Helen Staff

Leeds Beckett University | LEEDS MET · Carnegie School of Sport

Objectives This study aimed to address voids in academic literature by exploring the consequences of performance expectations from the perspective of a retired athlete. Methodology An instrumental case study was used to capture the experiences of a retired female athlete who had been exposed to performance expectations throughout her career. Six c...

To protect the integrity of sport and the health of athletes, global anti-doping programmes seek to prevent doping behaviours and elicit clean sport behaviours through education, deterrence, detection, enforcement and rules. To guide programme development, this meta-synthesis of qualitative research applied a behavioural science framework to identi...

Objectives: Coach-centred antidoping education is scarce. We tested the efficacy of a motivationally informed antidoping intervention for coaches, with their athletes' willingness to dope as the primary outcome. Methods: We delivered a cluster randomised controlled trial in Australia, the UK and Greece. This study was a parallel group, two-condi...

Objectives The purpose of this study was to make an original contribution to sport psychology literature by offering a substantive grounded theory of dyadic coping in coach-athlete relationships. Specifically, this study aimed to capture the development and manifestation of dyadic coping for coaches and athletes operating in individual sports. Des...

Summary: The World Anti-Doping Code states that athlete support personnel, including parents, have a responsibility to protect and promote clean sport. However, current anti-doping resources available to parents appear limited. Parents of academy-level UK athletes expressed motivations to perform anti-doping roles and responsibilities, yet lacked t...

Neophyte academics appear to be susceptible to occupational stress and there is an increasing need to explore the mental health of individuals in the early stages of an academic career. In this article we present the reflections of three sport and exercise psychology PhD students. The reflections capture the challenges that these individuals have f...

Background and objectives: Theories of dyadic coping and empirical literature have intermittently and inconsistently highlighted antecedents and outcomes of dyadic coping. The purpose of this review was to systematically identify the antecedents and outcomes of dyadic coping in close personal relationships. Design: A PRISMA-guided systematic review...