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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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Reexamining the Association Between Preseason Challenge and Threat States and Performance Across the Season	23
Let’s Hear It From the Kids! Examining the Experiences, Views, and Needs of Highly Committed Children Involved in Youth Sport	13
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An Insight Into the Use of Personality Assessment by U.K. Sport Psychology Consultants	9
Efficacy of an Innovative Virtual-Reality Training System for Breathing Techniques: A Study of University Gymnasts	8
Erratum. Aesthetic Athletes’ Reflections on Early Specialization: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective	8
The Mediating Role of Self-Compassion on the Relationship Between Goal Orientation and Sport-Confidence	8
A Yearlong Psychological-Skills-Training Program With Chinese Athletes: A Narrative Exploration	6
Coach Servant Leadership and Athlete Serving Behaviors: The Role of Intrinsic Motivation and Positive Affect	6
Beyond the Courts: A Qualitative Exploration of the Evolving Role of Parents in Supporting High-Potential Tennis Players	6
Identifying Predictors of Burnout and Health of Certified Mental Performance Consultants	6
Two Confessional Tales of Trainee Sport Psychology Practitioners’ Experiences of Operating in Trinidad and Tobago	5
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Kenshi’s Experiences of Sword Fighting in Kendo: The Way of Ippon With Soul, Sword, and Body	5
Exploring the Implementation and Practices of the Parent–Coach Dual Role	4
A Case Study Situating a Self-Regulated Learning Survey in Consultation Between an Elite Athlete and a Sport Psychology Practitioner	4
The Relationship of Coach-Created Motivational Climate to Teamwork Behaviors in Female Collegiate Athletes	4
Distinguishing Characteristics Between High and Low Adherence Patients Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Qualitative Examination	4
Aesthetic Athletes’ Reflections on Early Specialization: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective	4
Client-Led Applied Sport Psychology Practitioners’ Narratives About Helping Athletes	4
Erratum. Aesthetic Athletes’ Reflections on Early Specialization: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective	4
A Longitudinal Examination of Stress and Mental Ill-/Well-Being in Elite Football Coaches	4
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	3
Development and Maintenance of Team Performance Crises: A Grounded Theory Approach on Professional Soccer Players’ Perspectives	3

Erratum. “Keep the Pace! You’ve Got This!”: The Content and Meaning of Impactful Crowd Encouragement at Mass Running Events	3
Motivational Climate Collaboration Between a Collegiate Native American Volleyball Program and Sport Psychology Researchers	3
Stress and Coping Experiences of U.K. Professional Football Managers During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Using a Multimodal Cognitive Behavioral 1-2-1 Intervention to Target Irrational Beliefs, Perceived Performance, and Stress Mindset With Elite Youth Football Players	3
The Philosophical Underpinning of Athlete Lifestyle Support: An Existential-Humanistic Perspective	3
Mental Health Literacy Intervention to Reduce Stigma Toward Mental Health Symptoms and Disorders in Women Rugby Players: A Feasibility Study	3
Erratum. “Keep the Pace! You’ve Got This!” The Content and Meaning of Impactful Crowd Encouragement at Mass Running Events	2
The Relationship Between Cold-Water-Immersion Activities, Mental Health, Self-Efficacy, Resilience, and Mental Toughness	2
Case-Conceptualization Practices in Sport and Performance Psychology	2
“My Life Sucks Right Now”: Student-Athletes’ Pandemic-Related Experiences With Screen Time and Mental Health	2
Working to Live or Living to Work? How Daily Work Experiences Affect Sport Employees’ Biometric Health	2
Applying Educational Psychology in Coaching Athletes	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
A Second-Generation Mindfulness-Based Intervention Focusing on Flow State: A Samatha-Based Training	2
Attentional Foci and Coping Strategies During Matches of Young Fencers in a Training Center: A Naturalistic Video-Assisted Study	2
