Bård Erlend Solstad

Currently working as an associate professor at the department of sport science and physical education 

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Norwegian Research Centre for Children and Youth Sports (2017-2020)

Research Fellow in sport psychology at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (2012-2017)

Children and youth sports

Motivation

Coach education

The importance of training load in the everyday life of young athletes (age group 13-19 years)

Psychology of sport injury

Football in Agder

Shared reality between coaches and athletes in elite junior sports

The coach in children and youth sports

Halvari, A. E. M., Ivarsson, A., Halvari, H., Olafsen, A. H., Solstad, B. E., Niemiec, C. P., Deci, E. L., & Williams, G. (2021). A Prospective Study of Knowledge Sharing at Work Based on Self-Determination Theory. Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 6(1): 5, 1–14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/sjwop.140

Bentzen, M., Hordvik, M., Stenersen, M. H., & Solstad, B. E. (2021). A longitudinal transitional perspective on why adolescents choose to quit organized sport in Norway. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2021.102015

Solstad, B. E., Granerud, M., Haraldsen, H. M., Gustafsson, H., & Knight, C. (2021). An exploration of reciprocity between female athletes and their coach in elite junior swimming: a shared reality theory perspective. Qualitative Research of Sport, Exercise and Health, doi:10.1080/2159676X.2021.1941211

Haraldsen, H., Abrahamsen, F. E., Solstad, B. E., & Halvari, H. (2021). Narrative Tensions in Strained Elite Junior Performers' Experiences of Becoming Elite Performers. Frontiers in Psychology, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.645098

Haraldsen, H., Ivarsson, A., Solstad, B. E., Abrahamsen, F., & Halvari, H. (2020). Composites of Perfectionism and Inauthenticity in Relation to Controlled Motivation, Performance Anxiety and Exhaustion among Elite Junior Performers. European Journal of Sport Science, doi:10.1080/17461391.2020.1763478

Solstad, B. E., Stenling, A., Ommundsen, Y., Wold, B., Heuzé, J. P., Sarrazin, P., Castillo, I., Cruz, J., Hall, H., Papaioannou, A., & Duda, J. L. (2020). Initial psychometric testing of the coach-adapted version of the empowering and disempowering motivational climate questionnaire: A Bayesian approach. Journal of Sports Sciences, doi:10.1080/02640414.2020.1722575

Haraldsen, H., Solstad, B. E., Ivarsson, A., Halvari, H., & Abrahamsen, F. (2020). Change in Basic Need Frustration in Relation to Perfectionism, Anxiety and Performance in Elite Junior Performers. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, doi:10.1111/sms.13614

Haraldsen, H., Halvari, H., Solstad, B. E., Abrahamsen, F., & Nordin-Bates, S. (2019). The role of perfectionism and controlling conditions in Norwegian elite junior performers’ motivational processes. Frontiers in Psychology, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01366

Gjesdal, S., Stenling, A., Solstad, B. E., & Ommundsen, Y. (2019). A study of coach‐team perceptual distance concerning the coach‐created motivational climate in youth sport. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 29, 132-143. doi:10.1111/sms.13306

Pedersen, C., Halvari, H., Solstad, B. E., & Bentzen, M. (2019). Longitudinal trajectories of physical activity among employees participating in a worksite health promotion intervention: A latent class growth approach. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 43, 311-320. doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2019.03.007

Kristiansen, E., Ivarsson, A., Solstad, B. E., & Roberts, G. C. (2019). Motivational processes affecting the perception of organizational and media stressors among professional football players: A longitudinal mixed methods research study. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 43, 172-182. doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2019.02.009

Bean, C., Solstad, B. E., Ivarsson, A., & Forneris, T. (2018). Longitudinal associations between perceived programme quality, basic needs support and basic needs satisfaction within youth sport: A person-centred approach. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, doi:10.1080/1612197X.2018.1462234

Jordalen, G., Lemyre, P. N., Solstad, B. E., & Ivarsson, A. (2018). The role of self-control and motivation on exhaustion in youth athletes: A longitudinal perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02449

Pensgaard, A. M., Ivarsson, A., Nilstad, A., Solstad, B. E., & Steffen, K. (2018). Psychosocial stress factors, including the relationship with the coach, and their influence on acute and overuse injury risk in elite female football players. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 4, doi:10.1136/bmjsem-2017-000317

Ommundsen, Y., Solstad, B. E., Høigaard, R., & Wold, B. (2018). Mestrer jeg trenerrollen? Validitet og reliabilitet i en skala til måling av mestringstro i et utvalg norske breddefotballtrenere. I T. Haugen og R. Høigaard (red.), Trender i idrettspsykologisk forskning i Skandinavia (s. 47-72). Cappelen Damm Akademisk.

Solstad, B. E., Ivarsson, A., Haug, E. M., & Ommundsen, Y. (2018). Youth sport coaches’ well-being across the season: The psychological costs and benefits of giving empowering and disempowering sports coaching to athletes. International Sport Coaching Journal, 5, 124-135. doi:10.1123/iscj.2017-0026

Solstad, B. E., Larsen, T., Holsen, I., Ivarsson, A., Ronglan, L. T., & Ommundsen, Y. (2017). Pre- to post-season differences in empowering and disempowering behaviors among youth football coaches: A sequential mixed methods study. Sports Coaching Review, 7, 113-141. doi:10.1080/21640629.2017.1361166

Solstad, B. E., Van Hoye, A., & Ommundsen, Y. (2015). Social-contextual and intrapersonal antecedents of coaches’ basic need satisfaction: The intervening variable effect of providing autonomy-supportive coaching. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 20, 84- 93. doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2015.05.001

Solstad, B. E., & Lemyre, P. N. (2014). Why coaches should encourage swimmers’ efforts to succeed. Journal of Swimming Research, 22, 1-9.