An Official Journal of the European Federation of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC)

Psychology of Sport and Exercise is an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined. The journal is open to the use of diverse methodological approaches. To be considered for publication, manuscripts must make a substantive theoretical or methodological contribution. Manuscripts that will be considered for publication include results from high quality empirical research, reviews, meta-analyses, reports of professional practice (which need to demonstrate academic rigour and go beyond mere description), registered reports, and commentaries concerning already published PSE papers. Authors should adhere to recognised reporting guidelines for research (e.g., PRISMA guidelines for reviews and meta-analyses; TIDieR guidelines for interventions; CONSORT statement for randomised trials). Registered reports undergo a two-phase review process in which study rationale and methodology are considered prior to the research being undertaken. Authors are welcome to pre-register their study with an external organization (e.g. OSF), but it is not required. Authors interested in submitting replications of published studies need to contact the Editors-in-Chief before they start their replication. Quantitative studies should be theoretically informed and empirical research justified with a-priori power estimates provided (drawing on effects sizes from previous meta-analyses and/or specific papers with designs close to the one authors use). Qualitative studies should address the ontological/epistemological position and methodological rigour of the study. We are not interested in manuscripts that aim to test the psychometric properties of an existing scale from English to another language, unless new validation methods are used which address previously unanswered research questions.



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If you wish to contact one of the Editors-in-Chief for any reason, (e.g. becoming a reviewer, interest in joining editorial board, issue about journal policy) please email the Editors-in-Chief (please go to "View full editorial board list" to send an email). All manuscripts should be presented as concisely as possible. Authors should consider making available some of their material as supplementary electronic material to keep the overall page limit within 30 pages including references, tables, and figures. If manuscripts are mixed-methods, multiple experiments, complex designs, or include large tables and data sets (qualitative and/or quantitative), authors are requested to provide more information about their rationale for a longer page length (more than 30 pages) for their paper during the review process (e.g., in the cover letter to the Editors). The editorial team will then decide on the appropriateness of a longer page length when considering the submission. All submissions are screened by one of the editors before they are sent out for review to assess their suitability for the journal. Hence, there is no need to contact the editors prior to submission. The editors will also consider short communications for publication and such submissions should be a maximum of 15 pages including abstract (150 words max), main text, references, tables, and figures. Commentaries on published PSE papers should be a maximum of 5 pages, including abstract, references, tables, and figures.

Registered reports

Editors-in-Chief
Professor Nikos Ntoumanis
Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, 6845, Australia Email Professor Nikos Ntoumanis
Professor Bernd Strauss
University of Münster Institute of Sports Science, Horstmarer Landweg 62b, 48149, Muenster, Germany Email Professor Bernd Strauss
Founding Editor
S. J. H. Biddle
Former Editors-in-Chief
D. Alfermann
Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
M. S. Hagger
University of California Merced, Psychological Sciences, Merced, California, United States
A. Taylor
University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Associate Editors
Assoc. Professor Brandon L. Alderman
Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Assoc. Professor Duarte Araújo
University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Professor F. Hulya Asci
Marmara University, İstanbul, Turkey
Assist. Prof. Richard J. Keegan
University of Canberra Research Institute for Sport and Exercise, Bruce, New South Wales, Australia
Professor Kathleen Martin Ginis
The University of British Columbia School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Professor Kerry R. McGannon
Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Professor Henning Plessner
Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
Dr. Andrew Prestwich
University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Professor Markus Raab
German Sport University Cologne, Koln, Germany
Assoc. Professor Claudio Robazza
Gabriele d'Annunzio University of Chieti and Pescara, Chieti, Italy
Professor Brett Smith
Durham University Department of Sport Exercise and Physical Activity, Durham, United Kingdom
Professor Natalia Stambulova
Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden
Dr. Ian Taylor
Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Editorial Board
Dr. Paul R. Appleton
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Professor Chris Armitage
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Professor Joseph Baker
York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Assoc. Professor Maurizio Bertollo
Gabriele d'Annunzio University of Chieti and Pescara, Chieti, Italy
Professor Steven R. Bray
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Assoc. Professor Shaunna Burke
University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Professor John Cairney
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Aïna Chalabaev
Grenoble Alpes University Sport and Social Environment Laboratory, Grenoble, France
Professor David E. Conroy
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
Dr. Jennifer Cumming
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Dr. Thomas Curran
University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
Professor Anne-Marie Elbe
Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
Dr. Christoph Englert
University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Dr. David Fletcher
Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Professor Markus Gerber
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Dr. Fiona Gillison
University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
Assoc. Professor Rob Gray
Arizona State University Department of Human Systems Engineering, Mesa, Arizona, United States
Professor Christy Greenleaf
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Assoc. Professor Daniel Gucciardi
Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Assist. Prof. Katie E. Gunnell
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Professor Leen Haerens
Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
Assoc. Professor Eric E. Hall
Elon University, Elon, North Carolina, United States
Professor Christopher Harwood
Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Professor Bradley Hatfield
University of Maryland at College Park, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Dr. Matthew P. Herring
University of Limerick Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Limerick, Ireland
Professor Tsung-Min Hong
National Taiwan Normal University Department of Physical Education, Taipei City, Taiwan
Dr. Andreas Ivarsson
Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden
Dr. Ben Jackson
University of Western Australia, School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
Assoc. Professor Camilla J. Knight
Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom
Dr. Florian Loffing
Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
Professor Diane Mack
Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Assist. Prof. Jaclyn Maher
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Assoc. Professor Luc Martin
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Professor Daniel Memmert
German Sport University Cologne, Koln, Germany
Professor Alexandre J.S. Morin
Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Assoc. Professor Sean P. Mullen
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, Champaign, Illinois, United States
Dr. Raoul R. D. Oudejans
VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dr. Anthony Papathomas
Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Professor Andrea Petroczi
Kingston University, Kingston Upon Thames, United Kingdom
Professor Steven J. Petruzzello
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, Champaign, Illinois, United States
Professor Harry Prapavessis
Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Amanda Rebar
Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia
Professor Ryan Rhodes
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Dr. Simon Rosenbaum
University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Professor Catherine Sabiston
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Mustafa Sarkar
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Dr. Chris Spray
Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Dr. Andreas Stenling
Umea University, Umeå, Sweden
Assist. Prof. Katherine Tamminen
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Professor Cecilie Thogersen-Ntoumani
Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Professor Maarten Vansteenkiste
Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
Professor Claudia Voelcker-Rehage
Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
Assoc. Professor Kathleen S. Wilson
California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, California, United States
Professor Mark Wilson
University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
Professor Tim Woodman
Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom