Anne-Marie Elbe

University of Leipzig · Faculty of Sport Science

If you enter the terms “motivation” and “sport” into an online search engine, you will be overwhelmed by the sheer number of entries. The popularity of the concept of motivation and the breadth of its use reflect its importance for issues relating to health, athletic performance, and general life contexts on an individual and a societal level. Ligh...

This study aimed to investigate athletes' hypothetical use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), a behavior similar to doping, and its association with doping attitudes, competitive anxiety and situational opportunity. One hundred twenty-two sport science students completed an online survey assessing biographical information, doping at...

Der Arbeitsplatz als einer der wichtigsten Orte, an dem für erwachsene Menschen Gesundheitsförderung stattfinden kann, bietet eine ganze Reihe verschiedener Möglichkeiten und Anlässe, um Gesundheitsdaten zu erfassen. Die Auswahl der infrage kommenden Instrumente und Methoden zur Erfassung dieser Daten muss jedoch nicht nur bestimmten rechtlichen Ra...

Doping has serious negative consequences for athletes and the integrity of sports, implying the need for effective prevention programs. Since educating young athletes about doping-related knowledge is deemed to be not sufficiently effective to minimize doping, a focus on values, emotions and morality is seen as a promising approach and previous res...

The “11 for Health in Denmark” in‐school educational football program has shown to have numerous positive physiological and psychological effects in 10–12‐year‐old schoolchildren. A key part of the successful application of the program, however, has not yet been examined, namely the motivational processes underlying participation and behavioral cha...

Introduction: Recent studies indicate high prevalences of disordered eating or eating disorders in adult athletes and a worrying increase in adolescent athletes. Although several risk factors for developing eating disorders have been identified for adult athletes (e.g., personality factors, sport-related pressure), research on risk factors in adole...

Abstract: Elite football can make players' feel nervous, and personality characteristics, as well as experience, affect how well pressure is handled before important games. Studying the psychological characteristics of female football players can provide information on how well psychological pressure is handled and provide knowledge on how to suppo...

To inform future intervention strategies and enhance professional esports players’ performance, this qualitative study investigated stressors, associated stress responses, and coping strategies experienced by professional League of Legends players. Following criterion-based sampling, semi-structured interviews with 12 professional esports players w...

Objectives This study investigated the effects of the health promotion intervention “11 for Health in Denmark” programme on 10-12-year-old ethnic minority schoolchildren’s enjoyment, health knowledge, well-being and fitness. Methods 1122 Danish 5th grade schoolchildren with ethnic minority background from 154 schools were randomised (5:1) to an in...

The “11 for Health in Denmark” concept aims to enhance 10–12‐year‐old schoolchildren’s physical activity levels and health knowledge through an 11‐week football intervention and has been shown to induce positive effects in numerous areas. However, little is known about the implementation facilitation of this concept in schools. This case study ther...

Doping is considered a major threat of modern sport. Since the establishment of the anti-doping system emphasis was placed on the detection and punishment approach in the fight against doping. Recently a shift to education as a preventive tool against doping has been made. In this effort several anti-doping educational interventions have been devel...

Securing long-lasting positive intergroup relations is of high priority in the multi-cultural European Union. Developing and promoting integration within the school context is a matter of interest to both researchers and practitioners. This study investigated the effects of a mastery-oriented motivational climate intervention using the TARGET frame...

Objectives This study investigated the correlation between sports club activities and well-being and physical health parameters in 10–12 years old boys. Design Cross sectional. Setting Danish schools. Participants 2293 boys took part in the study. Primary and secondary outcome measures Questionnaires on participation in sports clubs and well-be...

This chapter provides an overview of the moral issues related to doping behavior, posing key questions that may guide future research. Questions raised pertain to whether doping is an immoral behavior or an ethical issue as well as to theory development to effectively understand the link between moral factors and doping behavior. A third question i...

The trans-contextual model (TCM) offers a heuristic-based theoretical framework to understand fifth-grade Danish schoolchildren’s motivation to participate in the 11 for Health in Denmark educational football concept, as well as their intention and behaviour to participate in vigorous physical activity (PA) in a leisure-time context. The implementa...

Motivation ist ein zentrales Thema in Diskussionen über regelmäßiges Sporttreiben und über sportliche Leistung. In diesem Kapitel wird auf die verschiedenen Motive für das Sporttreiben eingegangen, nämlich Leistung, Macht und Anschluss sowie dargelegt, wie diese Motive erfasst werden können. Ferner werden motivationale Orientierungen, das motivatio...

Background: In Denmark, the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown resulted in a compact season finisher for elite footballers, potentially impacting their mental health. � Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the protective role of resilience and the impeding role of trait anxiety on elite footballers' level and variability of well-being and emotion...

To inform future intervention strategies and enhance professional esports players’ performance, this qualitative study investigated stressors, perceived stress responses, and coping strategies experienced by professional League of Legends players. Following criterion-based sampling, semi-structured interviews with 12 professional esports players we...

The COVID-19 pandemic is also called a crisis of uncertainty because of so many unforeseeable events like canceled qualification competitions, loss of training facilities, and postponement of the Olympic games. Athletes and their entourage experience this uncertainty as stressful. Sport psychology practitioners (SPPs) are in a key position to suppo...

Doping violates the Spirit of Sport and is thought to contradict the values which underpin this spirit. Values-based education (VBE) has been cited as a key element for creating a clean sport culture across age groups. Culturally relevant VBE requires understanding of the values that motivate athletes from different countries to practice their spor...

The study aimed to give voice to two women sport scientists' life stories to centralize the challenges and ways of coping their career journeys entailed, and enlighten our understanding of the lived experience and meaning of academic migrating. They shared transnational career stories through interviews and ongoing conversations which we re-story i...

Objectives Our large-scale cluster randomised controlled trial aimed to investigate the effects on health knowledge and enjoyment of an 11 week ‘health education through football’ programme for children aged 10–12 years old. Methods 3127 Danish school children (49% girls) aged 10–12 years from a total of 154 schools located in 63% of the Danish mun...

The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted mobility worldwide. As a corollary, the health of top- and lower-level athletes alike is profoundly reliant on movement and exercise. Thus, the aim of this study is to understand impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on athletes’ motivation to exercise and train. In detail, we aim to better understa...

Zusammenfassung. Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt eine Skala zur Erhebung der kollektiv-moralischen Einstellung einer Gruppe für den deutschsprachigen Sport- und insbesondere Dopingkontext vor und überprüft sie hinsichtlich ihrer Testgütekriterien. Die KMES wurde auf der Grundlage der Collective Moral Motivation Scale aus der englischsprachigen Arbei...

Objectives Our aim was to investigate the link between youth soccer players' perceptions of the coach-initiated motivational goal climate within their team and their perceptions of inclusion as a function of societal status. Societal status refers to one's national background which numerically forms the majority or a minority in a particular societ...

The current study examined how two high-level coaches in fencing and football perceived the challenges that emerged during a three-month coach education programme aimed at them delivering psychological skills training to athletes. We used action research as the study design and collected data using observations, six semi-structured interviews, and...

Madsen, M, Larsen, MN, Cyril, R, Møller, TK, Madsen, EE, Ørntoft, C, Lind, RR, Ryom, K, Christiansen, SR, Wikman, J, Elbe, AM, and Krustrup, P. Well-being, physical fitness, and health profile of 2,203 Danish girls aged 10-12 in relation to leisure-time sports club activity-with special emphasis on the five most popular sports. J Strength Cond Res...

Previous research has shown that an empowering motivational climate in organized sport has been linked to attitudes favoring migrants’ integration. The purpose of the present study was to further test the relationship between motivational climate and acculturation attitudes, and to explore the role of prosocial skills as potential mediators of this...

Background The present study investigates the wellbeing effects for 10–12‐year‐old children of the school‐based intervention “11 for Health in Denmark”, which comprises physical activity (PA) and health education. Subgroup analyses were carried out for boys and girls. Method 3061 children were randomly assigned to an intervention group (IG) or a c...

The purpose of the present study was to shed light on the behavioral component of emotions by investigating antecedents and consequences of outward emotional reactions during table tennis competitions. With regards to the antecedents of outward emotional reactions, in line with appraisal theories, we considered the importance and the controllabilit...

Psychological stress has been investigated in various sport contexts. Collectively, studies highlighted the role of stress and associated coping strategies on performance. Since competition is a key element of esports, players are required to perform on a high level. Although studies addressed different psychological aspects of performance in espor...

Geographic mobility has become an essential part of athletes’ career development and athletic migration is rapidly increasing. However, research on psychological aspects of athletes’ transnational mobility is lacking in the literature. In this study we describe the development of the Athlete Adaptation Inventory (AAI) and examine its first applicat...

The present study describes the validation of the German Volition in Exercise Questionnaire (VEQ-D), an instrument to measure volition in the physical exercise context. Volition goes beyond the construct of motivation and describes self-regulatory mental processes that are responsible for initiating and maintaining a desirable action (e.g. exercisi...

