Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychology of Sport and Exercise is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Body image experiences in retired Olympians: Losing the embodied self72
Situational information and the design of representative learning tasks: What impact does a scoreboard have on expert taekwondo fighters' behaviour and affective-cognitive responses?53
Development of the Stressors among Parents in Youth Sport Survey (SPYSS)42
Measuring leadership in sport: Development and validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory – Youth (ILI-Y)40
January 2023 Editorial40
Less stick more carrot? Increasing the uptake of deposit contract financial incentives for physical activity: A randomized controlled trial38
Within-person association of volitional factors and physical activity: Insights from an ecological momentary assessment study37
Ego depletion does not negatively impact novice sprinters’ start performance during a timed 20m all-out sprint37
The relationship between physical activity environment, mental wellbeing, flourishing and thriving: A mixed method study36
Examination of the consistency effect between physical activity levels and approach-avoidance behaviors34
The Stride program: Feasibility and pre-to-post program change of an exercise service for university students experiencing mental distress33
A grounded theory of youth athlete concussion under-reporting decisions33
The Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ-4): Psychometric evidence of introjected approach regulation in Portuguese health club exercisers32
Mind over body: Interfering with the inner voice is detrimental to endurance performance32
When the going gets tough, what happens to quiet eye? The role of time pressure and performance pressure during basketball free throws31
A mixed-methods case study examining the developmental networks of athletes in a wheelchair rugby team31
A framework to explain the in-match decision-making of elite Australian football coaches31
Promoting physical activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in Australia: The roles of psychological predictors and commercial physical activity apps31
Prospective associations between physical fitness and executive function in adolescents: The UP&DOWN study30
Effects of instagram sports posts on the athletic motivation of female elite athletes: Do they inspire or backfire?30
Perceptual-cognitive performance of youth soccer players in a 360°-environment – An investigation of the relationship with soccer-specific performance and the effects of systematic training29
Focusing on the coach’s eye; towards a working model of coach decision-making in talent selection29
A longitudinal investigation of the role of perceived autonomy support from coaches in reducing athletes’ experiential avoidance: The mediating role of subjective vitality28
Understanding physical education teachers’ motivational outcomes and feasibility beliefs to implement motivational strategies: The role of perceived pressures from a variable- and person-centered appr28
FEPSAC Newsletter27
Using video docuseries to explore male professional football head coaches’ well-being experiences throughout a season27
The mediational role of executive functions for the relationship between motor ability and academic performance in pediatric cancer survivors27
Athletic identity, values and self-regulatory efficacy governing hypercompetitive attitudes26
Running as a way fat women re-story their bodies and construct a runner identity in a North American sociocultural context26
Change in the social context of physical activity across adolescence and its association with moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity26
Do not drop your gloves: “Winning” a fight in the National Hockey League does not improve chances to win the game26
A test of the impact of pain on automatic motivational processes in people with knee osteoarthritis25
The Avengers in action: A gamified-based intermittent teaching unit in the Physical Education setting to promote physical activity and its psychological mediators in secondary education students25
Controlling the flight on double-handed foiling catamarans: The role of shared equipment on the crew members' mutual modes of regulation25
More active, more nature-connected? The carry-over effect of physical activity in pro-environmental behavior24
Daily measures of sport enjoyment, social interaction, and attendance among female adolescent handball players23
Motor competence predicts self-esteem during childhood in typical development children22
Effects of acute aerobic exercise on emotional memory formation in individuals with methamphetamine use disorder: Encoding vs consolidation22
The performance enhancement attitude scale (PEAS) reached ‘adulthood’: Lessons and recommendations from a systematic review and meta-analysis21
Mental health profiles among 13-16-year-Old Norwegian talent and mainstream students - A prospective person-centered analytical approach21
Examining the effects of increasing then decreasing exercise intensity within a session of aerobic exercise21
A psychological intervention reduces doping likelihood in British and Greek athletes: A cluster randomized controlled trial21
Genetic associations with personality and mental toughness profiles of English academy football players: An exploratory study21
Exploring the mental health of circus artists: Circus factors, psychological resilience, and demographics predict disordered eating and exercise addictions20
“I think the best athletes use it”: Masculinities and self-compassion among men varsity athletes20
Advancing a grounded theory of parental support in competitive girls’ golf20
Identifying moderators of physical literacy interventions using meta-regression20
