” to inspire me: examining the roles of group identification and trust in the association between identity leadership and follower inspiration6
Can stress and coping profiles predict athletes’ emotions and performance in competition? Analysis of profiles at competitions throughout the sporting season6
Mental health risk and protective factors in Australian cricket5
Problematic mobile phone use among youth athletes: a topic modelling approach5
Examining the effectiveness of focus of attention instructions on the learning of a badminton long serve in novice students: movement automaticity hypothesis5
Maintained cognitive gains after 10 weeks of cognitively engaging exercise via reducing body fat in overweight children5
Predicting students’ basic psychological needs, motivation, and well-being in online physical education: a semester-term longitudinal study5
Online exercise during the COVID-19 pandemic and factors promoting or hindering participation in adults: a scoping review5
Are aging stereotypes in the physical domain associated with physical capacities in older adults?5
Trends of physical activity and sedentary behaviours among secondary school students in Singapore: what has changed in 15 years?5
Influence of an audience on conscious motor processing and performance during a go-only and stop-signal soccer penalty shooting task5
A systematic literature review of remote social support for physical activity5
The effect of expertise upon perceived reach- and grasp-ability in rock climbers5
Psychology of physical activity: a 30-year reflection on correlates, barriers, and theory5
In pursuit of dual career excellence: factors associated to satisfaction of Swedish University student-athletes5
A qualitative examination of parental mental health and well-being in youth sport5
What makes running club participants commit to exercise in an adaptive way? Perspectives from self-determination theory5
Coping with intensive training demands: a longitudinal investigation of the relationships between appraisal, emotion, coping effectiveness and engagement among elite fencers5
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Singapore national youth athletes’ mental health and potential protective factors5
An autoethnographic account and interpretation of sport related life skills and personal development5
The cognitive fatigue experienced by batters is modulated by the strike rate of a twenty20 innings5
The affect-intensity relationship in aerobic exercise: an analysis based on a systematic review5
Acute moderate-intensity aerobic exercise facilitates processing speed involving inhibitory control but not neuroelectric index of control process and cognitive integration5
Strategic decision-making in Olympic bouldering: the role of climbing movement repertoire examined4
Achieving international podium success with a positive sport experience4
The effects of self-control on bullying behaviour among martial arts practicing adolescents: based on the analyses of multiple mediation effects4
Mind in action: the interplay of cognition and action in skilled performance4
Are core executive functions predictive of decision-making in sport? A scoping review4
From “incentive type” to “intensity alignment”: how extrinsic incentive enhance adolescents’ exercise intention?4
Acute exercise on complex motor memory retention: the role of task cognitive demands4
The effects of prosocial video games on empathy and prosocial behavior in athletes: evidence from cross-sectional survey and experimental studies4
The influence of spectators on home advantage and referee bias in national teams matches: insights from UEFA Nations League4
Discussing safe sport in the digital space: the #gymnastalliance movement4
Investigating the impact of coach behaviours and coach-athlete relationships on psychological safety4
The Team Denmark applied model of athlete mental health4
Cross-cultural validation of the sport emotion questionnaire using elite hockey players: psychometric evidence from seven African countries4
Predictably unpredictable: sport psychologists’ experience of precarity working in elite sport organisations4
Alignment of qualitative and quantitative focus of attention assessment of stone delivery among high-level Canadian curlers4
A meta-analysis of physical activity interventions targeting executive functions in children: focus on cognitive and/or metabolic demands?4
Movement and mind: the role of exercise content in the development of attention parameters and motor skills in boys4
Transcranial direct current stimulation over prefrontal cortex did not improve the decision-making skill of athletes exposed to prolonged social media use: a crossover and randomised investigation4
A systematic review of quantitative studies concerning psychological aspects of early specialisation4
Conceptions of the coach-team relationship in the views of youth team sport coaches and athletes4
Good performance-high attractiveness effect: an empirical study on the association between athletes’ rankings and their facial attractiveness4
A weight-inclusive approach to applied sport psychology4
