Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychology of Sport and Exercise is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Determinants of physical activity adoption and maintenance in older adults: A dual process approach70
Exploring coach and parent transformational leadership and their associations with social identity in adolescents66
Don’t look back in anger: A cross-sectional and dyadic examination of the Dark Triad, anger, and aggression in athletes60
Personality, motivational, and social cognition predictors of leisure-time physical activity53
Focusing on the coach’s eye; towards a working model of coach decision-making in talent selection53
Relationship between perceived physical self-concept and grade in physical education: The mediating role of test anxiety39
Measuring leadership in sport: Development and validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory – Youth (ILI-Y)36
Editorial Board35
Mind over body: Interfering with the inner voice is detrimental to endurance performance34
Association of parent, coach, and peer motivational climate with high school athlete burnout and engagement: Comparing mediation and moderation models33
Effects of instagram sports posts on the athletic motivation of female elite athletes: Do they inspire or backfire?29
The effect of learner-adapted practice schedule and task similarity on motivation and motor learning in older adults29
COVID-19: Assessing the impact of lockdown on recreational athletes29
Performance slumps in sport: A systematic review29
The impact of physical load on duration estimation in sport28
Situational information and the design of representative learning tasks: What impact does a scoreboard have on expert taekwondo fighters' behaviour and affective-cognitive responses?28
Editorial Board27
Testing the moderative role of automatic-reflective affect divergence in predicting physical activity27
FEPSAC Newsletter27
A framework to explain the in-match decision-making of elite Australian football coaches27
The transnational experience of sport psychology practitioners from training to practice26
Testing the Physical Activity Self-Definition Model among low-active adults participating in a physical activity intervention26
The influence of mental toughness on responses to feedback in snooker: A real-time examination26
Long-term efficacy of exercise across diagnostically heterogenous mental disorders and the mediating role of affect regulation skills25
Contextual information in situations of uncertainty: The value of explicit-information provision depends on expertise level, knowledge acquisition and prior-action congruency25
Last and fast? – A gender-specific analysis of effort gains in swimming relay events across Olympic Games and World Championships during the past 20 years24
January 2023 Editorial24
Prospective associations between physical fitness and executive function in adolescents: The UP&DOWN study23
Development and validation of the Coaching Athlete Purpose Scale (CAPS)23
Moved to action? Gender differences in perceived effort and motor performance after video-based achievement motive arousal23
A cluster randomized trial of a rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) program and a mindfulness-acceptance-commitment (MAC) program, with South African adolescent rugby players23
A mixed-methods case study examining the developmental networks of athletes in a wheelchair rugby team23
It takes two to tango: Using the actor-partner interdependence model for studying the coach-athlete relationship22
Pregnancy and motherhood in elite sport: The longitudinal experiences of two elite athletes21
Examining links between coaching behaviors and collegiate athletes’ burnout levels using a longitudinal approach21
The use of heart rate variability in esports: A systematic review20
The Stride program: Feasibility and pre-to-post program change of an exercise service for university students experiencing mental distress20
This Girl Can, can’t she? Perspectives from physical activity providers and participants on what factors influence participation20
Promoting physical activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in Australia: The roles of psychological predictors and commercial physical activity apps20
An integrated mindfulness and acceptance-based program for young elite female basketball players: Exploratory study of how it works and for whom it works best20
Personal strivings of mentally tough Australian Rules footballers20
Perceived motivational climate influences athletes’ emotion regulation strategies, emotions, and psychobiosocial experiences19
Modeling talent development pathways in alpine ski racers19
Primary school teacher outcomes from online professional development for physical literacy: A randomised controlled trial19
Trails, traits, and mental states: Psychological differences between competitive and recreational sub-ultra and ultramarathon runners19
The impact of variation and autonomy on psychological responses to high intensity interval training exercise19
Integrating technology in psychological skills training for performance optimization in elite athletes: A systematic review19
A grounded theory of youth athlete concussion under-reporting decisions18
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 training18
Assessing lifetime stressor exposure in sport performers: Associations with trait stress appraisals, health, well-being, and performance18
Teamwork makes the dream work: Testing for shared perceptions on psycho-behavioural skills between athletes, coaches and parents18
The effects of physical activity timing and complexity on episodic memory: A randomized controlled trial18
