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A new injury prevention program 'FUNBALL' improves cognitive performance of young football (soccer) players: A cluster randomized controlled trial. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Rina Meha,Rilind Obërtinca,Karen Aus der Fünten,Leisge Kai,Sabine Schaefer
The youth football injury prevention program 'FUNBALL' contains exercises requiring high cognitive demands, which are performed concurrently to the training of the respective motor task. This study evaluates whether the program increases cognitive performances of young football players. 1253 football players (aged 13-19 years old) were randomly assigned to either a control (CON) or an intervention
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Effectiveness of an affect-adjusted, supervised, multimodal, online and home-based exercise group protocol for major depression: a randomized controlled trial. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Vagner Deuel de O Tavares,Felipe B Schuch,Geovan Menezes de Sousa,Mats Hallgren,Leônidas Oliveira,Daniel A R Cabral,Raissa Nóbrega,David Cavalcante Barbosa,Victor Rocha Nóbrega de Almeida,Hanna Tinoco,Rodolfo A Lira,Jaime Eduardo Hallak,Emerson Arcoverde,Colleen Cuthbert,Scott Patten,Nicole Leite Galvão-Coelho
This randomized controlled non-blinded trial investigated the effectiveness of an affect- adjusted, supervised, multimodal, online and home-based exercise group protocol as adjunct therapy to antidepressants on depressive symptoms, cardiorespiratory fitness and side effects related to antidepressants in adults with major depression (MDD, diagnosed by a clinician). Depressive symptom scales were administered
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The Impact of Brain Functional Connectivity on Skill and Physical Performance in Soccer Players: A Resting State fMRI Study. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Pourya Abbasi,Alireza Fallahi,Maryam Nourshahi,Yasamin Asadi,Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh,Mohammad-Reza Nazem-Zadeh
OBJECTIVE Identifying connections between various aspects of physical performance, motor skills, and cognitive abilities with the brain connectivity networks is essential for determining important brain regions associated with soccer performance. This study aimed to carry out the relationship between soccer-specific parameters and resting-state functional connectivity in soccer players. MATERIALS AND
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Transforming Sedentary Lifestyles: The impact of remote VR and flat-screen interventions on affective attitudes towards physical exertion, guided by avatar or human trainers. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Grzegorz Banerski,Katarzyna Abramczuk,Bartosz Muczyński,Daniel Cnotkowski
This study advances understanding of the impact of flat-screen and virtual reality (VR) remote exercise environments in a home setting on affective attitudes towards physical exertion, with either a human or an avatar trainer. Employing a two-by-two factorial design, we manipulated both the medium (flat screen vs. VR) and the type of trainer (human vs. avatar). A total of 108 participants engaged in
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Effects of word presentation during treadmill walking on episodic memory and gait. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Nathan M Scott,Daphne Schmid,Phillip D Tomporowski
Entrainment emerges when oscillatory movements synchronize with environmental stimuli processing. The purpose of this experiment was to assess how cognitive-motor entrainment during a dual-task would influence the quality of gait and affect episodic long-term memory. Twenty-one participants (22.56 y/o; 64 % F) walked at preferred paces while listening to 40-item word lists. In separate sessions, unique
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Meaning in life of elite athletes: A person-oriented study. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Michael J Schmid,Violetta Oblinger-Peters,Merlin Örencik,Jürg Schmid,Achim Conzelmann,Noora J Ronkainen
People's subjective sense of meaning in life is a flourishing research topic in psychology but remains underexplored in sport psychology. This study uses a person-oriented method to shed light on meaning in the lives of elite athletes (i.e., latent profile analysis) to identify distinct profiles of sources of meaning in life, and compare the extent to which these profiles differ in relation to athletic
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Searching for meaning and purpose in elite sport: A narrative review of sport psychology literature with theoretical insights from psychology. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Violetta Oblinger-Peters,Kristoffer Henriksen,Noora J Ronkainen
Athletes' stories about their experiences in elite sport inevitably evoke the notion of meaning, a concept, which has appeared in many shapes and forms within sport psychology. Qualitative scholarship, for example, has generated a large literature base on the meaning of experience (i.e., implicit meaning) in elite sport. However, the experience of meaning(fulness) (i.e., existential meaning) has received
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An examination of relationships between transdiagnostic psychological processes and mental health disorders in athletes. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Alexis Ruffault,Simon Valverde,Coline Regnauld,Leslie Podlog,Tristan Hamonnière
INTRODUCTION The aims of this study were (a) to identify links between transdiagnostic psychological processes and mental health disorder (MHD) symptoms, and (b) to examine differences in MHD and transdiagnostic psychological processes as a function of demographic variables, including, gender, status as an athlete (elite vs. non-elite), number of training sessions per week, previous severe injuries
