Freeman, Paul - University of Essex - School of Biological Sciences

研究领域

I have an ongoing research programme which has adopted a systematic analysis of the complex nature of social support. Three keys aims are: 1) To improve the measurement of social support. 2) To identify the effects of social support and factors which influence its effectiveness. 3) To understand what leads individuals to view other people as supportive. I am also interested in the role of stress appraisals in achievement contexts. My research in this area has two key aims: 1) To identify factors that lead individuals to view demanding situations as a challenge rather than a threat. 2) To identify how challenge appraisals lead to enhanced performance. Another area of my research focuses on the values children hold towards sport and physical education. Two key aims are: 1) To examine how social factors influence youth sport values. 2) To evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to promote participation in sport and physical activity. For example, I am currently working with Dr Gavin Sandercock on two interrelated funded projects (by Active Essex and an ESRC Impact Accelerator award) to evaluate the impact of the primary school PE Premium. I have also recently set up a series of projects to examine psychosocial factors that underpin athletes’ attitudes towards doping.

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• Flowers, E.P., Freeman, P., & Gladwell, V.F. (2016). A cross-sectional study examining predictors of visit frequency to local green space and the impact this has on physical activity levels. BMC Public Health, 16:420. doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-3050-9. • Moore, L.J., Vine, S.J., Wilson, M.R., & Freeman, P. (2015). Reappraising threat: How to optimize performance under pressure. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 37, 339-343. doi: 10.1123/jsep.2014-0186 • Coussens, A.H, Rees, T., & Freeman, P. (2015). Applying generalizability theory to examine the antecedents of perceived coach support. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 37, 51-62. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jsep.2014-0087 • Soundy, A., Freeman, P., Stubbs, B., Probst, M., & Vancampfort, D. (2015). The benefits of sports participation for individuals with severe mental illness: a meta-ethnographic review. Advances in Psychiatry, 2015. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/261642 • Soundy, A., Freeman, P., Stubbs, B., Probst, M., Coffee, P., & Vancampfort, D. (2014). The transcending benefits of physical activity for individuals with schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-ethnography. Psychiatry Research. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2014.07.083 • Hamlyn-Williams, C.C., Freeman, P., & Parfitt, G. (2014). Acute affective responses to prescribed and self-selected exercise intensities in adolescent girls. BMC Sports Science Medicine and Rehabilitation, 6:35. doi:10.1186/2052-1847-6-35. • Soundy, A., Freeman, P., Stubbs, B., Probst, M., & Vancampfort, D. (2014). The value of social support to encourage people with schizophrenia to engage in physical activity: An insight from specialist mental health physiotherapists. Journal of Mental Health, 23, 256-260. doi: 10.3109/09638237.2014.951481. • Moore, L.J., Vine, S.J., Wilson, M.R., & Freeman, P. (2014). Examining the antecedents of challenge and threat states: The influence of perceived required effort and support availability. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 93, 267-273. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2014.05.009 • Soundy, A., Stubbs, B., Freeman, P., & Roskell, C. (2014). Factors influencing patients’ hope in stroke and spinal cord injury. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 21, 210-218. • Freeman, P., Coffee, P., Moll, T., Rees, T, & Sammy, N. (2014). The ARSQ: The athletes’ received support questionnaire. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 36, 189-202. doi: 10.1123/jsep.2013-0080 • Moore, L.J., Wilson, M.R., Vine, S.J., Coussens, A.H., & Freeman, P. (2013). Champ or chump? Challenge and threat states during pressurized competition. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 35, 551-562. • Freeman, P., Leslie, A., Leger, H., & Williams, C.A. (2013). How important are the values of significant others? The influence of physical education teachers’ values and types of school on youth sport values. In J. Whitehead, H. Telfer, & J. Lambert (Eds.), Values in youth sport and physical education (pp.178-190). Oxford: Routledge. • Vine, S.J., Freeman, P., Moore, L.J., Chandra-Ramanan, R., & Wilson, M.R. (2013). The effect of challenge and threat states on visual attentional control and motor skills performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 19, 185-194. doi: 10.1037/a0034106 • Moore, L.J., Vine, S.J., Freeman, P., & Wilson, M.R. (2013). Quiet eye training promotes challenge appraisals and aids performance under elevated anxiety. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 11, 169-183. doi:10.1080/1612197X.2013.773688 • Moore, L.J., Vine, S.J., Wilson, M.R., & Freeman, P. (2012). The effect of challenge and threat states on performance: An examination of potential mechanisms. Psychophysiology, 49, 1417-1425. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01449 • Rees, T., Freeman, P., Bell, S., & Bunney, R. (2012). Three generalizability studies of the components of perceived coach support. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 34, 238-251. • Rees, T., & Freeman, P. (2012) Coping in sport through social support. In J. Thatcher, M. Jones, & D. Lavallee (Eds.). Coping and emotion in sport (pp. 102-117). Oxford: Routledge. • Freeman, P., Coffee, P., & Rees, T. (2011). The PASS-Q: The perceived available support in sport questionnaire. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 33, 54-74. • McGrath, J.S., Moore, L., Wilson, M.R., Freeman, P., & Vine, S. (2011). ‘Challenge’ and ‘threat’ states in surgery: Implications for surgical performance and training. British Journal of Urology International, 108, 795-796. doi: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2011.10558.x • Rees, T., & Freeman, P. (2010). Social support and performance in a golf-putting experiment. The Sport Psychologist, 24, 333-348.