Sport Exercise and Performance Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Sport Exercise and Performance 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
The use of rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) to increase the self-determined motivation and psychological well-being of triathletes.25
A history of parent involvement in organized youth sport: A scoping review.24
Pressure training for performance domains: A meta-analysis.20
Does a brief mindfulness intervention counteract the detrimental effects of ego depletion in basketball free throw under pressure?18
Sport psychology professionals’ perceptions of the roadblocks to cultural sport psychology.16
Dual processes to explain longitudinal gains in physical education students’ prosocial and antisocial behavior: Need satisfaction from autonomy support and need frustration from interpersonal control.16
Mental toughness as a psychological determinant of behavioral perseverance in special forces selection.15
Perceived stress and trait self-control interact with the intention–behavior gap in physical activity behavior.13
Understanding parent stressors and coping experiences in elite sports contexts.13
Navigating early specialization sport: Parent and athlete goal-directed processes.10
Factors perceived to affect the wellbeing and mental health of coaches and practitioners working within elite sport.9
The effects of mindfulness and music on affective responses to self-paced treadmill walking.9
Nonergodicity in protective factors of resilience in athletes.9
Regulatory focus in sport revisited: Does the exact wording of instructions really matter?9
A multistudy examination of the complementarity dimension of the coach–athlete relationship.9
Attentional and perceptual capabilities are affected by high physical load in a simulated soccer decision-making task.9
The relationships between perfectionism, angry reactions, and antisocial behavior in team sport.9
Stress, physical activity, and resilience resources: Tests of direct and moderation effects in young adults.9
Delivering a tele-health intervention promoting motivation and leisure-time physical activity among adults with spinal cord injury: An implementation evaluation.8
Do youth soccer academies provide developmental experiences that prepare players for life beyond soccer? A retrospective account in the United Kingdom.8
Perfectionistic tipping points: Re-probing interactive effects of perfectionism.7
The effectiveness of team reflexivity interventions: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.7
Relationship between coaching climates and student-athletes’ symptoms of burnout in school and sports.7
Domain-specific grit, identity, and self-compassion in intercollegiate athletes.7
Perfectionism, burnout, and engagement in dance: The moderating role of autonomy support.6
The “underrecovery trap”: When physical fatigue impairs the physical and mental recovery process.6
Predicting global self-esteem in early adolescence: The importance of individual and gender-specific importance of perceived sports competence.6
“My body loves me, so I should love it back”: A qualitative evaluation of the bodies in motion program with female collegiate athletes.6
Psychological predictors of perceived stress and recovery in sport.6
Validation of the Body-Related Envy Scale (BREV) in adolescent girl athletes.6
Why does teamwork execution breakdown? Experiences of university team sport athletes.6
Application of analogy learning in softball batting: Comparing novice and intermediate players.5
Facilitating student-athletes’ dual career transition: A Scandinavian university case study.5
How team socialization processes relate to youth ice hockey players’ social identity strength and cohesion.5
A thematic analysis of social identity and injury in CrossFit®.5
Do exercisers maximize their pleasure by default? Using prompts to enhance the affective experience of exercise.5
A practical guide and empirical example for implementing ecological momentary assessment in sport psychology research with athletes.5
Social identity moderates the effects of team-referent attributions on collective efficacy but not emotions.5
The impact of sleep on mental toughness: Evidence from observational and N-of-1 manipulation studies in athletes.5
Understanding and recognizing high-performance swimmers’ well-being.5
Self-control in sport and exercise psychology.5
Hold your strength! Motivation, attention, and emotion as potential psychological mediators between cognitive and physical self-control.5
The role of mental health protection and promotion among flourishing Canadian university sport coaches.4
The emergence of resilience: Recovery trajectories in sleep functioning after a major stressor.4
The antecedents and outcomes of informal roles in interdependent sport teams.4
Autonomy support in sport contexts: The role of parents and coaches in the promotion of athlete well-being and performance.4
Foresee the glory and train better: Narcissism, goal-setting, and athlete training.4
A qualitative examination of the developmental networks of elite sport coaches.4
Can stereotype threat increase women’s performance? The case of a fatiguing task.4
The relevance of stability and change of achievement goals for self-regulated motor learning processes and outcomes.4
Emotion dysregulation mediates the relationship between psychological distress, symptoms of exercise addiction and eating disorders: A large-scale survey among fitness center users.4
Enhancing shared mental models: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.3
An exploration of the resources of high-performance athletes and coaches to cope with unexpected transitions.3
Testing interventions for music performance under pressure: A randomized controlled study.3
Looking back to move forward: Recently retired Olympians’ perspectives of factors that contribute to and undermine athlete well-being.3
Collegiate athlete mental health: Comparing treatment-seeking student-athletes and nonathletes on service utilization, clinical presentation, and outcomes.3
