Ian M. Taylor, Lara Drewes, Dani Fort, George Horne, Steven Quercia-Smale, Izzy G. Wellings
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Athletic identity and autonomous motivation as predictors of endurance performance during high intensity exercise” [Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 80 (2025) 102872]","authors":"Ian M. Taylor, Lara Drewes, Dani Fort, George Horne, Steven Quercia-Smale, Izzy G. Wellings","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102894","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102894","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102894"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144188752","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":"Career transitions in sport: Bridging holistic developmental and ecological approaches","authors":"Natalia Stambulova , Kristoffer Henriksen","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102900","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102900","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The key idea of this review paper is to consider career transition scholarship in sport psychology through a lens of bridging holistic developmental and ecological approaches to demonstrate their intersections and complementarity in advancing the understanding of career transitions in sport. This paper is intended to: (a) outline an evolution of the career transition topic in sport psychology, emphasizing its development over the last 25 years; (b) summarize major current achievements of career transition research in bridging holistic developmental and ecological approaches; (c) address debates in, and formulate future challenges for, transition research and practice. We consider the evolution of the topic by analyzing the contributions of several milestone publications in Psychology of Sport and Exercise that prepared and spurred on the development of the bridges between transition research focusing on individual athletes and on their related environments. We proceed with situating career transition research within athlete career sport psychology discourse and propose a taxonomy of frameworks used in transition scholarship. Narrative synthesis underlined by bridging the two approaches in focus was used to summarize research- and practice-related knowledge on the transitions of athletes, coaches, and parents. In the final parts we invite the readers to debate some conceptual and research-to-practice issues within the topic as well as discuss future challenges in bridging the holistic developmental and ecological approaches in career transition research and practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102900"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144188751","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":"The psychology of sport officiating","authors":"David J. Hancock , Alexandra Pizzera","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102899","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102899","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sport officials are key actors in organized and competitive sports. With numerous required tasks (e.g., attending to athlete safety and applying fair decisions), sport officials must possess several competencies including appropriate positioning, adequate fitness, excellent rule knowledge, and contextual judgement. To enhance the consistency and quality of sport officiating performances, psychological skills are also required. The purpose of this article is to broadly review the research as it pertains to the psychology of sport officiating. After outlining sport officials' roles, we describe relevant models and theories that have been applied to sport officiating research—some of which are specific to sport officials, while others are drawn from general psychology. Following, we provide insights on key studies that form the evidence base for understanding sport officials' psychology, including mental skills, motivation, group dynamics, communication, and decision-making. The final section offers direction to future researchers to overcome some of the challenges in this field. These challenges include relatively few studies on sport officials from individual sports, a lack of demographic diversity among the studied sport officials, little investigation into sport officials’ mental skills, and minimal theories that exist to predict and explain the psychology of sport officiating. Collectively, we hope this article not only inspires more research on the psychology of sport officiating, but also offers strategic direction to future researchers to ensure meaningful studies in this field.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102899"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144188753","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}
Roy F. Baumeister , Nathalie André , Daniel Southwick
{"title":"Forward-looking questions regarding ego depletion and mental fatigue in sport psychology: Comment on Englert","authors":"Roy F. Baumeister , Nathalie André , Daniel Southwick","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102898","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102898","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research on ego depletion and mental fatigue (ED/MF) show that physical performance can be impaired by mental processes. Exciting directions for future research include mapping different effects of ED/MF on effort vs. skill aspects of sport, given that effort is directly controllable but skill relies on automatic, overlearned processes. Weakened attention control could contribute to both problems. Impairments of decision-making during competition could lead to indecision and status quo bias, selfish play rather than team play, and certain types of mistakes. Flow states and positive affect may counteract ED/MF. Physical training, self-control training, and mental practice may all help.