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Isabel Balaguer

Isabel Balaguer

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Psychology

D-Index
37
Citations
7780
World Ranking
9091
National Ranking
109

Overview

Isabel Balaguer is affiliated with the University of Valencia in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Psychology, with significant contributions in Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Sport Psychology and Performance
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
  • Youth Development and Social Support
  • Health and Lifestyle Studies
  • Sports Injuries and Prevention

Frequent collaborators include Joan L. Duda, Natalia Martínez-González, Francisco L. Atienza, Isabel Castillo, and Lorena González García.

Their publications have appeared predominantly in the following venues:

  • Sustainability
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Retos
  • Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología

Recent research articles include:

  • "Empowering and Disempowering Motivational Climates, Mediating Psychological Processes, and Future Intentions of Sport Participation" (2022), published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Preventing Procrastination Behaviours: Teaching Styles and Competence in University Students" (2020), published in Sustainability
  • "The Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Lockdown on Athletes' Subjective Vitality: The Protective Role of Resilience and Autonomous Goal Motives" (2021), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Examining the Mediating Role of Motivation in the Relationship between Multidimensional Perfectionism and Well- and Ill-Being in Vocational Dancers" (2020), published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Motivational Antecedents of Young Players' Intentions to Drop Out of Football during a Season" (2023), published in Sustainability

Best Publications

  • Propiedades Psicométricas de la Escala de Satisfacción con la Vida en Adolescentes

    Francisco Luis Atienza;Diana Pons;Isabel Balaguer;Marisa García-Merita

  • Coach-created motivational climate.

    Joan L. Duda;Isabel Balaguer

  • Apoyo a la autonomía, satisfacción de las necesidades, motivación y bienestar en deportistas de competición: un análisis de la teoría de la autodeterminación

    Isabel Balaguer;Isabel Castillo;Joan L. Duda

  • Coaches' interpersonal style, basic psychological needs and the well- and ill-being of young soccer players: A longitudinal analysis

    Isabel Balaguer;Lorena González;Priscila Fabra;Isabel Castillo

  • Coach autonomy support and quality of sport engagement in young soccer players.

    María Sol Álvarez;Isabel Balaguer;Isabel Castillo;Joan L. Duda

  • Satisfaction with Life Scale: analysis of factorial invariance across sexes

    Francisco L. Atienza;Isabel Balaguer;Marı́a L. Garcı́a-Merita

  • Situational and dispositional goals as predictors of perceptions of individual and team improvement, satisfaction and coach ratings among elite female handball teams

    Isabel Balaguer;Joan L Duda;Francisco L Atienza;Cristina Mayo

  • Goal orientation profile differences on perceived motivational climate, perceived peer relationships, and motivation-related responses of youth athletes

    Alan L. Smith;Isabel Balaguer;Joan L. Duda

  • The Coach-Created Motivational Climate, Young Athletes' Well-Being, and Intentions to Continue Participation

    María Sol Alvarez;Isabel Balaguer;Isabel Castillo;Joan L. Duda

  • Relaciones entre el autoconcepto y el estilo de vida saludable en la adolescencia media: un modelo exploratorio

    Yolanda Pastor;Isabel Balaguer;Marisa García-Merita

  • El perfil de los estados de ánimo (POMS): baremo para estudiantes valencianos y su aplicación en el contexto deportivo

    Isabel Balaguer;I. Fuentes;J. L. Meliá;Maria Luisa Garcia-Merita

  • Motivational climate and goal orientations as predictors of perceptions of improvement, satisfaction and coach ratings among tennis players

    I. Balaguer;J. L. Duda;M. Crespo

  • Las orientaciones de meta y los motivos de práctica deportiva en los jóvenes deportistas valencianos escolarizados

    Isabel Castillo;Isabel Balaguer;Joan L. Duda

  • Efecto de la práctica de actividad física y de la participación deportiva sobre el estilo de vida saludable en la adolescencia en función del género

    Isabel Castillo;Isabel Balaguer;Marisa García-Merita

  • Análisis de la validez de constructo y de la validez predictiva del cuestionario de clima motivacional percibido en el deporte (PCMSQ-2) con tenistas espanoles de competición

    Isabel Balaguer;Marta Guivernau;Joan L. Duda;Miguel Crespo

  • El autoconcepto y la autoestima en la adolescencia media: análisis diferencial por curso y género

    Yolanda Pastor;Isabel Balaguer;María Luisa García-Merita

  • Propiedades psicométricas de la escala de motivación deportiva en deportistas españoles

    Isabel Balaguer;Isabel Castillo;Joan L. Duda

  • Testing direct and indirect effects of sports participation on perceived health in Spanish adolescents between 15 and 18 years of age.

    Yolanda Pastor;Isabel Balaguer;Diana Pons;Marisa García-Merita

  • Satisfaction with life scale: analysis of factorial invariance for adolescents and elderly persons.

    Diana Pons;Francisco L. Atienza;Isabel Balaguer;María L. García-Merita

  • Autonomy support, basic psychological needs and well-being in Mexican athletes.

    Jeanette López-Walle;Isabel Balaguer;Isabel Castillo;José Tristán

Frequent Co-Authors

Isabel Castillo
Isabel Castillo University of Valencia
Joan L. Duda
Joan L. Duda University of Birmingham
Howard Hall
Howard Hall York St John University
Bente Wold
Bente Wold University of Bergen
Athanasios Papaioannou
Athanasios Papaioannou University Of Thessaly
Philippe Sarrazin
Philippe Sarrazin Grenoble Alpes University
Phillip R. Shaver
Phillip R. Shaver University of California, Davis
N. Kenneth Sandnabba
N. Kenneth Sandnabba Åbo Akademi University
Delroy L. Paulhus
Delroy L. Paulhus University of British Columbia
Letitia Anne Peplau
Letitia Anne Peplau University of California, Los Angeles

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