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Acute stress does not influence the learning of a precise manual task: A randomized clinical trial. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Sara Trapero-Asenjo,Sara Fernández-Guinea,M A Rubio,Daniel Pecos-Martin,Susana Nunez-Nagy
Acute stress is frequent in sports and rehabilitation contexts and can impact cognitive processes essential for motor learning. This study aimed to investigate the influence of induced acute stress on the learning of a precise manual task, examining its effect on five key parameters of fine motor control: trajectory error, trajectory error direction, time error, tracing accuracy, and task accuracy
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The pleasure of moving: A compositional data analysis of the association between replacing sedentary time with physical activity on affective valence in daily life. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Matthew Bourke,Sophie M Phillips,Jenna Gilchrist,Eva Pila
Although the independent within-person association between physical activity and sedentary behaviour with valence in daily life has been extensively studied, few studies have used compositional data analysis to examine how different movement behaviour compositions are related to valence in daily life. This study aimed to examine the within-person association between wake-time movement behaviour compositions
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Understanding enjoyment within the context of the children-to-youth sport transition in Norwegian soccer: A mixed methods study. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Thomas Mangor Jørgensen,Siv Gjesdal,Frank Eirik Abrahamsen
Enjoyment has emerged as a critical factor in understanding dropout and participation in the Norwegian youth soccer context (Persson et al., 2020; Solstad et al., 2022). Moreover, the children-to-youth sport transition within this context represents a shift in underlying values and aims (Hjelseth, 2016). The purpose of this mixed methods study was thus to investigate youth soccer players' enjoyment
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Decision-making in action: How international-level professional football players gain an advantage. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-24 Harry Ramsey,Matt Miller-Dicks,Vasu Reddy,Lorraine Hope
Understanding how both visual and contextual in-game information influences player's attempts to gain an advantage over their opponent is key to understanding skilled decision-making in fast-ball sports. In the present study, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 15 male professional football players to explore their reported behaviours and perspectives on their in-game decision-making and the
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The multiple mediation impact of adolescents' physical fitness and cognitive perceptions on their objective measures - The Cogni-Action Project. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-24 Vanessa Salvatierra-Calderón,Ena Monserrat Romero-Pérez,Vanilson Lemes,Kabir P Sadarangani,Daniel Reyes-Molina,Pedro Delgado-Floody,Johana Soto-Sánchez,Gerson Ferrari,Caroline Brand,Carlos Cristi-Montero
OBJECTIVE To establish whether physical fitness and cognitive self-perceptions act as mediators in the link between global fitness and cognitive performance measured objectively in adolescents. We also compared differences across sex. METHODS A total of 1296 adolescents (50 % girls) from grades 5 to 8 (ages 10-14) participated in this cross-sectional study. The ALPHA-fitness test battery assessed physical
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The relationship between the environment and physical activity-related motivational trajectories. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Georgia Gidney,Jason N Bocarro,Kyle Bunds,Joerg Koenigstorfer
The study explores motivational profiles for physical activity, using self-determination theory's full continuum of motivational regulations, and examines their stability over three months. Furthermore, it investigates whether physical environment and community characteristics are associated with transitioning between profiles, as well as the sociodemographic differences in these motivational transition
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Effects of isolated and combined mental and physical fatigue on motor skill and endurance exercise performance. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Hannah Mortimer,Neil Dallaway,Christopher Ring
BACKGROUND Mental fatigue, elicited by cognitive demands, can impair sport and exercise performance. The effects of isolated mental fatigue on performance are well documented but few studies have explored the effects of combined mental and physical fatigue on skilled motor and endurance exercise performance. OBJECTIVE This study explored the effects of isolated mental, isolated physical, and combined
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Compassion matters in elite sports environments: Insights from high-performance coaches. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Emilia Backman,Charlotte Hejl,Kristoffer Henriksen,Ingo Zettler
It is an open question to which degree compassion-noticing, engaging with, and acting to alleviate suffering in self and others-is (considered) advantageous in elite sports. Addressing this question, we herein provide insights into high-performance coaches' perceptions on the role of compassion in elite sports environments. Specifically, 12 coaches working at the highest level of their respective sport
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One-HIIT wonder: Can music make high-intensity interval training more pleasant? Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Costas I Karageorghis,Ségolène M R Guérin,Layan Fessler,Luke W Howard,Calum Pinto,Oluwatobiloba Ojuri,Joy Kuan,Kristian G Samwell-Nash