Motivation und Ziele sind zentral, wenn es um regelmäßiges Sporttreiben oder um das Erbringen sportlicher Leistung geht. In diesem Kapitel werden daher zunächst diese beiden Begriffe definiert und verschiedene theoretische Ansätze dargestellt und erläutert. Dabei wird vor allem ein Fokus auf leistungsmotiviertes Handeln in Verbindung mit sportliche...

Der anhaltend brisante Kampf gegen Doping im Sport wird mit vielen Mitteln geführt. Dabei haben die verschiedenen Anti-Doping-Programme und Maßnahmen eklatante Probleme und sind vielfach sogar widersprüchlich. So stellt eine Totalüberwachung der Athleten ihre bürgerlichen Rechte in Frage, viele Maßnahmen sind ineffektiv und der Kampf gegen das Dopi...

The purpose of this study was to investigate how task and ego orientation and physical activity enjoyment develop and was related to each other over a school year in third-grade children. N = 437 children in third grade (M age = 9.30) from eight schools in Denmark participated in the study. The Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire (Duda,...

This study investigated the interplay of measures of cognitive function and quality of life in relation to academic performance. N = 437 children in third grade (mean age 9.30). Measures of attention, memory, working memory and word memory were used as indicators of cognitive performance, four subscales (physical, emotional, social and school funct...

The 50th anniversary of FEPSAC is a good occasion to look at the past, present, and future of this organization from different perspectives. In this chapter, we take the emic perspective on FEPSAC and the European sport psychology context. In the recent FEPSAC book “Sport and Exercise Psychology Research: From Theory to Practice” Paul Wylleman and...

The purpose of the present study was to examine migrants’ level of acculturative stress in relation to sport participation, and to investigate the role of the sport motivational environment. Participants were 127 (60 girls) migrant high school students (M = 14.14, SD = 1.46 years of age). Among them, 48 were athletes competing in either team (N = 3...

Objectives In our study, we had two objectives. Our first objective was to test a social-cognitive model of doping in sport. In this model, we examined moral variables (i.e., moral disengagement, moral identity, anticipated guilt) and performance motivational climate as predictors of doping likelihood and whether performance motivational climate mo...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how the psychological constructs volition and motivation influence successful and unsuccessful weight maintainers’ experiences during the difficult period following an intensive lifestyle intervention. Design/methodology/approach Post lifestyle intervention semi-structured interviews with 11 succes...

Purpose: To describe the experiences with the "11 for Health" concept of Danish 5th grade children and their teachers. Method: To gain access to subjective dimensions of human way of life, which unfolded during the completion of the concept. The applied method was participant observation supplemented by ad.hoc interviews with the children and their...

Motivation ist ein zentrales Thema in Diskussionen über regelmäßiges Sporttreiben und über sportliche Leistung. In diesem Kapitel wird auf die verschiedenen Motive für das Sporttreiben eingegangen, nämlich Leistung, Macht und Anschluss sowie dargelegt, wie diese Motive erfasst werden können. Ferner werden motivationale Orientierungen, das motivatio...

This study investigated whether the physical fitness and body composition of 10–12-year-old Danish children are related to participation in leisure-time club-based sporting activities. The study involved 544 Danish 10–12-year-old 5th-grade municipal schoolchildren (269 boys and 275 girls, 11.1 ± 0.4 years). After answering a questionnaire about lei...

Objective: The present study investigated the influence of exercise-specific motivation and volition on weight loss maintenance following an intensive lifestyle intervention (ILI). Method: The study participants were 164 individuals with obesity (body mass index [BMI] > 30 kg/m2) that participated in an ILI. Participants' exercise-specific volit...

Objectives: To situate the current status of accreditation in four key international societies, ASPASP, FEPSAC, AASP, and ISSP, in a historical backdrop and then to draw on these approaches to propose future directions and developments relating to practical standards. Design: A review of the origins and current status of accreditation in four inter...

This study investigated gambling among Danish and Swedish male elite football players. A cross-sectional design was used to survey 323 players (M age = 22.08, SD = 5.15). The survey included a screening tool for gambling, as well as measures for depression and sport anxiety. The overall rate of players identified as at-risk gamblers was 16.1%. Line...

In investigating the relationship between emotions and sport performance, research has almost exclusively focused on athletes? subjective experience. Prospective or retrospective study designs with the help of questionnaires or interviews have been common practice. Furthermore, in experiments, emotions have been evoked and their consequences have b...

