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‘Don’t ever mix God with sports’: Christian religion in athletes’ stories of life transitions
2019
Sport psychology researchers have increasingly recognized the need to adopt a holistic perspective when seeking to understand athletes’ adaptation to life transitions. The present study sought to understand how religion influences athletes’ journeys in sport and experiences of life transitions. Two Christian elite athletes participated in life story interviews which we analyzed via narrative analysis. Although the participants narratively separated religious belief from sport, religion, as a source of basic world assumptions and values, provided a broader framework of meaning and continuity in their sport lives. Yet, both stories involved a growing distance to institutional religious practi…
Identity tensions in dual career : the discursive construction of future selves by female Finnish judo athletes
2019
To date, few studies have explored how changes in the practices, policies, and politics of sport and education may be implicated in how young athletes think about and plan for the future. Drawing on cultural praxis and feminist poststructuralist frameworks, this paper explores whether and how dual career (DC) policies and practices in Finland guide female judo athletes’ imaginings about their future. Discourse analysis was used to analyse interviews with three adolescent (aged 16) and three young adult (aged 20, 23, and 27) elite female judo athletes. Differences were found in the ways the athletes in the different age groups constructed their future athletic, civic and gendered selves. We …
A tale of three seasons: a cultural sport psychology and gender performativity approach to practitioner identity and development in professional foot…
2020
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…
Redefining habits and linking habits with other implicit processes
2019
In their commentaries on Hagger (2019), Gardner, Rebar, and Lally (2019) and Phillips (2019) provide welcome debate on the conceptualization and operation of habits in physical activity. In this response, I extend their comments by (i) calling for a redefining of habits to encompass contemporary views of habit, and (ii) suggesting that descriptions of physical activity habits should make reference to their relations with other implicit constructs that reflect automatic processes. Specifically, I contend that extant definitions of habits for complex behaviors like physical activity should move away from definitions of unitary responses to specific cues or contexts, and, focus on ‘macro’ expr…
Cultural sport psychology as a pathway to advances in identity and settlement research to practice
2019
Abstract Objectives To situate mostly European cultural sport psychology scholarship in a historical backdrop and then to draw on two recent examples from such scholarship to propose future prospects. Design A review of literature is utilized to situate the recent prominence of cultural sport psychology. This review is written temporally from past, to present, to future prospects. Method A presentation of scholarship is presented temporally relating to the following: (a) gender scholarship, (b) cross cultural voids in race and ethnicity, (c) situating of cultural sport psychology in present day, with the emergence of European scholars, (d) the topics of intersectionality of identity and acc…
The compendium of self-enactable techniques to change and self-manage motivation and behaviour v.1.0.
2019
Behaviour change techniques describe the content of behaviour change interventions, but do not adequately account for the actions that people must themselves undertake to successfully change or self-manage motivation or behaviour. This paper describes the development of a compendium of self-enactable techniques, combining behaviour- and motivation-regulation techniques across six existing classifications of behaviour change techniques and three scoping reviews. The compendium includes 123 techniques, each of which is labelled, defined and presented with instructive examples to facilitate self-enactment. Qualitative feedback was gathered from intervention developers and the general public to…
Fysisk aktivitet, lidenskap og standhaftighet En undersøkelse av sammenhengen mellom grit og ulike fysiske aktivitetskontekster blant jenter og gutte…
2015
Masteroppgave folkehelsevitenskap- Universitetet i Agder, 2015 Studiens formål var å undersøke forholdet mellom grit og deltakelse i ulike fysisk aktivitetskontekster (organisert idrett og selvorganisert fysisk aktivitet) blant norske ungdommer i alderen 13 og 16 år. I tillegg ønsket studien å se på forskjeller i grit basert på kjønn og alder. Denne studien ble gjennomført som en tverrsnittsstudie og var en del av et større prosjekt kalt «the RElevance of Physical Activity Contexts in Every-day life of Adolescents» (REPAC). 3049 elever i 8. klasse og 1.vgs fra Aust- og Vest-Agder, Oslo/Akershus og Østfold responderte på et elektronisk spørreskjema som var utarbeidet for å undersøke hvordan …
Felles mentale modeller i elitefotball: En casestudie av delt oppgavespesifikk kunnskap, ferdighet og teamtrening i to norske team.
2015
Masteroppgave idrettsvitenskap- Universitetet i Agder, 2015 Studiets formål er å utforske konseptet felles mentale modeller (FMM) i fotballteams naturlige kontekst. Medlemmene i team som har FMM hevdes å i større grad ha evnen til å koordinere og tilpasse sine handlinger til oppgaven, miljøet og andre teammedlemmer (Cannon‐Bowers & Bowers, 2006). Fordi FMM forventes å spille en sentral rolle for fotballteams samhandlingsevne og organisering har jeg valgt å designe studien som et case-‐studie. Jeg har forsøkt å utforske eksistens og innhold av fotballspesifikke FMM-‐kunnskaper, –ferdigheter og teamtrening i elitefotballteam. Det empiriske materialet er innsamlet ved bruk av observasjon, in…
Sosiale interaksjoner i kroppsøvingsfaget Hvordan påvirker elevenes mestringstro, målorientering og selvoppfattelse de sosiale interaksjonene i en kl…
2015
Masteroppgave idrettsvitenskap- Universitetet i Agder, 2015 The purpose of this study was to enlighten the importance of the social interactions regarding the students’ wellbeing and learning in physical education. This should lead to an increased reflection and a nuanced perspective on physical education, where the organization of the subject and the students’ participation has seemed to be most important. The study should therefore investigate how the students’ self-efficacy, goal orientation and self-concept influenced the social interactions within a class. All of these mentioned theories explain human behavior. Further, the study showed how the social interactions occurred, how it infl…
Sammenheng mellom opplevd rettferdighet og motivasjonsklima blant fotballspillere i alderen 13-20 år.
2015
Masteroppgave idrettsvitenskap- Universitetet i Agder, 2015 Hensikten med studien var å undersøke sammenheng mellom opplevd rettferdighet og motivasjonsklima blant fotballspillere i alderen 13-20 år. En slik sammenheng har ikke blitt undersøkt på unge idrettsutøvere. Studien er en tverrsnittstudie med surveydesign. 532 respondenter på fotballturneringen Sør Cup 2014 responderte på et spørreskjema i løpet av turneringens tre første dager. Det ble utført faktor-, korrelasjon- og regresjonsanalyser. Resultatene viste at fotballspillere som rapporterte opplevd positiv prosedyrerettferdighet av sin treners avgjørelser, også opplevde mestringsorientert motivasjonsklima i sitt lag. Det ble ikke fu…