The use of music as an aid to recovery during and after exercise is an area of growing scientific interest. We investigated the effects of in-task, asynchronous music and respite-active music (i.e., music used for active recovery in between high-intensity exercise bouts) on a range of psychological, psychophysical and psychophysiological outcomes. Participants (N = 28; 14 females) made five laboratory
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Predicting physical activity behavior among university students using the multi-process action control framework. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Carah D Porter,Claire I Groves,Christopher Huong,Denver M Y Brown
Most university students do not engage in enough physical activity (PA) despite the known physical and mental health benefits. Action control theories such as the Multi-Process Action Control (M-PAC) framework have been proposed to better understand the translation of intentions into action by incorporating post-intentional processes. However, the explanatory power of the M-PAC framework beyond traditional
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Multiple domain-general assessments of cognitive functions in elite athletes: Contrasting evidence for the influence of expertise, sport type and sex. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Mélissa Vona,Élaine de Guise,Suzanne Leclerc,Johnathan Deslauriers,Thomas Romeas
Converging evidence has shown that domain-general cognitive abilities, especially executive functions (EF), tend to be superior in sport experts. However, recent studies have questioned this cognitive advantage and found inconsistent findings when comparing sport type and sex. This study aimed to compare the impact of sport expertise, sport type, and sex on various domains of cognitive functions. Two
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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 controlled trial. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Katrine Nyvoll Aadland,Arne Lervåg,John Roger Andersen,Steven J Howard,Yngvar Ommundsen,Eivind Aadland
BACKGROUND AND AIM Physical activity may have positive effects on preschoolers' mental health and self-regulation. The preschool setting provides children with opportunities to meet physical activity guidelines and could improve with staff training in delivering physical activity. This study examined the effect of physical activity professional development for preschool staff on preschoolers' proxy-measured
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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. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 James Barry Munnik,Rudolph Leon van Niekerk,Martin J Turner
Until recently, research examining the application of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) in sports settings was virtually absent in South Africa. Despite the growing evidence of REBT's potential as a psychological intervention in Western nations, its use within the multicultural and sports-fervent context of South Africa remains unexplored. Moreover, limited research has addressed the impact
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Exploring proportions of spontaneous and goal-directed self-talk - It is not always the one or the other. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Julian Fritsch,Jannis Nonnenmann,Nadine Engelmann,Alexander T Latinjak,Antonis Hatzigeorgiadis,Darko Jekauc
The dichotomous classification of self-talk statements into goal-directed as a more controlled type of self-talk and spontaneous as a more uncontrolled type of self-talk might be an oversimplification. To address this issue, two studies were conducted aiming to explore the idea that the distinction between the two self-talk types should rather be proportional and not mutually exclusive. In Study 1
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Passion and engagement in sport: A look at athletes and coaches using a quadripartite approach. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Benjamin J I Schellenberg,Jack Lötscher
Athletes and coaches often feel a great deal of passion for sport. But are these highly passionate individuals also highly engaged in sport? Based on the theoretical underpinnings and empirical findings from the dualistic model of passion (Vallerand, 2015), it is unclear if the highest levels of sport engagement are associated with high levels of passion, or with specific combinations of high/low levels
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Seeing the unseen boundary behind you: Predicting the out-of-bounds of flick serves in playing badminton doubles. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Zuoqi Zhang,Zhichen Feng,Kenneth G Gerow,Tristan Wallhead,Qin Zhu
Previous research on affordance perception has shown that elite athletes can relate the environmental features to their motor abilities to detect the opportunities for action. In playing badminton doubles, experienced players can often anticipate whether a flick serve will go out-of-bounds or not. A field study was performed to examine if such an ability was associated with a developed affordance perception
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Developmental relations of achievement goals and affect in physical education. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Vassilis Barkoukis,Arto Gråstén,Mikko Huhtiniemi,Timo Jaakkola
OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examine the developmental relationships between achievement goals and affect in school physical education. METHOD The study sample comprised 1063 (girls 546) Finnish Grade 6 students (M = 12.27 years ± 0.33 at the beginning of the study). The participants in the study were asked to provide annual assessments about their perceptions of achievement goals, enjoyment, and