Translation and adaptation of the “self-regulation of sports practice” questionnaire to Portuguese4
The importance of body perception in the relationship between physical activity and self-esteem in adolescents4
Development and preliminary validation of the sport injury-related growth inventory4
The assessment and development of psychosocial skills and characteristics on the male youth football (soccer) academy development pathway: a narrative review4
Effectiveness of interventions based on health action process approach in promoting physical activity among rehabilitation patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis4
What a shot! Effect of biathlon and badminton on attention of preteens in middle schools: a longitudinal study3
The use of virtual reality for tactical learning: the moderation of expertise and visuospatial abilities3
Impact of exercise addiction on quality of life during COVID-19: mediating role of obsessive-compulsive disorder and physiological symptoms3
Construction and validation of the Life Skills Scale of Physical Education for adolescents3
Unifying rules for simplified information processing during actions – less is more3
Seeing the bigger picture – a comparison between 2D and 360°-AR action observation in golf training3
“What am I doing here?” Experiences of unsuccessful and delayed successful crisis transitions during athlete migration3
Elite athletes’ values in action: an important yet complicated aspect in anti-doping education3
The dynamics of Quiet Eye under stress in elite table tennis performance3
Motives for physical activity participation: does religious faith play a mediating role?3
Contribution of deliberate practice, play, and futsal to the acquisition of decision-making skills in Brazilian professional female soccer players3
Sequential focus of attention instructions influenced motor performance of volleyball setting despite direction of focus but dependent on motor expertise of the player3
Good practice in sport science and medicine: perceptions of leaders on support and management of practitioners and teams3
Effects of acute exercise of different modalities and durations on interference control and response inhibition in healthy young adults3
The effects of electronic device use on athlete performance and health: a systematic review3
Effects of 8-week endurance, strength, and coordination exercise interventions on attention in adolescents: a randomised controlled study3
Pathways of cognitive and affective attitude influencing leisure-time physical activity: based on an integrated model3
Towards an ecology of athletes’ career transitions: conceptualization and working models3
Psychological preparation and coping strategies: reflections from Paralympians3
Variables of influence on the fluctuation of the mood profile among professional basketball players during a competitive period3
Visual search mechanism of basketball players: evidence from an eye movement experiment on auditory distraction3
Norwegian student-athletes’ motivation for choosing lower secondary sport schools: exploring latent profiles and their relationships with outcomes3
Patterns of sports participation across the lifespan and their links to psychopathology, resilience, and childhood trauma: a cross-sectional approach3
Individual attention capacity enhances in-field group performances in soccer3
Smartphone use and mental health – findings from a 30-day longitudinal study among young talented volleyball players3
A new instrument to measure team sport athletes' perceptions of mattering: the Mattering Index for Sport (MIS)3
The effect of Tai chi on positive-activated affect in adults: a systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials3
Beyond self-compassion: a scoping review of other-focused compassion in competitive sports environments3
Rhythm of cognition: exploring Greek traditional dance's acute effects on children's executive functions3
The practice effect of novel bicycle through a straight and narrow path on coordination and stability in movements3
Relationships between mindfulness, self-compassion, and grit among Thai national athletes: the mediating role of self-regulation3
“Less healthy, unfit, weaker” effects of the emerging nonexerciser stereotype on performance on a fatiguing task3
Crowd social pressure in the Brazilian soccer league: testing home advantage and referees’ bias during the COVID-19 pandemic3
The effects of acute aerobic and resistance exercise on the planning aspect of executive functions in children with preterm birth3
Impact of videos targeting intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation on exercise experience and effort3
Authentic leadership and well-being in sport: the mediating role of psychological safety and the moderating role of interpersonal violence3
Exploring the effects of physical fatigue on cognitive performance of youth soccer players2
A narrative review of the role of psychological skills and characteristics in navigating the pathway to professional rugby union2
Effects of mental toughness on athletic performance: a systematic review and meta-analysis2
The impact of working memory capacity on intuitive decision-making in sport2
