Why Some Make It and Others Do Not: Identifying Psychological Factors That Predict Career Success in Professional Adult Soccer

By Nico W. Van Yperen. 2009

204 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Social Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Peter J. Clough
2. Lee Crust
3. T. Bouffard
4. Arielle Bonneville-Roussy
5. Dale Forsdyke
6. C. Harwood
7. Adam Gledhill
8. A. Pankhurst

In Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

1. Peter J. Clough
2. Lee Crust
3. Adam Gledhill
4. A. Pankhurst
5. D. Collins
6. C. Harwood

In Social Psychology

1. Arielle Bonneville-Roussy
2. T. Bouffard
3. Peter J. Clough
4. Lee Crust
5. P. Evans
6. Dale Forsdyke
7. C. Harwood
8. Adam Gledhill

Citations in the corpus

• Talent Identification and Development: The Need for Coherence Between Research, System, and Process (2013, background): “Bloom (1985), Côté (1999), and Van Yperen (2009) all commented on the importance of the family environment, including parental support and sibling relationships.”
• Psychosocial factors associated with talent development in football: A systematic review (2017, background): “…being a quality valued by elite lev l coaches (e.g., Holt & Dunn, 2004; Mills 9 et al., 2012), it is also a quality that longitudinal, prospective evidence has shown to differentiate 10 between players who make it to an elite level in men’s football, and those who do not (Van 11 Yperen, 2009).”
• A holistic perspective on career development in UK female soccer players: A negative case analysis (2015, background): “…identifying psychosocial assets of soccer players who are considered elite in their domain (e.g., Gledhill & Harwood, 2014; Holt & Dunn, 2004; Van Yperen, 2009) and examining the views of those tasked with developing male soccer players to an elite level (e.g., Morgan, McKenna, & Nicholls, 2014)…”
• Motivation and coping with the stress of assessment: Gender differences in outcomes for university students (2017, background): “Studies have noted strong links between academic motivation and educational as well as vocational intentions (Lavigne et al., 2007; Lazarides & Watt, 2015; Wang, 2012), and that intentions are an important antecedent of future behavior (Ajzen, 2001), including career success (van Yperen, 2009).”
• Developing Mental Toughness: From Research to Practice (2011, background): “An interesting addition to evidence on upbringing was a recently published 15-year prospective study that identified psychological factors that predicted career success in professional soccer ( Van Yperen, 2009 ).”