TSP 是一本学术期刊，旨在激发思想和传播专注于运动心理学应用和实践的知识。该杂志特别强调向运动员和教练等从业者提供心理服务。 TSP 在范围上是国际化的，并且可以接受不同的方法。 TSP 是为在各种环境（包括学术、公共和私人环境）中从事研究、教学和/或干预的运动心理学专家出版的。该杂志还适用于从业者，例如接受过培训并对运动心理学感兴趣的教练。

The Sport Psychologist is an academic journal aimed at stimulating thought and disseminating knowledge focused on the application and practice of sport psychology. The journal particularly emphasizes providing psychological services to practitioners such as athletes and coaches. TSP is international in scope and accepts various methodologies. It serves as a platform for sport psychology professionals engaged in research, teaching, and/or intervention in diverse settings, including academic, public, and private environments. The journal is also suitable for practitioners, including trained coaches interested in sport psychology.

《Sport Psychologist》是一本学术期刊，旨在激发思想并传播关于运动心理学应用与实践的知识。该杂志特别强调为运动员和教练等从业者提供心理服务。期刊的国际化范围允许接受多种研究方法。它为在各种环境（包括学术、公共和私人领域）中从事研究、教学和干预的运动心理学专家提供了一个发表的平台。此外，该杂志也适合那些接受过培训并对运动心理学感兴趣的教练。

Sport Psychologist

Strategic self-talk is a powerful mental skill that athletes can use to self-regulate the effects of pressure and enhance task performance. Multistates (MuSt) theory considers the combination of emotion- and action-centered self-regulation to be the most effective strategy to optimize athletes’ performance and subjective experience. The aim of this study was to test the tenets of MuSt theory on a pressurized performance task, involving male junior football players ( N = 20, M age = 18.6) competing at the elite level in Finland. The task tested the players’ passing abilities over six trials while they applied different self-talk strategies in attempts to improve passing performance. The findings demonstrate the effectiveness of strategic self-talk as a form of self-regulation. Specifically, the combination of emotion- and action-centered cue words proved to be the optimal strategy for coping with the demands of the task. The study findings have relevant practical implications for players, coaches, and practitioners.

Jonathan Viscosi

Claudio Robazza

Billy Jansson

Paul Davis

Montse C. Ruiz

The Sport Psychologist

It’s a MuSt Win: The Effects of Self-Talk to Enhance Passing Performance Under Pressure in Elite Football Players

必须取胜：自我对话对精英足球运动员压力下传球表现的影响

Currently, there is no empirical research on second-generation mindfulness training in the field of sport psychology. This study designed Samatha-based training (SBT) according to the principles of Samatha (a Buddhist practice) and preliminarily tested its influence on flow state. A total of 22 martial-arts-routine athletes were divided into two groups: the SBT group ( n = 10) and the wait-list group ( n = 12). The 7-week intervention demonstrated that SBT significantly enhanced the scores in present-moment attention, awareness, and flow state. These results support the effectiveness of SBT as a novel second-generation mindfulness-based intervention. Furthermore, the concept of mindfulness is discussed from the Samatha perspective, and subsequently, the reason that SBT promotes flow state was explored from a new perspective.

Daliang Zhao

A Second-Generation Mindfulness-Based Intervention Focusing on Flow State: A Samatha-Based Training

基于第二代正念干预的专注流畅状态：一种基于止禅的训练

While a breadth of literature has asserted the potential physiological benefits of cold-water-immersion (CWI) activities (such as sea swimming, ice baths, and cold showers), analyses on their possible psychological effects is more limited. The current analysis ( N = 164) aimed to explore the relationship between CWI and a number of psychological variables pertaining to mental health and psychological fortitude by comparing those who engage in CWI via various modalities ( n = 120) and at various levels of frequency to those who do not ( n = 44). When controlling for levels of daily stress, engagement in cold-water activities was found to be associated with lower levels of depression, anxiety, and stress, as well as higher levels of resilience, self-efficacy, and mental toughness. Furthermore, analyses suggested a “dosage effect” as more frequent CWI was associated with significantly more positive levels of mental toughness and self-efficacy.

