Pub 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 : 2025-10-24DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103014
Kathleen A. Martin Ginis , Haley A. Berrisford
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Pub Date : 2025-10-22DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103008
Erica V. Bennett, Regan S.I. Thompson
Building on Sabiston et al.’s (2025) article highlighting considerations for future scholarship in body image research in sport and exercise, in this commentary we echo the call for intersectional research in the field, and propose a marrying of theoretical thought and methodological innovation from psychological, sociological, historical, feminist, and embodiment studies in future scholarship. By adopting a feminist ethics of care in concert with embodied critical methods, we suggest that the embracing of interdisciplinary and transformative theoretical/methodological approaches can support meaningful research that reflects the diversity and complexities of the body/minds of all members of our citizenship. Such approaches offer the opportunity to thoughtfully navigate research in sport and exercise contexts by taking into account the overlapping systems of power and experiences of discrimination that influence psychological and behavioural processes related to the body. By continuing to advance critical scholarship, we create opportunities to move beyond helping individuals reframe negative body-related thoughts and feelings, towards transforming the broader sociocultural pressures and systems of power that shape perceptions of what constitutes a ‘good’ or ‘moral’ body.
{"title":"Reimagining body image research in sport and exercise: Centering interdisciplinarity and cultural humility","authors":"Erica V. Bennett, Regan S.I. Thompson","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Building on Sabiston et al.’s (2025) article highlighting considerations for future scholarship in body image research in sport and exercise, in this commentary we echo the call for intersectional research in the field, and propose a marrying of theoretical thought and methodological innovation from psychological, sociological, historical, feminist, and embodiment studies in future scholarship. By adopting a feminist ethics of care in concert with embodied critical methods, we suggest that the embracing of interdisciplinary and transformative theoretical/methodological approaches can support meaningful research that reflects the diversity and complexities of the body/minds of all members of our citizenship. Such approaches offer the opportunity to thoughtfully navigate research in sport and exercise contexts by taking into account the overlapping systems of power and experiences of discrimination that influence psychological and behavioural processes related to the body. By continuing to advance critical scholarship, we create opportunities to move beyond helping individuals reframe negative body-related thoughts and feelings, towards transforming the broader sociocultural pressures and systems of power that shape perceptions of what constitutes a ‘good’ or ‘moral’ body.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 103008"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145362784","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}
Cultivating a shared team identity fosters individuals' sense of belonging and strengthens their connection to the team. Previous studies have demonstrated that having a shared team identity and strongly identified individuals within the group are associated with various positive outcomes. Among these positive outcomes, increasing evidence from the organizational field suggests that a shared identity may serve as a foundational mechanism in the emergence of transactive memory systems (TMS). TMS refers to shared cognitive structures that enable team members to encode, store, and retrieve information collectively. The main objective of this study was to examine the relationship between team identification and transactive memory systems, as well as to investigate their effects on teamwork behaviors and overall performance of sport teams in unique tournament settings. A 3-wave longitudinal research design was employed to examine these associations, involving 167 athletes across 15 teams. Structural equation modelling indicated a significant relationship between team identification and transactive memory systems in the pre-tournament phase. Furthermore, pre-tournament transactive memory systems predicted teamwork behaviors during the tournament, positively influencing overall team performance. Our exploratory findings underscore how the short duration and high-pressure nature of the tournament differentially shaped teams' adaptive responses. Specifically, only mid-ranking teams showed significant improvements in adjustment behaviours from pre-tournament to mid-tournament, whereas both lower- and higher-ranking teams exhibited non-significant change. Based on these findings, to optimize a team's performance in a time-limited context such as tournaments, sport psychologists and coaches are encouraged to cultivate a shared team identity through social identity focused workshops or identity leadership interventions, and social activities with a heightened sense of psychological safety (e.g. open discussions for role clarity), which can develop transactive memory systems and, in turn, enhance teamwork behaviors and overall team performance. Consequently, the present study aims to adopt a collective-cognitive approach to the link between social identity and team performance in a sporting context, and to shed light on how team functioning unfolds under time-constrained conditions.
