Philippe Vacher

Philippe Vacher
Université de Bretagne Occidentale | UBO · Faculté des sciences du sport et de l'éducation - CREAD EA 3875

Ph.D. Sports Science

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October 2013 - October 2016
University of Burgundy
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Publications (40)
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The aims of this study were: (a) to explore the relationships between adaptive defense mechanisms (ADMs), maladaptive defense mechanisms (MADMs), stress, recovery, resilience, and sport burnout; and (b) to examine resilience, stress, and recovery as mediators of the relationship between defense mechanisms and burnout. One hundred and seventy-five a...
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Purpose: Study on the effect of psychological skills training on self-esteem (SE) in young athletes. Method: 10 swimmers and 35 volleyball players, split into an intervention group (25) and a control group (18). The intervention entailed a 3-week psychological skills training program covering arousal management, breathing, relaxation, mental ima...
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This study examined the effect of a Slow-Paced Breath (i.e., 6 breaths per minute) without Biofeedback (SPB-NoHRVB) protocol on semi-elite adolescent swimmers’ psychological and physiological states during a seven-week ecological training period. A linear mixed-effects multilevel regression analysis approach was used with 13 adolescent national-lev...
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Notre étude visait à analyser les relations entre la prise de décision, à partir du modèle Recognition-Primed Decision , et les émotions, à partir de la théorie de l’ Appraisal , chez un entraîneur de basket-ball. Elle est exemplaire d’une tentative d’articulation de deux cadres théoriques à l’aide d’une méthode mixte. Un entretien d’autoconfrontat...
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Dans la perspective de mieux comprendre le phénomène de l’intuition collective en football de haut niveau, cette étude vise à montrer, par une méthode mixte, les liens qui se tissent au cours du temps entre les indices pertinents perçus à l’échelle individuelle et les contenus cognitifs partagés entre équipiers. Cette étude de cas longitudinale a é...
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Dans la perspective de mieux comprendre le phénomène de l’intuition collective en football de haut niveau, cette étude vise à montrer, par une méthode mixte, les liens qui se tissent au cours du temps entre les indices pertinents perçus à l’échelle individuelle et les contenus cognitifs partagés entre équipiers. Cette étude de cas longitudinale a é...
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The purpose of this study is to understand collective intuition evolution in high level soccer team. The aim is to grasp, with a mix method, relations between relevant cues at individual level and shared cognitive contents between teammates in a longitudinal perspective. A mix method was used combining qualitative and quantitative data to analyze c...
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This study examined the effect of an asynchronous heart rate variability biofeedback (HRV-BFBasync) protocol on national-level adolescent swimmers' cognitive appraisals and recovery-stress states during a six-week ecological training period. A polynomial mixed-effects multilevel regression analysis approach was used with 27 adolescent national-leve...
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This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of online emotional competencies (EC) training, and more specifically the relationships between adherence, confidence, and alliance and the effects of mental training on EC. A longitudinal four-wave measurement design (pre-intervention, post-knowledge development, post-abilities development, and post-dis...
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This study aimed to gain insight into the precise role of the training load (TL) stressor (structural and internal subjective) in the chaining process of elite athletes’ key psychological states. We also proposed a novel strategy to catch part of cognitive, recovery–stress, and emotional state patterns in equation modeling. Our results help to spec...
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Florent Manaudou, an Olympic Gold medal Swimmer, claimed that "the limitations of physical performance are the level of mental toughness and the ability to cope with his emotions and environment". To date, psychological skills training (PST) in performance is well documented and shows its usefulness. However, it must be acknowledged that an overwhe...
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Purpose The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationships between Perceived Control (PC) and Heart rate variability (HRV) during a 27-day expedition, during which an unsupported crossing was made from the west coast to the east coast of Greenland (across the Ice Sheet); and that therefore a high PC represents a favourable factor for...
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Objectives: This research explored whether several subgroups of athletes representing distinct emotional trajectories emerged from the latent class growth analyses (LCGA) for a wide variety of pleasant and unpleasant sport emotions (anger, anxiety, dejection, excitement, happiness). Another aim was to explore whether athletes belonging to distinct...
