Elite Disability Sport Coaches’ Views on Sport Psychology

The Challenges of Sport Psychology Delivery in Elite and Professional Sport: Reflections From Experienced Sport Psychologists

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Organizational psychology in elite sport: Its emergence, application and future

Objectives: The rapid development of elite sport in Europe and across the world has had far-reaching psychosocial ramifications for those operating within its sphere of influence. Whilst sport psychologists in the latter part of the 20th century largely focused on the cognitive determinates of elite performance, the findings of recent research suggest that sport psychologists in the 21st centur...

How Elite Coaches’ Experiential Knowledge Might Enhance Empirical Research on Sport Performance: A Commentary

Sport Exercise Psychology

Previous research has shown that the effects of basic psychological needs on the flow experience in sports are moderated by implicit motives. However, so far, only leisure and health-oriented sports have been analyzed. In a pilot study and a main study (N = 29, 93), we tested whether the implicit achievement and affiliation motives interact with the need for competence and the need for social r...

Sport Exercise Psychology

Stefan Koehn is now with the Department of Health Sciences, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, United Kingdom. Alan J. Pearce is with the Cognitive and Exercise Neuroscience Unit, Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Tony Morris is with the College of Sport and Exercise Science, Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, ...