Research areas

My research focuses on three main themes:

• The interaction of athletes’ psychological and physiological states in relation to workloads (sport and non-sport),
• Understanding the impact of environmental variables on the dynamics of athletes' states over time
• The investigation of intervention techniques enabling athletes to improve (a) their objective and perceived internal states, (b) their quality of life and (c) the follow-up of their personal projects over time.

These works are mainly focused on cohorts of high-level athletes or those in training for a high performance.

The originality and the ambition of this approach lies in an interdisciplinary consideration of the athlete, as much from the point of view of thier states as of the environmental impact on them.

Ongoing projects

ASDP

Latest publications

Levillain, G., Martinent, G., Vacher, P., & Nicolas, M. (2021). Longitudinal trajectories of emotions among athletes in sports competitions: Does emotional intelligence matter?. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 102012.

Davletyarova K., Vacher P., Nicolas M., Kapilevich L.V., & Mourot L. (2020). Associations between heart rate variability-derived indexes and training load: repeated measures correlation should be used. The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.

Vacher, P., Filaire, E., Mourot, L., & Nicolas, M. (2019). Stress and recovery in sports: Effects on heart rate variability, cortisol and subjective experience. International Journal of Psychophysiology.

Vacher, P., Nicolas, M., & Mourot, L. (2019). Recovery and stress states: did perceived control and goal attainment matters during tapering period? International Journal of Sport Psychology.

Vacher, P., Martinent, G., Mourot, L., & Nicolas, M. (2018). Elite swimmers’ internal markers trajectories in ecological training conditions. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports.

Vacher, P., Nicolas, M., Martinent, G., Mourot, L. (2017). Changes of swimmers’ emotional states during the preparation of national championship: Do recovery-stress states matter? Frontiers in Psychology, 8.

Nicolas, M., Martinent, G., Drapeau, M., Chahraoui, K., Vacher, P., & deRoten, Y. (2017). Defense profiles in adaptation process to sport competition and their relationships with coping, stress and control. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 2222.

Vacher, P., Nicolas, M., Mourot L. (2016). Monitoring training response with heart rate variability in elite adolescent athletes: is there a difference between judoka and swimmers? Archives of Budo, 12,35-42.

Nicolas, M., Vacher, P., Martinent, G., & Mourot, L. (2016). Monitoring stress and recovery states: Structural and external stages of the short version of the RESTQ sport in elite swimmers before championships. Journal of Sport and Health Science, 8, 77-88.

Contact me

Mail : [email protected]

Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippe-vacher-244309225/

ResearchGate : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Philippe-Vacher

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