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Investigating in-performance transitions between mental states in high-level judoka using video-based stimulated recall. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Bernadette Kellermann,Dave Collins,Alan MacPherson,Maurizio Bertollo
The Multi-Action Plan model offers an idiosyncratic, sport-specific, and applied framework categorising two peak (Type 1 & 2) and two non-peak performance types (Type 3 & 4). The purpose of the present study was to examine the transitions between these Performance Types across three competition-simulating training judo fights. After videoing three judo fights per participant, we interviewed six high-level
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The effect of experience on the perception of affordances for aperture crossing in cycling. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Pierre Vauclin,Jonathan Wheat,Jeffrey B Wagman,Ludovic Seifert
To ride successfully and safely, cyclists must perceive and act on the affordances that are available in a given situation. This study investigated whether experience in perceiving and acting with respect to a person-plus-object system would influence whether and how a person choses to cross an aperture of different widths, especially in relation to their maximal action capabilities. We also explore
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Dual career in sport and non-sport work: Exploring experiences of North American professional female ice hockey players. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Christiana R Colizza,Gordon A Bloom,Todd M Loughead
Grounded in role strain theory, this study explored the dual career experiences of North American female ice hockey players who were also involved in full-time non-sporting work, focusing on factors that produced and reduced their role strain. We interviewed ten professional ice hockey players who held full-time non-sport jobs at the time of their interview. Our reflexive thematic analysis revealed
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Effects of outdoor recreational physical challenges on general self-efficacy: A randomized controlled trial. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 William P Tyne,David Fletcher,Nicola J Paine,Clare Stevinson
Outdoor programs involving recreational physical challenges are becoming increasingly popular for training and development purposes among adults, but rigorous studies investigating their effectiveness remain scarce. A randomized controlled trial was conducted to evaluate the effects of an outdoor adventure-based program on measures of self-efficacy, resilience, risk-taking propensity, and perceived
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More than sport: A social-identity intervention to support transitions out of elite sport. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Tarli Young,Catherine Haslam,Pete Coffee,Dean Cooper,Chloe McAulay,Chris Hartley,Niels Mertens,Mischel Luong,Crystal La Rue,S Alexander Haslam,Niklas K Steffens,Tegan Cruwys,Sarah Bentley,Clifford J Mallett,Matthew McGregor,David Williams,Katrien Fransen
Elite athletes often make large personal sacrifices to pursue excellence, but there is insufficient support for them when they leave elite sport. Identity loss is central to athletes' transition trajectories and hence the management of identity change is a crucial area for support. The More Than Sport (MTS) program is a novel digital intervention that aims to provide this support-helping athletes manage
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Exploring an athletic talent development environment in China: A case study of a sport-friendly high school. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Xianyong Jiang,Jinyang Guo,Zuosong Chen
This case study utilized the holistic ecological approach (HEA) to explore a successful athletic talent development environment (ATDE) in China. As a case, we selected a basketball team in one Shanghai sport-friendly high school with outstanding individual and team achievements and aimed at (a) describing the ATDE, and (b) identifying environmental success factors (ESF). Using participant observations
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"You are either sporty or you are not" a qualitative exploration of pre-teen girls of low-socioeconomic position experiences of being physically active. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Carol Brennan,Grainne O'Donoghue,Alison Keogh,Ryan E Rhodes,James Matthews
BACKGROUND Eighty one percent of adolescents do not meet the recommended physical activity (PA) guidelines with levels of physical activity declining steadily with age and more pronounced in girls of low socioeconomic position (SEP). Furthermore, early adolescence is a time when the rate of decline in PA is most severe amongst girls, placing them at an increased likelihood of developing negative health
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The kinematics of false intent Conveyed by deceptive sidestep actions. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Laurence S Warren-Westgate,Robin C Jackson,Michael J Hiley
Researchers have identified kinematic differences between deceptive and non-deceptive rugby reorientation actions. However, the honest and deceptive signals corresponded to 'deception detection' (accuracy increasing) rather than signals that caused deception (accuracy decreasing). In this study, statistical parametric mapping and multilevel modelling were applied to examine the kinematic differences
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Perceived physical literacy in children and early adolescents: Two valid and reliable versions of the PL-C Quest. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Nuria Ortega-Benavent,Cristina Menescardi,Jorge Romero-Martínez,Lisa M Barnett,Isaac Estevan
