Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-14DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2026.103065
Rita de Oliveira, Yago Ramis, Zsanett Bondár
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Pub Date : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-08-20DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102976
Chunxiao Li , Justin A. Haegele , Brett Smith
Martin Ginis (2025) critically examines the inconsistent and often inconclusive evidence on the effects of physical activity (PA) on quality of life (QOL) and subjective well-being (SWB) in people with disabilities. In this article, we build on her arguments by highlighting conceptual ambiguities, methodological limitations, and measurement challenges that have contributed to these inconsistencies. We then evaluate the Quality Participation Model of PA and QOL/SWB as a promising framework that positions quality participation as central to enhancing well-being. Finally, we outline future directions (e.g., construct refinement, technological tailoring, co-produced research, and critical happiness studies) and call for a shift toward inclusive, high-quality PA experiences to realize PA's full potential in disability contexts.
Martin Ginis（2025）批判性地研究了身体活动（PA）对残疾人生活质量（QOL）和主观幸福感（SWB）影响的不一致且往往不确定的证据。在这篇文章中，我们通过强调概念上的歧义、方法上的限制和测量上的挑战来建立她的论点，这些都导致了这些不一致。然后，我们评估了PA和QOL/SWB的质量参与模型作为一个有前途的框架，将质量参与定位为提高福祉的核心。最后，我们概述了未来的发展方向（例如，构建精细化、技术定制、联合生产研究和关键幸福研究），并呼吁向包容性、高质量的PA体验转变，以实现PA在残疾背景下的全部潜力。
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Pub Date : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-11-11DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103022
Ilse P. Peringa, A. Susan M. Niessen, Rob R. Meijer, Ruud J.R. den Hartigh
Understanding how coaches, scouts, and other decision-makers assess and select athletes has become an increasingly important focus in sport psychology. While athlete selection is often entrusted to “experienced experts,” experience related to a given sport does not necessarily translate into selection expertise. This short communication explains why experience often fails to foster expertise. Drawing on the broader judgment and decision-making literature, particularly Kahneman and Klein (2009), two key conditions are identified for expertise to develop through experience: (1) the availability of high-validity cues, and (2) sufficient learning opportunities, including timely, complete, and unambiguous feedback. We argue that these conditions are rarely present in athlete selection. Studies from the wider personnel selection literature similarly show limited benefits of experience. Although experience is likely not a reliable path to expertise in athlete selection, the application of empirically validated knowledge will improve selection decisions. We discuss how such knowledge can be acquired through systematic research and suggest that practitioners in the field of sports need to prioritize evidence-based approaches over accumulated experience.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-08-22DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102973
Kyle J.M. Bennett , Patricia C. Jackman , Rochelle Eime , Dylan R. Poulus
The health and wellbeing of young people (10–24 years old) is a global public health priority, with evidence that many of these individuals have poor physical, mental, and social health. Adding to the growing concerns is the rise in overall digital media usage and the popularity of video gaming as a leisure activity. Developing from video gaming is a competitive form known as esport, which has now reached a level where it is starting to mirror the traditional sporting landscape in terms of professionalism. Given the competitive focus of esports and players striving to gain an edge over opponents, many have adopted a training approach characterised by long hours of repetitive practice, colloquially referred to as “grinding”. These high levels of engagement, often totalling over 20 h per week, mean players may sacrifice their physical, mental, and social wellbeing, as they do not have time to engage in healthy behaviours. With the growing visibility and mainstream status, we argue that esports is at a crossroads where failing to address the grinding culture could negatively impact players’ long-term health. Rather than seeing performance and health as a dichotomy, we propose a Performance through Health approach that raises the potential for the two to co-exist. We suggest leveraging systems thinking, socio-ecological models, and co-creation methodologies to design, develop, and implement strategies and interventions that are appropriately tailored to the needs of the industry while acknowledging the multiple interacting layers that can impact implementation and success.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-10-27DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103011
Debbie Van Biesen , Dušana Augustovičová , Roi Charles Pineda , Dagmar Nemček , Jan Burns
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Pub Date : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-09-15DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102988
Andrew P. Hill
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.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-09-10DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102996
Justin T. Worley , Alan L. Smith
