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Dr Toni Williams' Outputs (33)

Exploring Conceptualizations of Disability Using Story-Completion Methods (2024)
Journal Article
Giouridis, N., Williams, T., McKenna, J., & Tomasone, J. (2024). Exploring Conceptualizations of Disability Using Story-Completion Methods. Disabilities, 4(3), 568-582. https://doi.org/10.3390/disabilities4030036

This study explored conceptualizations of disability pertaining to peer relationships versus romantic relationships, as well as type of physical disability, using story-completion methods. Seventy-four graduate and undergraduate students from a Canad... Read More about Exploring Conceptualizations of Disability Using Story-Completion Methods.

Linking pre-performance stress appraisals with emotions in sport (2024)
Journal Article
Stanger, N., Kaiseler, M., & Williams, T. L. (online). Linking pre-performance stress appraisals with emotions in sport. International journal of Sports Science and Coaching, https://doi.org/10.1177/17479541241259726

Although research has investigated how appraisals are linked with categories of emotions (e.g. pleasant and unpleasant emotions) in sport, research into how stress appraisal components are associated with specific discrete emotions commonly experienc... Read More about Linking pre-performance stress appraisals with emotions in sport.

Barriers and enablers in doping, anti-doping, and clean sport: A qualitative meta-synthesis informed by the theoretical domains framework and COM-B model (2024)
Journal Article
Williams, T. L., Patterson, L. B., Heyes, A. R., Staff, H. R., Boardley, I. D., Petróczi, A., & Backhouse, S. H. (2024). Barriers and enablers in doping, anti-doping, and clean sport: A qualitative meta-synthesis informed by the theoretical domains framework and COM-B model. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 72, Article 102608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2024.102608

To protect the integrity of sport, and the health of athletes, global anti-doping programmes seek to prevent doping, and elicit anti-doping and clean sport behaviours, through education, deterrence, detection, enforcement, and rules. To guide program... Read More about Barriers and enablers in doping, anti-doping, and clean sport: A qualitative meta-synthesis informed by the theoretical domains framework and COM-B model.

Linking Perfectionism with Moral Behaviors in Sport: The Mediating Role of Burnout and Moral Disengagement (2024)
Journal Article
Stanger, N., Jowett, G. E., Kaiseler, M., & Williams, T. L. (2024). Linking Perfectionism with Moral Behaviors in Sport: The Mediating Role of Burnout and Moral Disengagement. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, https://doi.org/10.1080/02701367.2023.2294096

Purpose: Research has identified a range of intrapersonal variables associated with moral behaviors in sport. However, research investigating how perfectionism and burnout are associated with prosocial and antisocial behavior toward teammates and opp... Read More about Linking Perfectionism with Moral Behaviors in Sport: The Mediating Role of Burnout and Moral Disengagement.

The perfect storm: A meta-ethnography of the motivations, behaviours, and experiences of competitive bodybuilders (2023)
Journal Article
Willmott, E. F., Thrower, S. N., Williams, T. L., & Petróczi, A. (2023). The perfect storm: A meta-ethnography of the motivations, behaviours, and experiences of competitive bodybuilders. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/1750984X.2023.2263851

Studies investigating competitive bodybuilding have primarily done so from a pathologizing perspective, and have often considered aspects of the competitive bodybuilding lifestyle in isolation, therefore overlooking the broader motivations underlying... Read More about The perfect storm: A meta-ethnography of the motivations, behaviours, and experiences of competitive bodybuilders.

What is a parasport coach’s role during athlete classification? Exploring how parasport coaches learn about classification and their role within this process (2023)
Journal Article
Birchall, I., Lawson, J., Williams, T., & Latimer-Cheung, A. (2024). What is a parasport coach’s role during athlete classification? Exploring how parasport coaches learn about classification and their role within this process. International Sport Coaching Journal, 11(2), 189-198. https://doi.org/10.1123/iscj.2022-0044

Interpersonal psychological well-being among coach-athlete-sport psychology practitioner triads (2023)
Journal Article
Simpson, R. A., Didymus, F. F., & Williams, T. L. (2023). Interpersonal psychological well-being among coach-athlete-sport psychology practitioner triads. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 67, Article 102435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2023.102435

The importance of psychological well-being (PWB) is widely acknowledged in global policy and has important ramifications for health, performance, and engagement among sport performers. Despite this compelling knowledge, little is known about PWB in c... Read More about Interpersonal psychological well-being among coach-athlete-sport psychology practitioner triads.

