| Accessing physical activity and health disparities among underserved Hispanic children: The role of actual and perceived motor competence |
2020 |
107 |
Promoting physical activity (PA) and eliminating health disparities among underserved minoritychildren is a public health priority. The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationshipof actual motor competence (a set of object control skil... |
| Applying educational psychology in coaching athletes [Book Review] |
2019 |
182 |
Sport coaches are influential leaders who have frequent interactions with athletes and thus have important impacts on athletes’ physical and psychosocial well-being (Conroy & Coatsworth, Citation2006). “Applying Educational Psychology in Coaching Ath... |
| Applying Positive Psychology to Foster Student Engagement and Classroom Community Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond |
2020 |
692 |
Positive psychology is the study of well-being, which includes 5 essential elements— positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment (PERMA). Applying positive psychology teaching strategies can therefore foster student enga... |
| An argument for implementing and testing novelty in the classroom |
2020 |
632 |
Based on the tenets of self-determination theory, intrinsic motivation is guided by satisfaction of the 3 basic psychological needs—autonomy, competence, and relatedness. However, recent research has shown promise for adding a new basic psychological... |
| Assessing and Maximizing Collegiate Athletes’ Psychological Skills Under Constraints: A Preseason Brief Intervention Approach |
2021 |
672 |
Time and access to teams may be limited for sport psychology professionals, particularly those working in the college sport setting. Thus, learning how to intervene with teams and individual athletes within short, defined timeframes becomes essential... |
| Coaches Can Utilize Parents to Optimize Youth Athletes’ Sport Experience |
2020 |
530 |
Individuals including youth athletes have three basic psychological needs—autonomy, competence, and relatedness—outlined by self-determination theory. In sport, key social agents such as coaches and parents help satisfy these needs. Coaches, as well ... |
| Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program and physical literacy: Exploring preservice elementary classroom teachers’ perspectives |
2019 |
113 |
This study aimed to examine preservice elementary classroom teachers’ perceptions of the comprehensive school physical activity program (CSPAP) and physical literacy (PL). Participants were 192 preservice elementary classroom teachers enrolled in a p... |
| COVID-19 pandemic stress and resilience in female college students: a multigroup comparative study of in-person versus online enrolments |
2023 |
160 |
Objective College students, especially females, reported worsened mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. This multigroup comparative study aimed to explore stress and resilience of female college students between in-person and online enrolments,... |
| Developmental Differences in Burnout Among High School Athletes in the United States: A Gendered Perspective |
2021 |
708 |
Building on recent research examining athlete burnout trajectories, this study implemented the developmental model of sport participation to compare emotional and physical exhaustion, reduced sense of accomplishment, and sport devaluation between age... |
| The direct and indirect effects of motor competence on adolescents’ mental health through health-related physical fitness |
2019 |
162 |
Mental health is an important public health issue and up to one in five youth experience mental health problems. The primary purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among motor competence, health-related physical fitness and mental heal... |
| Do Physically Literate Adolescents Have Better Academic Performance? |
2019 |
305 |
This study examined the relationship between physical literacy (i.e., motor competence, physical activity, and health-related fitness) and academic performance (i.e., executive function, class attendance, and standardized test scores) among adolescen... |
| Effects of a Fundamental Motor Skill-Based Afterschool Program on Children’s Physical and Cognitive Health Outcomes |
2020 |
118 |
Globally, more than half of school-aged children do not engage in the recommended 60 minutesof daily moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA). Given that developing sufficientfundamental motor skills (FMS) competence during early elementary scho... |
| Effects of a need-supportive motor skill intervention on children’s motor skill competence and physical activity |
2020 |
108 |
A need-supportive environment can provide various motivational benefits to impact children’s psychomotor developmental levels. However, very little is known about the effects of need-supportive motor skill intervention on children’s motor skill compe... |
| From “me” to “we”: Promoting team cohesion among youth athletes |
2017 |
218 |
Have you coached a high school sport program for many years? Have you volunteered to coach a youth sport team in a recreational league? Either way, team cohesion has a big impact on the success of your program and you as a coach. |
| Goal Setting and Monitoring for Self-Care: Facilitating a Mindful and Grateful Attitude |
