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Sex Differences in Perceived Motor Competence After the Children’s Health Activity Motor Program Intervention
Sex Differences in Perceived Motor Competence After the Children’s Health Activity Motor Program Intervention
This study examined the effects of a motor-skill intervention on children’s perceived motor competence (PMC; object contro...
Examining the Utility of Stress-, Motivation-, and Commitment-Based Perspectives of Athlete Burnout
Examining the Utility of Stress-, Motivation-, and Commitment-Based Perspectives of Athlete Burnout
Burnout, characterized by exhaustion, reduced accomplishment, and devaluation, can have substantial negative implications ...
Teachers’ Verbal and Nonverbal Communication, Students’ Psychological Needs, and Positive and Negative Outcomes in Physical Education
Teachers’ Verbal and Nonverbal Communication, Students’ Psychological Needs, and Positive and Negative Outcomes in Physical Education
Focused on physical education (PE), this study examined the association between teachers’ communication and students’ psyc...
Social Supports and Barriers for Older Adults Not Participating in Group Physical Activity
Social Supports and Barriers for Older Adults Not Participating in Group Physical Activity
Group physical activity can provide physical and social benefits; however, social barriers or a lack of social support may...
Comparisons and Conversions: A Methodological Note and Caution for Meta-Analysis in Sport and Exercise Psychology
Comparisons and Conversions: A Methodological Note and Caution for Meta-Analysis in Sport and Exercise Psychology
Meta-analysis is a powerful tool in sport and exercise psychology. However, it has a number of pitfalls, and some lead to ...
Volume 45 (2023): Issue 5 (Oct 2023)
Volume 45 (2023): Issue 5 (Oct 2023)
"Volume 45 (2023): Issue 5 (Oct 2023)" published on 01 Oct 2023 by Human Kinetics, Inc..
The Relationships Between Neural Activity and In-Game Hitting Performance in Baseball
The Relationships Between Neural Activity and In-Game Hitting Performance in Baseball
The current study examines the relationships between hitters’ neural activity and their in-game hitting performance. Colle...
An Examination of the Challenge/Threat State and Sport-Performance Relationship While Controlling for Past Performance
An Examination of the Challenge/Threat State and Sport-Performance Relationship While Controlling for Past Performance
A challenge state is associated with superior performance compared to a threat state in a variety of performance domains (...
Mental Effort in Elite and Nonelite Rowers
Mental Effort in Elite and Nonelite Rowers
Mental effort (intensity of attention) in elite sports has remained a debated topic and a challenging phenomenon to measur...
The Relationship of Resilience, Self-Compassion, and Social Support to Psychological Distress in Women Collegiate Athletes During COVID-19
The Relationship of Resilience, Self-Compassion, and Social Support to Psychological Distress in Women Collegiate Athletes During COVID-19
Given how COVID-19 had caused significant increases in collegiate athletes’ psychological distress, we examined the extent...
Volume 45 (2023): Issue 4 (Aug 2023)
Volume 45 (2023): Issue 4 (Aug 2023)
"Volume 45 (2023): Issue 4 (Aug 2023)" published on 01 Aug 2023 by Human Kinetics, Inc..
Affective Responses to Increasing- and Decreasing-Intensity Resistance Training Protocols
Affective Responses to Increasing- and Decreasing-Intensity Resistance Training Protocols
This study compared the effects of an increasing-intensity (UP) and a decreasing-intensity (DOWN) resistance training prot...
Can You Tell Who Scores? An Assessment of the Recognition of Affective States Based on the Nonverbal Behavior of Amateur Tennis Players in Competitive Matches
Can You Tell Who Scores? An Assessment of the Recognition of Affective States Based on the Nonverbal Behavior of Amateur Tennis Players in Competitive Matches
The purpose of the present study was to assess whether the recognition of tennis players’ affective state associated with ...
Investigating Intraindividual Variability of Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Relations With Subsequent Physical Activity
Investigating Intraindividual Variability of Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Relations With Subsequent Physical Activity
Heeding recent calls to capture dynamic variability of physical activity (PA) motivation within a self-determination theor...
The Provision and Experience of Variety in Physical Activity Settings: A Systematic Review of Quantitative and Qualitative Studies
The Provision and Experience of Variety in Physical Activity Settings: A Systematic Review of Quantitative and Qualitative Studies
Background: Emerging evidence indicates that the provision or experience of “variety” may be an important determinant of p...
Volume 45 (2023): Issue 3 (Jun 2023)
Volume 45 (2023): Issue 3 (Jun 2023)
"Volume 45 (2023): Issue 3 (Jun 2023)" published on 01 Jun 2023 by Human Kinetics, Inc..
