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It’s a MuSt Win: The Effects of Self-Talk to Enhance Passing Performance Under Pressure in Elite Football Players
It’s a MuSt Win: The Effects of Self-Talk to Enhance Passing Performance Under Pressure in Elite Football Players
Strategic self-talk is a powerful mental skill that athletes can use to self-regulate the effects of pressure and enhance ...
A Qualitative Exploration of Sport and Exercise Psychology Practitioners’ Perceptions and Experiences of Using Think Aloud in Applied Practice
A Qualitative Exploration of Sport and Exercise Psychology Practitioners’ Perceptions and Experiences of Using Think Aloud in Applied Practice
Aims: Think aloud (TA) is a tool that has been used in sport and exercise psychology research and applied contexts to unde...
A Yearlong Psychological-Skills-Training Program With Chinese Athletes: A Narrative Exploration
A Yearlong Psychological-Skills-Training Program With Chinese Athletes: A Narrative Exploration
Decades of research have illustrated the value of sport psychology interventions in high-performance sport settings. Resea...
We Know That We Are All Together: A Case Study of the Communal Coping Process in a Professional Ice Hockey Team
We Know That We Are All Together: A Case Study of the Communal Coping Process in a Professional Ice Hockey Team
On the road to success, team members combine efforts to cope with stressful situations they face together. This case study...
A Coach Perspective on a Mastery Motivational Climate in the Competitive Youth Soccer Context
A Coach Perspective on a Mastery Motivational Climate in the Competitive Youth Soccer Context
This study examined how coaches working in Norwegian competitive youth soccer viewed a mastery motivational climate and ho...
Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement With an American College Rugby Team: A Consensual Qualitative Research Study
Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement With an American College Rugby Team: A Consensual Qualitative Research Study
Mindfulness-based interventions are a popular form of mental training for athletes. Because most existing research relies ...
Volume 39 (2025): Issue 1 (Mar 2025)
Volume 39 (2025): Issue 1 (Mar 2025)
"Volume 39 (2025): Issue 1 (Mar 2025)" published on 01 Mar 2025 by Human Kinetics, Inc..
Reexamining the Association Between Preseason Challenge and Threat States and Performance Across the Season
Reexamining the Association Between Preseason Challenge and Threat States and Performance Across the Season
Challenge and threat (C/T) states have been shown to predict sport performance under pressure. Nevertheless, only one stud...
Attentional Foci and Coping Strategies During Matches of Young Fencers in a Training Center: A Naturalistic Video-Assisted Study
Attentional Foci and Coping Strategies During Matches of Young Fencers in a Training Center: A Naturalistic Video-Assisted Study
The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) identify attentional foci (AF) and coping strategies used by young fencers duri...
Cohesion and Heterosexist Attitudes in Men’s Collegiate Athletics
Cohesion and Heterosexist Attitudes in Men’s Collegiate Athletics
While attitudes toward gay men in sport have improved, sexual prejudice persists in sport, with the potential to decrease ...
Exploring Elite Athlete Experiences of Growth: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Well-Being
Exploring Elite Athlete Experiences of Growth: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Well-Being
The aim of the current study was to explore elite athletes’ experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on both gr...
Adaptation to Change: A Case Study of a Sailor Who Experienced Multiple Career-Change Events and Became a World Champion
Adaptation to Change: A Case Study of a Sailor Who Experienced Multiple Career-Change Events and Became a World Champion
This case study describes the adaptation process of a female sailor experiencing several career-change events and transiti...
Increasing Anaerobic Power in Cycling By Implementing Embodied Self-Talk
Increasing Anaerobic Power in Cycling By Implementing Embodied Self-Talk
The current study employed a within-participant design to analyze the effects of head movements in three conditions (i.e.,...
Volume 38 (2024): Issue 3 (Sep 2024)
Volume 38 (2024): Issue 3 (Sep 2024)
"Volume 38 (2024): Issue 3 (Sep 2024)" published on 01 Sep 2024 by Human Kinetics, Inc..
Having Impact and Doing It Quickly: The Place for Brief and Single-Session Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies in Sport Psychology Practice
Having Impact and Doing It Quickly: The Place for Brief and Single-Session Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies in Sport Psychology Practice
Cognitive-behavioral therapies and related approaches are highly prevalent within sport psychology practice. Traditionally...
