Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Article	Citations
A grounded theory of youth athlete concussion under-reporting decisions	68
Effects of instagram sports posts on the athletic motivation of female elite athletes: Do they inspire or backfire?	56
Why experience fails to foster expertise in athlete selection	53
Examination of the consistency effect between physical activity levels and approach-avoidance behaviors	47
When the going gets tough, what happens to quiet eye? The role of time pressure and performance pressure during basketball free throws	46
Prospective associations between physical fitness and executive function in adolescents: The UP&DOWN study	46
The Stride program: Feasibility and pre-to-post program change of an exercise service for university students experiencing mental distress	45
Mind over body: Interfering with the inner voice is detrimental to endurance performance	43
The Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ-4): Psychometric evidence of introjected approach regulation in Portuguese health club exercisers	43
Less stick more carrot? Increasing the uptake of deposit contract financial incentives for physical activity: A randomized controlled trial	39
Development of the Stressors among Parents in Youth Sport Survey (SPYSS)	39
January 2023 Editorial	38
Ego depletion does not negatively impact novice sprinters’ start performance during a timed 20m all-out sprint	37
How high-performance practitioners think and intervene to change technique	35
Body image experiences in retired Olympians: Losing the embodied self	32
Measuring leadership in sport: Development and validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory – Youth (ILI-Y)	32
Situational information and the design of representative learning tasks: What impact does a scoreboard have on expert taekwondo fighters' behaviour and affective-cognitive responses?	32
(Re)conceptualizing cohesion: A theoretical realignment and roadmap for future research	31
Within-person association of volitional factors and physical activity: Insights from an ecological momentary assessment study	29
The relationship between physical activity environment, mental wellbeing, flourishing and thriving: A mixed method study	29
A framework to explain the in-match decision-making of elite Australian football coaches	29
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 students	29
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 training	29
Daily measures of sport enjoyment, social interaction, and attendance among female adolescent handball players	28
Lady and the champ: The shared career experiences and retirement transition of a champion jockey and his partner	27

Do researchers have a shared cognition on team cognition in sports?	27
More active, more nature-connected? The carry-over effect of physical activity in pro-environmental behavior	26
Change in the social context of physical activity across adolescence and its association with moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity	25
Running as a way fat women re-story their bodies and construct a runner identity in a North American sociocultural context	25
Athletic identity, values and self-regulatory efficacy governing hypercompetitive attitudes	25
FEPSAC Newsletter	24
Controlling the flight on double-handed foiling catamarans: The role of shared equipment on the crew members' mutual modes of regulation	24
A longitudinal investigation of the role of perceived autonomy support from coaches in reducing athletes’ experiential avoidance: The mediating role of subjective vitality	24
Genetic associations with personality and mental toughness profiles of English academy football players: An exploratory study	24
The mediational role of executive functions for the relationship between motor ability and academic performance in pediatric cancer survivors	24
Advances in the study of perfectionism in sport	23
A psychological intervention reduces doping likelihood in British and Greek athletes: A cluster randomized controlled trial	23
A test of the impact of pain on automatic motivational processes in people with knee osteoarthritis	23
Using video docuseries to explore male professional football head coaches’ well-being experiences throughout a season	23
Mental health profiles among 13-16-year-Old Norwegian talent and mainstream students - A prospective person-centered analytical approach	23
Effects of acute aerobic exercise on emotional memory formation in individuals with methamphetamine use disorder: Encoding vs consolidation	22
Motor competence predicts self-esteem during childhood in typical development children	22
Understanding physical education teachers’ motivational outcomes and feasibility beliefs to implement motivational strategies: The role of perceived pressures from a variable- and person-centered appr	22
Identifying moderators of physical literacy interventions using meta-regression	21
Uncovering the roles of automatic attitudes and controlled processes in the regulation of physical activity behavior in children	21
25 years of relationship research in sport: The quality of the coach-athlete relationship as defined by Closeness, Commitment, Complementarity and Co-orientation (3+1Cs Model)	21
Examining the effects of increasing then decreasing exercise intensity within a session of aerobic exercise	20
The impact of verbal and physical abuse on distress, mental health, and intentions to quit in sports officials	20