A Penny for Your Thoughts: Athletes’ and Trainee Sport Psychologists’ Internal Dialogue During Consultations	2
A Solution-Focused Approach to Shared Athlete Leadership Development Using Mixed Methods	2
The Effects of an Exploratory Mindfulness Intervention on Collegiate Performance	2
“It’s Necessary Work”: Stories of Competitive Youth Sport Coaches’ Developing Critical Praxes	2
Journey From Control to Liberation: Exploring Student-Athletes’ Physical Activity Perceptions and Experiences in the Transition Out of Collegiate Sport	1
Investigating “What Works” in an Online Well-Being Intervention for Competitive and High-Performance Swimmers	1
Encouraging Togetherness During a National Lockdown: The Influence of Relationship-Oriented Personal-Disclosure Mutual-Sharing on Team Functioning in Academy Soccer Coaches	1
The Effects of Instructional Self-Talk on Quiet-Eye Duration and Golf-Putting Performance	1
Having a Goal Up Your Sleeve: Promoting a Mastery Climate in a Youth Football Academy Team	1
A Qualitative Exploration of Sport and Exercise Psychology Practitioners’ Perceptions and Experiences of Using Think Aloud in Applied Practice	1
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Features and Effects of Athlete Burnout Among Top Amateur Female Rugby Union Players	1
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Revisiting Perfectionism in High-Level Ballet: A Longitudinal Collective Instrumental Case Study	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
Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement With an American College Rugby Team: A Consensual Qualitative Research Study	1
A Longitudinal Multicase Study About the Board-Game Format of an Educational Self-Talk Intervention	1
Exploring the Incorporation of Imagery Based on PETTLEP	1
Transitioning Out of Elite Sport: The Experience of Integrated Support-Team Members	1
“I Love What I Do; That’s The Bottom Line”: Theory of Women’s Career Attraction and Retention in Sport Psychology	1
Korean Dual-Career Judokas’ Junior-to-Senior Transition: A Longitudinal Study	1
A Phenomenological Evaluation of the Psychological Factors That Influence Motorsports Performance	1
Adaptation to Change: A Case Study of a Sailor Who Experienced Multiple Career-Change Events and Became a World Champion	1
The Impact of an Online Sport Psychology Intervention for Middle-Distance Runners: Should Self-Regulation or Mindfulness Be Prioritized?	1
On the Frontline of Athlete Mental Health: The Mental Health Literacy of NCAA Coaches	1
A Two-Sample Examination of the Relationship Between Trait Emotional Intelligence, Burnout, and Coping Strategies in Athletes	0
Exploring Elite Athlete Experiences of Growth: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Well-Being	0
The Effects of a Brief Online Rational-Emotive-Behavioral-Therapy Program on Coach Irrational Beliefs and Well-Being	0
How Mental Performance Consultants Describe Self-Regulated Learning, Its Merits, and Its Implementation in Competitive Adolescent Sport	0
The Self-Regulation and Smartphone Usage Model: A Framework to Help Athletes Manage Smartphone Usage	0
Sleepless in Soccer: Exploring Sleep, Stress, and Mental Well-Being in an International Head Coach	0
Increasing Anaerobic Power in Cycling By Implementing Embodied Self-Talk	0
Evaluating Sport Psychology Service Delivery for Elite USA Track and Field Athletes: Findings and Recommendations	0
Missing Out, as Well: The Absence of Youth Sports and Its Effect on Parents During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic	0

Understanding the Leadership and Environmental Mechanisms in a Super League Netball Club	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
Transitioning From Traditional Sport to Esport: Exploring Sport Psychology Practitioners’ Experiences	0
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Athletes’ Perspectives on Mental Health in Professional Rugby: Exploring Barriers and Pathways	0
It’s a MuSt Win: The Effects of Self-Talk to Enhance Passing Performance Under Pressure in Elite Football Players	0
“Short and Sweet”: A Randomized Controlled Initial Investigation of Brief Online Psychological Interventions With Endurance Athletes	0
Cohesion and Heterosexist Attitudes in Men’s Collegiate Athletics	0
A Novel Exploration of Occupational Recovery in Certified Mental Performance Consultants	0
