Some of the material in is restricted to members of the community. By logging in, you may be able to gain additional access to certain collections or items. If you have questions about access or logging in, please use the form on the Contact Page.
Some of the material in is restricted to members of the community. By logging in, you may be able to gain additional access to certain collections or items. If you have questions about access or logging in, please use the form on the Contact Page.
Aging is associated with a decline in cognitive and psychomotor functions, resulting in difficulties with daily activities such as driving. Cognitive function has been found to be associated with arterial stiffening. These age-related...
The purpose of this study was to explore and better capture the concept of choking under pressure by operationally redefining it. Choking was examined using a Bayesian approach to internal psychological crisis and the evaluation of the...
More than half of adolescents in the United States participate in organized sports (Kann et al., 2014); however, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC; 2016) found that recently increasing rates of athlete dropout were associated...
Team Coordination and Game-Based Interaction Networks in Soccer: Analyzing Team Coordination Properties of Elite Soccer Teams Based on Intra-Team Passes Patterns
Ecological dynamics perspective studies in sport assume that repeated interactions among teammates in real-time activities yield compound variables that specify behavioral characteristics of teams (Araújo & Bourbousson, 2016). Based on...
The study of expertise and superior performance can be more imperative when performance is assessed in real-life conditions and professions. The present study’s aim was to capture the performance of expert marksmanship through the...
Purpose. The primary purpose was to determine the effect of sleep time on performance during a 3-day multistage ultra-endurance triathlon (stage 1: 10km swim, 144.8km bike; stage 2: 275.8km bike; stage 3: 84.4km run). Methods. Eighteen...
Decision-making (DM) efficacy is influenced by several factors including development of perceptual-cognitive skills (PCS) that underpin DM processes. In the current study I have examined the effect of a "brain-training" method using...
The utilization of sport psychology (SP) and mental performance consultants (MPCs) is becoming a mainstream resource among collegiate athletic programs. Junior colleges have yet to make this transition due to the many unique challenges...
The Light and Dark Side of Positional Indispensability: Understanding the Relationship among Goalkeepers, Indispensability, and Behavioral, Cognitive, and Emotional Outcomes
A playing position that many sports team cannot play without is a goalkeeper. Goalkeepers hold a vital role on their team due to their unique positional requirements such as being the last line of defense and having task and motivational...
Overwhelming evidence demonstrates exercising regularly decreases the risk for clinical diseases. One possible explanation for the low exercise adherence rates is the perceptual-cognitive-affective responses that accompany the exercise...
The benefits of exercise on cognitive functioning are well established. One population that especially benefits from exercise is older adults. Research has demonstrated that chronic exercise in older adults improves cognitive functioning...
Guided by the ironic process theory and its extensions, the dissertation research aimed at (a) studying the thought suppression paradox in student athletes, (b) exploring the efficacy of an acceptance-mindfulness intervention in...
The purpose of this study was to explore the cascading mechanism of choking under pressure in dance, validate an integrated-perceptual model of choking, and examine the effectiveness of a 7-week combined self-talk and progressive muscle...
Sport officials represent a ‘third team’ in sports that have the potential to change the outcome of games, seasons, and careers. The existing research on officials is sparse and disjointed with many studies going uncited as their...
This study examined the effects of different tempo music selections on effort-related thoughts, rating of perceived exertion (RPE), affect, heart rate, and performance of isometric strength exercises. Participants were assigned to one of...
The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of stroboscopic training on intermediate tennis players' anticipatory response accuracy, response time, and self-efficacy. Participants (N=30) completed six on-court training sessions, ...
College student-athletes are exposed to highly demanding and stressful lifestyles. Accordingly, the NCAA has recently reported an increase in mental health concerns among athletes. As such, research aiming to understand constructs that...
Purpose: To establish the relationship between the acute:chronic workload ratio and peak performance in division 1 NCAA track and field sprinters over the course of the 2018 outdoor season. Methods: The acute:chronic workload ratio was...
The general purpose of this investigation was to study the differences between high-skill and intermediate-skill tennis players in gaze behaviors while performing tennis serve returns. Participants were asked to return 40 serves in the...
Eating Disorders in Athletes: The Role of Perfectionism, Body Dissatisfaction, Neuroticism, Emotion Regulation, and the Internalization of Thinness Norms
Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate among mental illnesses and therefore it is important to investigate what may impact an athlete’s risk of developing an eating disorder. Female cross-country runners are at a particularly...
The purpose of this study was to explore adaptation through the manipulation of perceived task difficulty and self-efficacy to challenge the concepts postulated by the two-perception probabilistic concept of the adaptation phenomenon ...
Decision-making (DM) is a critical task performed by military medics. Often split-second decisions must be made and executed in high pressure situations that tax the human system. The consequence for either making the wrong decision or...
Individual Affect-Related Performance Zones (IAPZs) have been commonly estimated using a two-dimensional affect measures (arousal by pleasantness) as predictors of a unidimensional performance measure. Performance measures have been self...
Some of the material in is restricted to members of the community. By logging in, you may be able to gain additional access to certain collections or items. If you have questions about access or logging in, please use the form on the Contact Page.