Uncovering the roles of automatic attitudes and controlled processes in the regulation of physical activity behavior in children20
The impact of verbal and physical abuse on distress, mental health, and intentions to quit in sports officials20
Regulate to facilitate: A scoping review of prefrontal asymmetry in sport and exercise20
Home advantage during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analyses of European football leagues20
Warm-up plus verbal communications administered as placebo procedure during the training session improves running performance19
Exploring proportions of spontaneous and goal-directed self-talk – It is not always the one or the other19
Editorial Board19
FEPSAC Newsletter19
Dance and stress regulation: A multidisciplinary narrative review18
Exploring athletes’ gendered views of coaches and their impact of coach competency ratings18
Social identity in sport: A scoping review of the performance hypothesis18
The physical self-concept across childhood: Measurement development and meaning for physical activity18
Gender stereotypes and motor performance: How explicit and implicit stereotypes influence girls standing long jump and anxiety18
A mixed methods exploration of the parent perspective of talent development environments across a national multi-sport landscape18
Cognitive dual-task does not annihilate the negative effects of gender stereotype threat on girls' motor learning18
Do acute and chronic physical activity interventions affect the cognitive function of preschool children? A meta-analysis18
Identity leadership and social identification within sport teams over a season: A social network analysis17
Psychological pressure and compounded errors during elite-level tennis17
Switching attentional focus across internal and external cues improves performance in a rowing task in novices17
How class cohesion and teachers’ relatedness supportive/thwarting style relate to students’ relatedness, motivation, and positive and negative outcomes in physical education17
A new Bayesian procedure for the estimation of the referees' decision thresholds and agreement. The case of professional handball refereeing17
Promoting mental health among young males in sporting contexts: A systematic review17
The prospective associations between internalized weight bias and physical activity among adolescents17
A person-centred approach to understanding dark-side antecedents and students’ outcomes associated with physical education teachers’ motivation17
Investigating in-performance transitions between mental states in high-level judoka using video-based stimulated recall16
The long-term intensive gymnastic training influences functional stability and integration: A resting-state fMRI study16
FEPSAC Newsletter16
No transfer of 3D-Multiple Object Tracking training on game performance in soccer: A follow-up study16
Autonomous motivation and action planning are longitudinally associated with physical activity during adolescence and early adulthood16
The role of parents toward the group dynamics of youth sport teams16
Mindfulness, reinvestment, and rowing under pressure: Evidence for moderated moderation of the anxiety-performance relationship16
Longitudinal analysis of stressors, stress, coping and coping effectiveness in elite esports athletes16
The role of individual and parental expectations in student-athletes’ career adaptability profiles16
Move more today, sleep better tonight? Daily associations between physical activity and sedentary behavior with sleep among young adults with and without insomnia symptoms16
Positive youth development as a guiding framework in sport research: Is it time to plan for a transition?15
Relationships between sport and exercise participation and subjective well-being among adults with physical disabilities: Is participation quality more important than participation quantity?15
Practitioners in search of an identity: A Delphi study of sport psychology professional identity15
The effects of self-efficacy on physical and cognitive performance: An analysis of meta-certainty15
Experiences of exercise services for individuals with severe mental illness: A qualitative approach15
Corrigendum to “A cluster randomized trial to evaluate need-supportive teaching in physical education on physical activity of sixth-grade girls: A mixed method study” [Psychology of Sport & Exerci15
Longitudinal trajectories of emotions among athletes in sports competitions: Does emotional intelligence matter?15
A uniform approach for advancing athlete assessment: A tutorial on the Lens Model15
“You are either sporty or you are not” a qualitative exploration of pre-teen girls of low-socioeconomic position experiences of being physically active15
The effects of short exercise bouts on error-related negativity (ERN) and academic achievement in children14
Effects of word presentation during treadmill walking on episodic memory and gait14
Greater weekly physical activity linked to left resting frontal alpha asymmetry in women: A study on gender differences in highly active young adults14
How divergent are children’s divergent movements? The role of cognition and expertise in a class-randomized cross-over trial14
Predictors and outcomes of sports coaches’ athlete-invested contingent self-worth14
Microsaccade behavior associated with inhibitory control in athletes in the antisaccade task14
Specific and general transfer of perceptual-motor skills and learning between sports: A systematic review14
Macronutrient intake as a prospective predictor of depressive symptom severity: An exploratory study with adolescent elite athletes14
The relationship between prescribed ratings of perceived exertion and force production in repeated isometric contractions14