{"title":"From social identity to team performance: Linking transactive memory systems and teamwork","authors":"Canberk Ozlu , Umut Sezer , Deniz Durdubas , Ziya Koruc","doi":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cultivating a shared team identity fosters individuals' sense of belonging and strengthens their connection to the team. Previous studies have demonstrated that having a shared team identity and strongly identified individuals within the group are associated with various positive outcomes. Among these positive outcomes, increasing evidence from the organizational field suggests that a shared identity may serve as a foundational mechanism in the emergence of transactive memory systems (TMS). TMS refers to shared cognitive structures that enable team members to encode, store, and retrieve information collectively. The main objective of this study was to examine the relationship between team identification and transactive memory systems, as well as to investigate their effects on teamwork behaviors and overall performance of sport teams in unique tournament settings. A 3-wave longitudinal research design was employed to examine these associations, involving 167 athletes across 15 teams. Structural equation modelling indicated a significant relationship between team identification and transactive memory systems in the pre-tournament phase. Furthermore, pre-tournament transactive memory systems predicted teamwork behaviors during the tournament, positively influencing overall team performance. Our exploratory findings underscore how the short duration and high-pressure nature of the tournament differentially shaped teams' adaptive responses. Specifically, only mid-ranking teams showed significant improvements in adjustment behaviours from pre-tournament to mid-tournament, whereas both lower- and higher-ranking teams exhibited non-significant change. Based on these findings, to optimize a team's performance in a time-limited context such as tournaments, sport psychologists and coaches are encouraged to cultivate a shared team identity through social identity focused workshops or identity leadership interventions, and social activities with a heightened sense of psychological safety (e.g. open discussions for role clarity), which can develop transactive memory systems and, in turn, enhance teamwork behaviors and overall team performance. Consequently, the present study aims to adopt a collective-cognitive approach to the link between social identity and team performance in a sporting context, and to shed light on how team functioning unfolds under time-constrained conditions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54536,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Sport and Exercise","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 103007"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145338434","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}
Pub Date : 2025-10-15DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103005
Likai Liu , Hong Mou , Ting Zhou , Zhurui Yan , Yapeng Qi , Yingying Wang
Objective
This study investigated the neural representations at different features of table tennis serve observation and examined the moderating effects of experience on these representations.
Methods
Twenty-four table tennis athletes and twenty-six nonathletes watched videos of four types of table tennis serves, categorized by serve technique (forehand vs. backhand) and target location (left-side vs. right-side). Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and behavioral data were collected during video viewing.
Results
Observing different action features activated the action observation network (AON), including the lateral occipital-temporal cortex (LOTC), ventral premotor cortex (PMv), and superior parietal lobule (SPL). Multivariate pattern analysis revealed the distinct functional contributions of different regions within the AON: table tennis players exhibited higher decoding accuracy in the PMv for action types than for action targets, whereas the SPL showed greater decoding accuracy for action targets over action types. Notably, players demonstrated significantly higher PMv decoding accuracy for action types compared to nonathletes.
Conclusions
These findings highlight the differential involvement of AON subregions of different features of action observation and emphasize the crucial role of experience in shaping neural representations of observed actions. This study provides theoretical insights for optimizing sports training and skill acquisition.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-10DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103004
James A. Newman , James L. Rumbold
Despite increasing awareness and reports of wrongdoing in sports such as professional football there remains a lack of safeguarding education targeted at adults to address this behavior. Thus, there is a need to develop safeguarding education programs based on the experiential knowledge of adults in football. The present study explored knowledge users' recommendations, as a means to co-produce a safeguarding education program to address maltreatment in football. Guided by a social constructivist approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 safeguarding and welfare personnel (nine who identified as females and ten as males) who work within British clubs and organizations ranging from English Premier League (EPL) through to the English Northern Premier League Division One. The participants’ roles ranged from Chief Executive Officer; Vice Chairman; General Counsel; Club Development Officer; Head of Safeguarding; Designated Safeguarding Officer; Safeguarding Case Officer; Academy Safeguarding Manager; Head of Education and Welfare; Player Care and Welfare Officer; Head of Education and Player Care, and Coach. Through a reflexive thematic analysis, knowledge users discussed shaping safeguarding education in professional football, and the best way to deliver safeguarding education. Knowledge users highlighted the need for safeguarding programs to be designed and delivered at individual, club, and systemic levels to be effective. Furthermore, these programs need to be underpinned by a cultural intervention to safeguarding education in professional football. From a research perspective, the present findings emphasize the value of collaborating with underrepresented groups to create meaningful change in safeguarding in sport. Lastly, the present study provides the foundation for future research to evaluate the effectiveness of a safeguarding education program in football in practice.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-09DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103003