Exploring athletes’ and classifiers’ experiences with and understanding of classification in Para sport (2022)
Journal Article
Lawson, J. A., Williams, T., & Latimer-Cheung, A. E. (online). Exploring athletes’ and classifiers’ experiences with and understanding of classification in Para sport. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2022.2152084

Classification is a defining feature of Para sport; however, little empirical evidence describes the experience of classification and how it can be improved. To date, the primary focus of research related to classification has been on the development... Read More about Exploring athletes’ and classifiers’ experiences with and understanding of classification in Para sport.

Exploring how the process of quality participation unfolds for volunteers in community-based exercise programs for persons with disabilities (2021)
Journal Article
Man, K., Williams, T., Barnim, N., Shirazipour, C., Latimer-Cheung, A., & Tomasone, J. (2021). Exploring how the process of quality participation unfolds for volunteers in community-based exercise programs for persons with disabilities. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 13(2), 300-324. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2020.1727554

Stories of physical activity and disability: exploring sport and exercise students’ narrative imagination through story completion (2021)
Journal Article
Williams, T., Lozano-Sufrategui, L., & Tomasone, J. (2022). Stories of physical activity and disability: exploring sport and exercise students’ narrative imagination through story completion. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 14(5), 687-705. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2021.2001031

Sport and exercise students will form the next generation of sport, exercise and health practitioners tasked with supporting disabled people to be physically active. Yet, little is known about what these students imagine about physical activity and d... Read More about Stories of physical activity and disability: exploring sport and exercise students’ narrative imagination through story completion.

Behaviours that prompt primary school teachers to adopt and implement physically active learning: a meta synthesis of qualitative evidence (2021)
Journal Article
Daly-Smith, A., Morris, J. L., Norris, E., Williams, T. L., Archbold, V., Kallio, J., …Resaland, G. K. (2021). Behaviours that prompt primary school teachers to adopt and implement physically active learning: a meta synthesis of qualitative evidence. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 18(1), Article 151. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-021-01221-9

Background Physically active learning (PAL) - integration of movement within delivery of academic content - is a core component of many whole-of-school physical activity approaches. Yet, PAL intervention methods and strategies vary and frequently are... Read More about Behaviours that prompt primary school teachers to adopt and implement physically active learning: a meta synthesis of qualitative evidence.

Organizational stress and well-being in competitive sport: a systematic review (2021)
Journal Article
Simpson, R., Didymus, F., & Williams, T. (2024). Organizational stress and well-being in competitive sport: a systematic review. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 17(1), 116-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/1750984x.2021.1975305

Research on organizational stress in sport has expanded within recent decades. Despite voluminous literature, no systematic reviews exist to congregate findings in a single, rigorous point of reference. Filling this void helps researchers and practit... Read More about Organizational stress and well-being in competitive sport: a systematic review.

Qualitative methods. In D. Hackford & R. J. Schinke (Eds.). (2020)
Book Chapter
Williams, T., & Smith, B. (2020). Qualitative methods. In D. Hackford & R. J. Schinke (Eds.). In The Routledge international encyclopedia of sport and exercise psychology volume one: Theoretical and methodological concepts (pp. 524-534). Routledge

Fostering quality experiences: Qualitative perspectives from program members and providers in a community-based exercise program for adults with physical disabilities (2019)
Journal Article
Jackson, J., Williams, T., McEachern, B., Latimer-Cheung, A., & Tomasone, J. (2019). Fostering quality experiences: Qualitative perspectives from program members and providers in a community-based exercise program for adults with physical disabilities. Disability and Health Journal, 12(2), 296-301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2018.11.008

Participant experiences and perceptions of physical activity-enhancing interventions for people with physical impairments and mobility limitations: a meta-synthesis of qualitative research evidence (2017)
Journal Article
Williams, T., Ma, J., & Martin Ginis, K. (2017). Participant experiences and perceptions of physical activity-enhancing interventions for people with physical impairments and mobility limitations: a meta-synthesis of qualitative research evidence. Health Psychology Review, 11(2), 179-196. https://doi.org/10.1080/17437199.2017.1299027

Disability and physical activity (2017)
Book Chapter
Williams, T., & Smith, B. (2017). Disability and physical activity. In J. Piggin, L. Mansfield, & M. Weed (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Physical Activity Policy and Practice (284-297). London: Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315672779-20

This chapter explores the relationship between disability, health and physical activity. First we explore how disability is understood and the consequence this has on shaping medical practices and public health programmes. Next, we discuss the barrie... Read More about Disability and physical activity.