Differences in motivational dynamics between experienced cyclists and untrained participants during an incremental endurance exercise task13
People who approve of one's physical activity vs. people who are influential: A randomized cross-over experiment to compare normative referent elicitation procedures13
Coping with the loan transition in professional association football13
Behind the mask: Attentional focus and coping strategies of elite level fencers13
Editorial Board13
Winner for Life: A three-year study of student-athletes’ life skills development in a training programme for coaches and teachers13
Examining the diversity of ultra-running motivations and experiences: A reversal theory perspective13
FEPSAC Newsletter13
How do new runners maintain their running, and what leads to others stopping? A qualitative, longitudinal study13
The recognition of affective states associated with players’ non-verbal behavior in volleyball13
Boredom, motivation, and perceptions of pain: Mechanisms to explain the effects of self-control exertion on subsequent physical performance12
Effects of different types of analogy instruction on the performance and inter-joint coordination of novice darts learners12
The influence of an esports-adapted coping effectiveness training (E-CET) on resilience, mental health, and subjective performance among elite league of Legends players: A pilot study12
Associations of cardiorespiratory fitness and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity with latent cognitive abilities in older adults12
Association of parent, coach, and peer motivational climate with high school athlete burnout and engagement: Comparing mediation and moderation models12
The influence of absent crowds on National Rugby League match player statistics and running metrics12
Brain dynamics of visual anticipation during spatial occlusion tasks in expert tennis players12
Dissociating the contributions of motivational and information processing factors to the self-controlled feedback learning benefit12
FEPSAC Newsletter12
A cluster randomized trial of a rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) program and a mindfulness-acceptance-commitment (MAC) program, with South African adolescent rugby players12
Situation Awareness in sports: A scoping review12
Global and appearance-contingent self-esteem: Associations with health and attractiveness exercise reasons12
Decision-making in action: How international-level professional football players gain an advantage12
Everything is cool when you're part of a team? The effects of outcome interdependence on appraisal, emotions, and performance under pressure12
Facilitating transition into a high-performance environment: The effect of a stressor-coping intervention program on elite youth rugby league players12
Editorial Board11
Qualitative evaluation of a sports-based mental health literacy program for adolescent males11
“Change needs to start at home”: A reflexive thematic analysis of girl athletes' and coaches’ experiences of body image in New Delhi, India11
Communication profiles and sport experiences of collegiate track and field athletes11
Resilience profiles of elite athletes and their associations with health-related behaviors, well-being, and performance: A latent profile analysis11
Dual career (DC) experiences of Korean elite judokas before and at university11
The effects of an authentic coaching intervention on athlete outcomes: A pilot randomised controlled trial11
Editorial Board11
Brief mindfulness meditation intervention improves attentional control of athletes in virtual reality shooting competition: Evidence from fNIRS and eye tracking11
An integrated mindfulness and acceptance-based program for young elite female basketball players: Exploratory study of how it works and for whom it works best11
Determinants of physical activity adoption and maintenance in older adults: A dual process approach11
Flow and outdoor adventure recreation: Using flow measures to re-examine motives for participation11
FEPSAC Newsletter11
Dynamic, relational developmental systems-based models of human development: The exemplary sample case of positive youth development through youth sport11
Perceived self-efficacy by Under-10 tennis players when scaling the equipment and play area11
Disentangling general and sport-specific risk factors for anxiety and depression in a mixed sample of athletes and non-athletes11
The psychology of rock climbing: A systematic review11
Development and validation of the Coaching Athlete Purpose Scale (CAPS)11
The influence of mental toughness on responses to feedback in snooker: A real-time examination11
Testing the Physical Activity Self-Definition Model among low-active adults participating in a physical activity intervention11
FEPSAC Newsletter11
Exploring the role of mindfulness in the stress-recovery balance: 10-Day monitoring of young BMX riders in an intensive training center during a pre-competition cycle11
Affective reactions to real-life stressors and the role of physical activity in sports students – An Ambulatory Assessment study10
A Co-design approach to develop a motivational intervention to promote physical activity engagement and maintenance among individuals in residential substance use disorder treatment settings10
It's in the water: A qualitative exploration of the perceived effects of outdoor open water swimming on swimmers' psychological well-being10
Optimal psychological states in advanced climbers: Antecedents, characteristics, and consequences of flow and clutch states10
A conceptual model for mental health and performance of North American athletes: A mixed methods study10
Qualified fitness trainers practice scientifically based judgement in prescribing exercise programs10
An initial investigation into the mental health difficulties in athletes who experience choking under pressure10