Volume 45 (2023): Issue S1 (May 2023)
Volume 45 (2023): Issue S1 (May 2023)
"Volume 45 (2023): Issue S1 (May 2023)" published on 01 May 2023 by Human Kinetics, Inc..
Volume 45 (2023): Issue 2 (Apr 2023)
Volume 45 (2023): Issue 2 (Apr 2023)
"Volume 45 (2023): Issue 2 (Apr 2023)" published on 01 Apr 2023 by Human Kinetics, Inc..
A Methodological Checklist for Studies of Pleasure and Enjoyment Responses to High-Intensity Interval Training: Part I. Participants and Measures
A Methodological Checklist for Studies of Pleasure and Enjoyment Responses to High-Intensity Interval Training: Part I. Participants and Measures
For decades, the exercise psychology research literature echoed the conclusion that exercise makes most people feel better...
Evaluating the Feasibility, Acceptability, and Engagement of an mHealth Physical Activity Intervention for Adults With Spinal Cord Injury Who Walk: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Evaluating the Feasibility, Acceptability, and Engagement of an mHealth Physical Activity Intervention for Adults With Spinal Cord Injury Who Walk: A Randomized Controlled Trial
The purpose of this study was to test a partnered, self-determination theory–informed mobile health intervention called SC...
A Methodological Checklist for Studies of Pleasure and Enjoyment Responses to High-Intensity Interval Training: Part II. Intensity, Timing of Assessments, Data Modeling, and Interpretation
A Methodological Checklist for Studies of Pleasure and Enjoyment Responses to High-Intensity Interval Training: Part II. Intensity, Timing of Assessments, Data Modeling, and Interpretation
Recent studies have concluded that high-intensity interval training should be seen as a “viable alternative” to, and may b...
Autonomy-Supportive Teaching Enhances Prosocial and Reduces Antisocial Behavior via Classroom Climate and Psychological Needs: A Multilevel Randomized Control Intervention
Autonomy-Supportive Teaching Enhances Prosocial and Reduces Antisocial Behavior via Classroom Climate and Psychological Needs: A Multilevel Randomized Control Intervention
Autonomy-supportive teaching increases prosocial and decreases antisocial behavior. Previous research showed that these ef...
The Effect of Immediacy of Expected Goal Feedback on Persistence in a Physical Task
The Effect of Immediacy of Expected Goal Feedback on Persistence in a Physical Task
Minimizing the temporal gap between behavior and reward enhances persistence, but the effect of other outcomes is unknown....
Evaluating the “Optimal Competition Parenting Workshop” Using the RE-AIM Framework: A 4-Year Organizational-Level Intervention in British Junior Tennis
Evaluating the “Optimal Competition Parenting Workshop” Using the RE-AIM Framework: A 4-Year Organizational-Level Intervention in British Junior Tennis
The purpose of the current study was to utilize the RE-AIM (i.e., reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and main...
Student Athletes’ Causal Attributions for Sport and School Achievement in Relation to Sport Dropout and Grade Point Average
Student Athletes’ Causal Attributions for Sport and School Achievement in Relation to Sport Dropout and Grade Point Average
The present study longitudinally examined stability and change in the attributional profiles of Finnish student athletes (...
Volume 45 (2023): Issue 1 (Feb 2023)
Volume 45 (2023): Issue 1 (Feb 2023)
"Volume 45 (2023): Issue 1 (Feb 2023)" published on 01 Feb 2023 by Human Kinetics, Inc..
What Influences Children’s Physical Activity? Investigating the Effects of Physical Self-Concept, Physical Self-Guides, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation
What Influences Children’s Physical Activity? Investigating the Effects of Physical Self-Concept, Physical Self-Guides, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation
Physical fitness self-concept (PFSC) is an important predictor of motivation and physical activity in children. Recent stu...
Is It Really Worth the Effort? Examining the Effects of Mental Fatigue on Physical Activity Effort Discounting
Is It Really Worth the Effort? Examining the Effects of Mental Fatigue on Physical Activity Effort Discounting
Physical activity (PA) guidelines are informed by epidemiological evidence but do not account for people’s motivation for ...
Neither Too Easy Nor Too Difficult: Effects of Different Success Criteria on Motor Skill Acquisition in Children
Neither Too Easy Nor Too Difficult: Effects of Different Success Criteria on Motor Skill Acquisition in Children
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of different success criteria on motor learning in children. Forty-ei...
Lifetime Stressor Exposure and Psychophysiological Reactivity and Habituation to Repeated Acute Social Stressors
Lifetime Stressor Exposure and Psychophysiological Reactivity and Habituation to Repeated Acute Social Stressors
This study addressed whether lifetime stressor exposure was associated with psychophysiological reactivity and habituation...
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