Browsing Psychology (Peer-reviewed publications) by Author "Perry, John"
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Academic self-efficacy partially mediates the relationship between Scottish index of multiple deprivation and composite attainment score
Perry, John; Dempster, Martin; McKay, Michael T. (Frontiers, 2017)A developing literature continues to testify to the relationship between higher socio-economic status (SES) and better academic attainment. However, the literature is complex in terms of the variety of SES and attainment ... -
Adolescents consider the future differently depending on the domain in question: Results of an exploratory study in the United Kingdom (Pre-published version)
Perry, John; McKay, Michael T.; Cole, Jon.C.; Magee, Jennifer (Elsevier, 2017)The study of Consideration of Future Consequences (CFC) construct has increased substantively in recent years. Underlying these developments is the presumption that consideration of the future is uniform across all domains, ... -
Alcohol behaviors across perceived parental security profiles in adolescents
Perry, John; McKay, Michael T.; Harvey, Séamus A.; Andretta, James R. (Journal of Child & Adolescent Behavior, 2016)Background: Previous research has suggested a bivariate or correlational relationship between attachment scores and alcohol use behaviors among adolescents. Methods: The present study is a person-oriented analysis of the ... -
The applicability of self-regulation theories in sport: Goal adjustment capacities, stress appraisals, coping, and well-being among athletes (Pre-published version)
Perry, John; Nicholls, Adam R.; Levy, Andrew R.; Carson, Fraser; Thompson, Mark A. (Elsevier, 2016)Objectives: We examined a model, informed by self-regulation theories from the health psychology literature, which included goal adjustment capacities, appraisals of challenge and threat, coping, and well-being. Design: ... -
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 ... -
Committed relationships and enhanced threat levels: Perceptions of coach behavior, the coach-athlete relationship, stress appraisals, and coping among athletes (Pre-published version)
Perry, John; Nicholls, Adam R.; Levy, Andrew R.; Jones, Leigh; Meir, Rudi; Radcliffe, Jon N. (Sage, 2016)How a coach is perceived to behave by the athlete may have far reaching implications in terms of performance and well being.The purpose of this study was to assess an a priori model that included perceptions of coach ... -
Development and validation of the compliant and principled sportspersonship scale (Pre-published version)
Perry, John; Clough, Peter J.; Crust, Lee; Nabb, Sam L.; Nicholls, Adam R. (Routledge, 2014)Purpose: A new measure of sportspersonship, which differentiates between compliance and principled approaches, was developed and initially validated in 3 studies. Method: Study 1 developed items, assessed content validity, ... -
The development of a new sport-specific classification of coping and a meta-analysis of the relationship between different coping strategies and moderators on sporting outcomes
Perry, John; Nicholls, Adam R.; Carroll, Sean; Taylor, Natalie J. (Frontiers, 2016)There is an ever growing coping and sports performance literature, with researchers using many different methods to assess performance and different classifications of coping. As such, it makes it difficult to compare ... -
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 ... -
Evidence for the reliability and validity, and some support for the practical utility of the two-factor consideration of future consequences scale-14 (Pre-published version)
Perry, John; McKay, Michael T.; Percy, Andrew; Cole, Jon C. (Elsevier, 2016)Researchers have proposed 1-factor, 2-factor, and bifactor solutions to the 12-item Consideration of Future Consequences Scale (CFCS-12). In order to overcome some measurement problems and to create a robust and conceptually ... -
An examination of adolescent mental and physical well-being in Scottish school children: A cross-sectional study
Perry, John; McKay, Michael T.; Cole, Jon C. (Open Access Text (OAT), 2017)Recent research has suggested that Scottish girls are more at risk of higher levels of psychosomatic symptomatology and lower levels of mental well-being that their male peers. We report the results of a cross-sectional ... -
The factorial validity and reliability of three versions of the aggression questionnaire using confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory structural equation modelling (Pre-published version)
Perry, John; McKay, Michael T.; Harvey, Séamus A. (Elsevier, 2016)The Aggression Questionnaire (AQ) measures aggression in four domains: Anger, Hostility, Physical Aggression and Verbal Aggression. Moreover, a number of shorter versions of the AQ have emerged. The present study used a ... -
Measuring time perspective in adolescents: Can you get the right answer by asking the wrong questions? (Pre-published version)
Perry, John; McKay, Michael T.; Worrell, Frank C.; Zivkovic, Urška; Mello, Zena R.; Musil, Bojan (Elsevier, 2015)Time perspective continues to evolve as a psychological construct. The extant literature suggests that higher future orientation and lower present orientation are associated with better developmental outcomes. However, the ... -
Mental toughness and transitions to high school and to undergraduate study (Pre-published version)
Perry, John; St Clair-Thompson, Helen; Giles, Rebecca; McGeown, Sarah P.; Putwain, David; Clough, Peter J. (Routledge, 2016)Mental toughness can be conceptualised as a set of attributes that allow people to deal effectively with challenges, stressors, and pressure. Recent work has suggested that it may be a valuable construct to consider within ... -
Mental toughness in education: exploring relationships with attainment, attendance, behaviour and peer relationships (Pre-published version)
Perry, John; St Clair-Thompson, Helen; Bugler, Myfanwy; Robinson, Jamey; Clough, Peter J.; McGeown, Sarah P. (Routledge, 2014)Mental toughness has frequently been associated with successful performance in sport; however, recent research suggests that it may also be related to academic performance in Higher Education. In a series of three exploratory ... -
Mental toughness in higher education: Relationships with achievement and profession in first-year university sports students (Pre-published version)
Perry, John; Clough, Peter J.; Crust, Lee; Earle, Keith; Earle, Fiona; Clough, Angela (Elsevier, 2014)Research into mental toughness has largely been confined to elite sport but should theoretically be important across other performance domains. We examined mental toughness in 161 first year sport students at a UK University ... -
Mentally tough athletes are more aware of unsupportive coaching behaviours: Perceptions of coach behavior, motivational climate, and mental toughness among athletes (Pre-published version)
Perry, John; Nicholls, Adam R.; Morley, Dave (Sage, 2016)In this study, we tested an a priori model that included coach behaviour, motivational climate, and mental toughness among 290 athletes. Structural equation modelling demonstrated that supportive coach behaviours were ... -
The model of motivational dynamics in sport: resistance to peer influence, behavioral engagement and disaffection, dispositional coping, and resilience
Perry, John; Nicholls, Adam R.; Morley, David (Frontiers, 2016)The Model of Motivational Dynamics (MMD; Skinner and Pitzer, 2012) infers that peers influence behavioral engagement levels, which in turn is linked to coping and resilience. Scholars, however, are yet to test the MMD among ... -
Nutritional knowledge and eating habits of professional rugby league players: does knowledge translate into practice?
Perry, John; Alaunyte, Leva; Aubrey, Tony (BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Adequate nutrient intake is important to support training and to optimise performance of elite athletes. Nutritional knowledge has been shown to play an important role in adopting optimal nutrition practices. ...