External workload and cognitive performance of a tactical military scenario-based field exercise.

Introduction: Military personnel must manage a multitude of competing physiological and cognitive stressors while maintaining high levels of performance. Quantifying the external workload and cognitive demands of tactical military field exercises closely simulating operational environments, will provide a better understanding of stressors placed on personnel to inform evidence-based interventions.

Methods: Thirty-one soldiers completing a dismounted 48 hours tactical field exercise, participated in the study.

An Examination of the Challenge/Threat State and Sport-Performance Relationship While Controlling for Past Performance.

A challenge state is associated with superior performance compared to a threat state in a variety of performance domains (e.g., sport, aviation, education).

Elite Youth Soccer Players' Sources and Types of Soccer Confidence.

Sport confidence is a psychological characteristic considered vital for youth soccer players to possess. However, only limited research has explored the types and sources of sport confidence important to elite youth performers in professional soccer academies. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 academy footballers (aged 10 or 11).

A grounded theory of inspirational coach leadership.

The purpose of this study was to develop a grounded theory of the process of inspirational coach leadership in sport. A Straussian grounded theory methodology was used. Semi-structured interviews and focus groups were conducted with athletes (n = 22) and coaches (n = 15).

Alcohol consumption, masculinity, and alcohol-related violence and anti-social behaviour in sportspeople.

Objectives: There is no research examining alcohol-related aggression and anti-social behaviour in UK or European sportspeople (athletes), and no research has examined relationships between masculinity, alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related aggression and antisocial behaviour in sportspeople (athletes). This study addresses this gap.

Design: Cross-sectional.