Development of the Stressors among Parents in Youth Sport Survey (SPYSS)18
Experiences with social support among older adult women participating in gay square dancing18
Less stick more carrot? Increasing the uptake of deposit contract financial incentives for physical activity: A randomized controlled trial17
Fostering health behaviour change in overweight male football fans through the European Fans in Training (EuroFIT) program: A Self-Determination Theory perspective17
Women's exercise identity increases after a 16-week exercise RCT and is linked to behavior maintenance at follow-up17
The Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ-4): Psychometric evidence of introjected approach regulation in Portuguese health club exercisers17
Examining football players' perceived social support across organizational levels and its links to holistic talent development outcomes in German youth academies17
Systems factorial technology provides novel insights into the cognitive processing characteristics of open-skill athletes17
Effects of task difficulty on performance and event-related bradycardia during preparation for action17
The power of human touch: Physical contact improves performance in basketball free throws17
The role of career adaptability resources in dual career pathways: A person-oriented longitudinal study across elite sports upper secondary school16
Narcissism and antisocial behaviour in sport: The moderating role of self-compassion16
Effectiveness of an affect-adjusted, supervised, multimodal, online and home-based exercise group protocol for major depression: A randomized controlled trial16
Expertise advantage of automatic prediction in visual motion representation is domain-general: A meta-analysis16
Barriers and enablers in doping, anti-doping, and clean sport: A qualitative meta-synthesis informed by the theoretical domains framework and COM-B model16
Peer and parent influences on youth skateboarding and factors that affect their decision to return to the sport after injury16
Factors contributing to elite athletes’ mental health in the junior-to-senior transition: A mixed methods study15
The association between morning pleasant anticipation and daily positive incidental affect on adults’ daily steps: An ecological momentary assessment study15
Effects of isolated and combined mental and physical fatigue on motor skill and endurance exercise performance15
“Change needs to start at home”: A reflexive thematic analysis of girl athletes' and coaches’ experiences of body image in New Delhi, India15
Communication profiles and sport experiences of collegiate track and field athletes15
Ego depletion does not negatively impact novice sprinters’ start performance during a timed 20m all-out sprint15
Decision-making in action: How international-level professional football players gain an advantage15
Developmental relations of achievement goals and affect in physical education15
“Icing the shooter” in basketball: The unintended consequences of time-out management when the game is on the line14
QEEG markers of superior shooting performance in skilled marksmen: An investigation of cortical activity on psychomotor efficiency hypothesis14
When the going gets tough, what happens to quiet eye? The role of time pressure and performance pressure during basketball free throws14
Mental fatigue, anticipated effort, and subjective valuations of exercising predict choice to exercise or not: A mixed-methods study14
Gender-related differences in self-reported problematic exercise symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis14
Relationships among behavioural regulations, physical activity, and mental health pre- and during COVID–19 UK lockdown14
Associations of cardiorespiratory fitness and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity with latent cognitive abilities in older adults14
Linking psychological risk profiles to running-related injuries and chronic fatigue in long-distance runners: A latent profile analysis14
Within-person association of volitional factors and physical activity: Insights from an ecological momentary assessment study14
Editorial Board13
Everything is cool when you're part of a team? The effects of outcome interdependence on appraisal, emotions, and performance under pressure13
The psychology of rock climbing: A systematic review13
The effect of acute exercise on cognitive and motor inhibition – Does fitness moderate this effect?13
Associations of physical activity dose and movement quality with executive functions in socioeconomically disadvantaged children aged 5–6 years13
Benefits of a group-based running session on feelings of energy and fatigue: No augmenting effect of green exercise during the defoliation season13
Resilience profiles of elite athletes and their associations with health-related behaviors, well-being, and performance: A latent profile analysis13
Exergame-based exercise training for depressive symptoms in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis13
The relationship between physical activity environment, mental wellbeing, flourishing and thriving: A mixed method study13
The effects of coaches’ pride and shame expressions on field hockey players’ emotions and performance13
Motor learning without physical practice: The effects of combined action observation and motor imagery practice on cup-stacking speed13
Affordance-based control in deceptive and non-deceptive penalties in soccer goalkeeping: Gender matters!12
Perceiving the inertial properties of actions in anticipation skill12
Body image experiences in retired Olympians: Losing the embodied self12
Effects of normative feedback on motor learning are dependent on the frequency of knowledge of results12
