Psychology of Sport and Exercise最新文献

{"title":"Neural representations of different features in the observation of table tennis actions","authors":"Likai Liu ,&nbsp;Hong Mou ,&nbsp;Ting Zhou ,&nbsp;Zhurui Yan ,&nbsp;Yapeng Qi ,&nbsp;Yingying Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This study investigated the neural representations at different features of table tennis serve observation and examined the moderating effects of experience on these representations.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Twenty-four table tennis athletes and twenty-six nonathletes watched videos of four types of table tennis serves, categorized by serve technique (forehand vs. backhand) and target location (left-side vs. right-side). Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and behavioral data were collected during video viewing.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Observing different action features activated the action observation network (AON), including the lateral occipital-temporal cortex (LOTC), ventral premotor cortex (PMv), and superior parietal lobule (SPL). Multivariate pattern analysis revealed the distinct functional contributions of different regions within the AON: table tennis players exhibited higher decoding accuracy in the PMv for action types than for action targets, whereas the SPL showed greater decoding accuracy for action targets over action types. Notably, players demonstrated significantly higher PMv decoding accuracy for action types compared to nonathletes.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>These findings highlight the differential involvement of AON subregions of different features of action observation and emphasize the crucial role of experience in shaping neural representations of observed actions. This study provides theoretical insights for optimizing sports training and skill acquisition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 103005"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145314494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Turning around an oil tanker”: Recommendations for a safeguarding program in football","authors":"James A. Newman ,&nbsp;James L. Rumbold","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite increasing awareness and reports of wrongdoing in sports such as professional football there remains a lack of safeguarding education targeted at adults to address this behavior. Thus, there is a need to develop safeguarding education programs based on the experiential knowledge of adults in football. The present study explored knowledge users' recommendations, as a means to co-produce a safeguarding education program to address maltreatment in football. Guided by a social constructivist approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 safeguarding and welfare personnel (nine who identified as females and ten as males) who work within British clubs and organizations ranging from English Premier League (EPL) through to the English Northern Premier League Division One. The participants’ roles ranged from Chief Executive Officer; Vice Chairman; General Counsel; Club Development Officer; Head of Safeguarding; Designated Safeguarding Officer; Safeguarding Case Officer; Academy Safeguarding Manager; Head of Education and Welfare; Player Care and Welfare Officer; Head of Education and Player Care, and Coach. Through a reflexive thematic analysis, knowledge users discussed s<em>haping safeguarding education in professional football, and the best way to deliver safeguarding education</em>. Knowledge users highlighted the need for safeguarding programs to be designed and delivered at individual, club, and systemic levels to be effective. Furthermore, these programs need to be underpinned by a cultural intervention to safeguarding education in professional football. From a research perspective, the present findings emphasize the value of collaborating with underrepresented groups to create meaningful change in safeguarding in sport. Lastly, the present study provides the foundation for future research to evaluate the effectiveness of a safeguarding education program in football in practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 103004"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145276899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Decision making: Embodied by nature","authors":"Rouwen Cañal-Bruland","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this article, I provide three arguments to advocate that decisions are inherently embodied, and that there is no need to make a distinction between classical (i.e., abstract) and embodied decisions. The first argument is grounded in affordance perception and posits that decisions are shaped by unique (i.e., inter-personally different) bodies and brains and the unique individual's experience and interaction with its environment. The second argument combines the idea that motor control is decision-making with the degrees of freedom problem, supporting the notion of singularity of each decision due to inherent intra-individual variability. The third argument is based on theoretical reasoning and empirical evidence, in particular from linguistics, positing that even abstract concepts and representations that decisions supposedly rely on are grounded in concrete sensorimotor experience and interactions with the world. The third argument hence refutes the idea that so-called abstract decisions may be disembodied (i.e., not inherently embodied). I conclude by arguing why it is important to further advocate the idea of embodied decisions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 103003"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145260207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"24h movement behaviors and self-regulation in preschoolers: Cross-sectional associations using compositional and isotemporal analyses","authors":"Natália Batista Albuquerque Goulart Lemos ,&nbsp;Cain C.T. Clark ,&nbsp;Caterina Pesce ,&nbsp;Ivina Andréa Aires Soares ,&nbsp;Fernando de Aguiar Lemos ,&nbsp;Clarice Maria de Lucena Martins","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Early childhood is a critical period for brain development, particularly in self-regulation (SR), which is essential for pre-academic success and socio-emotional competence. Recent studies highlight the role of 24-h movement behaviors (i.e., physical activity (PA), sedentary behavior (SB), and sleep) in SR. However, the relationship between the composition of these behaviors and SR remains unclear. This study aimed to analyze the association between the composition of 24-h movement behaviors and cognitive and behavioral SR in preschoolers; and to investigate predicted changes in SR when time in different behaviors is reallocated. The sample comprised 223 preschoolers (4–5 years-old) enrolled in public early childhood education centers in Petrolina, Brazil. Movement behaviors were assessed using accelerometry, sleep was evaluated by parent report, and cognitive and behavioral SR were measured using the Early Years Toolbox and the Head, Toes, Knees, Shoulders–Revised test, respectively. Compositional and isotemporal data analysis were used to examine the relationships between movement behaviors and SR, and time reallocations, respectively. The 24-h movement behaviors composition predicted 6 % of the variance in visuo-spatial working memory and cognitive flexibility; and 13 % in behavioral SR. Reallocating 5, 10 or 15 min from sleep and moderate-to-vigorous PA to light PA or SB was positively associated with behavioral SR, though no association has been seen on cognitive SR. These findings suggest a possible positive mechanism linking low-intense activities with children's behavioural SR, that should be further explored in longitudinal and interventional designs aimed at optimizing SR in early childhood.