Perceived physical literacy contributes to the understanding of individuals' physical activity (PA) engagement. It is important a scale is validated in the population of interest. Also, the type of administration may affect reliability and validity. So, the aim of this study was twofold: 1) to examine evidence of validity and reliability of the Spanish version of the Physical Literacy for Children
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Validation of the Coach Behavior in Sports Questionnaire: Towards dynamic assessments using the circumplex model for coach behavior. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Koen Van Meervelt,Bart Reynders,Stef Van Puyenbroeck,Maarten De Backer,Joeri Hofmans,Gert Vande Broek
The development of the circumplex model for coach behavior recently provided researchers an integrative model to assess coach behavior. While the circumplex model has currently only been deployed in cross-sectional research designs using the Situations in Sports questionnaire (SISQ), it has clear potential within research on dynamics of coach behavior. However, the SISQ consists of vignette-based situations
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OPTIMAL theory's claims about motivation lack evidence in the motor learning literature. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Juliana O Parma,Matthew W Miller,Mariane F B Bacelar
Motivation is commonly recognized by researchers and practitioners as a key factor for motor learning. The OPTIMAL theory of motor learning (Wulf & Lewthwaite, 2016) claims that practice conditions that enhance learners' expectancies for future successful outcomes or that are autonomy supportive are motivating, thus leading to better learning. To examine the current evidence of the association between
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Ego depletion does not negatively impact novice sprinters' start performance during a timed 20m all-out sprint. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Merel C J Hoskens,Johan M Koedijker,Arne Nieuwenhuys
Temporary reductions in self-control due to previous cognitive effort, also known as 'ego depletion', have been shown to negatively impact performance in subsequent tasks requiring self-control. Various theoretical accounts suggest that high levels of task motivation may prevent negative behavioural effects of ego depletion. Against this background, the current study performed a conceptual replication
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Resilience profiles of elite athletes and their associations with health-related behaviors, well-being, and performance: A latent profile analysis. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Aurélia Chrétien,Meggy Hayotte,Anne Vuillemin,Fabienne d'Arripe Longueville
Resilience is an important factor in the performances of elite athletes as it helps them overcome the adversity they face on a daily basis. It is a dynamic process with resilience qualities evolving throughout athletes' sporting careers. Recent research has established links between resilience, sports performance, lifestyle, and health-related factors. However, no study has yet focused on the resilience
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Fatigued or bored? Investigating the effect of different types of mental fatigue on 3 km running performance. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Todd Pickering,Bradley Wright,Clare MacMahon
Mental fatigue has been highly cited as having a negative impact on endurance performance. Few, however, have investigated whether different types of mental fatigue, namely active and passive fatigue, might affect endurance performance differently. This study used a repeated-measures design where 11 participants completed a 3 km run after three 32-min conditions: an actively fatiguing task (Task-load
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Do negative stereotypes and domain identification moderate novice participants' performance on a soccer-dribbling task ? Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Maxime Deshayes,Johan Caudroit,Gaëlle Martin,Laura Aillaud,Corentin Clément-Guillotin
The present research aimed to explore whether negative stereotypes and domain identification moderate novice participants' performance on a soccer-dribbling task, using a novel statistical procedure to explore within-subjects moderation effects. Fifty-four women with no soccer experience (Mage = 19.92, SDage = 1.0) were recruited and assigned to a negative stereotype condition or a nullified-stereotype
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The benefits of physical exercise on older adults' cognitive function: A cohort study exploring potential mechanisms. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Jiaming Shi,Chaoxin Jiang,Qi Zhao
BACKGROUND Despite existing studies showing that physical exercise improves cognitive function in older adults either concurrently or in a delayed manner, studies examining these associations simultaneously are rare. Additionally, the underlying mechanisms in these associations remain incompletely understood. OBJECTIVE This study explores the concurrent and delayed (two years later) associations between
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Beyond Rubik: The Embodiment-Presence-Interactivity Cube applied to exercise. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Jonathan M Bird,Costas I Karageorghis,Leighton Jones,David J Harris,Mohammed Alharbi,Samuel J Vine
Evidence-based interventions are needed to promote engagement in physical activity. Audio-visual stimuli are frequently employed to enhance the exercise experience. Nonetheless, there is a paucity of research that examines the qualities of technological devices that are employed. Using the Embodiment-Presence-Interactivity Cube (Flavián et al., 2019) as a guiding conceptual framework, the aim of this