Think, see, do: Executive function, visual attention, and soccer penalty performance.3
“I still wake up with nightmares” … The long-term psychological impacts from gymnasts’ maltreatment experiences.3
Implicit theories about willpower are associated with exercise levels during the academic examination period.3
Effect of changes of outcome expectations on physical activity self-efficacy ratings: A test of hypothetical incentives among mothers of young children.3
Association of latent mental health profiles of military officers with active sport participation and hedonic and eudaimonic motives for sport participation.3
The effects of support (in)adequacy on self-confidence and performance: Two experimental studies.3
Conducting systematic reviews of applied interventions: A comment on Cabral et al. (2022).3
A just-in-time adaptive intervention to enhance physical activity in the SMARTFAMILY2.0 trial.3
Does mental toughness predict physical endurance? A replication and extension of Crust and Clough (2005).3
Questioning stereotypes disrupts the effects of stereotype threat.3
Mental skills in the armed forces: A scoping review.3
Does pregame “compulsive action” truly help athletes? Ritualized behavior enhances physical self-control.2
Personality traits and psychobiosocial states among athletes: The mediating role of dispositional mindfulness.2
Mental contrasting and implementation intentions to increase physical activity in sedentary, disadvantaged adults: A pilot intervention.2
Centralizing forced immigrant male youths’ stories in the development of socially just and inclusive community sport programs.2
Teamwork execution and team resilience: A multistudy examination of reciprocal and longitudinal relationships.2
Successful motor performance of a difficult task: Reduced cognitive-motor coupling.2
Acute effects of resistance and functional-task exercises on executive function of obese older adults: Two counterbalanced, crossover, randomized exploratory studies.2
Do challenge and threat evaluations predict netball performance and selection at trials in youth netball players?2
Do it for the team: Youth perceptions of cohesion and role commitment in interdependent sport.2
Cardiovascular and cerebral hemodynamic responses to ego depletion in a pressurized sporting task.2
“Dear past me, know that you are deserving of compassion and care”: Self-compassionate writings of adolescent girls recalling weight-stigmatizing events in physical activity.2
You do (not?) have to go to the gym: Effects of negations in exercise messages.2
The differential interaction effect of mastery and performance climate on athletes’ emotional and physical exhaustion: The role of athletes’ gratitude.2
The effect of implicit learning on motor performance under psychological pressure: A systematic review and meta-analysis.2
Examining how Canadian Hockey League general managers build and sustain cultures of excellence.2
A prospective study of teammate factors on athletes’ well-being, disordered eating, and compulsive exercise.2
“Go after the fatty”: The problematic body commentary referees hear—and experience—in adolescent girls’ sport.2
Disentangling the effects of ego and task-involving climate perceptions on cohesion in youth sport.2
Regular exercise participation and volitional competencies.2
The multidimensionality of the physical fitness self-concept: A recommendation to consider competence and affect components in childhood.2
Personality traits of special forces operators: Comparing commandos, candidates, and controls.1
Revisiting recovery: Athlete-centered perspectives on the meanings of recovery from elite endurance training.1
Changes in authentic leadership over a sport season predict changes in athlete outcomes.1
Examining the effect of experience and qualification pathway when forming initial expectancies of refereeing competence.1
Effectiveness of an online acceptance and commitment therapy programme for perfectionism in soccer players: A randomized control trial.1
Too tired to switch off? How post-training physical fatigue impairs mental recovery through increased worry.1
The winding road to the Tokyo Olympics: A dynamic approach to the relationships between stress appraisal, coping, performance, and burnout among an artistic swimming team.1
Response inhibition under emotional and physical stress.1
A voice unheard: A qualitative exploration of varsity athletes’ perspective on the use of biofeedback postintervention.1
The role of emotional convergence in sport: A scoping review.1
“It’s a core part of who I am”: A qualitative analysis of running group and runner role identities in the context of running group disbandment.1
Exploring student-athletes’ perceptions of their psychological readiness to return to sport following a concussion.1
An early phase trial testing the proof of concept for a gamified smartphone app in manipulating automatic evaluations of exercise.1
Advancing open science and methodological rigor in Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology.1
The rank dynamics of integrating new members: The process of hierarchical crafting.1
The interplay between normative feedback and self-critical perfectionism in predicting competitive tennis players’ competence, tension, and enjoyment: An experimental study.1
The effects of open, do-your-best, and specific goals on commitment and cognitive performance.1
Performance breakdown under pressure among esports competitors.1
Coaches’ experiences of job crafting through organizational change in high-performance sport.1
Resilience enhanced aFteR ACTiOn ReviewS (REFRACTORS) for teams: A pilot, nonrandomized investigation of feasibility within military settings.1
An inch away from being mentally tough: Performance bias in ratings of mental toughness.1
More than carrying a bag? The role of the caddie in facilitating a golfer’s psychological performance.1
Effects of mental fatigue and monetary incentives on exercise intensity decision-making and performance.1
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