Annmarie Mullooly

Dylan Colbert

The Relationship Between Cold-Water-Immersion Activities, Mental Health, Self-Efficacy, Resilience, and Mental Toughness

冷水中浸泡活动与心理健康、自我效能、韧性及心理韧性的关系

Sport psychology practitioners are increasingly operating in the esport domain. Yet it remains unclear how practitioners who have exclusively been trained in traditional sport develop a contextually grounded understanding of their practice in esport. This study, framed from an ontological relativism and epistemological interpretivism approach, involved semistructured interviews with 10 qualified practitioners (three female, seven male) who transitioned from traditional sport to esport. Data were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis and presented via three composite vignettes: (a) My wish was to feel a part of the team, but there’s no team; (b) To be honest, did I have assumptions going into esport? Absolutely!; and (c) Esport is the wild, wild west. Our findings offer insights on the hurdles associated with transitioning from traditional sport to esport, thus highlighting the important role that esport organizations, training routes, and educational institutions have in supporting practitioners to ethically and effectively work in this domain.

Jonathan Brain

Alessandro Quartiroli

Christopher R.D. Wagstaff

Transitioning From Traditional Sport to Esport: Exploring Sport Psychology Practitioners’ Experiences

从传统体育转向电子竞技：探索运动心理学从业者的经历

While self-compassion presents as a viable resource for managing difficult events in sport, little is known about how it functions in the stress process. In 2 studies with women university athletes (N = 122 and 131), the authors examined self-compassion as a prospective predictor of appraisal, coping, goal progress, and affect in a competition. Direct and indirect effects of self-compassion on aspects of the stress process were examined by testing full, partial, and moderated mediation models. Self-compassion plays a direct and indirect role in the stress process of competitive women athletes. Self-compassion significantly predicted higher control appraisals (Studies 1 and 2) and lower threat appraisals (Study 1), which explained coping tendencies of self-compassionate athletes. Sequential pathways linking appraisals and coping accounted for why athletes with higher self-compassion are more likely to have higher goal progress, more positive affect, and less negative affect. Overall, self-compassion promotes adaptive appraisals and coping.

Amber D. Mosewich

Catherine M. Sabiston

Kent C. Kowalski

Patrick Gaudreau

Peter R.E. Crocker

Self-Compassion in the Stress Process in Women Athletes

女性运动员压力过程中的自我同情

We present two confessional tales of our transnational experience as U.K.-based trainee sport psychology practitioners working in a professional sport organization in Trinidad and Tobago. We first provide contextual elements of our placement before sharing the confessional tales regarding the nuances of providing sport psychology services in a cultural context different from the one in which we are currently training. In the confessional tales, we share some challenges and hurdles we experienced relating to our culturally led assumptions. The tales are titled “Boundary Issues” and “Punctuality Is a Privilege.” We then share some reflections in which we explore our lessons learned about cultural humility and describe our underestimation of our cultural arrogance and the challenges experienced during our cultural reflection process. We conclude this professional practice paper by offering several practical implications for trainees and qualified sport psychology practitioners to consider when developing a culturally grounded approach to practice.

Heather Hunter

George H. Franklin

Daniel J. Brown

Two Confessional Tales of Trainee Sport Psychology Practitioners’ Experiences of Operating in Trinidad and Tobago

两名实习运动心理学从业者在特立尼达和多巴哥工作经历的忏悔故事

Coaches’ knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about mental health—or mental health literacy (MHL)—affect teams’ mental health climates and the detection, referral, and treatment of athletes’ mental health concerns. Thus, assessing collegiate coaches’ MHL, and factors related to its presence, is critical. Using the Mental Health Literacy Scale, 1,571 NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) coaches were surveyed regarding their MHL and demographic and mental health experience factors. Overall, 99.9% of the coaches surveyed believe that athletes’ mental health affected their sport performances. Through hierarchical regression analyses, coaches’ exposure to mental health treatment, perceived helpfulness of mental health treatment, gender (i.e., woman), years coaching (i.e., fewer years), and current NCAA division (i.e., Division III) were significantly related to their MHL, explaining 15.5% of variance. However, coaches’ race/ethnicity did not reach significance. Recommendations regarding increasing coaches’ MHL and hiring appropriately trained and licensed mental health and sport psychology professionals are offered.

