A tale of three seasons: a cultural sport psychology and gender performativity approach to practitioner identity and development in professional football
The present study explored how the organisational and cultural experiences of a trainee Sport Psychology Consultant (SPC) working in professional football shaped her identity and professional development. Drawing on Cultural Sport Psychology (CSP) and gender performativity as guiding frameworks, we explored the first author’s identity development as a sport psychology practitioner-researcher within one professional football club over a 3-year duration. Traditional ethnographic data collection methods were employed, including, field notes and a reflective journal. Through creative non-fiction vignettes, we show that the traditional masculine discourse in professional football shaped the firs…
New Approaches to Identity in Sport
Welcome to this Special Issue of Journal of Sport Psychology in Action, which offers new theoretical, methodological and applied considerations on what we (the editors) regard as the important topi...
Supporting Identity Development in Talented Youth Athletes: Insights from Existential and Cultural Psychological Approaches
The purpose of this article is to present existential and cultural psychology approaches to understanding athlete identity, and offer strategies for the development of well-rounded, reflexive and s...