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Everything is cool when you're part of a team? The effects of outcome interdependence on appraisal, emotions, and performance under pressure. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Svenja A Wolf,Katharina Utesch
Pressure is an innate feature of competition and stimulates cognitions and emotions that can both reduce and enhance performance. Similarly, teams are ubiquitous in sport and influence their members in various ways. Yet, we know little about the ways in which teams influence their members' responses to pressure, whether they are an added demand, inducing social indispensability and exacerbating the
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The impact of soccer-specific psychophysiological stress on inhibition and cognitive flexibility in elite youth players. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 S Knöbel,A Borchert,N Gatzmaga,F Heilmann,L Musculus,S Laborde,F Lautenbach
While researchers and practitioners attribute an essential role to executive functions (EFs) for soccer performance, the usefulness of respective diagnostics and the predictive value remain unclear. One limitation restricting the translation and relevance of study results to improve actual game performance is the insufficient consideration of competitive conditions. Thus, this study aimed to conduct
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The long-term intensive gymnastic training influences functional stability and integration: A resting-state fMRI study. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Bolin Cao,Yu Guo,Min Lu,Xiaoyan Wu,Feng Deng,Jun Wang,Ruiwang Huang
INTRODUCTION Long-term motor skill training has been shown to induce anatomical and functional neuroplasticity. World class gymnasts (WCGs) provide a unique opportunity to investigate the effect of long-term intensive training on neuroplasticity. Previous resting-state fMRI studies have demonstrated a high efficient information processing related to motor and cognitive functions in gymnasts compared
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The toll of the scroll: A path toward burnout. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Christine E Pacewicz,Kathleen T Mellano
Athletes report using social networking sites, including Instagram, to manage their self-presentations. While on Instagram, they may browse content and interact with others, enabling them to socially compare themselves to other athletes. Less favorable comparisons may contribute to higher burnout perceptions. The purpose of the current study was to (a) examine if the use of Instagram contributed to
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Greater weekly physical activity linked to left resting frontal alpha asymmetry in women: A study on gender differences in highly active young adults. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Ricardo A Wilhelm,Micayla F Lacey,Stephanie L Masters,Christopher J Breeden,Eric Mann,Hayley V MacDonald,Philip A Gable,Evan J White,Jennifer L Stewart
Physical activity, beneficial for physical and psychological health, may facilitate affective mechanisms of positive emotion and approach-motivation. Greater resting frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA), an index of greater relative left than right frontal cortical activity, is a neural correlate of affective mechanisms possibly associated with active lifestyles. This study sought to amplify limited literature
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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. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Nadia Sondt,Marjorie Bernier,Gilles Kermarrec,Philippe Vacher
Considering mindfulness as a multidimensional disposition domain-specific skill and state, this study aimed to explore the effect of the dimensions of mindfulness on the trajectories of biopsychosocial stress-recovery balance and on HRV over 10 days of a pre-competitive cycle. 24 young BMX riders completed mindfulness disposition and domain-specific skill scales. Monitoring of the recovery-stress states
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University serial winning coaches' experiences with low performance and maladaptive team culture. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Madison M Fraser,Gordon A Bloom,Clifford J Mallett
We sought to explore the strategies and behaviours employed by University serial winning coaches during seasons of both low performance and a maladaptive team culture. We interviewed seven University team sport coaches and subsequently analyzed the data using a reflexive thematic analysis (RTA). Results indicated that our coaches generally felt unprepared for the unexpected and challenging season,
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The role of parents toward the group dynamics of youth sport teams. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Taylor Coleman,Mark Eys
The purpose of the present study was to use qualitative methods to explore parent and coach perspectives on the influence of parents on the group dynamics within youth interdependent sport teams. Specifically, two research questions were addressed: (a) What are the group dynamics constructs perceived as vulnerable to parent influence? and (b) Through what processes might parents be perceived to influence
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Procrastination in the Intention-Behaviour gap: Exercise procrastination and the moderating role of emotion. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Miao Miao,Yidi Chen,Zhiwei Zhou,Jie Wen,Lei Zheng
Health behaviour procrastination is closely associated with the intention-behaviour gap. However, research on health behaviour procrastination has tended to focus on bedtime procrastination, with relatively few studies on exercise procrastination. This research examined the relationship between exercise procrastination and the intention-behaviour gap through three studies. Additionally, based on the