2021 |
107 |
It is not uncommon for athletes to set goals to meet physical performance demands or achieve certain performance outcomes. However, how often do athletes set goals related to self-care? If athletes use goals to enhance their performance physically an... |
| A Guidebook to Organizing a Table Tennis Sport Club Team in College |
2017 |
81 |
A sport club is a group of students that organize voluntarily to further their common interest in an activity through participation and competition. While some institutions refer to them as “club sports,” and others call them “sport clubs,” for the p... |
| Implementing relatedness-supportive teaching strategies to promote learning in the college classroom |
2021 |
1310 |
basic psychological needs proposed by self-determination theory.Statement of the Problem The current literature lacks evidence-based strategies that support student relatedness in the college classroom. In education, research has indicated what strat... |
| Insomnia, Psychosocial Well-Being, and Weight Control Behaviors Among Healthy-Weight Adolescent Females: Brief Report |
2020 |
109 |
Background Weight control behaviors (WCBs) typically involve appearance- or health-driven behaviors that may be influenced by physiological, psychological, or social factors. Sleep disturbances like insomnia are an important area of research for adol... |
| Intersectionality matters: Gender, race/ethnicity, and sport level differentiate perceived coach-created motivational climates and psychological needs |
2024 |
212 |
This study examined the intersection of athletes’ gender, race/ethnicity, and sport level related to their perceptions of coach-created climates and psychological needs in sports. Participants, including 406 high school athletes (Mage = 15.47; 42.3% ... |
| Learning Writing by Rewriting: Providing Multiple Deadlines for a Final Paper |
2019 |
100 |
“I have read through all my students’ final paper, indicated mistakes, and offered suggestions for improvement. Am I wasting my time and energy?” - Does this voice sound familiar? Instructors who use writing as an assessment-- including me-- find tha... |
| Lessons from the Field. Development of a group intervention to promote need-supportive sport parenting |
2022 |
393 |
Objective This Lesson from the Field describes the development of a need-supportive parenting intervention aimed at enhancing motivation and preventing burnout in youth athletes.Background Self-determination theory posits that basic psychological nee... |
| Motivation is not always black and white: Attending to African American athletes’ psychological needs for sport involvement |
2021 |
562 |
Athletics in the current society is a place of diversity with athletes coming from all walks of life and cultural backgrounds. Athletes of different cultural backgrounds, African American athletes in particular, have experienced barriers and biases a... |
| Motivational processes in college freshmen’s exercise participation: A goal contents theory perspective |
2020 |
124 |
Objective: Grounded in goal content theory, this study tested two mediation models that examined the direct and indirect effects of intrinsic and extrinsic goals on exercise participation and subjective vitality in college freshmen.Methods: Participa... |
| Motivational processes in Sport Education programs among high school students: A systematic review |
2018 |
181 |
The purpose of this study was to conduct a literature review on the motivational processes in a Sport Education curriculum model among high school-aged students using self-determination theory and achievement goal theory as theoretical frameworks. Li... |
| Motivational profiles in table tennis players: Relations with performance anxiety and subjective vitality |
2018 |
507 |
Research has suggested the need to use a person-centred approach to examine multidimensionality of motivation. Guided by self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985), the primary aim of the present study was to examine the motivational profiles in t... |
| Opportunities for Reducing Racial Bias in Team Sports |
2020 |
537 |
This article focuses on what coaches can do to reduce the subliminal bias they may have towards their players through increasing contact with players, increasing awareness, and increasing diversity and inclusion on their sports teams. |
| Opposites attract? Mixed-sex parents' and siblings' sport participation differentiates youth athletes' perceived parenting climates |
2024 |
142 |
Guided by family systems and achievement goal theories, this study examined how the sex of athletes and their main sport parents, as well as sport participation patterns (same sport, different sports, and no sports) of parent–athlete and sibling sex ... |
| Perceived coach-created environment directly predicts high school athletes’ physical activity during sport |
2020 |
462 |
Sport participation is an important means for adolescents to achieve moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), yet most high school students including athletes do not achieve the 60-minute daily MVPA guideline. As psychosocial factors influence ... |
| Potential Potholes: Predicting Challenges and Learning Outcomes in Research Methods in Psychology Courses |
2020 |
76 |