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102898"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144180497","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":"The association of motor competence and executive function across primary school years","authors":"Sebastian Ludyga , Christian Herrmann","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102895","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102895","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Motor competence and executive function (i.e., top-down control of behavior) have been suggested to co-develop due to shared neural substrates. However, components of executive function show different developmental trajectories, so that it remains unclear how age affects interrelations between both domains. We therefore investigated the strength and stability of the association between motor competence and components of executive function across cohorts representing different grades. 400 Swiss girls and boys attending grades 1 (7 y) to 5 (11 y) completed age-appropriate versions of the MOBAK test battery to assess motor competence. Additionally, we administered a modified Flanker task including both standard and switching blocks as well as an N-back task to examine inhibitory control, task-switching and working memory. Path-analysis including all participants revealed a low to moderate association between motor competence and all components of executive function. However, the strength and stability of the association differed across grade levels. Higher motor competence was consistently related to better inhibitory control in all subgroups, but its association with task-switching and working memory was limited to specific grade levels. In conclusion, the association between motor competence and inhibitory control is characterized by stability across the first five school grades, whereas the association with its separable components follows a non-linear trend. This provides an indication that motor competence interventions have the potential to influence executive function components differently depending on the developmental period.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102895"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144183507","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}
Anastasiya Khomutova , Stiliani Ani Chroni , Emma Kavanagh , Alexis Ruffault , Andy Miles , Karin Moesch , Lilybet Fontanesi , Miguel Nery , Tine Vertommen
{"title":"FEPSAC position statement on safeguarding athletes in sport","authors":"Anastasiya Khomutova , Stiliani Ani Chroni , Emma Kavanagh , Alexis Ruffault , Andy Miles , Karin Moesch , Lilybet Fontanesi , Miguel Nery , Tine Vertommen","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102897","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102897","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Through the publication of this position statement, FEPSAC aims to continue with its commitment to quality and safe sport experiences through the promotion of safeguarding in sport, a responsibility collectively shared by both group and individual members of the organisation. In this paper, we provide a brief overview of the academic research on interpersonal violence (IV) and safeguarding in sport in a European context, focusing on safeguarding athletes. The position statement further includes recommendations and practical guidelines that will equip readers with knowledge and processes for recognising and responding to IV in sport. Through enhancing safeguarding literacy among FEPSAC members, we aim to inspire and empower both neophyte and more experienced practitioners in sport and exercise psychology toward fostering safer sporting relationships, spaces and practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102897"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144176384","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":"Toward a Differentiated Model of Athlete Performance Development (DMAPD): Preliminary version and testing based on a German sample representing six sports","authors":"Andreas Hohmann , Jürg Schmid , Bryan Charbonnet","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102896","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102896","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>When is the right time to start competing? Should young athletes sample multiple sports or specialize early? Despite ongoing debate, the literature lacks efforts to build and test parsimonious models that synthesize existing knowledge, test traditional hypotheses, and explore new ones. This study addresses this gap by introducing and testing a preliminary Differentiated Model of Athlete Performance Development (DMAPD), which proposes five hypotheses linking early childhood versatility, type of sports, age at competition start, sports sampling, and later competition performance.</div><div>We analysed data from 943 German male youth athletes (t<sub>1</sub>: <em>M</em><sub>Age</sub> = 8.03 years, <em>SD</em> = 0.59) across six sports (soccer, tennis, table tennis, cross-country skiing, long-distance running, road cycling), categorized into three sport types: invasion games, net games, and endurance sports, until the beginning of the mastery athletic career stage (<em>M</em><sub>final age</sub> = 20.06 years, <em>SD</em> = 0.69). Structural equation modeling, specifically moderated mediation analysis, was employed to test the DMAPD.</div><div>Our findings indicate that for invasion and net games, early versatility predicts an earlier start in competitions, which is associated with higher later competition performance; no significant link was found between sports sampling and later performance. Conversely, in endurance sports, early versatility did not predict age at competition start, sports sampling, or later performance. Instead, later competition performance was solely predicted by the extent of sports sampling.</div><div>These findings encourage further consideration of DMAPD hypotheses and align with recent calls for more differentiated, group-specific and model-based considerations in talent development research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102896"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144176385","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}
Kerry R. McGannon , Andrea Bundon , Willa Hladun , Ann Pegoraro