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The effects of coaches' pride and shame expressions on field hockey players' emotions and performance. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Tjerk Moll,Anna Cherrington
In this study, we examined the effects of female coaches' nonverbal pride and shame expressions on female field hockey players' emotions and performance and considered the role of two potential moderating factors. Across two experiments, a between (emotional expression manipulation) within (pre- and post-manipulation) subjects design was employed. A female hockey coach was scripted to deliver performance
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Exploring athletes' gendered views of coaches and their impact of coach competency ratings. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Joana C Kuntz,Jacqui Moorfield
This study draws on social role theory, role congruity theory, and the black sheep effect to explore athletes' gendered perceptions of coach competence. The study relied on a sample of 308 New Zealand athletes across sports levels and modalities who completed an online survey. Participants were randomly assigned to one of four vignettes, in which coach gender (female vs. male) and coaching style (communal
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Qualified fitness trainers practice scientifically based judgement in prescribing exercise programs. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Choon Peng Oi,Selvi Kausiliha Vijayan,Hui Yin Ler
Fitness trainers are widely in demand by both commercial fitness centres and individual people. They serve members in one-to-one personal training (PT) or group training (GX) in commercial fitness centres. However, the services provided by fitness trainers have not been consistent across the industry. This service inconsistency has led to an increased doubt about professionalism in conducting safe
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An initial investigation into the mental health difficulties in athletes who experience choking under pressure. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Christopher Mesagno,Adwoah A Hammond,Matthew A Goodyear
This study aims to determine the frequency of choking under pressure (i.e., choking) and quantify the prevalence of psychological and behavioural consequences of choking. 165 current and retired athletes (over 18 years old) from various sporting levels completed an online survey that asked about demographics, the frequency of choking, and the psychological (e.g., negative feelings toward sport, passion/enjoyment
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Cognitive-behavioural processes during route previewing in bouldering. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Jerry Prosper Medernach,Xavier Sanchez,Julian Henz,Daniel Memmert
INTRODUCTION In the Olympic climbing discipline of bouldering, climbers can preview boulders before actually climbing them. Whilst such pre-climbing route previewing is considered as central to subsequent climbing performance, research on cognitive-behavioural processes during the preparatory phase in the modality of bouldering is lacking. The present study aimed at extending existing findings on neural
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Navigating athlete mental health: Perspectives from performance directors within elite sport. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Erin Prior,Anthony Papathomas,Daniel Rhind
Performance directors lead high-performance programmes within elite sport and where they opt to invest resources has implications for athletes. This study explores performance directors' perspectives on mental health and illness and their experiences of managing these within elite sport. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 11 performance directors, resulting in 18 h of data. Interviews were
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Engagement of mental effort in response to mental fatigue: A psychophysiological analysis. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Alison Lorcery,Nathalie André,Abdelrhani Benraïss,Maxime Pingault,Francesco Mirabelli,Michel Audiffren
Acute mental fatigue, characterized by a transient decline in cognitive efficiency during or following prolonged cognitive tasks, can be managed through adaptive effort deployment. In response to mental fatigue, individuals can employ two main behavioral patterns: engaging a compensatory effort to limit performance decrements, or disengaging effort, leading to performance deterioration. This study
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Understanding parental secure base support across youth sport contexts in Sweden. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Tove Mårs,Camilla J Knight,Louise Davis,Markus B T Nyström,Olivier Y Rouquette
The notion of secure base explains how a child can grow and become independent through access to a significant other (i.e., parent) who is available, encouraging, and noninterfering. The purpose of the current study was to develop an understanding of parental secure base support within the context of youth sport in Sweden, with a specific focus on: (a) what parental behaviors constitute a secure base
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The athlete psychological well-being inventory: Factor equivalence with the sport injury-related growth inventory. Psychol. Sport Exerc. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Giampaolo Santi,Tom Williams,Stephen D Mellalieu,Ross Wadey,Attilio Carraro
Until now, research on growth following sport injury has relied exclusively on retrospective reports and nomothetic measures drawn from other fields of research. Therefore, to more objectively explore growth following sport injury pre- and post-injury, rather than retrospectively, this study adapts and examines the psychometric properties of the Athlete Psychological Well-Being Inventory (APWBI), which