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Papers

(The median citation count of Sport Psychologist is 0. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Reexamining the Association Between Preseason Challenge and Threat States and Performance Across the Season	24
An Insight Into the Use of Personality Assessment by U.K. Sport Psychology Consultants	21
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The Mediating Role of Self-Compassion on the Relationship Between Goal Orientation and Sport-Confidence	16
Let’s Hear It From the Kids! Examining the Experiences, Views, and Needs of Highly Committed Children Involved in Youth Sport	16
The Effect of Transformational Leadership and Well-Being on Performance of Soccer Players: An Inclusive Model	11
Efficacy of an Innovative Virtual-Reality Training System for Breathing Techniques: A Study of University Gymnasts	9
Relationship Between Imagery Ability, Performance, and Variables Related to Performance	8
Two Confessional Tales of Trainee Sport Psychology Practitioners’ Experiences of Operating in Trinidad and Tobago	7
A Yearlong Psychological-Skills-Training Program With Chinese Athletes: A Narrative Exploration	7
Identifying Predictors of Burnout and Health of Certified Mental Performance Consultants	7
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In Pursuit of Excellence: How to Win in Sport and Life Through Mental Training (5th Ed.)	6
Coach Servant Leadership and Athlete Serving Behaviors: The Role of Intrinsic Motivation and Positive Affect	6
Client-Led Applied Sport Psychology Practitioners’ Narratives About Helping Athletes	5
The Relationship of Coach-Created Motivational Climate to Teamwork Behaviors in Female Collegiate Athletes	5
Distinguishing Characteristics Between High and Low Adherence Patients Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Qualitative Examination	5
Kenshi’s Experiences of Sword Fighting in Kendo: The Way of Ippon With Soul, Sword, and Body	5
Aesthetic Athletes’ Reflections on Early Specialization: A Self-Determination-Theory Perspective	5
Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Sustained and Selective Attention in Young Top-Level Athletes in a School Training Setting: A Randomized Control Trial Study	5
Association of Coping Strategies With Symptoms of Burnout in Young Football Players in a Career Transition Phase: Are Professionalization and Occurrence of Injuries Mediating Factors?	5
Developing and Implementing an App-Based Blended Psychological Skills Training: A Case Study	5
A Longitudinal Examination of Stress and Mental Ill-/Well-Being in Elite Football Coaches	5
Erratum. “Keep the Pace! You’ve Got This!”: The Content and Meaning of Impactful Crowd Encouragement at Mass Running Events	4
Exploring the Implementation and Practices of the Parent–Coach Dual Role	4

The Philosophical Underpinning of Athlete Lifestyle Support: An Existential-Humanistic Perspective	4
Stress-Related Growth in Elite Sport Performers: Qualitative Differentiators in Psychosocial Mechanisms	4
Working to Live or Living to Work? How Daily Work Experiences Affect Sport Employees’ Biometric Health	3
Mental Health Literacy Intervention to Reduce Stigma Toward Mental Health Symptoms and Disorders in Women Rugby Players: A Feasibility Study	3
Attentional Foci and Coping Strategies During Matches of Young Fencers in a Training Center: A Naturalistic Video-Assisted Study	3
Erratum. “Keep the Pace! You’ve Got This!” The Content and Meaning of Impactful Crowd Encouragement at Mass Running Events	3
“Women Are Cancer, You Shouldn’t Be Working in Sport”: Sport Psychologists’ Lived Experiences of Sexism in Sport	3
A Second-Generation Mindfulness-Based Intervention Focusing on Flow State: A Samatha-Based Training	3
Stress and Coping Experiences of U.K. Professional Football Managers During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
“It’s Necessary Work”: Stories of Competitive Youth Sport Coaches’ Developing Critical Praxes	3
Journey From Control to Liberation: Exploring Student-Athletes’ Physical Activity Perceptions and Experiences in the Transition Out of Collegiate Sport	2
The Relationship Between Cold-Water-Immersion Activities, Mental Health, Self-Efficacy, Resilience, and Mental Toughness	2
A Comprehensive and Updated Review of the Performance Profile Technique	2
A Life-Span Approach to Understanding and Managing Choking With a Youth Athlete	2
Korean Dual-Career Judokas’ Junior-to-Senior Transition: A Longitudinal Study	2
Revisiting Perfectionism in High-Level Ballet: A Longitudinal Collective Instrumental Case Study	2
The Effects of an Exploratory Mindfulness Intervention on Collegiate Performance	2
“My Life Sucks Right Now”: Student-Athletes’ Pandemic-Related Experiences With Screen Time and Mental Health	2
