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Clifford J. Mallett

Clifford J. Mallett

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Psychology

D-Index
43
Citations
8351
World Ranking
7226
National Ranking
423

Overview

Clifford J. Mallett is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a strong focus on subfields such as Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Safety Research, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, and Gender Studies.

The main topics of Clifford J. Mallett's research include Sport Psychology and Performance, Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports, Youth Development and Social Support, Sports injuries and prevention, Physical Education and Pedagogy, Sports, Gender, and Society, and Behavioral Health and Interventions.

Their recent publications cover a range of issues within sport and social psychology. These include:

  • All for us and us for all: Introducing the 5R Shared Leadership Program (2020), published in Psychology of Sport and Exercise
  • Football, Culture, Skill Development and Sport Coaching: Extending Ecological Approaches in Athlete Development Using the Skilled Intentionality Framework (2021), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • When the final whistle blows: Social identity pathways support mental health and life satisfaction after retirement from competitive sport (2021), published in Psychology of Sport and Exercise
  • Social and Cultural Constraints on Football Player Development in Stockholm: Influencing Skill, Learning, and Wellbeing (2022), published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
  • Position Paper: Rationale for a Focused Attention on Mental Health of High-Performance Sports Coaches (2023), published in International Sport Coaching Journal

Common publication venues for Mallett's work include Psychology of Sport and Exercise, International Sport Coaching Journal, Journal of Sports Sciences, Frontiers in Psychology, and Journal of Applied Sport Psychology.

Frequent collaborators in their research are Steven Rynne, S. Alexander Haslam, Niklas K. Steffens, Cassandra K. Dittman, and Matthew R. Sanders, with multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • The concept of mental toughness: Tests of dimensionality, nomological network and traitness

    Daniel F. Gucciardi;Daniel F. Gucciardi;Sheldon Hanton;Sandy Gordon;Clifford J. Mallett

  • Formal vs. Informal Coach Education

    Clifford J. Mallett;Pierre Trudel;John Lyle;Steven B. Rynne;Steven B. Rynne

  • Developmental Paths and Activities of Successful Sport Coaches

    Wade Gilbert;Jean Côté;Cliff Mallett

  • Elite athletes: why does the 'fire' burn so brightly?

    Clifford J. Mallett;Stephanie J. Hanrahan

  • Sport motivation scale-6 (SMS-6): A revised six-factor sport motivation scale

    Clifford J. Mallett;Masato Kawabata;Peter Newcombe;Andrés Otero-Forero

  • Self-Determination Theory: A Case Study of Evidence-Based Coaching

    Clifford J. Mallett

  • Understanding mental toughness in Australian soccer: Perceptions of players, parents, and coaches

    Tristan J. Coulter;Clifford J. Mallett;Daniel F. Gucciardi

  • The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC): Dimensionality and age-related measurement invariance with Australian cricketers

    Daniel F. Gucciardi;Ben Jackson;Tristan J. Coulter;Clifford J. Mallett

  • Beyond Winning and Losing: Guidelines for Evaluating High Performance Coaches

    Clifford J. Mallett;Jean Cote

  • Autonomous and controlled motivational regulations for multiple health-related behaviors: between- and within-participants analyses

    Martin S. Hagger;S. J. Hardcastle;Angel M. Chater;C. Mallett

  • Mental toughness in sport: motivational antecedents and associations with performance and psychological health.

    John William Mahoney;Daniel F. Gucciardi;Nikos Ntoumanis;Cliff J. Mallett

  • Autonomy-Supportive Pedagogical Approach to Sports Coaching: Research, Challenges and Opportunities

    Joseph L. Occhino;Clifford J. Mallett;Steven B. Rynne;Kristy N. Carlisle

  • The value of emotional intelligence for high performance coaching.

    Jonathan T. Chan;Jonathan T. Chan;Clifford J. Mallett

  • Progressing measurement in mental toughness: A case example of the Mental Toughness Questionnaire 48.

    Daniel F. Gucciardi;Sheldon Hanton;Clifford J. Mallett

  • Race Modeling: An Effective Cognitive Strategy for the 100 m Sprinter?

    Clifford J. Mallett;Stephanie J. Hanrahan

  • Understanding the coach’s role in the development of mental toughness: Perspectives of elite Australian football coaches

    Daniel F. Gucciardi;Sandy Gordon;James A. Dimmock;Clifford J. Mallett

  • A social identity approach to leadership development: The 5R program.

    S. Alexander Haslam;Niklas K. Steffens;Kim Peters;Rosalie A. Boyce

  • What motivates the motivators? An examination of sports coaches

    Kristy N. McLean;Clifford J. Mallett

  • The Flow State Scale-2 and Dispositional Flow Scale-2: Examination of factorial validity and reliability for Japanese adults

    Masato Kawabata;Clifford J. Mallett;Susan A. Jackson

  • Flow experience in physical activity: Examination of the internal structure of flow from a process-related perspective

    Masato Kawabata;Clifford J. Mallett

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel F. Gucciardi
Daniel F. Gucciardi Curtin University
S. Alexander Haslam
S. Alexander Haslam University of Queensland
Peter A. Newcombe
Peter A. Newcombe University of Queensland
Filip Boen
Filip Boen KU Leuven
Niklas K. Steffens
Niklas K. Steffens University of Queensland
Jefferson A. Singer
Jefferson A. Singer Connecticut College
Jean Côté
Jean Côté Queen's University
Sheldon Hanton
Sheldon Hanton Cardiff Metropolitan University
Nikos Ntoumanis
Nikos Ntoumanis University of Southern Denmark
Remco Polman
Remco Polman Queensland University of Technology

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