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Jennifer Cumming is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Health Professions, with significant contributions across subfields including General Health Professions, Social Psychology, Safety Research, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's work explores diverse themes centered around youth and community well-being. Key research topics include:

  • Youth Development and Social Support
  • Sport Psychology and Performance
  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Community Health and Development
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Physical Activity and Health

Cumming has contributed to journals and venues with repeated publications, such as:

  • BMJ Open
  • Evaluation and Program Planning
  • Preprints.org
  • Journal of Youth Development
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Among their recent papers are:

  • Neurobiological evidence of longer-term physical activity interventions on mental health outcomes and cognition in young people: A systematic review of randomised controlled trials (2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)
  • Promoting Athlete Mental Health: The Role of Emotion Regulation (2021, Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology)
  • Process Evaluations of Positive Youth Development Programmes for Disadvantaged Young People: A Systematic Review (2022, Journal of Youth Development)
  • Improving outcomes in young people experiencing homelessness with My Strengths Training for Life™ (MST4Life™): A qualitative realist evaluation (2020, Children and Youth Services Review)
  • Promoting Personal Growth in Young People Experiencing Homelessness Through an Outdoors-Based Program (2021, Journal of Youth Development)

Frequent collaborators in Cumming's research include Mary L. Quinton, Grace Tidmarsh, Benjamin J. Parry, Janice L. Thompson, and Mark J.G. Holland.

Best Publications

  • Further Validation and Development of the Movement Imagery Questionnaire

    Sarah E Williams;Jennifer Cumming;Nikos Ntoumanis;Sanna M Nordin-Bates

  • Deliberate imagery practice: the development of imagery skills in competitive athletes.

    Jennifer Cumming;Craig Hall

  • Introducing the revised applied model of deliberate imagery use for sport, dance, exercise, and rehabilitation

    Jennifer Cumming;Sarah E. Williams

  • Motivational Profiles and Psychological Skills Use within Elite Youth Sport

    Chris Harwood;Jennifer Cumming;David Fletcher

  • The Role of Imagery in Performance

    Jennifer Cumming;Sarah E. Williams

  • Imagery in Sport, Exercise and Dance

    Shane Murphy;Sanna M Nordin;Jennifer Cumming

  • Measuring Athlete Imagery Ability: The Sport Imagery Ability Questionnaire

    Sarah E. Williams;Jennifer Cumming

  • The Cognitive and Motivational Effects of Imagery Training: A Matter of Perspective

    Jennifer L. Cumming;Diane M. Ste-Marie

  • Professional Dancers Describe Their Imagery: Where, When, What, Why, and How

    Sanna M. Nordin;Jennifer Cumming

  • Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction, Stress-Related Appraisals, and Dancers’ Cortisol and Anxiety Responses

    Eleanor Quested;Jos A. Bosch;Victoria E. Burns;Jennifer Cumming

  • The Use of Imagery to Manipulate Challenge and Threat Appraisal States in Athletes

    Sarah E. Williams;Jennifer Cumming;George M. Balanos

  • Athletes’ Use of Imagery in the Off-Season

    Jennifer Cumming;Craig R. Hall

  • Imagery interventions in sport

    Jennifer Cumming;Richard Ramsey

  • Development and validation of the Movement Imagery Questionnaire for Children (MIQ-C)

    Rose Martini;Michael J. Carter;Emma Yoxon;Jennifer Cumming

  • Profiles of perfectionism, body-related concerns, and indicators of psychological health in vocational dance students: An investigation of the 2 × 2 model of perfectionism

    Jennifer Cumming;Joan L. Duda

  • Examining the Direction of Imagery and Self-Talk on Dart-Throwing Performance and Self Efficacy

    Jennifer Cumming;Sanna M. Nordin;Robin Horton;Scott Reynolds

  • Layered stimulus response training improves motor imagery ability and movement execution.

    Sarah E Williams;Sam J Cooley;Jennifer Cumming

  • Self-reported psychological states and physiological responses to different types of motivational general imagery.

    Jennifer Cumming;Tom Olphin;Michelle Law

  • The role of outdoor adventure education in facilitating groupwork in higher education

    Sam J. Cooley;Victoria E. Burns;Jennifer Cumming

  • Are we having fun yet? Testing the effects of imagery use on the affective and enjoyment responses to acute moderate exercise

    Damian M. Stanley;Jennifer Cumming

  • Where, when, and how: a quantitative account of dance imagery.

    Sanna M. Nordin;Jennifer Cumming

Frequent Co-Authors

Joan L. Duda
Joan L. Duda University of Birmingham
Craig R. Hall
Craig R. Hall University of Western Ontario
Nikos Ntoumanis
Nikos Ntoumanis University of Southern Denmark
Chris G. Harwood
Chris G. Harwood Loughborough University
Martyn Standage
Martyn Standage University of Bath
Isabel Balaguer
Isabel Balaguer University of Valencia
Janet L. Starkes
Janet L. Starkes McMaster University
Paul S. Holmes
Paul S. Holmes Manchester Metropolitan University

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