The role of high-performance sport environments in mental health: an international society of sport psychology consensus statement2
Forwards or backwards—regulatory focus orientation of offense and defense players in team sports2
Longitudinal influence of self-compassion and fears of compassion on prosocial and antisocial behaviour in sport: A conditional latent growth curve modelling analysis2
Costly involved? An examination of latent motivational profiles in physical education2
Influence of punishments associated with task outcomes in physical and mental efforts performed by semi-elite soccer players during training tasks2
The development and validation of the Youth Sport Parental Support-Questionnaire (YSPS-Q)2
Effects of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise on cognitive fatigue relief: a randomised self-controlled study2
The contributions of executive functions to decision-making in sport2
The effects of open and SMART goals on physical activity and psychological outcomes over one week: a multiple methods study2
The mediating effect of parental warmth on the association of parent pressure and athlete perfectionism in adolescent soccer2
Personal accounts of compulsive exercise and bulimia nervosa: an exploration of psychosocial influences through creative nonfiction storytelling2
Acute aerobic exercise modulates facial emotion evaluation in socially anxious individuals2
Reliability and validity of the reactive-proactive aggression questionnaire in Chinese boxers2
Where you look during golf putting makes no difference to skilled golfers (but what you look at might!): an examination of occipital EEG ɑ-power during target and ball focused aiming2
Perceived recovery-stress states and sleep in pre- and post-menarche elite youth swimmers2
Sport-based video game causes mental fatigue and impairs visuomotor skill in male basketball players2
Losing fun: adolescents’ experiences of participating and dropping out of team sports2
Well-trained, trained and recreationally trained runners’ cognition during a 5km tempo run: a think aloud study2
Technostress and innovation in sports education: the mediating role of technological self-efficacy and moderating role of perceived innovation importance2
Talk to me! Examining parent-coach communication frequency and satisfaction in youth soccer2
Who misses the target when thinking? Soccer expertise influences shooting-accuracies under cognitive load2
The impact of abuse experiences and coping responses on distress and mental health outcomes in sports officials2
Psychometric analysis of the International Olympic Committee's Sport Mental Health Assessment Triage Tool among non-elite amateur adult athletes2
Reciprocal relationships between teamwork execution, emergent states, and perceived team performance: a longitudinal study2
The role of life purpose and passion for coaching in subjective well-being of sport coaches2
Perceptions and physiologic responses between electrical stimulations and voluntary resistance exercise2
External focus facilitates cognitive stability and promotes motor performance of an interceptive task in children2
Effect of transcranial direct current stimulation over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on the accuracy of soccer decision-making2
The longitudinal associations between wearable technology, physical activity and self-determined motivation2
The invisible power of fairness: the internal link between teacher fairness and school bullying among athletic students2
What is self-harm in dance? A conceptualisation of UK dance teachers’ perceptions of self-harm2
Investigating the influence of smartphones on affective responses and time perception in exercise2
Functional action analysis: a psychological model for the development of a problem-solving competence in game sports2
Psychological safety in sports: its correlates and association with mental health outcomes -Turkish validation of the sports psychological safety inventory2
Expectations and disadvantages: a case study approach exploring the mental health challenges of elite, student-athlete women2
Validation of the Interpersonal Regulation Questionnaire in sports: measuring emotion regulation via social processes and interactions2
Cross-cultural adaptation and measurement properties of the Athlete Sleep Screening Questionnaire (ASSQ) for Chinese elite athletes1
Compulsive exercise and physical activity in eating disorders1
Acute effects of continuous exercise, interval exercise, and sedentary colouring on anxiety, mood, and physical activity enjoyment1
Gender and skill-level differences in visual search strategies among basketball athletes: insights from eye-tracking analysis1
Fast walking reduces the risk of breast cancer: evidence from a Mendelian randomisation study1
Notice of duplicate publication: Journal of sport psychology in action: coming of age1
Examining motivational climates and correlates: validation of the EDMCQ-ACS in an American collegiate athlete sample1
“They learn quickly there are consequences for their actions”: youth sport coaches’ perspectives on the effects of benching1