A Solution-Focused Approach to Shared Athlete Leadership Development Using Mixed Methods	2
“I Love What I Do; That’s The Bottom Line”: Theory of Women’s Career Attraction and Retention in Sport Psychology	2
Encouraging Togetherness During a National Lockdown: The Influence of Relationship-Oriented Personal-Disclosure Mutual-Sharing on Team Functioning in Academy Soccer Coaches	2
Case-Conceptualization Practices in Sport and Performance Psychology	2
Applying Educational Psychology in Coaching Athletes	2
A Penny for Your Thoughts: Athletes’ and Trainee Sport Psychologists’ Internal Dialogue During Consultations	2
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Investigating “What Works” in an Online Well-Being Intervention for Competitive and High-Performance Swimmers	2
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A Phenomenological Evaluation of the Psychological Factors That Influence Motorsports Performance	2
Organizational Systems in British Sport and Their Impact on Athlete Development and Mental Health	1
“Think Aloud” as a Facilitator of Self-Regulation in Golfers	1
A Two-Sample Examination of the Relationship Between Trait Emotional Intelligence, Burnout, and Coping Strategies in Athletes	1
Mental Qualities and Techniques in Tactical Populations: A Systematic Review	1
The Effects of Instructional Self-Talk on Quiet-Eye Duration and Golf-Putting Performance	1
A Longitudinal Study of Organizational Stressors and Mental Health in the Irish Olympic Team Before and After the “Tokyo 2020” (2021) Olympic Games	1
Having a Goal Up Your Sleeve: Promoting a Mastery Climate in a Youth Football Academy Team	1
Fostering Psychosocial Characteristics Within an English Soccer Academy	1
Gender (Dis)Similarity in Mentorship Among Intercollegiate Coaches: Implications for Leader Development	1
A Qualitative Exploration of Sport and Exercise Psychology Practitioners’ Perceptions and Experiences of Using Think Aloud in Applied Practice	1
On the Frontline of Athlete Mental Health: The Mental Health Literacy of NCAA Coaches	1
A Longitudinal Multicase Study About the Board-Game Format of an Educational Self-Talk Intervention	1
Adaptation to Change: A Case Study of a Sailor Who Experienced Multiple Career-Change Events and Became a World Champion	1
Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement With an American College Rugby Team: A Consensual Qualitative Research Study	1
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Features and Effects of Athlete Burnout Among Top Amateur Female Rugby Union Players	1
The Impact of an Online Sport Psychology Intervention for Middle-Distance Runners: Should Self-Regulation or Mindfulness Be Prioritized?	1
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Exploring the Relationship Between Athletes’ Perceptions of Their Team Motivational Climate and Their Sport Shame	0
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Supervision in Private Practice: Logistics, Challenges, and Strategies	0

The Inducers of an Elite Male Table Tennis Player’s Emotional Experience Throughout His Career: A Single Case Study Based on the Critical-Incident Method	0
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A Survey of Applied Impact of Literature in Sport Psychology	0
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How Psychologists in Men’s English Football Academies Evaluate Their Working Context and Adopt an Appropriate Professional Practice Framework	0
A Proposed Three-Stage Postperformance-Routine Framework	0
The Impact of Sexual Orientation on College Athlete Sport-Related Belonging and Well-Being	0
Assessing and Maximizing Collegiate Athletes’ Psychological Skills Under Constraints: A Preseason Brief Intervention Approach	0
From Imaginative Experiments to Inventive Performances: On the Role of Creativity in the Developmental Experiences of Professional Ice Hockey Players	0
The Effectiveness of Progressive Muscle-Relaxation Techniques in Improving Affective Well-Being Among Female Athletes During Menstruation: A Randomized Controlled Study	0
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“It’s Absolutely Essential”: Sport and Performance Psychology Practitioners’ Perspectives on Training, Use, and Importance of Debriefing in Applied Work	0
“I Realized It Was a Different Kind of Culture to Other Sports”: An Exploration of Sport Psychology Service Provision and Delivery in Gaelic Games	0
Having Impact and Doing It Quickly: The Place for Brief and Single-Session Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies in Sport Psychology Practice	0
“Keep the Pace! You’ve Got This!”: The Content and Meaning of Impactful Crowd Encouragement at Mass Running Events	0
National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Assistant Coaches’ Understanding and Use of Mental Performance and Mental Health Services	0