{"title":"Negotiating digital identities: Small story narrative analysis of queer and heterosexual elite hockey playing mothers’ self-portrayals on Instagram","authors":"Kerry R. McGannon , Andrea Bundon , Willa Hladun , Ann Pegoraro","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102881","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102881","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>This study builds on qualitative research on elite athlete mothers and media research centring queer and heterosexual athlete mothers in elite sport. We sought to expand understanding of the less explored sexual orientation, (non)biological motherhood, and sport career, in one social media space (i.e., Instagram), in the sport of ice hockey.</div></div><div><h3>Design</h3><div>Visual/textual Instagram posts (n = 1245) of four Canadian elite hockey player mothers’ -two queer non-biological mothers and two heterosexual biological mothers -were the focus of small story narrative analysis. We explored how queer and heterosexual hockey player mothers portray their identities in small stories as they negotiated motherhood and sport career.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Two identities were identified: <em>mumtrepeneur</em> and <em>generative identity</em>. Three small stories of <em>children on ice</em>, <em>children off ice</em>, and <em>grit and grace</em> shaped ‘mumtrepeneur’ identity meanings threaded by consumerism that enhanced queer athlete mothers' visibility but revealed an economic advantage for heterosexual mothers. Two small stories of <em>giving back to othe</em>rs and <em>not without family</em> shaped a ‘generative identity’ tied to growing the game for the next generation and nurturing family in careers. These findings show how hockey (non)biological mothers resist, and affirm, heteronormative mother narratives, using digital small stories.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Small stories on Instagram enhance understanding of queer and heterosexual (non)biological mother identities and (in)visibility, in an inequitable sport system. This research shows how small stories on Instagram can be used by athlete mothers to increase visibility and marketability, while exposing additional avenues needed for equity and change concerning identity inclusion. More research using a small story approach grounded in narrative inquiry would build on understanding social media's role in shaping motherhood and sport meanings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102881"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144164156","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":"Tracking every bite and step: Associations between diet and fitness app use, disordered eating, body image concern and compulsive exercise","authors":"Isabella Anderberg , Eva Kemps , Ivanka Prichard","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102890","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102890","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Diet and fitness applications (apps) aim to enhance users’ physical health. Many of these apps allow users to monitor their diet or fitness-related data, such as the number of calories consumed or burnt. However, they may not be suitable for all individuals due to their focus on dietary restriction and weight loss.</div></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>The present study sought to determine whether the use of specific app types (e.g., diet versus fitness) differ in their associations with disordered eating, body dissatisfaction, and compulsive exercise. Fit-ideal internalisation and exercise motivations were examined as moderating and mediating factors, respectively. An online questionnaire was administered to 386 Australian women (17–35 years).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Diet monitoring app users and those who used both fitness and diet apps had greater disordered eating, body dissatisfaction, and compulsive exercise compared to fitness monitoring app users and non-users. Fit-ideal internalisation moderated the relationship between diet and fitness monitoring app use and disordered eating. Exercise motivations mediated the relationships between diet and fitness monitoring app use and disordered eating symptomology.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Despite diet and fitness apps’ intentions to promote health and wellbeing, their use is linked to disordered eating symptomology. Educating app users, screening for unhealthy behaviours within apps, and advising professionals how to monitor app use could provide suitable interventions to encourage more positive app use. In addition, more research is needed to determine associations in other understudied and at-risk populations such as adolescents, as well as longitudinal and experimental studies to establish directions of effects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102890"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144133356","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":"Temporal passing network in basketball: the effect of time pressure on the dynamics of team organization at micro and meso levels","authors":"Quentin Bourgeais , Rodolphe Charrier , Eric Sanlaville , Ludovic Seifert","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102882","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102882","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study, basketball teams are conceptualized as complex adaptive systems to examine their (re)organizational processes in response the time remaining to shoot. Using temporal passing networks to model team behavior, the focus is on the dynamics of the temporal patterns of interaction between players. Several metrics grounded in social network analysis are calculated at different level to assess the dynamics of the patterns used by teams and of the individual roles within those patterns. The results reveal a 3-phase dynamic, differentiated by more or less complex and diversified patterns, and by more or less specialized or flexible roles. Additionally, time-dependent features of the different tactical playing positions are identified, some of which linked to team performance. The findings are intended to explain how basketball teams adapt their organization to cope with time pressure, offering potential insights for other type of teams facing similar constraints. Moreover, this work provides a useful framework for a multi-level understanding of how constraints shape team adaptations dynamically, making it applicable to a wide range of team settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"80 ","pages":"Article 102882"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144129877","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}