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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, 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 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 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 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 Continue to DOI
Carolina Lundqvist, Warren Gregson, Daniele Bonanno, Lorenzo Lolli, Valter Di Salvo (2024) A worldwide survey of perspectives on demands, resources, and barriers influencing the youth-to-senior transition in academy football players International journal of sports science & coaching, Vol. 19, p. 162-170 Continue to DOI

2023

Jenny Jacobsson, Dejan Mirkovic, Per-Olof Hansson, Carolina Lundqvist, Robert Henry Mann, Ulrika Traneus (2023) Youth athletes at Swedish sports high schools with an athletics specialism emphasise environmental support for injury risk management: a focus group study BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, Vol. 9, Article e001527 Continue to DOI
Dean R. Watson, Henrik Gustafsson, Carolina Lundqvist (2023) Working with perfectionistic athletes in sports: an acceptance committment therapy perspective The Psychology of Perfectionism in Sport, Dance, and Exercise, p. 285-304 Continue to DOI

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