Too Many Cooks, Not Enough Gourmets: Examining Provision and Use of Feedback for the Developing Athlete	0
A Collective Case Study of Parent–Athlete–Coach Triads in British Youth Tennis	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
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National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Assistant Coaches’ Understanding and Use of Mental Performance and Mental Health Services	0
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Australian Football Coaches’ Tales of Mental Toughness: Exploring the Sociocultural Roots	0
A Coach Perspective on a Mastery Motivational Climate in the Competitive Youth Soccer Context	0
An Exploration of Athletes’ and Coaches’ Perspectives of Fair Athlete Leadership	0
Sport Psychology Consultants’ Views on Working With Perfectionistic Elite Athletes	0
Exploring Female University Athlete Experiences of Coping With Protracted Concussion Symptoms	0
The Development of Sport Psychology Professionals: A Glance Into the International Landscape	0
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We Know That We Are All Together: A Case Study of the Communal Coping Process in a Professional Ice Hockey Team	0
The Effects of Perfectionism on Psychological Well-Being in Sport and Performance Psychology Professionals	0
Supervision in Private Practice: Logistics, Challenges, and Strategies	0
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High School Student-Athlete Perspectives on Coach Behaviors: Insights Beyond the Xs and Os	0
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A Proposed Three-Stage Postperformance-Routine Framework	0
How to Support Athlete Autonomy in University Sports: Coaches’ Experience of the reROOT Program	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
Across the Pond: An Exploration of the American Collegiate System as a Pathway for Elite British Female Gymnasts	0
Effective Delivery of Pressure Training: Perspectives of Athletes and Sport Psychologists	0
Wearing a “Self-Compassion Suit” May Offer a Performance Edge: A Qualitative Study of Serial-Winning High-Performance Coaches	0
From Imaginative Experiments to Inventive Performances: On the Role of Creativity in the Developmental Experiences of Professional Ice Hockey Players	0
How Psychologists in Men’s English Football Academies Evaluate Their Working Context and Adopt an Appropriate Professional Practice Framework	0
The Impact of Sexual Orientation on College Athlete Sport-Related Belonging and Well-Being	0
“It’s Absolutely Essential”: Sport and Performance Psychology Practitioners’ Perspectives on Training, Use, and Importance of Debriefing in Applied Work	0
The Effectiveness of Progressive Muscle-Relaxation Techniques in Improving Affective Well-Being Among Female Athletes During Menstruation: A Randomized Controlled Study	0
Exploring the Relationship Between Athletes’ Perceptions of Their Team Motivational Climate and Their Sport Shame	0
Exploring the Athletic Identity, Anxiety, and Mental Health of Division II Collegiate Athletes in the COVID-19 Era	0
Usual and Pressure-Affected Thinking in Skilled Golfers: A Survey of Preparation and Execution Thought Processes	0
“Keep the Pace! You’ve Got This!”: The Content and Meaning of Impactful Crowd Encouragement at Mass Running Events	0
Having Impact and Doing It Quickly: The Place for Brief and Single-Session Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies in Sport Psychology Practice	0
A Guided Digital Sleep Intervention to Improve Sleep Among Elite Athletes: A Feasibility Study	0
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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
Alexithymia and the Anxiolytic Effect of Endurance Running	0
Multicultural Training and Program Climate in Master’s Degree Sport Psychology Programs	0
Profiling Coach Openness to Positive Youth Development Before, During, and After Their Participation in a Coach Education Course	0
Fostering Psychosocial Characteristics Within an English Soccer Academy	0
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“Think Aloud” as a Facilitator of Self-Regulation in Golfers	0
Utilizing Constellation Peer Mentoring to Promote Social Support and Destigmatization: A Practical Outline for Sport Psychology Consultants	0