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Emotional maturity, dispositional coping, and coping effectiveness among adolescent athletes (Pre-published version)

Perry, John; Nicholls, Adam R.; Levy, Andrew R. (Elsevier, 2015)

Objectives: Although some scholars have suggested that coping is constrained by emotional maturity, little is known about the relationship between these constructs. In this paper we assessed a model that included emotional ...

Assessing model fit: Caveats and recommendations for confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory structural equation modeling

Perry, John; Nicholls, Adam R.; Clough, Peter J.; Crust, Lee (Routledge, 2015)

Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is commonly used to assess measurement models in sport and exercise psychology. Frequently used as a yardstick for their adequacy, are specific cutoff values proposed by Hu and Bentler ...

Coach perceptions of performance enhancement in adolescence: The sport drug control model for adolescent athletes (Pre-published version)

Perry, John; Nicholls, Adam R.; Levy, Andrew R.; Meir, Rudi; Jones, Leigh; Thompson, Mark A.; Baghurst, Timothy; Sanctuary, Colin (Elsevier, 2015)

Aim: We qualitatively explored the Sport Drug Control Model (SDCM; Donovan, Eggar, Kapernick, & Mendoza, 2002), in order to examine coaches’ perceptions of adolescent athletes’ attitudes and susceptibility towards ...

Sources of sport confidence, imagery type and performance among competitive athletes: The mediating role of sports confidence (Pre-published version)

Perry, John; Levy, Andrew R.; Nicholls, Adam R.; Larkin, Derek; Davies, Jean (Edizioni Minerva Medica, 2015)

Aim. This study explored the mediating role of sport confidence upon (1) sources of sport confidence- performance relationship and (2) imagery- performance relationship. Methods. Participants were 157 competitive athletes ...