“It’s Necessary Work”: Stories of Competitive Youth Sport Coaches’ Developing Critical Praxes
“It’s Necessary Work”: Stories of Competitive Youth Sport Coaches’ Developing Critical Praxes
In this study, nine Canadian competitive youth sport coaches’ challenges and successes in creating safer and more inclusiv...
Case-Conceptualization Practices in Sport and Performance Psychology
Case-Conceptualization Practices in Sport and Performance Psychology
Case conceptualization is an important stage in the sport and performance psychology (SPP) consulting process. The concept...
The Inducers of an Elite Male Table Tennis Player’s Emotional Experience Throughout His Career: A Single Case Study Based on the Critical-Incident Method
The Inducers of an Elite Male Table Tennis Player’s Emotional Experience Throughout His Career: A Single Case Study Based on the Critical-Incident Method
Despite a growing interest in emotions in sport psychology, little has been written about the contextual elements triggeri...
A Longitudinal Multicase Study About the Board-Game Format of an Educational Self-Talk Intervention
A Longitudinal Multicase Study About the Board-Game Format of an Educational Self-Talk Intervention
This study explored goal-directed self-talk and its optimization through educational self-talk interventions, focusing on ...
A Phenomenological Evaluation of the Psychological Factors That Influence Motorsports Performance
A Phenomenological Evaluation of the Psychological Factors That Influence Motorsports Performance
Race car drivers not only face high-speed challenges but also need to manage complex team dynamics and sponsor relations a...
Volume 38 (2024): Issue 2 (Jun 2024)
Volume 38 (2024): Issue 2 (Jun 2024)
"Volume 38 (2024): Issue 2 (Jun 2024)" published on 01 Jun 2024 by Human Kinetics, Inc..
Missing Out, as Well: The Absence of Youth Sports and Its Effect on Parents During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic
Missing Out, as Well: The Absence of Youth Sports and Its Effect on Parents During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic
In December of 2019, COVID-19 began spreading globally. As a result, many youth sport organizations were forced to halt pr...
A Proposed Three-Stage Postperformance-Routine Framework
A Proposed Three-Stage Postperformance-Routine Framework
Research has supported the use of preperformance routines to successfully manage the period preceding sport performance. I...
Applying Educational Psychology in Coaching Athletes
Applying Educational Psychology in Coaching Athletes
"Applying Educational Psychology in Coaching Athletes" published on 29 Aug 2023 by Human Kinetics.
How to Support Athlete Autonomy in University Sports: Coaches’ Experience of the reROOT Program
How to Support Athlete Autonomy in University Sports: Coaches’ Experience of the reROOT Program
The purpose of this study was to evaluate coaches’ experience of the reROOT program, a program aiming to increase coaches’...
The Effects of a Brief Online Rational-Emotive-Behavioral-Therapy Program on Coach Irrational Beliefs and Well-Being
The Effects of a Brief Online Rational-Emotive-Behavioral-Therapy Program on Coach Irrational Beliefs and Well-Being
Research into the psychology of coaching has been somewhat neglected in comparison to research on the psychological develo...
“I Realized It Was a Different Kind of Culture to Other Sports”: An Exploration of Sport Psychology Service Provision and Delivery in Gaelic Games
“I Realized It Was a Different Kind of Culture to Other Sports”: An Exploration of Sport Psychology Service Provision and Delivery in Gaelic Games
In this article, we present two studies that provide the first evidence on sport psychology services in Gaelic games. In S...
Client-Led Applied Sport Psychology Practitioners’ Narratives About Helping Athletes
Client-Led Applied Sport Psychology Practitioners’ Narratives About Helping Athletes
The current study explored how applied sport psychology practitioners adopting client-led stances described two of their a...
Identifying Predictors of Burnout and Health of Certified Mental Performance Consultants
Identifying Predictors of Burnout and Health of Certified Mental Performance Consultants
Researchers have established factors that impair (e.g., stress) or facilitate (e.g., occupational recovery) health among p...
Volume 37 (2023): Issue 4 (Dec 2023)
Volume 37 (2023): Issue 4 (Dec 2023)
"Volume 37 (2023): Issue 4 (Dec 2023)" published on 01 Dec 2023 by Human Kinetics, Inc..
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