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 103002"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145215033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Club representation in the national team: Effects on identity fusion and intra-vs intergroup attitudes","authors":"Martha Newson ,&nbsp;Muhammed Bilgehan Aytaç ,&nbsp;Linus Peitz","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Identity fusion describes a psychological state in which personal and social identities are deeply aligned, fostering strong bonds with a group and influencing attitudes and behaviors, including in international contexts. However, how fusion to local (relational) and national (extended) groups interacts remains less understood. We investigated this among Turkish soccer fans (N = 379) using an experimental design to test whether local club representation in the national team influences national team fusion and behavioral intentions toward other fans. Fans viewed lineups for an upcoming international match that included either more of their local club's players or their rival's. Participants who saw a lineup dominated by rival players were less fused with the national team. Fusion with the national team was a key predictor of prosocial intentions toward the ingroup (fellow Türkiye fans). Mediation analysis showed that overrepresentation of rival players indirectly reduced ingroup prosociality via national team fusion. Hostility toward the outgroup was significantly associated with fusion to the local team, but not with fusion to the national team, nor with club representation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 103001"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145182373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating the effects of sport-based positive youth development programs in enhancing social skill development: Findings from a randomized study of LiFEsports","authors":"Samantha Bates,&nbsp;Dawn Anderson-Butcher","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103000","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103000","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The current study employed a randomized study design to assess the effectiveness of a sport-based positive youth development (SBPYD) program in enhancing social skill development among a sample of youth facing inequities in access to sport, recreation, and play. LiFE<em>sports</em>, a 4-week intervention designed to build social skills through sport, served as the applied SBPYD program. A total of 78 youth participated in the study, with 41 participating in LiFE<em>sports</em> during the first four weeks of summer, while 37 youth served as the waitlist control group. Changes in youth social skills over time were assessed via parent/caregiver reports on the Social Skills Improvement System-Rating System. Changes in pre- and post-test data revealed significant improvements in social skills among those in the intervention group compared to the waitlist control group, <em>F</em>(1, 77) = 12.24, <em>p</em> &lt; .05, η² = .14. Descriptive statistics also indicated that youth in the experimental group demonstrated an average increase of 10 percentile points based on gender and age-specific norms. In contrast, the waitlist control group showed a slight decline of 6 percentile points based. Baseline social skill scores significantly influenced post-intervention outcomes, highlighting the importance of initial competencies in predicting changes over time. This study offers insights into the influence of the LiFE<em>sports</em> intervention on social skill development. Findings underscore the potential of SBPYD programs in fostering social skills in school and community settings where access to sport, recreation, and play may be limited for specific populations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 103000"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145180766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Motor experience enhances dimension-specific action anticipation: Evidence from electroencephalography and computational modeling","authors":"Zhurui Yan ,&nbsp;Jian Wang ,&nbsp;Yiheng Chen ,&nbsp;Yingzhi Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102999","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102999","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In fast-paced competitive sports, effective performance depends on the ability to anticipate opponents’ movements across multiple outcome dimensions, such as spin and direction. Although motor experience enhances action anticipation, the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying efficient anticipation of different outcome dimensions by experts remain unclear. In this study, 23 table tennis players and 31 controls completed a serve anticipation task involving spin and direction judgments. By combining behavioral measures with hierarchical drift diffusion modeling (HDDM) and multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) of electroencephalography (EEG), we examined the decision dynamics and neural representations underlying these anticipatory processes. Results revealed that spin and direction judgments engage dissociable cognitive and neural pathways. Athletes showed greater processing efficiency, reflected in faster evidence accumulation and enhanced strategic flexibility. MVPA further revealed dimension-specific spatiotemporal patterns of neural activity, with athletes exhibiting earlier decoding during the perceptual stages, and stronger and more stable top-down integration during the later stages. Our findings highlight how motor experience enhances dimension-specific information extraction and adaptive decision strategies, offering new insights into the neural basis of action prediction and the optimization of high-level athletic performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 