Effective Delivery of Pressure Training: Perspectives of Athletes and Sport Psychologists	0
“Short and Sweet”: A Randomized Controlled Initial Investigation of Brief Online Psychological Interventions With Endurance Athletes	0
How to Support Athlete Autonomy in University Sports: Coaches’ Experience of the reROOT Program	0
Profiling Coach Openness to Positive Youth Development Before, During, and After Their Participation in a Coach Education Course	0
“As Many as Possible for as Long as Possible”—A Case Study of a Soccer Team That Fosters Multiple Outcomes	0
Too Many Cooks, Not Enough Gourmets: Examining Provision and Use of Feedback for the Developing Athlete	0
Cohesion and Heterosexist Attitudes in Men’s Collegiate Athletics	0
The Effects of a Brief Online Rational-Emotive-Behavioral-Therapy Program on Coach Irrational Beliefs and Well-Being	0
Exploring Elite Athlete Experiences of Growth: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Well-Being	0
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Exploring Female University Athlete Experiences of Coping With Protracted Concussion Symptoms	0
The Importance of the Leaders’ and Coaches’ Motivating Style for Sports Club Members’ Motivation to Participate in Organized Sports: Study of Trickle-Down Effects	0
Experiences of Developing Evidence-Informed Decision-Making Competence in Trainee Sport Psychology Practitioners: Supervisor and Supervisee Perspectives	0
Understanding the Leadership and Environmental Mechanisms in a Super League Netball Club	0
#SportPsychMapping: An Exploratory Interview Framework for Sport and Exercise Psychology	0
Sport Psychology Consultants’ Views on Working With Perfectionistic Elite Athletes	0
Usual and Pressure-Affected Thinking in Skilled Golfers: A Survey of Preparation and Execution Thought Processes	0
The Self-Regulation and Smartphone Usage Model: A Framework to Help Athletes Manage Smartphone Usage	0
Effect of Preperformance Routine on Advanced Swimmers’ Performance and Motor Efficiency, Self-Efficacy, and Idiosyncratic Emotions	0
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Exploring the Athletic Identity, Anxiety, and Mental Health of Division II Collegiate Athletes in the COVID-19 Era	0
We Know That We Are All Together: A Case Study of the Communal Coping Process in a Professional Ice Hockey Team	0
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Differences in Body Appreciation and Functionality Appreciation Outside of and Directly Following Sport Among Collegiate Student-Athletes	0
Erratum: Taylor and Collins (2020)	0
A Buffering Effect of Mental Toughness on the Negative Impact of Basic Psychological Need Thwarting on Positive Youth Athlete Functioning	0
A Novel Exploration of Occupational Recovery in Certified Mental Performance Consultants	0
Self-Expectations, Socially Prescribed Expectations, and Wellness in 14- to 15-Year-Old Athletes, Ballet, and Music Students in Norwegian Talent Schools—An Interview Study	0
Alexithymia and the Anxiolytic Effect of Endurance Running	0
An Exploration of Sport Psychology Professional Quality of Life in British Neophyte Practitioners	0
It’s a MuSt Win: The Effects of Self-Talk to Enhance Passing Performance Under Pressure in Elite Football Players	0
Australian Football Coaches’ Tales of Mental Toughness: Exploring the Sociocultural Roots	0
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Stress and Mental Well-Being Experiences of Professional Football Coaches	0
Evaluating Sport Psychology Service Delivery for Elite USA Track and Field Athletes: Findings and Recommendations	0
Across the Pond: An Exploration of the American Collegiate System as a Pathway for Elite British Female Gymnasts	0
Wearing a “Self-Compassion Suit” May Offer a Performance Edge: A Qualitative Study of Serial-Winning High-Performance Coaches	0
From the Lesson Tee to the Course: A Naturalistic Investigation of Attentional Focus in Elite Golf	0
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Multicultural Training and Program Climate in Master’s Degree Sport Psychology Programs	0
Coaches’ Perceptions of Mental Toughness in Adolescent Athletes: A Phenomenological Exploration	0
Increasing Anaerobic Power in Cycling By Implementing Embodied Self-Talk	0
Missing Out, as Well: The Absence of Youth Sports and Its Effect on Parents During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic	0
Masters Athletes’ Views on Sport Psychology for Performance Enhancement and Sport Lifestyle Adherence	0
Mindfulness and Performance	0
Stressors Experienced by Professional Jockeys	0
Transitioning From Traditional Sport to Esport: Exploring Sport Psychology Practitioners’ Experiences	0
A Coach Perspective on a Mastery Motivational Climate in the Competitive Youth Soccer Context	0
A Collective Case Study of Parent–Athlete–Coach Triads in British Youth Tennis	0