Elite sport in Scandinavian welfare states: legitimacy under pressure?

Ronglan, Lars Tore

doi:10.1080/19406940.2014.987309

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“…Mary’s statement is one example of where it is possible to associate her clear morals with growing up in a country that is shaped by democratic principles (Enoksen et al, 2014), and which has created a sport-for-all movement, a particular national sport policy, and a focus on athletes’ education and well-being (Barker-Ruchti et al, in press; Ronglan, 2015). Furthermore, Mary’s quote of not taking herself too seriously exemplifies how she realizes that she can learn from others, which is indeed something that the women coaches mentioned.…”

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Balancing performance-based expectations with a holistic perspective on coaching: a qualitative study of Swedish women’s national football team coaches’ practice experiences

Lindgren

Barker-Ruchti

2017

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore how an exclusive sample of women’s national football team coaches described how they implement careful coaching while facing social and organizational pressure to win medals. Method: To consider coaches’ negotiations, we drew on Noddings’ concept of caring. Using an interpretive research paradigm, we conducted in-depth interviews with five Swedish women’s national football team coaches. An abductive approach was used to simultaneously process the theoretical framework of “ethics of care” and the empirical data. Results: The coaches unanimously adopted a holistic perspective to coaching. The coaching strategies they described included promoting players’ development, well-being, and sustainable elite performance; listening to the players’ voices and engaging in dialogue; and creating a positive environment and promoting fair play. Conclusions: These findings demonstrate that the women coaches, despite performance pressure, adopt caring coaching in the form of Noddings’ pedagogical modelling, dialogue, and confirmation strategies, and provide an example of how coaches can adopt caring, holistic, and athlete-centred coaching while working at the highest level of competitive sport and achieving competitive success.

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Balancing performance-based expectations with a holistic perspective on coaching: a qualitative study of Swedish women’s national football team coaches’ practice experiences

Lindgren

Barker-Ruchti

2017

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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“…In regard to domain, differences emerged in both competence and autonomy frustration, as the performing arts performers were more likely to belong to the maladaptive growth profiles compared to the sport performers. This finding might relate to the Nordic sport model, as it is founded on egalitarian values and known to promote broad participation, late specialization, and holistic development approaches . Conversely, the performing art context is associated with more authoritarian apprenticeship cultures known to facilitate early specialization and teacher‐led activities, and involve asymmetric power relations …”

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“…This finding might relate to the Nordic sport model, as it is founded on egalitarian values and known to promote broad participation, late specialization, and holistic development approaches. 73 Conversely, the performing art context is associated with more authoritarian apprenticeship cultures known to facilitate early specialization and teacher-led activities, and involve asymmetric power relations. 74,75…”

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Change in basic need frustration in relation to perfectionism, anxiety, and performance in elite junior performers

Haraldsen

Solstad

Ivarsson

et al. 2020

Scandinavian Med Sci Sports

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The present study examined whether there were different growth profiles in basic need frustration in elite junior performers over a nine‐month period. Subsequently, we examined whether the identified growth profiles differed in their levels of perfectionistic strivings and evaluative concerns measured at baseline and, additionally, whether they were associated with higher or lower levels of anxiety and perceived performance level in the end of the period. A sample of 259 (Mage = 17.31; SDage = 0.97) elite junior performers from sports and performing arts completed an online questionnaire to report their self‐ratings of the study variables. The analyses were conducted using growth mixture modeling in Mplus 8.0. Two main contrasting growth profiles were identified in each of the basic need frustration. Perfectionistic strivings were overall higher than evaluative concerns, but did not differ between the growth profiles. Conversely, evaluative concerns differed significantly between the identified growth profiles. Higher levels of evaluative concerns were associated with the most maladaptive growth profiles. Indeed, elite junior performers, who experienced moderate and increasing levels of competence and autonomy frustration, reported higher levels of anxiety and lower levels of perceived performance level than those who reported low and decreasing levels of competence and autonomy frustration. Based on these findings, evaluative concerns and basic need frustration appear to play key roles in the development of maladaptive motivational processes over time.

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“…Norwegian handball is rooted in the values of volunteerism, decentralisation and egalitarianism which characterise the Scandinavian sports model ( Ronglan, 2014 ). The organisational structure of the talent development in Norwegian handball includes multiple autonomous parties, such as clubs, sport schools, regional federation-level talent development activities, and youth and junior international team activities.…”

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The Relationship Between Early and Senior Level Participation in International Women’s and Men’s Handball

Bjørndal

Luteberget

Holm

2018

Journal of Human Kinetics

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International competitions at the youth elite level have become an important part of attempts to identify, foster and develop sporting talent. However, sports science scholars disagree strongly about the value and importance of such competitions because little is known about the relationship between early performance, at both the team and individual level, and later success in adult elite sports. The first aim of this study was therefore to explore the relationship between international match experience at the youth international team level and subsequent match experience at the junior and the senior international team levels. The second aim of this study was to explore the relationship between youth national team results and subsequent junior and senior national team results in international competitions. The individual-level analysis was based on official match participation statistics of all Norwegian handball players with either youth, junior and/or senior national team experience (n = 657) between the years 1993 and 2017. The team level analysis was based on team result rankings from the handball European and World Championships at the youth, junior and senior national team levels during this period. Statistical analysis at the individual level showed a significant difference between those handball players who did and did not have international match exposure at the youth and junior levels, and the number of matches they played at the senior international team level. No to weak correlations were found between the number of matches played at the youth, junior and senior international team levels. Statistical analysis at the team level showed a strong correlation between result rankings at the youth, junior and senior international team levels. Collectively, these findings suggest that having youth and junior international experience is strongly associated with the number of matches played at the senior international level. However, the number of matches played at the youth and junior international levels does not appear to determine success or predict which players will or will not achieve success at the senior international level.

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Elite sport in Scandinavian welfare states: legitimacy under pressure?

Cited by 33 publications

References 37 publications

Balancing performance-based expectations with a holistic perspective on coaching: a qualitative study of Swedish women’s national football team coaches’ practice experiences

Balancing performance-based expectations with a holistic perspective on coaching: a qualitative study of Swedish women’s national football team coaches’ practice experiences

Change in basic need frustration in relation to perfectionism, anxiety, and performance in elite junior performers

The Relationship Between Early and Senior Level Participation in International Women’s and Men’s Handball

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