Exploring proportions of spontaneous and goal-directed self-talk – It is not always the one or the other	20
“I think the best athletes use it”: Masculinities and self-compassion among men varsity athletes	20
Club representation in the national team: Effects on identity fusion and intra-vs intergroup attitudes	19
Understanding motivational dynamics: Longitudinal associations between motivation and physical activity in children	19
Advancing a grounded theory of parental support in competitive girls’ golf	19
Neural representations of different features in the observation of table tennis actions	19
Regulate to facilitate: A scoping review of prefrontal asymmetry in sport and exercise	19
Exploring the mental health of circus artists: Circus factors, psychological resilience, and demographics predict disordered eating and exercise addictions	19
Editorial Board	18
Switching attentional focus across internal and external cues improves performance in a rowing task in novices	18
Short and long-term effects of a self-determination theory-based physical activity intervention on basic psychological needs and their mediating role in adults with depressive symptoms	18
Longitudinal analysis of stressors, stress, coping and coping effectiveness in elite esports athletes	18
Exploring athletes’ gendered views of coaches and their impact of coach competency ratings	18
No transfer of 3D-Multiple Object Tracking training on game performance in soccer: A follow-up study	18
Promoting mental health among young males in sporting contexts: A systematic review	18
A new Bayesian procedure for the estimation of the referees' decision thresholds and agreement. The case of professional handball refereeing	18
FEPSAC Newsletter	18
The prospective associations between internalized weight bias and physical activity among adolescents	18
Gender stereotypes and motor performance: How explicit and implicit stereotypes influence girls standing long jump and anxiety	17
Cognitive dual-task does not annihilate the negative effects of gender stereotype threat on girls' motor learning	17
Athlete burnout and biomarkers: An exploratory, longitudinal N-of-1 study	17
Do acute and chronic physical activity interventions affect the cognitive function of preschool children? A meta-analysis	17
Tracking every bite and step: Associations between diet and fitness app use, disordered eating, body image concern and compulsive exercise	17
A mixed methods exploration of the parent perspective of talent development environments across a national multi-sport landscape	17
The physical self-concept across childhood: Measurement development and meaning for physical activity	17
The long-term intensive gymnastic training influences functional stability and integration: A resting-state fMRI study	17
The Multigroup Model of Identity Leadership (Multi-IL) in professional team sports: Navigating group dynamics from the perspective of professional soccer head coaches	17

How class cohesion and teachers’ relatedness supportive/thwarting style relate to students’ relatedness, motivation, and positive and negative outcomes in physical education	16
Positive youth development through sport: What works, under what circumstances, for whom? And what's next?	16
Identity leadership and social identification within sport teams over a season: A social network analysis	16
Social identity in sport: A scoping review of the performance hypothesis	16
Warm-up plus verbal communications administered as placebo procedure during the training session improves running performance	16
Investigating in-performance transitions between mental states in high-level judoka using video-based stimulated recall	16
The role of parents toward the group dynamics of youth sport teams	15
Move more today, sleep better tonight? Daily associations between physical activity and sedentary behavior with sleep among young adults with and without insomnia symptoms	15
“You are either sporty or you are not” a qualitative exploration of pre-teen girls of low-socioeconomic position experiences of being physically active	15
Differences in motivational dynamics between experienced cyclists and untrained participants during an incremental endurance exercise task	15
Dance and stress regulation: A multidisciplinary narrative review	15
FEPSAC Newsletter	15
Predictors and outcomes of sports coaches’ athlete-invested contingent self-worth	14
Editorial Board	14
Longitudinal trajectories of emotions among athletes in sports competitions: Does emotional intelligence matter?	14
Trajectories of sport exhaustion, cynicism and inadequacy among adolescent student-athletes: A three-year longitudinal study of social influences in the Finnish dual career context	14
Is Video Assistant Referee (VAR) a disadvantage for the strong and a protection for the weak? The case of Turkish Super League	14
The effects of short exercise bouts on error-related negativity (ERN) and academic achievement in children	14
Microsaccade behavior associated with inhibitory control in athletes in the antisaccade task	14
The relationship between prescribed ratings of perceived exertion and force production in repeated isometric contractions	14
What and who the research needs: Maturing the psychology of sport officiating	14
Greater weekly physical activity linked to left resting frontal alpha asymmetry in women: A study on gender differences in highly active young adults	14
A uniform approach for advancing athlete assessment: A tutorial on the Lens Model	14