Follow the leader: Identity leadership and moral behaviour in social situations among youth sport teammates12
Effects of acute endurance, strength, and coordination exercise interventions on attention in adolescents: A randomized controlled study12
Changes in students’ goal pursuits and motivational regulations toward healthy behaviors during the pandemic: A Self-Determination Theory perspective12
Flow and outdoor adventure recreation: Using flow measures to re-examine motives for participation12
Why study emotions in sport?12
Motivational and emotional effects of social comparison in sports12
A longitudinal examination of thriving in sport performers12
The effect of augmented feedback on the performance and learning of gross motor and sport-specific skills: A systematic review12
Within-person examination of the exercise intention-behavior gap among women in midlife with elevated cardiovascular disease risk11
Maltreatment experiences and mental health indicators among elite athletes11
Mental health in athletes: Does authentic leadership matter?11
“That’s too stereotypical … I don’t want that to be how I identify”: Identity and body-related sport experiences of racialized young women athletes in Canada11
Examining the reliability and predictive validity of performance assessments by soccer coaches and scouts: The influence of structured collection and mechanical combination of information11
Qualitative evaluation of a sports-based mental health literacy program for adolescent males11
Brief mindfulness meditation intervention improves attentional control of athletes in virtual reality shooting competition: Evidence from fNIRS and eye tracking11
Unimpaired performance during cognitive and visual manipulations in persons with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction compared to healthy adults11
Navigating athlete development in elite sport: Understanding the barriers to the provision of performance lifestyle service in England11
Do attentional focus cues affect the type or number of explicit rules? Proof of concepts of the self-invoking trigger or explicit knowledge hypotheses11
Playing it safe: The relationship between parent attitudes to risk and injury, and children’s adventurous play and physical activity11
Defining the scope and content of mental health guidelines for community sport in Australia: A Delphi study11
Physical fitness, cognitive functioning and academic achievement in healthy adolescents11
Drop-out from team sport among adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies10
Extraordinary claims in the literature on high-intensity interval training (HIIT): IV. Is HIIT associated with higher long-term exercise adherence?10
Optimal psychological states in advanced climbers: Antecedents, characteristics, and consequences of flow and clutch states10
Motivation beliefs, emotions, leisure time physical activity, and sedentary behavior in university students: A full longitudinal model of mediation10
FEPSAC Newsletter10
Do not drop your gloves: “Winning” a fight in the National Hockey League does not improve chances to win the game10
Athletic identity, values and self-regulatory efficacy governing hypercompetitive attitudes10
A conceptual model for mental health and performance of North American athletes: A mixed methods study10
Relationships influencing organisational culture in men’s elite football clubs in Norway10
Improving physical activity using a single personalized consequence-based approach-avoidance training: Effects on self-reported behaviors, attitudes, and choices10
Editorial Board10
Editorial Board10
Affective reactions to real-life stressors and the role of physical activity in sports students – An Ambulatory Assessment study10
Editorial Board10
FEPSAC Newsletter10
The effect of COVID-19 on home advantage in high- and low-stake situations: Evidence from the European national football competitions10
Mental health profiles among 13-16-year-Old Norwegian talent and mainstream students - A prospective person-centered analytical approach10
A Developmental Perspective on Motor-Cognitive Interactions and Performance in Sports10
Professional migration from the United States to Europe: Composite vignettes of black male basketball players from underserved communities10
Pacing strategy in trail running: A cognitive subtractive model of the affective balance between effort and pleasure?10
Trainee clinical, and sport and exercise psychologists’ experiences of professional development: A longitudinal study10
I AM FAMILY: Understanding the adapted sport experiences of family members of military personnel with physical and psychological illnesses and injuries through the lens of the Invictus Games10
The effects of rational emotive behavior therapy and motivational interviewing on emotions, automatic thoughts, and perceived performance of elite female volleyball players10
Storying sports injury experiences of elite track athletes: A narrative analysis10
Contextual and affective precursors of physical activity intention and enactment examined through ecological momentary assessment9
Editorial Board9
Parent and child car-ride interactions before and after sport competitions and practices: Video analysis of verbal and non-verbal communication9
Genetic associations with personality and mental toughness profiles of English academy football players: An exploratory study9
The examination of factors influencing the recognition of affective states associated with tennis players’ non-verbal behaviour9
Pain intensity and pain unpleasantness in triathletes: A study examining their associations with pain catastrophizing and pain expectations9
Editorial Board9
A sports-based intervention for pupils excluded from mainstream education: A systems approach to intervention acceptability and feasibility9