Identifying impediments to learning can help both instructors and students. In this study students (N = 222) from across the nation listed concepts from research methods they found the most challenging—“potholes” or impediments to learning, and also ... |
| Predictive Strengths of Basic Psychological Needs in Physical Education Among Hispanic Children: A Gender-Based Approach |
2019 |
418 |
Purpose: Based on the self-determination theory, this study explored the predictive strengths and relative importance of basic psychological needs (BPNs; i.e., autonomy, competence, and relatedness) in physical education in physical, cognitive, and p... |
| Preservice classroom teachers’ perspectives on a comprehensive school physical activity programme |
2020 |
105 |
Objective: Classroom teachers can play an important role in supporting the implementation of a Comprehensive School Physical Activity Programme (CSPAP) by integrating physical activity (PA) into academic lessons, providing PA opportunities at recess ... |
| Quality of Life and Recovery |
2023 |
44 |
In this chapter, the concept of quality of life (QOL) and its possible relationship to the recovery stress balance is discussed. More specifically, guided by a social-ecological perspective, attention is devoted to aspects of athletes’ lives that hav... |
| Relations between sociocultural pressures and weight control behavior among early adolescent boys |
2018 |
410 |
Guided by the biopsychosocial model, we examined (a) the prevalence of weight control behaviors (WCBs; i.e., trying to stay the same weight, lose weight, gain weight, or do nothing about weight) among early adolescent boys by race/ethnicity and grade... |
| The Relationship of Resilience, Self-Compassion, and Social Support to Psychological Distress in Women Collegiate Athletes During COVID-19 |
2023 |
757 |
Given how COVID-19 had caused significant increases in collegiate athletes’ psychological distress, we examined the extent to which such distress may have been ameliorated by the athletes’ psychosocial resources (e.g., resilience). We used structural... |
| The roles of coaches, peers, and parents in athletes' basic psychological needs: A mixed-studies review |
2019 |
586 |
The purposes of this mixed-studies review were to summarize (a) the social environments created by coaches, peers, and parents concurrently, (b) the relative influence of social agents in youth athletes' psychological needs, and (c) the emerging rese... |
| The roles of need-supportive social environments in university physical education courses |
2017 |
446 |
It is well documented that the physical activity levels of young adults have declined below the recommended guidelines on health. Since positive experiences in physical education (PE) could influence individuals to adopt physically active lifestyles,... |
| School environments predict Hispanic children’s physical education related outcomes through basic psychological need satisfaction |
2020 |
432 |
School physical activity environments including physical environment (e.g., facilities, equipment) and social environment (e.g., teachers and peers support) provide a foundational support for children's physical activities in school. Guided by self-d... |
| Social Networks, Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity |
2018 |
107 |
Using self-determination theory (SDT) as a theoretical framework, the primary aim of this mini-review was to identify the relationships among perceptions of supportive social networks (physical activity instructors’ support, family support, and peer ... |
| Sport club participation and health-related outcomes in college students: Comparisons by sex and academic classification |
2018 |
428 |
Using the theory of student involvement, the purpose of this study was to compare sport club participation and health-related outcomes, as well as the association between these two variables by sex and academic classification among college students. ... |
| Still an “Old Boys’ Club”? Certified Mental Performance Consultants’ Gender-Typed Sport Specialization and Employment Setting |
2022 |
455 |
Qualitative research has demonstrated the prevalence of gender inequity and sexism in sport-related careers, including those in sport psychology. To provide quantitative evidence, we examined the role of gender in Certified Mental Performance Consult... |
| Table Tennis [Book Chapter] |
2020 |
305 |
This chapter introduces the history and development of the sport table tennis, as well as its differences than the game ping pong. Table tennis was first invented in England in the 1890s and became a competitive sport when Ivor Montagu found the Engl... |
| Theory-Informed Teaching and Mentoring Strategies for Enhancing Cultural Competence in Sport Psychology With “How-To” Examples |
2023 |
35 |
Cultural competence and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have become fundamental learning objectives in sport psychology training, yet the literature lacks theory-informed strategies that support relevant teaching and mentoring efforts. Using t... |
| xploring Racial Disparities in Physical Activity and Quality of Life Through an Expectancy-Value Perspective |
2019 |
79 |
Objectives Alleviating racial/ethnic disparities in physical activity (PA) and health outcomes during childhood becomes an important public health priority as the nation’s populace continues to diversify. Guided by expectancy-value model, the purpose... |