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This study aimed to evaluate whether similar associations between indexes derived from heart rate variability (HRV) analyses and training load (TL) could be obtained by using the commonly used Pearson correlation technique and the repeated measures correlation (rmcorr). Fourteen well-trained swimmers (18.5 ± 1.6 years) participated. The training pe...
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Injury and fatigue prevention is a key meaning in athletes’ monitoring and carrier organization. Adolescent athletes and especially women adolescent team sport players are an at-risk population, particularly exposed to overuse injuries. Recent literature highlights the importance of psychological attributes (trait anxiety, perceived mastery climate...
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Objectives: The aims of this research were: (a) to provide the best way to represent the factor structure of sport emotion questionnaire-direction (SEQ-D) scores using advanced techniques recently introduced in the literature, and (b) to examine differential item functioning (DIF) as a function of sex on the SEQ-D responses. Method: A total of 363...
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Background: Psychological stress and recovery monitoring is a key issue for increasing athletes' health, well-being, and performance. This multi-study report examined changes and the dose-response relationships between recovery-stress psychological states, training load (TL), heart rate (HR), heart rate recovery (HRR), and heart rate variability (...
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We examined whether perceived control predict recovery and stress states during an ecological tapering period of 2-weeks that led to the target competition of the year for 39 expert adolescent swimmers (13 women and 26 men; Mage = 17.56; SD = 2.09 years). Swimmers completed quantitative measures (RESTQ-36-R-Sport; Perceived control; A-SAGS) before...
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Background: Psychological stress and recovery monitoring is a key issue for increasing athletes' health, well-being, and performance. This multi-study report examined changes and the dose-response relationships between recovery-stress psychological states, training load (TL), heart rate (HR), heart rate recovery (HRR), and heart rate variability (H...
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The psychological impacts of extreme situations are a great concern and have become an issue of major importance for performance, well-being and the outcome of missions (Kanas, 1998). A situation is considered as extreme when an individual is subjected to exceptional physical or psychosocial circumstances demanding adaptive responses which could ov...
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The purpose of this study was to identify the potentially distinct defense profiles of athletes in order to provide insight into the complex associations that can exist between defenses and other important variables tied to performance in sports (e.g., coping, perceived stress and control) and to further our understanding of the complexity of the a...
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The psychological impacts of extreme situations are a great concern and have become an issue of major importance for performance, well-being and the outcome of missions (Kanas, 1998). A situation is considered as extreme when an individual is subjected to exceptional physical or psychosocial circumstances demanding adaptive responses which could ov...
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This study examined the trajectories of emotional states and their within-person synergies with perceived stress and recovery during a 4-month training period preceding the French swimming championships. A Multilevel Growth Curve Analysis approach was used with 16 high level swimmers. Five waves of assessments of emotional states, perceived stress...
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Background & Study Aim: Previous studies in adults and endurance athletes have evaluated whether heart rate variability (HRV) can be used to monitor training load. We aimed to answer to question: whether HRV monitoring is useful in elite adolescent athletes practicing a sport with a major anaerobic component, i.e. judo. Material & Methods: Eleven y...
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Cette étude repose sur un suivi pluridisciplinaire des états de stress et de récupération chez des nageurs Elite. Elle a porté sur 14 nageurs de niveau national à international. Les tests ont été réalisés en début (T1) et fin (T2) de la période d’affûtage conduisant les nageurs aux Championnats de France estivaux. La charge d’entrainement a été mes...
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Psychological and physiological stress and recovery monitoring is a key issue for coaches and athletes’ well-being and performance. This study aimed to examine changes and the dose-response relationship between recovery-stress psychological states (RESTQ-36-R-Sport questionnaire), training load and the status of the autonomic nervous system (heart...

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