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Overview

Lew Hardy is affiliated with Bangor University in the United Kingdom and has contributed to fields primarily related to psychology and medicine. Their research spans clinical psychology, orthopedics and sports medicine, surgery, applied psychology, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including sports injuries and prevention, resilience and mental health, child abuse and trauma, knee injuries and reconstruction techniques, cardiovascular effects of exercise, motivation and self-concept in sports, and sport psychology and performance.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Adolescent Research Review
  • Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
  • Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
  • Military Psychology
  • Motivation and Emotion

Lew Hardy has collaborated often with fellow researchers, including Stuart Beattie, Lynne Evans, Ross Roberts, Tom Williams, and Angus Robertson. These coauthors have appeared multiple times across various publications, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Lew Hardy offer insight into their focus areas. These include:

  • Psychological Resilience Interventions to Reduce Recidivism in Young People: A Systematic Review, 2020, published in Adolescent Research Review
  • The Structural Validity of the IKDC and Its Relationship With Quality of Life Following ACL Reconstruction, 2020, published in Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
  • The Role of Optimism and Psychosocial Factors in Athletes Recovery From ACL Injury: A Longitudinal Study, 2020, published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
  • The Benefits of Need Satisfaction Depend on Their Relative Importance for People With a Unidimensional Identity: An Idiographic Analysis, 2021, published in Motivation and Emotion
  • What Do You Bring to the Table? Exploring Psychological Attributes That Predict Successful Military Training, 2023, published in Military Psychology

Best Publications

  • Understanding Psychological Preparation for Sport: Theory and Practice of Elite Performers

    Lew Hardy;J. Graham Jones;Daniel Gould

  • The relative impact of cognitive anxiety and self-confidence upon sport performance: a meta-analysis.

    Tim Woodman;Lew Hardy

  • A catastrophe model of anxiety and performance

    Lew Hardy;Gaynor Parfitt

  • Test of performance strategies: Development and preliminary validation of a comprehensive measure of athletes' psychological skills

    Patrick R. Thomas;Shane M. Murphy;Lew Hardy

  • Movement imagery ability: development and assessment of a revised version of the vividness of movement imagery questionnaire.

    Ross Roberts;Nichola Callow;Lew Hardy;David Markland

  • A catastrophe model of performance in sport.

    Lew Hardy

  • The Great British Medalists Project: A Review of Current Knowledge on the Development of the World's Best Sporting Talent.

    Tim Rees;Lew Hardy;Arne Güllich;Bruce Abernethy

  • Intensity and direction dimensions of competitive state anxiety and relationships with performance

    Graham Jones;Austin Swain;Lew Hardy

  • Measurement of Transformational Leadership and its Relationship with Team Cohesion and Performance Level

    Nichola Callow;Matthew J. Smith;Lew Hardy;Calum A. Arthur

  • Knowledge and conscious control of motor actions under stress.

    Lew Hardy;Richard Mullen;Graham Jones

  • An In-Depth Analysis of the Uses of Imagery by High-Level Slalom Canoeists and Artistic Gymnasts

    Alison White;Lew Hardy

  • Efficacy of external and internal visual imagery perspectives for the enhancement of performance on tasks in which form is important.

    Lew Hardy;Nichola Callow

  • The exercise motivations inventory: Preliminary development and validity of a measure of individuals' reasons for participation in regular physical exercise

    David Markland;Lew Hardy

  • A Case Study of Organizational Stress in Elite Sport

    Tim Woodman;Lew Hardy

  • Stress and anxiety

    Tim Woodman;L. Hardy;R.N. Singer;H.A. Hausenblas

  • An Investigation of the Social Support Experiences of High-Level Sports Performers

    Tim Rees;Lew Hardy

  • The Performance Profile: Theory and Application

    Richard J. Butler;Lew Hardy

  • The Effects of a Motivational General-Mastery Imagery Intervention on the Sport Confidence of High-Level Badminton Players

    Nichola Callow;Lew Hardy;Craig Hall

  • On the Factorial and Construct Validity of the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory: Conceptual and Operational Concerns

    David Markland;Lew Hardy

  • The coleman roberts griffith address: Three myths about applied consultancy work

    Lew Hardy

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Woodman
Tim Woodman Bangor University
David Markland
David Markland Bangor University
James Hardy
James Hardy Bangor University
Cary L. Cooper
Cary L. Cooper University of Manchester
Craig R. Hall
Craig R. Hall University of Western Ontario
Chris G. Harwood
Chris G. Harwood Loughborough University
Daniel Gould
Daniel Gould Michigan State University
Jean Côté
Jean Côté Queen's University
Bruce Abernethy
Bruce Abernethy University of Queensland

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