How divergent are children’s divergent movements? The role of cognition and expertise in a class-randomized cross-over trial	14
Effects of word presentation during treadmill walking on episodic memory and gait	14
The role of individual and parental expectations in student-athletes’ career adaptability profiles	14
Reflections on non-WEIRD behavior change and the next generation of physical activity research: A commentary on Simpson et al. (2025)	14
Winner for Life: A three-year study of student-athletes’ life skills development in a training programme for coaches and teachers	13
The effects of self-efficacy on physical and cognitive performance: An analysis of meta-certainty	13
Specific and general transfer of perceptual-motor skills and learning between sports: A systematic review	13
Macronutrient intake as a prospective predictor of depressive symptom severity: An exploratory study with adolescent elite athletes	13
People who approve of one's physical activity vs. people who are influential: A randomized cross-over experiment to compare normative referent elicitation procedures	13
Coping with the loan transition in professional association football	13
Editorial Board	13
Experiences of exercise services for individuals with severe mental illness: A qualitative approach	13
How do new runners maintain their running, and what leads to others stopping? A qualitative, longitudinal study	13
Practitioners in search of an identity: A Delphi study of sport psychology professional identity	13
Behind the mask: Attentional focus and coping strategies of elite level fencers	13
Dissociating the contributions of motivational and information processing factors to the self-controlled feedback learning benefit	13
FEPSAC Newsletter	13
Health behaviour change: Theories, progress, and recommendations for the next generation of physical activity research	13
Positive youth development as a guiding framework in sport research: Is it time to plan for a transition?	13
Relationships between sport and exercise participation and subjective well-being among adults with physical disabilities: Is participation quality more important than participation quantity?	13
Boredom, motivation, and perceptions of pain: Mechanisms to explain the effects of self-control exertion on subsequent physical performance	13
Situation Awareness in sports: A scoping review	12
Promoting physical activity with open goals: A pilot randomised controlled trial	12
Brain dynamics of visual anticipation during spatial occlusion tasks in expert tennis players	12
Everything is cool when you're part of a team? The effects of outcome interdependence on appraisal, emotions, and performance under pressure	12
Reimagining body image research in sport and exercise: Centering interdisciplinarity and cultural humility	12
The influence of absent crowds on National Rugby League match player statistics and running metrics	12
The specificity hypothesis in physical education: Investigating differentiation of motivational regulations across activities and their links to self-concept	12
Examining the diversity of ultra-running motivations and experiences: A reversal theory perspective	12
Association of parent, coach, and peer motivational climate with high school athlete burnout and engagement: Comparing mediation and moderation models	12
A path for transforming esports into a health and performance domain	12
The recognition of affective states associated with players’ non-verbal behavior in volleyball	12
Integrating health and clinical psychology into sport injury research: A necessary theoretical and applied expansion. A comment on “Psychology of sport injury: Selected debates and contemporary issues	12
Global and appearance-contingent self-esteem: Associations with health and attractiveness exercise reasons	12
FEPSAC Newsletter	12
FEPSAC Newsletter	12
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 study	12
Resilience profiles of elite athletes and their associations with health-related behaviors, well-being, and performance: A latent profile analysis	11
Decision-making in action: How international-level professional football players gain an advantage	11
Associations of cardiorespiratory fitness and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity with latent cognitive abilities in older adults	11
The psychology of rock climbing: A systematic review	11
Determinants of physical activity adoption and maintenance in older adults: A dual process approach	11
Psychology of sport injury: Selected debates and contemporary issues	11
Perceived self-efficacy by Under-10 tennis players when scaling the equipment and play area	11
Editorial Board	11
“Nothing was lost sailing-wise and lots is gained on a personal level”: Practitioners’ behaviors and athletes’ perceptions of working in online environments	11
The influence of mental toughness on responses to feedback in snooker: A real-time examination	11
Temporal passing network in basketball: the effect of time pressure on the dynamics of team organization at micro and meso levels	11
Flow and outdoor adventure recreation: Using flow measures to re-examine motives for participation	11
“Change needs to start at home”: A reflexive thematic analysis of girl athletes' and coaches’ experiences of body image in New Delhi, India	11
Communication profiles and sport experiences of collegiate track and field athletes	11
Dual career (DC) experiences of Korean elite judokas before and at university	11
Affective reactions to real-life stressors and the role of physical activity in sports students – An Ambulatory Assessment study	11