Kelzie E Beebe

Trent A. Petrie

On the Frontline of Athlete Mental Health: The Mental Health Literacy of NCAA Coaches

运动员心理健康前线：NCAA教练的心理健康素养

Key governing bodies (e.g., Association for Applied Sport Psychology) recognize that graduate programs must prepare multiculturally competent practitioners. Students and recent graduates of sport psychology master’s degree programs ( N = 107, M age = 26.32, SD = 5.19) reported moderate levels of feeling safe, valued, and comfortable within their program; low to moderate levels of multicultural training integration; and low to moderate satisfaction with their multicultural training. Students of Color ( n = 42) compared to White students ( n = 63) reported less satisfaction with their multicultural training; felt less safe, comfortable, and valued; and perceived less multicultural integration. Furthermore, perceptions of multicultural training integration and of feeling safe, comfortable, and valued were significantly related to satisfaction with their multicultural training. Training programs are advised to improve integration of multicultural training, invest in program climate to help students feel safe and valued, and ensure continuing education of faculty members.

Macey Arnold

Trent Petrie

Multicultural Training and Program Climate in Master’s Degree Sport Psychology Programs

硕士学位运动心理学项目中的多元文化培训与项目氛围

In response to recent calls for promoting the contextual intelligence of sport psychology practitioners, the aim of the current study was to obtain the first-person competitive experiences of kendo fighters (i.e., kenshi ). Existential phenomenological interviews were conducted with eight competitive Japanese-American kenshi residing in the United States. The findings of thematic analysis indicated that the participants possessed a strong commitment to earning ippon (i.e., a valid point), which was achieved by a subjective synchronization of mind, sword, and body in the execution of a strike against an opponent. They considered this to be a transformative experience, which elevated them perceptually out of the sporting context to a momentary sense of “cutting” the opponent with a real sword. The current findings also offer sport psychology consultants possible context-specific insights (e.g., importance of seme ) and strategies (e.g., management of attentional focus, self-regulation techniques) for assisting kenshi in preparing for competitive situations.

Takahiro Sato

Peter R. Jensen

Craig A. Wrisberg

Kenshi’s Experiences of Sword Fighting in Kendo: The Way of Ippon With Soul, Sword, and Body

剑道中剑士的剑斗体验：魂、剑、体合一的一本之道

The purpose of this study was to explore the internal dialogue of trainee sport psychologists (TSPs) and athletes immediately following athlete–practitioner consultations. TSPs (four male and three female, age 22–32 years) and athletes (four male, three female, age 19–29 years) completed a thought-listing procedure twice, while watching video recordings of their previous consultations. The thought-listing procedure involved participants’ pausing the video to record the in-session internal dialogue they had experienced during the consultation. Participants’ responses were categorized into six dimensions: time, place, focus, locus, orientation, and mode. TSPs’ and athletes’ retrospective accounts provided evidence that their in-session internal dialogue was (a) present focused, (b) about in-session material, (c) about the athletes or themselves, (d) about internal and external events, (e) professional (i.e., related to the session), and (f) neutral. Findings provide trainees and inexperienced practitioners with insights into the thought content of TSPs and athletes to guide their own athlete interactions.

David Tod

Hayley E. McEwan

Amy E. Whitehead

Daryl Marchant

A Penny for Your Thoughts: Athletes’ and Trainee Sport Psychologists’ Internal Dialogue During Consultations

一文钱买你的想法：运动员和实习运动心理学家在咨询期间的内心对话

Abbreviation	Sport. Psychol.
Journal Impact	1.67
Quartiles(Global)	SPORT SCIENCES(Q3)

ISSN	0888-4781, 1543-2793
h-index	83

Publication Information	Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers Inc.，Publishing cycle: Quarterly，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 1996，Proportion of original research papers: 95.83%，Self Citation Rate:6.20%， Gold OA Rate: 2.33%
Average review cycle	网友分享经验：>12周，或约稿
Average recruitment ratio	网友分享经验：容易

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