The mediational role of executive functions for the relationship between motor ability and academic performance in pediatric cancer survivors9
Compassion matters in elite sports environments: Insights from high-performance coaches9
How affective and instrumental physical activity outcomes are associated with motivation, intentions, and engagement in subsequent behavior9
Change in the social context of physical activity across adolescence and its association with moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity9
FEPSAC Newsletter9
Does messaging matter? A registered report on appearance-versus health-based message framing in exercise appeals targeted towards women9
“Nothing was lost sailing-wise and lots is gained on a personal level”: Practitioners’ behaviors and athletes’ perceptions of working in online environments9
Use your imagination for better performance. Effects of analogy instruction in motor skills. A systematic review and meta-analysis9
“What we talk about is creating a probability”: Exploring the interaction between the anticipation and decision-making processes of professional bowlers and batters in Twenty20 cricket8
Associations between moral disengagement and prosocial and antisocial behavior in sport: A systematic review and meta-analysis8
Momentary affective response to bouts of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity predicts changes in physical activity and sedentary behavior during behavioral weight loss8
Creating optimally safe and enjoyable youth sporting experiences within the United Kingdom8
An initial investigation into the mental health difficulties in athletes who experience choking under pressure8
What do we know about the effects of mental training applied to combat sports? A systematic review8
Qualified fitness trainers practice scientifically based judgement in prescribing exercise programs8
Multiple domain-general assessments of cognitive functions in elite athletes: Contrasting evidence for the influence of expertise, sport type and sex8
The Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire adapted for youth with intellectual disabilities (TEOSQ-ID)8
Team identification and athlete burnout: Testing longitudinal serial mediation via perceived support and stress8
Negotiating a transnational career around borders: Women's stories in boundaryless academia8
Do you find exercise pleasant or unpleasant? The Affective Exercise Experiences (AFFEXX) questionnaire8
Some pressures are more equal than others: Effects of isolated pressure on performance8
Assembling the sense of home in emigrant elite athletes: Cultural transitions, narrative and materiality8
Controlling the flight on double-handed foiling catamarans: The role of shared equipment on the crew members' mutual modes of regulation8
Dual career (DC) experiences of Korean elite judokas before and at university8
FEPSAC Newsletter8
Dimensions of social identification with the team as predictors of the coach-created training climate in rugby: A group-actor partner interdependence modelling perspective8
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 cycle8
Executive functions in children engaging in open- and closed-skilled sports8
The right man in the right place? Substitutions and goal-scoring in soccer8
Motor competence predicts self-esteem during childhood in typical development children8
The relation of learning disabilities to the long-term outcomes of concussion8
The performance enhancement attitude scale (PEAS) reached ‘adulthood’: Lessons and recommendations from a systematic review and meta-analysis8
A cluster randomized trial to evaluate need-supportive teaching in physical education on physical activity of sixth-grade girls: A mixed method study8
Disentangling general and sport-specific risk factors for anxiety and depression in a mixed sample of athletes and non-athletes8
Using video docuseries to explore male professional football head coaches’ well-being experiences throughout a season8
Predicting high quality of participation in adaptive snow-sports for individuals with disabilities: An exploratory study8
Corrigendum to “Pain intensity and pain unpleasantness in triathletes: A study examining their associations with pain catastrophizing and pain expectations” [Psychology of Sport and Exercise 55 (2021)8
Screen-based and non-screen-based sedentary behaviors are differentially associated with affective states in older adults8
“We are on the outside but it’s okay”: A grounded theory of cooperation between parents, coaches, and administrators in professional youth soccer academies8
Substitutions of physical activity and sedentary behavior with negative emotions and sex difference among college students8
Examining the day-level impact of physical activity on affect during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: An ecological momentary assessment study8
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 approach8
Macronutrient intake as a prospective predictor of depressive symptom severity: An exploratory study with adolescent elite athletes7
Understanding organizational resilience in elite sport: An exploration of psychosocial processes7
Objectively measured physical activity and mental health among asylum seekers residing in a camp7
Depression severity and psychosocial determinants of physical activity behavior in in-patients with major depressive disorders7
Efficacy of physical activity interventions on psychological outcomes in refugee, asylum seeker and migrant populations: A systematic review and meta-analysis7
The introduction of the Video Assistant Referee supports the fairness of the game – An analysis of the home advantage in the German Bundesliga7