The examination of factors influencing the recognition of affective states associated with tennis players’ non-verbal behaviour	11
Physical activity identity as an axis of dual process motivation and self-regulation processes: Current evidence and future research directions	11
FEPSAC position statement on safeguarding athletes in sport	11
An integrated mindfulness and acceptance-based program for young elite female basketball players: Exploratory study of how it works and for whom it works best	11

A cluster randomized trial of a rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) program and a mindfulness-acceptance-commitment (MAC) program, with South African adolescent rugby players	11
Brief mindfulness meditation intervention improves attentional control of athletes in virtual reality shooting competition: Evidence from fNIRS and eye tracking	11
FEPSAC Newsletter	11
Editorial Board	11
Disentangling general and sport-specific risk factors for anxiety and depression in a mixed sample of athletes and non-athletes	10
Dynamic, relational developmental systems-based models of human development: The exemplary sample case of positive youth development through youth sport	10
FEPSAC Newsletter	10
Development of the multidimensional inventory of physical activity identity	10
“I’m more than my sport”: Exploring the dynamic processes of identity change in athletic retirement	10
Some pressures are more equal than others: Effects of isolated pressure on performance	10
A conceptual model for mental health and performance of North American athletes: A mixed methods study	10
Motivation, movement, and vitality: Self-determination theory and its organismic perspective on physical activity as part of human flourishing	10
A Co-design approach to develop a motivational intervention to promote physical activity engagement and maintenance among individuals in residential substance use disorder treatment settings	10
Compassion matters in elite sports environments: Insights from high-performance coaches	10
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 cycle	10
Exploring the barriers to athlete personal development within UK Olympic and Paralympic sport	10
Psychological well-being and exercise addiction: The treatment effects of an REBT intervention for females	10
Qualified fitness trainers practice scientifically based judgement in prescribing exercise programs	10
An initial investigation into the mental health difficulties in athletes who experience choking under pressure	10
“Turning around an oil tanker”: Recommendations for a safeguarding program in football	10
Optimal psychological states in advanced climbers: Antecedents, characteristics, and consequences of flow and clutch states	10
It's in the water: A qualitative exploration of the perceived effects of outdoor open water swimming on swimmers' psychological well-being	10
The effects of self-control exertion on subsequent physical performance in an alexithymic population	10
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 Study	9
Climbing anxiety scale (CAS-20): Preliminary development and validation	9
Tales from the peloton: Stress and coping in professional women's road cycling	9
Working memory, sustained attention, and physical activity: An intraindividual study	9
Response suppression and decision-making in association football referees	9
Searching for meaning and purpose in elite sport: A narrative review of sport psychology literature with theoretical insights from psychology	9
Acute effects of mindful interval exercise on cognitive performance in a higher education setting	9
Self-confidence, mental toughness, and psychobiosocial experiences in elite rugby players	9
Applying state space grids methods to characterize counsellor-client interactions in a physical activity behavioural intervention for adults with disabilities	9
How does the manipulation of time pressure during soccer tasks influence physical load and mental fatigue?	9
Editorial Board	9
“We’re stronger as a family”: Family experiences and relationships in an adapted physical activity camp	9
Corrigendum to “Optimizing exercise for perinatal depressive symptoms: A network meta-analysis of effective modalities and doses” [Psychology of Sport & Exercise 82 (2025) 102980	9
Exploring an athletic talent development environment in China: A case study of a sport-friendly high school	9
Editorial Board	9
The impact of religious–psychological factors on self-perceived sport performance among religious athletes in Malaysia	9
Automatic processes moderate the association between reflective processes and movement behavior: A cross-sectional study	9
Get active now or later? The association between physical activity and risk and time preferences	9
Beyond stereotypes: The role of exposure in reshaping Children's biases towards women as coaches in sports	9
“I’m just not feeling it”: Affective processing of episodic physical activity memories differs between physically active and inactive individuals	9
Feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a theory-informed resistance exercise training single-arm intervention for major depression	9
Mindfulness and mental wellbeing among elite athletes: The mediating role of gratitude and self-compassion	9
The interplay between parental behaviors and adolescents' sports-related values in understanding adolescents' dropout of organized sports activities	9
Self-compassion and body-related self-conscious emotions: Examining within- and between-person variation among adolescent girls in sport	9