Organized sport provides youth with the opportunity to form interpersonal relationships and derive part of their identity from sport team membership. Though identities are negotiated within the context of interpersonal relationships, little research has examined how peer relationships may associate with athletes' social identity and downstream sport motivation. The purpose of this study was to examine whether positive peer relationships were associated with adaptive sport motivation by way of athlete social identity. High school athletes (N = 202, female n = 121, Mage = 16.1 years, SDage = 1.3 years) completed established measures of friendship quality and peer acceptance, social identity (cognitive centrality, ingroup affect), and sport enjoyment, enthusiastic sport commitment, and autonomous motivation. Observed path analysis showed neither friendship quality nor peer acceptance was directly associated with enthusiastic sport commitment, sport enjoyment, nor autonomous motivation. Friendship quality was positively associated with cognitive centrality (β = 0.30) and ingroup affect (β = 0.20), and peer acceptance was positively associated with ingroup affect (β = 0.25). In turn, cognitive centrality was positively associated with enthusiastic sport commitment (β = 0.21) and autonomous motivation (β = 0.24). Ingroup affect was positively associated with enthusiastic sport commitment (β = 0.42), sport enjoyment (β = 0.55), and autonomous motivation (β = 0.46). The pattern of indirect effects was partially aligned with expectations. Results suggest that the motivational importance of peer relationships may, in part, operate through features of athletes’ identification with their sport team.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-08-19DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102975
Maria Kavussanu
Research examining prosocial and antisocial behaviours - collectively referred to as moral behaviour – in the sport context has proliferated in the past 20 years. Prosocial and antisocial behaviours are intentional behaviours that can have positive or negative consequences for the recipient's rights and psychological or physical welfare. This article reviews research on moral behaviour in sport and discusses how this research evolved in the last 20 years. Most studies have examined antecedents or predictors of prosocial and antisocial behaviours focusing predominantly on intrapersonal variables but also investigating social-environmental influences. In the last 10 years, some studies have examined consequences of these behaviours for the recipient. The review starts by tracing the development of the constructs of prosocial and antisocial sport behaviours and their measurement. Then, research on antecedents or predictors of prosocial and antisocial sport behaviours is discussed followed by studies on consequences or outcomes of these behaviours. The article concludes with a discussion of practical implications, key issues, challenges, and future research directions.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-10-25DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103010
Stiliani "Ani" Chroni
Responding to Kerr et al. (2025), this commentary engages their three-part critique of the Safe Sport movement—ontological sprawl, epistemological thinness, and axiological tensions—and affirms the value of a “wicked problem” lens for implementation. I elaborate how concept creep across integrity and maltreatment domains dilutes focus; how codes and education have outpaced credible evidence of behavior or culture change; and how governance arrangements, including sport's self-regulatory exceptionalism, erode trust when case handling is slow, opaque, or inconsistent. I also indicate where the analysis could go further: operationalizing cultural responsiveness beyond Northern templates; specifying routine outcomes tied to theories of change; and embedding youth participation and practitioner competencies. Building on these gaps, I conclude with a next-generation safeguarding approach suggestion that pairs rights-based minimums with co-design and documented adaptation, uses routine outcome monitoring of safety/fairness climate, help-seeking/reporting, and procedural justice/timeliness, and strengthens legitimacy through diversified reporting routes, restorative options, and a professionalized workforce—shifting practice from checklists to measurable gains in climate, trust, and justice.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-11-10DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103023
Bettina Wollesen , Claudia Voelker-Rehage
Executive functions (EFs) which include inhibition, working memory, and cognitive flexibility, typically decline with age. This increases the risk of falls and reduces independence and quality of life. Traditional interventions such as aerobic training, resistance training, and coordination training have demonstrated general benefits for cognitive health, with some studies reporting modest improvements in EFs. However, the evidence is mixed, with the effect sizes varying depending on the type of training and the design of the study.
A growing body of research supports cognitive-motor dual-task (CMDT) training, which combines physical and cognitive tasks. Among its variants, simultaneous CMDT, where both tasks are performed together, has shown the most promise. This method more effectively engages shared cognitive and motor resources and mirrors real-life multitasking demands. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses consistently suggest that simultaneous CMDT leads to greater improvements in EFs and dual-task performance than physical or cognitive training alone. It is also associated with enhanced mobility, reduced fall risk, and improved functional independence in older adults. The effectiveness of training depends on characteristics such as frequency, duration, and session length, though the role of intensity remains understudied.
In conclusion, while traditional physical training remains valuable, simultaneous CMDT stands out as a particularly effective and ecologically valid intervention for preserving executive and functional abilities in aging populations. There is also potential for its application to be expanded to age and clinical groups.
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