Introduction The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between weight loss during and after a unique type of weight loss intervention, namely, a residential intensive lifestyle intervention (ILI), and participants' obesity‐specific health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) several years after the intervention. In the residential ILI un...

The objective of this study was to investigate seasonal and all time doping among Danish elite athletes (N = 771, male = 56.5%) and to investigate gender differences. An online survey was conducted (response rate = 57%) which included biographical information as well as randomized response technique questions about seasonal and all-time doping. Con...

The aim of this study was to investigate the levels of motivation associated with participation in floorball (indoor hockey) and spinning, and how levels of motivation predicted continuation. A sample of 66 middle-aged women participated in a 12-week intervention of either floorball or spinning. They filled out the Sport Motivation Scale in week 2...

Doping is increasingly becoming a problem in both elite and recreational sports. It is therefore important to understand the psychological factors which can explain doping behavior in order to prevent it. The present paper briefly presents evidence on the prevalence of doping use in competitive sports and the measurement approaches to assess doping...

Research on the role of sport as a context for the acculturation of young migrants has mainly focused on migrant populations. Considering that acculturation is a two-way process involving both the migrant and the host populations, research investigating the perspective of the hosts will enhance our understanding of the acculturation process. The pu...

Full text available at http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/rppG2iEm9TsCtpWIZtNm/full The historically unprecedented pace of internationalising sport industry and transnational movement of athletic talent in the last 20 years has heightened the need for developing new competencies in research and daily practice of sport psychology professionals. Whi...

Aims: To investigate the relationship between volition, physical activity and weight loss maintenance. Methods: We recruited 84 sedentary (maximal oxygen uptake: 25 ± 5 ml/min), overweight and obese (Body mass index (BMI) 38 ± 7 m/h(2), fat 44 ± 7 %) women ( n = 55) and men ( n = 29) for an interdisciplinary prospective study with follow-up. The...

This study investigates the enjoyment and cohesion of school children participating in a school-based high-intensity physical activity (PA) intervention. Both enjoyment and cohesion have been found to be important factors for adherence to regular physical and sport activity, an important outcome of PA interventions. The sample consisted of 300 pupi...

The present study describes the development and validation of an instrument to measure volition in the exercise context. Volition describes an individual’s self-regulatory mental processes that are responsible for taking and maintaining a desirable action (e.g., exercising regularly). The scale structure was developed in an exploratory factor analy...

This study reports the effects of a recovery intervention in young elite athletes in high school. The scissors model (Kellmann & Kallus, 2001) was used as a theoretical foundation for the intervention. An intervention group (n = 40) participated in 12 weekly intervention sessions, while the control group (n = 58) did not. A Danish version of the Re...

From 4 to 7 April 2016, 24 researchers from 8 countries and from a variety of academic disciplines gathered in Snekkersten, Denmark, to reach evidence-based consensus about physical activity in children and youth, that is, individuals between 6 and 18 years. Physical activity is an overarching term that consists of many structured and unstructured...

In the era of globalization, multicultural societies are common in most developed countries. As a consequence, new challenges at both national and international levels have become apparent, and successful adaptation to this new phenomenon of migration appears as a fundamental issue. Sport has traditionally been considered to be a vehicle for bringi...

Sport and Exercise Psychology Research: From Theory to Practice provides a comprehensive summary of new research in sport and exercise psychology from worldwide researchers. Encompassing theory, research, and applications, the book is split into several themed sections. Section 1 discusses basic antecedents to performance including fitness, practic...

Research on the role of sport as a social integrative agent for migrants has provided equivocal results. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between ethnic–cultural identity and sport environmental factors. Young migrant male athletes from two different societal and sport contexts were studied: migrants from Eastern European c...

Flow is a rewarding psychological state that motivates individuals to repeat activities. This study explored healthcare workers' flow experiences during a workplace exercise intervention. Seventy-nine females were assigned to either a 12-week football or Zumba exercise intervention and their flow experiences were assessed at the beginning, midway a...

Aim: To modify the 'FIFA 11 for Health' programme to the European situation, and to assess its effects on health knowledge and well-being in Danish school children. Method: A two-cohort study with seven intervention and two control schools. Of the 546 Danish children (boys 269; girls 277) of mean age 11.1 (±0.4) years from five city and four cou...

Existing studies on complex interventions aiming to promote youths’ participation in physical education (PE) appear to be predominantly single-methodological. The aim of this article is to examine the benefits and challenges of evaluating an intervention to increase youths’ participation and experiences of social inclusion in the PE context using a...