The association of motor competence and executive function across primary school years	9
Attraction toward physical activity as a moderator of socio-cognitive predictors of physical activity	9
Understanding action control of resistance training among adults	9
Self-determination theory based instructional interventions and motivational regulations in organized physical activity: A systematic review and multivariate meta-analysis	9
FEPSAC Newsletter	9
Latent profile analysis of physical activity motivation during behavioral weight loss treatment	9
The “three-point shooting paradox”: An artifact or a real phenomenon? Replication with large-scale National Basketball Association (NBA) data	8
Reliability and validity of the PL-C Quest, a scale designed to assess children’s self-reported physical literacy	8
Passion transfer in former competitive athletes: The mediating role of the social environment and personal values	8
OPTIMAL theory’s claims about motivation lack evidence in the motor learning literature	8
Dual career in sport and non-sport work: Exploring experiences of North American professional female ice hockey players	8
A psychosocial investigation of exercise preferences in real and virtual environments	8
Resilience and Enhancement in Sport, Exercise, & Training (RESET): A brief self-compassion intervention with NCAA student-athletes	8
Self-regulatory processes in goal striving during excellent distance-running performances: A qualitative study	8
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	8
Upsetting the apple cart: Within-team profiles of intragroup conflict and their associations with narcissism	8
Forward-looking questions regarding ego depletion and mental fatigue in sport psychology: Comment on Englert	8
24h movement behaviors and self-regulation in preschoolers: Cross-sectional associations using compositional and isotemporal analyses	8
Athlete doping confrontation efficacy and confrontation likelihood	8
A psychological intervention reduces doping likelihood in Italian athletes: A replication and extension	8
Critical reflections on second-generation mindfulness-based interventions	8
Temporal perception in closed-skill sports: An experimental study on expert swimmers and runners	8
Links between environmental features and developmental outcomes of elite youth athletes: A cross-sectional study within the German talent pathway	8
Abandoning The Big Mick: A commentary on Smith et al.’s 25 years of qualitative research in sport and exercise psychology	8
Effortful self-control as a potential target for physical activity maintenance	8
Moral behaviour in sport: Tracing the past and looking to the future	8
Doping in disabled elite sport: Perceptions, knowledge and opinions from the perspective of German and UK coaches	8
Understanding the meta-transition experiences of Chinese table tennis athletes during the transition to first level teams: Group reflective practice interviews	8
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 Games	7
Motor experience enhances dimension-specific action anticipation: Evidence from electroencephalography and computational modeling	7
Golf skill learning: An external focus of attention enhances performance and motivation	7
A multi-design investigation of perfectionism risk profiles for traumatic injury in sport	7
The impact of differing audience sizes on referees and team performance from a North American perspective	7
The effects of self-compassion on daily emotion regulation and performance rebound among college athletes: Comparisons with confidence, grit, and hope	7
A systematic review of behaviour change techniques employed in interventions aimed to change physical activity behaviour in autistic individuals	7
Only my group will do: Evidence that social support protects athletes from burnout when they identify with those who provide it	7
Specific effect of a cognitive-motor dual-task training on sport performance and brain processing associated with decision-making in semi-elite basketball players	7
Analysing experienced and inexperienced cyclists’ attentional focus and self-regulatory strategies during varying intensities of fixed perceived effort cycling: A mixed method study	7
Effects of chronic exercise on different central features of depression in adults with depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis of random controlled trials	7
Connections between caring climate, self-compassion, self-pity, and reactions to an emotionally difficult sport situation	7
Development and initial validation of the Team Mental Models Instrument (TMMI): A psychometric tool to measure shared and complementary mental models in sports	7
Reinvestment in one versus one in-field and shoot-out field hockey performance	7
The multifaceted implications of mental fatigue on women's football players' performance in small-sided games	7
FEPSAC Position Statement: Athletes’ dual careers in the European context	7
Adventure-based mindsets helped maintain psychological well-being during COVID-19	7
Football belongs to the people: A social identity perspective on attitudes toward the European Super League in the English Premier League	7
Motivational profiles and their relation to wellbeing, burnout, and drop-out intentions in university football players in the UK: A mixed methods approach.	7
Perceptual-cognitive performance of youth soccer players in a 360°-environment – Differences between age groups and performance levels	7