“Nothing was lost sailing-wise and lots is gained on a personal level”: Practitioners’ behaviors and athletes’ perceptions of working in online environments10
Some pressures are more equal than others: Effects of isolated pressure on performance10
Automatic processes moderate the association between reflective processes and movement behavior: A cross-sectional study10
The examination of factors influencing the recognition of affective states associated with tennis players’ non-verbal behaviour10
“I’m more than my sport”: Exploring the dynamic processes of identity change in athletic retirement10
Negotiating a transnational career around borders: Women's stories in boundaryless academia10
Validation of a revised version of the Physical Self-Inventory – Very Short form for youth with intellectual disabilities (PSI-VS-ID-R): A Bayesian structural equation modeling approach10
Compassion matters in elite sports environments: Insights from high-performance coaches10
Editorial Board10
Psychological well-being and exercise addiction: The treatment effects of an REBT intervention for females10
Self-compassion and body-related self-conscious emotions: Examining within- and between-person variation among adolescent girls in sport9
The interplay between parental behaviors and adolescents' sports-related values in understanding adolescents' dropout of organized sports activities9
Acute effects of mindful interval exercise on cognitive performance in a higher education setting9
Upsetting the apple cart: Within-team profiles of intragroup conflict and their associations with narcissism9
Searching for meaning and purpose in elite sport: A narrative review of sport psychology literature with theoretical insights from psychology9
Self-determination theory based instructional interventions and motivational regulations in organized physical activity: A systematic review and multivariate meta-analysis9
Self-confidence, mental toughness, and psychobiosocial experiences in elite rugby players9
Role of psychological ownership and authenticity strength in the relationship between authentic leadership and sport team performance: A multilevel analysis9
Working memory, sustained attention, and physical activity: An intraindividual study9
Understanding action control of resistance training among adults9
Attraction toward physical activity as a moderator of socio-cognitive predictors of physical activity9
Latent profile analysis of physical activity motivation during behavioral weight loss treatment9
Exploring an athletic talent development environment in China: A case study of a sport-friendly high school9
Editorial Board9
The impact of religious–psychological factors on self-perceived sport performance among religious athletes in Malaysia9
Reliability and validity of the PL-C Quest, a scale designed to assess children’s self-reported physical literacy9
Get active now or later? The association between physical activity and risk and time preferences9
How does the manipulation of time pressure during soccer tasks influence physical load and mental fatigue?9
Tales from the peloton: Stress and coping in professional women's road cycling9
FEPSAC Newsletter9
A psychosocial investigation of exercise preferences in real and virtual environments8
Dual career in sport and non-sport work: Exploring experiences of North American professional female ice hockey players8
Doping in disabled elite sport: Perceptions, knowledge and opinions from the perspective of German and UK coaches8
Passion transfer in former competitive athletes: The mediating role of the social environment and personal values8
Reinvestment in one versus one in-field and shoot-out field hockey performance8
Understanding the meta-transition experiences of Chinese table tennis athletes during the transition to first level teams: Group reflective practice interviews8
“I’m just not feeling it”: Affective processing of episodic physical activity memories differs between physically active and inactive individuals8
Mindfulness and mental wellbeing among elite athletes: The mediating role of gratitude and self-compassion8
Applying state space grids methods to characterize counsellor-client interactions in a physical activity behavioural intervention for adults with disabilities8
Beyond stereotypes: The role of exposure in reshaping Children's biases towards women as coaches in sports8
Resilience in elite sport and at work – A comparative analysis among German elite athletes and employees8
Resilience and Enhancement in Sport, Exercise, & Training (RESET): A brief self-compassion intervention with NCAA student-athletes8
Editorial: Psychology of sport and exercise supports diversity, equity, inclusion, unity and resilience8
Only my group will do: Evidence that social support protects athletes from burnout when they identify with those who provide it8
The “three-point shooting paradox”: An artifact or a real phenomenon? Replication with large-scale National Basketball Association (NBA) data8
Links between environmental features and developmental outcomes of elite youth athletes: A cross-sectional study within the German talent pathway8
OPTIMAL theory’s claims about motivation lack evidence in the motor learning literature8
“By the time I got to London I was like a coke bottle that had been shaken up and was about to explode!” A case study of performance expectations with a retired athlete8
Exercise as a coping strategy and its impact on the psychological well-being of Japanese community-dwelling older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study8
Feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a theory-informed resistance exercise training single-arm intervention for major depression8
Applicability of a supramaximal high-intensity interval training program for older adults previously not engaged in regular exercise; analyses of secondary outcomes from the Umeå HIT Study8