102999"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145139902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cognitive and executive functions of top level para-karate athletes with intellectual disability","authors":"Debbie Van Biesen ,&nbsp;Dušana Augustovičová ,&nbsp;Roi Charles Pineda ,&nbsp;Dagmar Nemček ,&nbsp;Jan Burns","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102998","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102998","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Karate is one of the most popular martial arts. This study investigates the cognitive profiles of top-level Para Karate athletes with intellectual disability (ID), aiming to assess the extent to which cognitive abilities are related to athletic performance. Cognitive and executive functions, including decision-making, processing speed, working memory, cognitive flexibility, and inhibitory control, are critical in high-level sports but are often understudied in athletes with ID. We conducted cognitive assessments and executive function tests on a cohort of elite Para Karate athletes (<em>n</em> = 42) aged 27.0 (±6.5) years competing in two separate classes. The K21 class (<em>n</em> = 21) is the traditional class for athletes diagnosed with ID and the K22 (<em>n</em> = 23) is a class for ID-athletes with a significant additional impairment such as a genetic syndrome (e.g., Down syndrome) or functional limitation (e.g., reduced joint mobility). The MANOVA revealed that K21 Para Karate athletes perform significantly better than K22 athletes in the areas related to cognitive processing speed (i.e., simple reaction time), visuospatial processing (block design) and inductive reasoning (matrix reasoning task) with large effect sizes. No significant differences between the classes were found for the executive function measures working memory and inhibitory control. The kata-performance during competition was judged by a panel of seven referees. K21 athletes performed better than K22 athletes and a significant correlation was apparent between kata-performance and one parameter of executive function (i.e., inhibitory control). These results highlight the relation between cognitive development and martial arts performance and provide insights for future studies related to the development of sport-specific classification for athletes with ID. More sophisticated measures are necessary to assess the key determinants of kata performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 102998"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145088704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Daily, prospective associations of sleep, physical activity, and sedentary behaviour with affect: A Bayesian multilevel compositional data analysis","authors":"Flora Le ,&nbsp;Yang Yap ,&nbsp;Dorothea Dumuid ,&nbsp;Yue Liao ,&nbsp;Joshua F. Wiley","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102997","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102997","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>24 h behaviours (sleep, time awake in bed, moderate-to-vigorous physical activity [MVPA], light physical activity [LPA], and sedentary behaviour [SB]) may influence long-term mental health through their associations with affective experiences in everyday life. Here, we investigated the daily, prospective associations between 24 h behaviours and affect.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Actigraphy-measured 24 h behaviours and self-reported affect data were collected across 7–15 consecutive days in healthy, community-dwelling adults (<em>N</em> = 354, <em>M</em>_<em>age</em> = 22.61 y, 73 % female) providing 2872 days of data. Bayesian multilevel compositional data analysis evaluated how reallocating time between behaviours was associated with next-day affect at between- and within-person levels.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Associations between 24 h behaviours and next-day affect emerged at the within-person, not between-person level. Relative to the remaining behaviours, more LPA predicted 0.14 [95 % CI 0.03, 0.26] higher high arousal positive affect, whereas less SB predicted lower high and low arousal positive affect (−0.14 [-0.25, −0.02] and −0.12 [-0.24, −0.01], respectively) higher high arousal negative affect (0.13 [0.03, 0.23]). Further, within-person 30-min reallocation to LPA from SB, sleep, and time awake in bed also predicted ≥0.03 [0.00, 0.06] higher high arousal positive affect. 30-minute reallocation of time to LPA and MVPA from SB predicted 0.04 [0.01, 0.06] higher high arousal positive affect and −0.02 [-0.04, −0.00] lower low arousal negative affect.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Findings provide stepping stone evidence for identifying optimal daily compositions of 24 h behaviours for affective enhancements in healthy individuals. Replacing time in SB with LPA and MVPA for improving affect should be experimentally tested in daily settings and clinical populations, to inform diagnostic and intervention strategies for better daily affect and mental health.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 102997"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145088757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Advances in the study of perfectionism in sport","authors":"Andrew P. Hill","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102988","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102988","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Interest in perfectionism in sport psychology has steadily increased over the last twenty-five years. The last 10 years in particular has seen a dramatic increase in research dedicated to the topic. As a result, we have learned a great deal about perfectionism in this domain. However, it is also an area of work in which there has been considerable disagreement on key issues; most notably, the degree to which perfectionism is helpful or a hindrance to athletes. A number of new concepts have recently emerged that may help navigate some of the issues that have historically hampered the study of perfectionism: combined and total unique effects, perfectionistic tipping points, and perfectionistic climate. In this short overview some of the latest advances in this area are introduced, explained, and discussed. Each concept offers interesting opportunities for advancing the study of perfectionism in sport. They also each provide avenues for novel research, as well as impetus to revisit previous research and existing data to yield new insights. Most importantly, the concepts offer the promise of taking us closer to our aim of understanding the effects of perfectionism in sport, and better identifying and supporting athletes at risk to its negative effects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 102988"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145105933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}