Exercise design for cognitive development: a comparative study of motor competence and attention in adolescent girls1
Smile intensity in pre-race registration photos predicts trail ultramarathon performance1
Significant others and children’s mental toughness in sports: a longitudinal test of the social influence in sport model1
Physical education motivational climate, on the achievement goals, and intrinsic motivation of students: a multilevel approach1
Exploring correlates of physical activity using the multi-process action control framework: is there a moderating role for mental health?1
A cross-cultural examination of passion and risk of exercise addiction in Hungarian and Indian exercisers1
Examining the factor structure and validity of the social motivational orientations in sport scale1
Antecedents of perceived stress in trail runners: do emotion regulation and negative self-talk matter?1
Problematic mobile phone use among youth athletes: a qualitative investigation using focus groups1
Quantity and quality of memory and guesses in pattern recall of complex soccer scenarios1
Does loving a group mean hating its rivals? Exploring the relationship between ingroup cohesion and outgroup hostility among soccer fans1
Home advantage in football after moving to a new stadium: evidence from European professional teams1
Conceptualisation, measurement, and associated factors of eudaimonic well-being of athletes: a systematic review1
Enhancing exercisers’ experience: a comprehensive review of insights from fitness instructors’ behaviour and psychological impact1
Impact of crowd support on home advantage in highly attended European professional football teams: a comparison between pre-, during, and post-COVID-19 periods1
Collegiate student-athlete mental health symptom trajectories across a competitive season: do training load and resilience matter?1
Does meeting physical activity guidelines mitigate smartphone dependence? Evidence from Korean elementary students using propensity score matching and difference-in-differences analysis1
Toward a more culturally nuanced approach to assessing athletic and exercise identities in sport psychology research: a confirmatory factor analysis approach with South Korean male student-athletes1
Effects of a school-based Brazilian jiu-jitsu programme on mental health and classroom behaviour of children from Abu Dhabi: a randomised trial1
“I can join a sport class, but school has to come first”: adolescent athletes’ dual career construction styles in lower secondary sport schools1
“The story just brings the science to life”: exploring the use of stories to translate knowledge about self-regulatory processes during goal striving in running1
Stress, recovery, and team closeness: a case study of a 25-day ultra-endurance open-water swim in the Rhine River1
The athletic identity measurement scale beyond Western context: psychometric evaluation of its dimension, factor structure, and gender invariance in South Korea1
Organic Self-Talk Questionnaire for Sport: development and validation of a theory-based, state measure of athletes’ organic self-talk1
Achievement motivation and grit’s perseverance of effort among collegiate athletes1
Sport as cognition enhancer from childhood to young adulthood: a systematic review focused on sport modality1
Instrumental vs. experiential attitudes in the theory of planned behaviour: two studies on intention to perform a recommended amount of physical activity1
Home advantage in tennis exists independent of competition level, gender and COVID-19 restrictions: evidence from German team tennis competitions1
All the little pointers: a poetic representation of a female elite athlete’s experience of living with and seeking treatment for an eating disorder1
Introducing The International Society of Sport Psychology Academy of Science1
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and sport and exercise psychology (SEP): looking back and looking forward1
An exploratory examination of the relationship between harmonious and obsessive passion and specific symptoms of exercise dependence1
Effect of mental fatigue on decision-making skill and visual search behaviour in basketball players: an experimental and randomised study1
Exercise addiction measured at a naturalistic marathon-event – associations of the EAI with the general level of functioning, affect and performance parameters1
Examining the importance of athletic mindset profiles for level of sport performance and coping1
How do psychological and physiological performance determinants interact within individual athletes? An analytical network approach1
Affective and cerebral haemodynamic responses to audiovisual stimuli during exercise above and below the ventilatory threshold1
Talent development environments in sport in selected African countries as perceived by young elite football players1
Building a case for infusing posthumanist thinking in the qualitative training of sport and exercise psychology researchers1
Personality, grit, and performance in rock-climbing: down to the nitty-gritty1
Game management by referees to compensate for errors in judgement: a decision flow model1
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