Book Chapters
Richard, Veronique, Wergin, V. Vanessa and Cairney, John (2024). Engaging in creative behaviours and activities as a well-being and recovery approach. Fostering recovery and well-being in a healthy lifestyle: Psychological, somatic, and organizational prevention approaches. (pp. 92-102) edited by Michael Kellmann and Jürgen Beckmann. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003250654-8
Wergin, V. Vanessa (2024). Negative Team Performances Within a Competition. Psychology of Crises in Sport. (pp. 75-89) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-69328-1_6
Ehrlenspiel, Felix, Wergin, V. Vanessa and Beckmann, Jürgen (2023). Fear and anxiety in elite sport. Routledge handbook of mental health in elite sport. (pp. 226-243) edited by Insa Nixdorf, Raphael Nixdorf, Jürgen Beckmann, Scott Martin and Tadhg Macintyre. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003099345-21
Mesagno, Christopher, Ehrlenspiel, Felix, Wergin, V. Vanessa and Gröpel, Peter (2021). Choking under pressure. Sport, exercise and performance psychology: research directions to advance the field. (pp. 31-45) edited by Edson Filho and Itay Basevitch. New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197512494.003.0003
Wergin, V. Vanessa and Beckmann, Jürgen (2018). Volitionale Aspekte sportlichen Handelns. Sport in Kultur und Gesellschaft. (pp. 1-13) Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-53385-7_40-1
Journal Articles
López de Subijana, Cristina, Wergin, Vivian Vanessa, Mallett, Clifford J. and Haslam, Alexander (2025). Exploring the relationship between burnout and mental health in elite athletes: the role of moderators. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/1612197x.2025.2479715
Schüller, Iris, Wergin, V. Vanessa and Mess, Filip (2025). Strengthening social skills: developing a social competence intervention for physical education using intervention mapping—protocol paper. Frontiers in Psychology, 16 1484943. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1484943
Wergin, V. Vanessa, Wolf, Svenja A., Schwender, Julia T. and Mallett, Clifford J. (2024). Experienced emotions, emotion regulation strategies, and regulation depletion in collective team collapse and performance recovery situations. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology. doi: 10.1080/10413200.2024.2413996
Wergin, V. Vanessa, Mallett, Clifford J. and Beckmann, Juergen (2022). Individual vs. team sport failure-similarities, differences, and current developments. Frontiers in Psychology, 13 930025, 1-9. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.930025
Maechel, Christopher, Loughead, Todd M., Wergin, V. Vanessa, Kossak, Tom and Beckmann, Jürgen (2021). A solution-focused approach to shared athlete leadership development using mixed methods. The Sport Psychologist, 36 (2), 1-14. doi: 10.1123/tsp.2021-0075
Beckmann, Jurgen, Fimpel, Lukas and Wergin, V. Vanessa (2021). Preventing a loss of accuracy of the tennis serve under pressure. PLoS One, 16 (July) e0255060, e0255060. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255060
Liebich, Christoph, Wegin, V. Vanessa, Marquart, Christine, Schubert, Irene, von Bruehl, Marie-Luise, Halle, Martin, Oberhoffer, Renate and Wolfarth, Bernd (2021). Skin diseases in elite athletes. International Journal of Sports Medicine, 42 (14), 1297-1304. doi: 10.1055/a-1446-9828
Liebich, Christoph, Wergin, V. V., Schubert, I., Von Bruehl, M. L., Marquart, C., Halle, M., Oberhoffer, R. and Wolfarth, B. (2021). Dermatoses in competitive athletes. Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Sportmedizin, 72 (1), 5-12. doi: 10.5960/dzsm.2020.466
Vanessa Wergin, V., Zimanyi, Zsuzsanna and Beckmann, Jürgen (2021). A field study investigating running distance and affect of field hockey players in collective team collapse situations. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 19 (4), 584-597. doi: 10.1080/1612197X.2020.1817123
Wergin, V. Vanessa, Beckmann, Jürgen, Gröpel, Peter and Mesagno, Christopher (2020). Investigating cumulative effects of preperformance routine interventions in beach volleyball serving. PloS One, 15 (1) e0228012, e0228012. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228012
Mesagno, Christopher, Beckmann, Jürgen, Wergin, V. Vanessa and Gröpel, Peter (2019). Primed to perform: comparing different pre-performance routine interventions to improve accuracy in closed, self-paced motor tasks. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 43, 73-81. doi: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2019.01.001
Wergin, V. Vanessa, Mallett, Clifford J., Mesagno, Christopher, Zimanyi, Zsuzsanna and Beckmann, Juergen (2019). When you watch your team fall apart - coaches' and sport psychologists' perceptions on causes of collective sport team collapse. Frontiers in Psychology, 10 (JUN) 331, 1331. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01331
Wergin, V. Vanessa, Zimanyi, Zsuzsanna, Mesagno, Christopher and Beckmann, Juergen (2018). When suddenly nothing works anymore within a team - causes of collective sport team collapse. Frontiers in Psychology, 9 (NOV) 2115, 2115. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02115
Conference Papers
Wergin, V. Vanessa, Jaitner, David, Boehlke, Nicola and Wolf, Svenja A. (2024). Struggling to do well: Development and maintenance of performance crises in professional soccer. North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, United States, 5-8 June 2024. Champaign, IL, United States: Human Kinetics.
Wergin, V. Vanessa, Schwender, Julia, Emmenlauer, Moritz, Mallett, Cliff and Wolf, Svenja A. (2023). "Just pretend to be okay!" - Interpersonal emotion regulation in collective team collapse situations. North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, Canada, 1-3 June 2023. Champaign, IL, United States: Human Kinetics.