“We’re stronger as a family”: Family experiences and relationships in an adapted physical activity camp8
The Daily Mile™: Acute effects on children’s cognitive function and factors affecting their enjoyment8
A systematic review of behaviour change techniques employed in interventions aimed to change physical activity behaviour in autistic individuals8
The influence of perceived parental responsiveness on athletes’ goal accomplishment, trait cognitive sport anxiety, and thriving: A semi-longitudinal study8
Do gender stereotype threats have a spillover effect on motor tasks among children? A mixed-model design investigation8
Critical reflections on second-generation mindfulness-based interventions8
Athlete doping confrontation efficacy and confrontation likelihood8
Self-regulatory processes in goal striving during excellent distance-running performances: A qualitative study8
A psychological intervention reduces doping likelihood in Italian athletes: A replication and extension8
Climbing anxiety scale (CAS-20): Preliminary development and validation8
Football belongs to the people: A social identity perspective on attitudes toward the European Super League in the English Premier League7
Analysing experienced and inexperienced cyclists’ attentional focus and self-regulatory strategies during varying intensities of fixed perceived effort cycling: A mixed method study7
Effectiveness of an affect-adjusted, supervised, multimodal, online and home-based exercise group protocol for major depression: A randomized controlled trial7
Acceptance by athletes of a virtual reality head-mounted display intended to enhance sport performance7
Stress mindset in athletes: Investigating the relationships between beliefs, challenge and threat with psychological wellbeing7
Adventure-based mindsets helped maintain psychological well-being during COVID-197
Perceptual-cognitive performance of youth soccer players in a 360°-environment – Differences between age groups and performance levels7
Development and initial validation of the Team Mental Models Instrument (TMMI): A psychometric tool to measure shared and complementary mental models in sports7
Affective responses to resistance exercise: Toward a consensus on the timing of assessments7
From “blessing in disguise” to “what do I do now?”: How Canadian Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls perceived, experienced, and coped with the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Games7
A multi-design investigation of perfectionism risk profiles for traumatic injury in sport7
Mental health challenges in elite sports, barriers to treatment, and quality of psychiatric care at an elite sports-centered mental health clinic—a mixed-methods study7
FEPSAC Position Statement: Athletes’ dual careers in the European context7
Linking psychological risk profiles to running-related injuries and chronic fatigue in long-distance runners: A latent profile analysis7
Connections between caring climate, self-compassion, self-pity, and reactions to an emotionally difficult sport situation7
Golf skill learning: An external focus of attention enhances performance and motivation7
Towards a better understanding of the role of perceived task variety in Physical Education: A self-determination theory approach7
The role of comprehensive education in anti-doping policy legitimacy and support among clean athletes7
The impact of differing audience sizes on referees and team performance from a North American perspective7
Decision-making training in sporting officials: Past, present and future7
The effects of self-compassion on daily emotion regulation and performance rebound among college athletes: Comparisons with confidence, grit, and hope7
Effects of a staff physical activity professional development intervention on preschoolers' mental health and self-regulation: The active learning Norwegian Preschool(er)s (ACTNOW) cluster randomised 7
Temporal perception in closed-skill sports: An experimental study on expert swimmers and runners7
Every Boy’s dream: A mixed method study of young professional Danish football player’s transnational migration7
The Transtheoretical model’s processes of change in the heart of a physical activity intervention: A series of n-of-17
Navigating athlete development in elite sport: Understanding the barriers to the provision of performance lifestyle service in England7
Exploring female dancer’s emotions and coping experiences following deselection: An interpretative phenomenological analysis7
One group’s pain is another group’s pleasure: Examining schadenfreude in response to failures of football teams during the World Cup 20187
The impact of student-athlete social identity on psychosocial adjustment during a challenging educational transition7
Motivational profiles and their relation to wellbeing, burnout, and drop-out intentions in university football players in the UK: A mixed methods approach.7
Effects of chronic exercise on different central features of depression in adults with depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis of random controlled trials7
Martial arts, combat sports, and mental health in adults: A systematic review7
Specific effect of a cognitive-motor dual-task training on sport performance and brain processing associated with decision-making in semi-elite basketball players7
The effect of self- and interpersonal emotion regulation on athletes’ anxiety and goal achievement in competition7
An exploration of doping-related perceptions and knowledge of disabled elite athletes in the UK and Austria7
Perceived motivational climate influences athletes’ emotion regulation strategies, emotions, and psychobiosocial experiences6
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