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View article: Understanding the Interpersonal Dynamics Between Parents and Coaches in Youth Tennis
Understanding the Interpersonal Dynamics Between Parents and Coaches in Youth Tennis Open
Interpersonal relationships between athletes and their parents and coaches is an important factor in the success of youth sport programmes. Despite growing evidence in the parent-coach stress literature, there remains a lack of research wh…
View article: Grow through what you go through: a multiple-case study of competitive bodybuilders’ experiences of learning to manage the demands of their engagement in the sport
Grow through what you go through: a multiple-case study of competitive bodybuilders’ experiences of learning to manage the demands of their engagement in the sport Open
To date, most research amongst competitive bodybuilders has focused on highlighting the demands of competitive bodybuilding, competitors’ emotional and behavioural responses to these demands, and the subsequent psychosocial outcomes, with …
View article: Introducing SPARK: A pilot study of a sport-specific, pragmatic, and athlete-centred values-based anti-doping education workshop
Introducing SPARK: A pilot study of a sport-specific, pragmatic, and athlete-centred values-based anti-doping education workshop Open
The provision of values-based education (VbE) for elite athletes, as required by WADA’s International Standard for Education, presents challenges which are related to the developmental stage of learners, delivery methods, content design, a…
View article: Introducing SPARK: A pilot study of a sport-specific, pragmatic, and athlete-centred values-based anti-doping education workshop
Introducing SPARK: A pilot study of a sport-specific, pragmatic, and athlete-centred values-based anti-doping education workshop Open
The provision of values-based education (VbE) for elite athletes, as required by WADA’s International Standard for Education, presents challenges which are related to the developmental stage of learners, delivery methods, content design, a…
View article: SPARK: Feasible, pragmatic and ecologically valid values-based anti-doping education for athletes
SPARK: Feasible, pragmatic and ecologically valid values-based anti-doping education for athletes Open
View article: BPS DSEP position statement: Psychological skills training in youth sport
BPS DSEP position statement: Psychological skills training in youth sport Open
Young athletes have become an increasingly important client group for sport psychology practitioners and a population whose physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development should be carefully considered by a practitioner when delive…
View article: Elite athletes’ values in action: an important yet complicated aspect in anti-doping education
Elite athletes’ values in action: an important yet complicated aspect in anti-doping education Open
Values-based education seeks to cultivate personal responsibility, empathy, and integrity to encourage critical reflection on the (anticipated or actual) consequences of one’s choices and behaviours. To comply with the World Anti-Doping Ag…
View article: Enhancing wellbeing, long-term development, and performance in youth sport: Insights from experienced applied sport psychologists working with young athletes in the United Kingdom
Enhancing wellbeing, long-term development, and performance in youth sport: Insights from experienced applied sport psychologists working with young athletes in the United Kingdom Open
Data availability statement: The participants of this study did not give written consent for their data to be shared publicly, so due to the sensitive nature of the research supporting data is not available.
View article: The perfect storm: a meta-ethnography of the motivations, behaviours, and experiences of competitive bodybuilders
The perfect storm: a meta-ethnography of the motivations, behaviours, and experiences of competitive bodybuilders Open
Studies investigating competitive bodybuilding have primarily done so from a pathologizing perspective, and have often considered aspects of the competitive bodybuilding lifestyle in isolation, therefore overlooking the broader motivations…
View article: Enhancing wellbeing, long-term development, and performance in youth sport: Insights from experienced applied sport psychologists working with young athletes in the United Kingdom
Enhancing wellbeing, long-term development, and performance in youth sport: Insights from experienced applied sport psychologists working with young athletes in the United Kingdom Open
Although applied sport psychologists are supporting young athletes drawing on experiential evidence of what works, there is a lack of understanding regarding how to effectively help young athletes enhance their wellbeing, long-term develop…
View article: The good, the bad, and the ugly: A qualitative secondary analysis into the impact of doping and anti-doping on clean elite athletes in five European countries
The good, the bad, and the ugly: A qualitative secondary analysis into the impact of doping and anti-doping on clean elite athletes in five European countries Open
Protecting clean sport, and the rights of athletes to a clean sport environment, is at the centre of anti-doping policies. To better support and enable clean athletes and sport, an understanding of the clean athlete lifeworld is required. …
View article: Developing and Maintaining Sport-Confidence: Learning From Elite Athletes
Developing and Maintaining Sport-Confidence: Learning From Elite Athletes Open
Have you noticed how you can feel very confident in some sporting situations but in others, usually at the worst possible moment, that confidence can suddenly disappear? When athletes feel confident, they are focused on the task, feel rela…
View article: Parental strategies for supporting children’s psychosocial development within and beyond elite sport
Parental strategies for supporting children’s psychosocial development within and beyond elite sport Open
There remains limited research into the role that parents play to support their child's psychosocial development within elite youth sport contexts. The present study was conducted in an English professional youth football (soccer) academy …
View article: Examining parent-child interactions in British junior tennis: A conversation analysis of the pre-competition car journey
Examining parent-child interactions in British junior tennis: A conversation analysis of the pre-competition car journey Open
Research exploring the processes and effects of parent-child social interaction in youth sport has\nbeen limited by an overreliance on retrospective questionnaire and interview-based designs. The \npurpose of the current study was to exami…
