Gredin N Viktor, Okholm Kryger Katrine, McCall Alan, Solstad Bård E, Torstveit Monica K, Massey Andrew, Ivarsson Andreas
School of Health and Welfare, Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden.
Faculty of Sport, Applied Health and Performance Science, St Mary´s University, Twickenham, London, UK.
Sci Med Footb. 2025 Feb;9(1):1-11. doi: 10.1080/24733938.2023.2285962. Epub 2023 Dec 6.
Previous research suggests that psychological factors play an important role in trying to explain and predict the participation, performance, and health of player and practitioners in soccer. However, most previous works have focused on specific research questions and included samples from male populations. As part of a larger Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) project aiming to steer women's soccer research, our purpose with this scoping review was to give an overview of the current state of psychology-related research within women's soccer. We searched five electronic databases up to April 2023, from which 280 original peer-reviewed articles met the inclusion criteria. Included records were inductively coded into 75 specific research topics and nine broader research categories. Population characteristics within each topic and category, and overall publication trends, were identified. The results revealed a growth in research attention, with notable increases in publication rates around the international competitions years, over the last two decades. While a notable number of abstracts did not report sufficient details about population age and/or playing levels, senior elite players were identified as the most common population studied. Most studies examined several topics from different research categories, with research focusing on emotions, moods and/or environmental factors, and the specific the topics of anxiety, stress, and coach behavior, receiving most research attention. Our study provides an informative mapping of all psychology-related research activity within women's soccer, which will enhance researchers' understanding of the current quantity of literature within this complex, heterogeneous, and growing area of research.
先前的研究表明，心理因素在试图解释和预测足球运动员及从业者的参与度、表现和健康状况方面起着重要作用。然而，大多数先前的研究都集中在特定的研究问题上，且样本来自男性群体。作为国际足球联合会（FIFA）一项旨在推动女子足球研究的更大项目的一部分，我们进行这项范围综述的目的是概述女子足球领域与心理学相关的研究现状。我们检索了截至2023年4月的五个电子数据库，从中筛选出280篇经过同行评审的原创文章，符合纳入标准。纳入的记录被归纳编码为75个具体研究主题和九个更广泛的研究类别。我们确定了每个主题和类别中的人群特征以及总体出版趋势。结果显示，在过去二十年中，研究关注度有所增长，在国际比赛年份前后，发表率显著提高。虽然相当数量的摘要没有报告关于人群年龄和/或比赛水平的足够详细信息，但高级精英球员被确定为研究最多的人群。大多数研究考察了不同研究类别中的几个主题，研究重点集中在情绪、心境和/或环境因素，以及焦虑、压力和教练行为等特定主题上，这些主题受到了最多的研究关注。我们的研究提供了一份关于女子足球领域所有与心理学相关的研究活动的信息性图谱，这将增强研究人员对这个复杂、多样且不断发展的研究领域中现有文献数量的理解。
