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Carolina Lundqvist

Associate Professor, Docent

My research interest is focused on psychological factors that increase elite athletes’ possibilities to perform at a high level and perceive quality of life during their elite careers.

Performance enhancement and quality of life in elite sports from a sport psychology perspective

I am a Ph.D. in psychology, Associate Professor in sport sciences and licensed psychotherapist. My current research interests are, among all, focused on elite athletes’ well-being and quality of life and psychological performance enhancement in the elite sport context. I am teaching in various areas of psychology (e.g., sport psychology, clinical psychology and social psychology).

Publications

2024

Carolina Lundqvist (2024) Prevalence of harassment, abuse, and mental health among current and retired senior Swedish cheerleaders Journal of Sports Sciences (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Carolina Lundqvist, Jonas Wig, David P. Schary (2024) Swedish elite athletes' experiences of psychotherapy for mental health concerns provided by licensed psychologists and psychotherapists: a qualitative study BMJ OPEN SPORT & EXERCISE MEDICINE, Vol. 10 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Carolina Lundqvist, Jonas Wig, David P. Schary (2024) Swedish elite athletes' experiences of psychotherapy for mental health concerns provided by licensed psychologists and psychotherapists: A qualitative study BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, Vol. 10, Article e002044 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Carolina Lundqvist, Örn Kolbeinsson, Anna Asratian, Tracey D Wade (2024) Untangling the relationships between age, gender, type of sport, perfectionistic self-presentation, and motivation on body satisfaction.: A cross-sectional study on aesthetic and non-aesthetic female and male athletes aged 10 to 22. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, Vol. 10, Article e001975 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Moa Jederström, Hanna Sandell, Örjan Dahlström, Kristina Faghner, Laura Korhonen, Carolina Lundqvist, Toomas Timpka (2024) 864 BO48 - Towards prevention of self-objectification in young female athletes on social media: instagram posting patterns of female elite athletes in aesthetic and non-aesthetic individual sports
Carolina Lundqvist, Anna Asratian, Tracey D Wade (2024) 563 EP098 - Untangling the relationships between age, gender, type of sport, perfectionistic self-presentation, and motivation on body satisfaction among female and male athletes aged 10-22 British Journal of Sports Medicine, p. A120-A120 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
Carolina Lundqvist, David P. Schary, Jenny Jacobsson, Laura Korhonen, Toomas Timpka (2024) Aligning categories of mental health conditions with intervention types in high-performance sports: a narrative cornerstone review and classification framework Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Article JSAMS-02972 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Carolina Lundqvist, David P. Schary, Jenny Jacobsson, Laura Korhonen, Toomas Timpka (2024) Aligning categories of mental health conditions with intervention types in high-performance sports: a narrative cornerstone review and classification framework Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Vol. 27, p. 525-531 (Article, review/survey) Continue to DOI

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