Rouwen Cañal-Bruland
In this article, I provide three arguments to advocate that decisions are inherently embodied, and that there is no need to make a distinction between classical (i.e., abstract) and embodied decisions. The first argument is grounded in affordance perception and posits that decisions are shaped by unique (i.e., inter-personally different) bodies and brains and the unique individual's experience and interaction with its environment. The second argument combines the idea that motor control is decision-making with the degrees of freedom problem, supporting the notion of singularity of each decision due to inherent intra-individual variability. The third argument is based on theoretical reasoning and empirical evidence, in particular from linguistics, positing that even abstract concepts and representations that decisions supposedly rely on are grounded in concrete sensorimotor experience and interactions with the world. The third argument hence refutes the idea that so-called abstract decisions may be disembodied (i.e., not inherently embodied). I conclude by arguing why it is important to further advocate the idea of embodied decisions.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-06DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102993
Angela Beggan , Kerry R. McGannon
This commentary responds to Simpson et al.’s (2025) call to broaden health behavior change (BC) research in physical activity (PA) beyond WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, Democratic) paradigms. Drawing from narrative, discursive, and postqualitative traditions, we reflect on the conceptual and historical meanings of “WEIRD” and explore its limitations. We propose three transgressive directions for future BC and PA research: humility, reflexivity, and attention to wyrd ways of life. These reflections invite researchers to move beyond the ‘same old’ assumptions and consider culturally situated, relational, and decolonizing approaches that rethink both our conceptions of BC and PA and what our research of them can mean, do, and become.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-30DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103002
Natália Batista Albuquerque Goulart Lemos , Cain C.T. Clark , Caterina Pesce , Ivina Andréa Aires Soares , Fernando de Aguiar Lemos , Clarice Maria de Lucena Martins
Early childhood is a critical period for brain development, particularly in self-regulation (SR), which is essential for pre-academic success and socio-emotional competence. Recent studies highlight the role of 24-h movement behaviors (i.e., physical activity (PA), sedentary behavior (SB), and sleep) in SR. However, the relationship between the composition of these behaviors and SR remains unclear. This study aimed to analyze the association between the composition of 24-h movement behaviors and cognitive and behavioral SR in preschoolers; and to investigate predicted changes in SR when time in different behaviors is reallocated. The sample comprised 223 preschoolers (4–5 years-old) enrolled in public early childhood education centers in Petrolina, Brazil. Movement behaviors were assessed using accelerometry, sleep was evaluated by parent report, and cognitive and behavioral SR were measured using the Early Years Toolbox and the Head, Toes, Knees, Shoulders–Revised test, respectively. Compositional and isotemporal data analysis were used to examine the relationships between movement behaviors and SR, and time reallocations, respectively. The 24-h movement behaviors composition predicted 6 % of the variance in visuo-spatial working memory and cognitive flexibility; and 13 % in behavioral SR. Reallocating 5, 10 or 15 min from sleep and moderate-to-vigorous PA to light PA or SB was positively associated with behavioral SR, though no association has been seen on cognitive SR. These findings suggest a possible positive mechanism linking low-intense activities with children's behavioural SR, that should be further explored in longitudinal and interventional designs aimed at optimizing SR in early childhood.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-26DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103001
Martha Newson , Muhammed Bilgehan Aytaç , Linus Peitz
Identity fusion describes a psychological state in which personal and social identities are deeply aligned, fostering strong bonds with a group and influencing attitudes and behaviors, including in international contexts. However, how fusion to local (relational) and national (extended) groups interacts remains less understood. We investigated this among Turkish soccer fans (N = 379) using an experimental design to test whether local club representation in the national team influences national team fusion and behavioral intentions toward other fans. Fans viewed lineups for an upcoming international match that included either more of their local club's players or their rival's. Participants who saw a lineup dominated by rival players were less fused with the national team. Fusion with the national team was a key predictor of prosocial intentions toward the ingroup (fellow Türkiye fans). Mediation analysis showed that overrepresentation of rival players indirectly reduced ingroup prosociality via national team fusion. Hostility toward the outgroup was significantly associated with fusion to the local team, but not with fusion to the national team, nor with club representation.
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