Six-month stability of individual differences in sports coaches’ burnout, self-compassion and social support7
Exploration of the moderator effect of cultural diversity on team performance across 45 professional football leagues: An ecological dynamics perspective on cross-cultural research7
360°-multiple object tracking in team sport athletes: Reliability and relationship to visuospatial cognitive functions7
Exploring the interplay between sport modality and cognitive function in open- and closed-skill athletes7
A longitudinal investigation of the role of perceived autonomy support from coaches in reducing athletes’ experiential avoidance: The mediating role of subjective vitality7
Towards consensus in conceptualizing and operationalizing physical activity maintenance7
Running as a way fat women re-story their bodies and construct a runner identity in a North American sociocultural context7
Exploring the “clutch” in clutch performance: A qualitative investigation of the experience of pressure in successful performance7
Professional development of sport psychology practitioners: From systematic review to a model of development7
Sleep disturbances and depression are bidirectionally associated among college student athletes across COVID-19 pandemic exposure classes7
Meaning, trust, and belonging: Exploring the factors that foster elite forced migrant athletes’ growth7
Prevalence of symptoms of common mental disorders among elite Canadian athletes7
The impact of living in a bio-secure bubble on mental health: An examination in elite cricket7
Examining the roles of experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion on the effects from mindfulness to athlete burnout: A longitudinal study7
Perceived self-efficacy by Under-10 tennis players when scaling the equipment and play area7
Understanding physical education teachers’ motivational outcomes and feasibility beliefs to implement motivational strategies: The role of perceived pressures from a variable- and person-centered appr7
Can discrepancies between impulsive and reflective processes be associated with movement behavior among the elderly? The facilitating role of inhibitory control6
Working memory, sustained attention, and physical activity: An intraindividual study6
Parents’ experiences of starting and maintaining exercise: A qualitative systematic review6
Is a pandemic as good as a rest? Comparing athlete burnout and stress before and after the suspension of organised team sport due to Covid-19 restrictions, and investigating the impact of athletes’ re6
A psychological intervention reduces doping likelihood in British and Greek athletes: A cluster randomized controlled trial6
Passion and performance anxiety: How it affects the incidence of musculoskeletal disorders in dancers6
‘On-the ground’ strategy matrix for fostering quality participation experiences among persons with disabilities in community-based exercise programs6
Exploring coaches' experiences and perceptions of a virtual parasport coach mentorship program6
Cognitive-behavioural processes during route previewing in bouldering6
Effects of traditional and immersive video on anticipation in cricket: A temporal occlusion study6
Testing the REBT-I model in athletes: Investigating the role of self-confidence between irrational beliefs and psychological distress6
Advancing our understanding of leadership in sport and exercise: A social identity perspective6
Performance and decision making of a complex skill under monitoring and outcome pressure conditions: Which of them can reinvestment predict?6
Editorial Board6
Self and proxy (parents and teachers’) reports of child motor competence: A three-year longitudinal study6
The effects of an authentic coaching intervention on athlete outcomes: A pilot randomised controlled trial6
Psychological well-being and exercise addiction: The treatment effects of an REBT intervention for females6
A test of the impact of pain on automatic motivational processes in people with knee osteoarthritis6
Physical activity and motor skills in children: A differentiated approach6
Applying a relational lens to ethnographic inquiry: Storied insight into the inner workings of multicultural teams in men's elite football6
Editorial Board6
Not your average sport parents: How sport scholars make decisions about their own children’s sport involvement6
Regulate to facilitate: A scoping review of prefrontal asymmetry in sport and exercise6
Examining the effect of task constraints on the emergence of creative action in young elite football players by using a method combining expert judgement and frequency count6
Advancing a grounded theory of parental support in competitive girls’ golf6
The identity of the sport psychology profession: A multinational perspective6
Effects of Stroop task duration on subsequent cognitive and physical performance6
“I’m more than my sport”: Exploring the dynamic processes of identity change in athletic retirement6
University serial winning coaches’ experiences with low performance and maladaptive team culture6
An extended validation of the Communal Coping Strategies Inventory for Competitive Team Sports: A multilevel approach6
“Is the focus in professional rugby ever really on health?”: A qualitative study on the uptake of illness prevention guidelines in rugby6
Does learning a skill with the expectation of teaching it impair the skill’s execution under psychological pressure if the skill is learned with analogy instructions?6
Reciprocal effects of esport participation and mental fatigue among Chinese undergraduate students using dynamic structural equation modeling5
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