View article: Two sides of the same coin: A qualitative exploration of experiential and perceptual factors which influence the clinical interaction between physicians and Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid using patients in the UK
Two sides of the same coin: A qualitative exploration of experiential and perceptual factors which influence the clinical interaction between physicians and Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid using patients in the UK Open
View article: The good, the bad and the ugly: A qualitative secondary analysis into the impact of doping and anti-doping on clean elite athletes in five European countries
The good, the bad and the ugly: A qualitative secondary analysis into the impact of doping and anti-doping on clean elite athletes in five European countries Open
Background: Although a precise percentage of athletes doping has remained elusive, evidence to date suggest that the majority of athletes are ‘clean’. Protecting clean sport, and the rights of athletes to a clean sport environment, is at t…
View article: Fragile femininity, embodiment, and self-managing harm: an interpretative phenomenological study exploring the lived experience of females who use anabolic-androgenic steroids
Fragile femininity, embodiment, and self-managing harm: an interpretative phenomenological study exploring the lived experience of females who use anabolic-androgenic steroids Open
Little research exists on the lived experiences of female anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) use from a harm reduction perspective. This study aims to address this gap and explore the experiences, perceptions, and perspectives of AAS-using …
View article: Racing Clean in a Tainted World: A Qualitative Exploration of the Experiences and Views of Clean British Elite Distance Runners on Doping and Anti-Doping
Racing Clean in a Tainted World: A Qualitative Exploration of the Experiences and Views of Clean British Elite Distance Runners on Doping and Anti-Doping Open
Background: Doping has been a prominent issue for the sport of athletics in recent years. The endurance disciplines, which currently account for 56% of the global anti-doping rule violations in athletics, appear to be particularly high ris…
View article: A history of parent involvement in organized youth sport: A scoping review.
A history of parent involvement in organized youth sport: A scoping review. Open
A fundamental step in describing a research field is the review and synthesis of accumulated knowledge.Multiple qualitative reviews have been conducted over the last decade to provide a summary and commentary on the growing literature in t…
View article: Understanding and building clean(er) sport together: Community-based participatory research with elite athletes and anti-doping organisations from five European countries
Understanding and building clean(er) sport together: Community-based participatory research with elite athletes and anti-doping organisations from five European countries Open
View article: Understanding and building clean(er) sport together: Community-based participatory research with elite athletes and anti-doping organisations from five European countries
Understanding and building clean(er) sport together: Community-based participatory research with elite athletes and anti-doping organisations from five European countries Open
In this study, we give voice to athletes and explore what ‘clean’ means for them in elite sport. Working together with elite athletes and National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs) in five European countries, we investigated the meaning an…
View article: Advancing Our Understanding of Psychological Stress and Coping Among Parents in Organized Youth Sport
Advancing Our Understanding of Psychological Stress and Coping Among Parents in Organized Youth Sport Open
The current study investigated psychological stress among parents of competitive British tennis players. Adopting a multipart concurrent mixed method design, 135 British tennis parents completed a cross sectional online questionnaire to ex…
View article: Development and Validation of the Parent-Initiated Motivational Climate in Individual Sport Competition Questionnaire
Development and Validation of the Parent-Initiated Motivational Climate in Individual Sport Competition Questionnaire Open
This paper presents a series of studies that progresses the development and validation of the Parent-Initiated Motivational Climate in Individual Sport Competition Questionnaire (MCISCQ-Parent). Study 1 examined the face and content validi…
View article: Advancing the study of parental involvement to optimise the psychosocial development and experiences of young athletes
Advancing the study of parental involvement to optimise the psychosocial development and experiences of young athletes Open
View article: Would You Use It With a Seal of Approval? Important Attributes of 2,4-Dinitrophenol (2,4-DNP) as a Hypothetical Pharmaceutical Product
Would You Use It With a Seal of Approval? Important Attributes of 2,4-Dinitrophenol (2,4-DNP) as a Hypothetical Pharmaceutical Product Open
With advances in research, 2,4-DNP as a pharmaceutical drug in the future for treating neurodegenerative diseases and potentially for weight loss is not inconceivable. Caution is warranted for interpreting the BWS scores. Owing to the diff…
View article: Educating and Supporting Tennis Parents Using Web-Based Delivery Methods: A Novel Online Education Program
Educating and Supporting Tennis Parents Using Web-Based Delivery Methods: A Novel Online Education Program Open
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Applied Sport Psychology on 23 Feb 2018, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/10413200.2018.1433250
View article: Educating and supporting tennis parents: an action research study
Educating and supporting tennis parents: an action research study Open
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health on 25 Jun 2017, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2017.1341947
View article: Educating and supporting tennis parents: A grounded theory of parents’ needs during childhood and early adolescence.
Educating and supporting tennis parents: A grounded theory of parents’ needs during childhood and early adolescence. Open
This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.
View article: The development of a psychosocial parent education programme for British Tennis
The development of a psychosocial parent education programme for British Tennis Open
Although there currently exists an in-depth empirical understanding of parents experiences and involvement in youth sport, there is an absence of published field-based intervention research specifically with sport parents (Harwood & Knight…
View article: Optimizing the role of the tennis parent: an action research study
Optimizing the role of the tennis parent: an action research study Open