2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 48: Elite Sport 4

9 Jun 2022, 09:00

Description

Chair: Ansgar Thiel
Room: 7E02, Building HZM Ground Floor

231. Reviewing Career Development Research in Paralympic Sport

Astrid Schubring, Elin Bergström

09/06/2022, 09:00

Career development in sport is a well-established research field. Scholars have investigated entry and exit processes, different career phases and critical transitions in athletes. Further, social scientists have conceptualised athletic careers as social phenomena, situated in times and contexts. This understanding has drawn attention to the role sport systems and policies, gender, and...

158. ‘I Hadn’t Gone From Loving It To Hating It Overnight’: Have Psychological Studies Diminished Our Understandings of Athletes’ Working Lives?

Martin Roderick

09/06/2022, 09:20

Objectives
This paper calls for sport scientists to re-engage with traditional sociological notions when studying career transitions.

Methods
Utilising data drawn from four interviews with, and extensive diary reflections of, a now former English male professional footballer, this case study approach offers a lens through which to capture something personally experienced, felt and...

159. The role of psychosocial factors in the behavior of performing hurt: A systematic review

Jan Bursik, Ansgar Thiel, Jannika John

09/06/2022, 09:40

Objectives

Elite athletes commonly participate in competitions despite experiencing pain or being injured (Mayer & Thiel, 2018) – a behavior described as ‘playing hurt’. Research suggests that this behavior is not specific to elite athletes, but can also be observed in other high achievement contexts such as music (Park et al., 2007) or performing arts (Anderson & Hanrahan, 2008). Overall,...

157. Talented football players and the constraints affecting drop-out among youth and young adults – a question of age and gender?

Peter Brusvik

Research from sport has shown that reasons for drop-out can be related to aspects such as perceptions of low sport-specific competence, lack of enjoyment as well as team spirit, other things to do or an injury (e.g., Temple & Crane 2016). The primary objective of this study is to analyse the underlying factors that influence and interrelate drop-out behavior among young promising football...