Publicaties

In team resilience literature, team performance is consistently regarded as a primary outcome of resilient teams. However, empirical evidence linking team resilience to objective performance indicators such as effectively winning a game remains scarce. Drawing upon team resilience literature and Self-Determination Theory, this study firstly investigated whether team resilience predict the odds of winning. In addition, as sports teams inevitably ...

Destructive leadership (DL) is a common and serious issue in organizations, not only evident in major scandals associated with destructive behavior of people in top management, but also in everyday work life where employees for instance experience threats, micromanagement, and intrusive actions from their leader. The most recent account of the prevalence of DL shows that over 36 percent of the Swedish workforce reports having experienced at ...

Identity leadership is the process through which leaders create, advance, represent, and embed a sense of ‘we’ and ‘us’ (i.e., social identities) within the teams they lead. This paper extends the existing sports psychology literature by investigating the relationship between identity leadership and athletes' mental health, as mediated by team identification and social support. Additionally, the study explores the generalisability of these ...

Background and Objectives Most studies examining combined cognitive and physical activity are conducted in laboratory settings. This randomized controlled trial (RCT) examines the effects of a real-life cognitively enriched walking program on cognitive functioning and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in adults aged ≥65 years. Research Design and Methods A three-arm RCT was conducted, comparing the cognitively enriched walking ...