Behavior Change, Sport and Health Psychology

Overview

Core fields of research

Physical activity, health and wellbeing

Research areas

Behaviour change, health, and well-being across the lifespan

Faculty

Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences

Research group description

Our group conducts research into psychological factors that underlie health behaviors, performance and well-being outcomes. In addition, we develop, evaluate and implement theory and evidence-based interventions to improve these outcomes in practice. Further details are forthcoming...

Current

Projects

Related projects

Project

Early Detection of Mental Health Issues among Finnish Athletes

Screening mental health risks among Finnish athletes with translated Brunel Mood Scale (BRUMS), referred to as the Finnish Mood Scale (FIMS).

Project

ProAct - A collaborative theory-based intervention to promote physical activity among sedentary parents and their children

Given links between physical activity in children and adults to better health and reduced disease risk, this project aims to test the efficacy of a behavioural intervention to increase physical activity participation in low-active children and their paren

Project

Better Health at Home – Optimized Human-Centered Care of Predialysis and Home Dialysis Patients (BOC)

Research project to optimize patient journeys in care for chronic kidney disease and home dialysis

Project

Lifestyle and Physical Activity as Part of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Treatment (ELO - Elintavat ja liikkuminen osana uniapnean hoitoa)

Research project investigating effects of lifestyle interventions on obstructive sleep apnea, led by Finnish Lung Health Association (Filha ry).

Project

Head Impacts in Finnish Elite Women's Football

Kuvaus kuvaus kuvaus

Project

Grit in Competitive Sport

Explores grit’s role in athletes’ motivation and long-term goal pursuit.

Project

Perfectionism in Competitive Sports

This project aims to examine how perfectionism related variables are linked to psychological distress and if self-compassion can have a moderating role in mental health of athletes.

Project

BEQAH: Between Quantum Algorithms and Hardware

Project BEQAH

Members

Research group

Group leaders

Keegan Knittle

Associate professor

Montse Ruiz Cerezo

Senior Lecturer

Martin Hagger

Professor

Members

Taru Lintunen

Professor, Emerita

Daniel Phipps

Senior Researcher

Juuso Jussila

Grant researcher, conducting grant-funded research

Eeva Kettunen

Postdoctoral Researcher

Marja Kokkonen

Senior Lecturer

Ella Hellsten

Doctoral Researcher

Eleonoora Hintsa Figueiredo

Grant researcher, post-graduate study right

Tuija Hyyrynen

Doctoral Researcher

Hanna-Mari Toivonen

University Teacher

Sanna Turakka

Doctoral Student

Fanny Brandstack

PhD Student

JYU

Will Critchley

PhD Student

JYU

Lasse Eini

PhD Student

JYU

Malin Ekholm

PhD Student

University of Helsinki

Weldon Green

PhD Student

JYU

Konsta Kuusinen

PhD Student

JYU

Hanna Lahti-Renkola

PhD Student

JYU

Inna Syrykh

PhD Student

JYU

External members

Kyra Hamilton

Professor, Title of Docent

Griffith University

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Mary Hassandra

Associate Professor, Title of Docent

University of Thessaly

Publications

Publications

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

Testing a physical education-delivered autonomy supportive intervention to promote leisure-time physical activity in lower secondary school students : the PETALS trial

BMC Public Health.

Schneider, Jekaterina

Polet, Juho

Hassandra, Mary

Lintunen, Taru

Laukkanen, Arto

Hankonen, Nelli

Hirvensalo, Mirja

Tammelin, Tuija H.

Törmäkangas, Timo

Hagger, Martin S.

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

Testing the need for novelty as a candidate need in basic psychological needs theory

Motivation and Emotion.

González-Cutre, David

Romero-Elías, María

Jiménez-Loaisa, Alejandro

Beltrán-Carrillo, Vicente J.

Hagger, Martin S.

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

The association between stress mindset and physical and psychological wellbeing : testing a stress beliefs model in police officers

Psychology and Health.

Keech, Jacob J.

Cole, Kaitlyn L.

Hagger, Martin S.

Hamilton, Kyra

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

The compendium of self-enactable techniques to change and self-manage motivation and behaviour v.1.0

Nature Human Behaviour.

Knittle, Keegan

Heino, Matti

Marques, Marta M.

Stenius, Minna

Beattie, Marguerite

Ehbrecht, Franziska

Hagger, Martin S.

Hardeman, Wendy

Hankonen, Nelli

Publication

2020

The effects of light volleyball intervention programme in improving selected physical and psychological attributes of older adults in Hong Kong

International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology.

Leung, Ka-Man

Chung, Pak-Kwong

Hagger, Martin

Publication

2020

The Handbook of Behavior Change

Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology. Cambridge University Press.

Hagger, Martin S.

Cameron, Linda D.

Hamilton, Kyra

Hankonen, Nelli

Lintunen, Taru

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

The mediating role of constructs representing reasoned-action and automatic processes on the past behavior-future behavior relationship

Social Science and Medicine.

Brown, D. J.

Hagger, M. S.

Hamilton, K.

Publication

2020

The Science of Behavior Change : The Road Ahead

The Handbook of Behavior Change. Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology. Cambridge University Press.

Hagger, Martin S.

Cameron, Linda D.

Hamilton, Kyra

Hankonen, Nelli

Lintunen, Taru

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

Theory-based digital intervention to promote weight loss and weight loss maintenance (Choosing Health) : protocol for a randomised controlled trial

BMJ Open.

Kwasnicka, Dominika

Luszczynska, Aleksandra

Hagger, Martin S.

Quested, Eleanor

Pagoto, Sherry L.

Verboon, Peter

Robinson, Suzanne

Januszewicz, Anna

Idziak, Paulina

Palacz, Iga

Naughton, Felix

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

Using an integrated social cognition model to predict COVID‐19 preventive behaviours

British Journal of Health Psychology.

Lin, Chung‐Ying

Imani, Vida

Majd, Nilofar Rajabi

Ghasemi, Zahra

Griffiths, Mark D.

Hamilton, Kyra

Hagger, Martin S.

Pakpour, Amir H.

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

Väkivaltaa, stressiä ja seksuaalista häirintää

Liito : Liikunnan ja terveystiedon opettaja.

Gråstén, Arto

Kokkonen, Marja

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

Validation of the swimming competence questionnaire for children

Journal of Sports Sciences.

Chan, Derwin K. C.

Lee, Alfred Sing Yeung

Macfarlane, Duncan J.

Hagger, Martin S.

Hamilton, Kyra

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