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Overview

Christian Swann is affiliated with Southern Cross University in Australia and specializes primarily in the fields of Psychology and Medicine. The research focuses extensively on key areas within sport psychology and related disciplines.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Sport Psychology and Performance
  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Sports Injuries and Prevention
  • Flow Experience in Various Fields
  • Sports Performance and Training

Christian Swann's subfields of study further emphasize these interests:

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
  • Physiology
  • Applied Psychology

Their frequent collaborators include the following researchers:

  • Stewart A. Vella
  • Matthew J. Schweickle
  • Patricia C. Jackman
  • Scott G. Goddard
  • Jordan Sutcliffe

The venues where Christian Swann most often publishes are:

  • Psychology of Sport and Exercise
  • Journal of Applied Sport Psychology
  • International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology
  • British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • Health Psychology Review

Among the recent papers credited to Christian Swann is:

  • "Updating goal-setting theory in physical activity promotion: a critical conceptual review," published in 2020 in Health Psychology Review

Other significant recent papers in related collaborations include:

  • "An Intervention for Mental Health Literacy and Resilience in Organized Sports," 2020, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
  • "Optimising the effects of physical activity on mental health and wellbeing: A joint consensus statement from Sports Medicine Australia and the Australian Psychological Society," 2023, Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
  • "A systematic review and meta-synthesis of mental health position statements in sport: Scope, quality and future directions," 2021, Psychology of Sport and Exercise
  • "Psychological safety in sport: a systematic review and concept analysis," 2022, International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology

Best Publications

  • Defining elite athletes: Issues in the study of expert performance in sport psychology

    Christian Swann;Aidan P. Moran;David Piggott

  • A systematic review of the experience, occurrence, and controllability of flow states in elite sport

    Christian F Swann;Richard J Keegan;David Piggott;Lee Crust

  • Sedentary behaviour and risk of anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Mark S Allen;Emma E Walter;Christian F Swann

  • Updating goal-setting theory in physical activity promotion: a critical conceptual review

    Christian Swann;Simon Rosenbaum;Simon Rosenbaum;Alex Lawrence;Stewart A Vella

  • Relationships between mental toughness and psychological wellbeing in undergraduate students

    Elizabeth Stamp;Lee Crust;Christian Swann;John L. Perry

  • Bidirectional Associations between Sport Involvement and Mental Health in Adolescence

    Stewart A Vella;Christian Swann;Mark S Allen;Matthew J Schweickle

  • Psychological States Underlying Excellent Performance in Sport: Toward an Integrated Model of Flow and Clutch States

    Christian F Swann;Lee Crust;Patricia C Jackman;Stewart A Vella

  • Youth sport as a context for supporting mental health: Adolescent male perspectives

    Christian F Swann;Joanne Telenta;Georgia Draper;Sarah Liddle

  • Psychological states underlying excellent performance in professional golfers: "Letting it happen" vs. "making it happen"

    Christian F Swann;Richard J Keegan;Lee Crust;David Piggott

  • Comparing two measures of mental toughness

    Lee Crust;Christian F Swann

  • Optimising the effects of physical activity on mental health and wellbeing: A joint consensus statement from Sports Medicine Australia and the Australian Psychological Society.

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  • An Intervention for Mental Health Literacy and Resilience in Organized Sports.

    Stewart A. Vella;Christian Swann;Marijka Batterham;Katherine M. Boydell

  • The relationship between mental toughness and dispositional flow

    Lee Crust;Christian F Swann

  • Walking the Walk: A Phenomenological Study of Long Distance Walking

    Lee Crust;Richard J Keegan;David Piggott;Christian F Swann

  • Psychological safety in sport: A systematic review and concept analysis

    Jordan Sutcliffe;Elizabeth Mayland;Matthew Schweickle;Desmond McEwan

  • A systematic review and meta-synthesis of mental health position statements in sport: Scope, quality and future directions

    Stewart A. Vella;Matthew J. Schweickle;Jordan T. Sutcliffe;Christian Swann

  • Ahead of the game protocol: a multi-component, community sport-based program targeting prevention, promotion and early intervention for mental health among adolescent males

    Stewart A. Vella;Christian Swann;Marijka Batterham;Katherine M. Boydell

  • A Systematic Review of Parent and Caregiver Mental Health Literacy

    Diarmuid Hurley;Christian Swann;Mark S. Allen;Helen L. Ferguson;Helen L. Ferguson

  • Exploring the interactions underlying flow states: A connecting analysis of flow occurrence in European Tour golfers

    Christian F Swann;David Piggott;Lee Crust;Richard J Keegan

  • A review of scientific progress in flow in sport and exercise: normal science, crisis and a progressive shift

    Christian F Swann;David Piggott;Matthew Schweickle;Stewart A Vella

  • Investigating Youth Sports Coaches' Perceptions of Their Role in Adolescent Mental Health

    Helen L. Ferguson;Christian Swann;Sarah K. Liddle;Stewart A. Vella

  • New directions in the psychology of optimal performance in sport: flow and clutch states

    Christian F Swann;Lee Crust;Stewart A Vella

Frequent Co-Authors

Stewart A. Vella
Stewart A. Vella University of Wollongong
Lee Crust
Lee Crust University of Lincoln
Frank P. Deane
Frank P. Deane University of Wollongong
Mark W. Bruner
Mark W. Bruner Nipissing University
Chris Lonsdale
Chris Lonsdale Australian Catholic University
Panteleimon Ekkekakis
Panteleimon Ekkekakis Iowa State University
Sylvain Laborde
Sylvain Laborde German Sport University Cologne
Christopher A. Magee
Christopher A. Magee University of Wollongong
Aidan Moran
Aidan Moran University College Dublin
Simon M Rice
Simon M Rice University of Melbourne

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