Exercise and Existence: Exercise Behavior from an Existential-Phenomenological Perspective

Fahlberg, Larry L.; Fahlberg, Lauri A.; Gates, Ward K.

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“…They suggest that sport psychology interventions that encourage greater self-awareness, a search for meaning, and absorption in the activity, can help facilitate an athlete's journey toward spiritual growth and performance excellence. Existential-phenomenological research has become increasingly popular with sport psychology researchers and consultants (e.g., Brawley, Caron, & Widmeyer, 1992;Dale, 1996Dale, , 2000Fahlberg, Fahlberg, & Gates, 1992;Nesti, in press). When athletes try to describe important yet difficult to articulate areas of their life, existential concerns such as spiritual meaning, values, and anxiety, phenomenology provides researchers with an appropriate method for collecting data from the athletes' "lived world".…”

Section: Spirituality In Sport Psychology Counselingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Spirituality in Sport Psychology Consulting: An Analysis and Integrative Review of Literature

Watson

Nesti

2005

Journal of Applied Sport Psychology

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This review suggests that the concept of spirituality should be considered seriously within sport psychology research and consultancy. Four key areas are addressed: how spirituality may be reconciled into the athlete-centered model, the integration of spirituality and religious observances into mental skills training (MST), the relationship between spirituality and positive psychological states such as flow and peak experiences, and the role of spirituality in counseling. Recent work has acknowledged the importance of spirituality in consultancy work (Ravizza, 2002a) and religious beliefs and rituals for some athletes (Czech & Burke, in press). Despite extensive study in psychology, research of spirituality in sport psychology has been slow to emerge. Some of the reasons for this are discussed and suggestions made in relation to how this important concept can be integrated into research and consultancy work. Future research and theoretical work should focus on both performance enhancement and life skills development.Sport psychology consultants work with athletes who hold widely differing values and beliefs about their sporting and everyday life. Inevitably a significant number of these athletes will have spiritual or religious beliefs. Given this situation it is surprising that spirituality has received little attention in the sport psychology literature. The scientific study and acceptance of spirituality and religion has been slow to emerge in sport psychology. This is despite extensive study in our parent

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Section: Spirituality In Sport Psychology Counselingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Spirituality in Sport Psychology Consulting: An Analysis and Integrative Review of Literature

Watson

Nesti

2005

Journal of Applied Sport Psychology

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“…One of the main and the most frequently cited sources of Dale's (1996) text is Fahlberg, Fahlberg, and Gates (1992); both of them also share their main source - Polkinghorne (1989). In Fahlberg's et al case, there seems to be a considerable shift in the right direction.…”

Section: Phenomenology Is Not Empirical Researchmentioning

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Phenomenology is not Phenomenalism. Is there such a thing as phenomenology of sport?

Halák¹,

Jirásek²,

Nesti³

2014

Acta Gymnica

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Background:The application of the philosophical mode of investigation called "phenomenology" in the context of sport. Objective: The goal is to show how and why the phenomenological method is very often misused in the sportrelated research. Methods: Interpretation of the key texts, explanation of their meaning. Results: The confrontation of concrete sport-related texts with the original meaning of the key phenomenological notions shows mainly three types of misuse -the confusion of phenomenology with immediacy, with an epistemologically subjectivist stance (phenomenalism), and with empirical research oriented towards objects in the world. Conclusions: Many of the discussed authors try to take over the epistemological validity of phenomenology for their research, which itself is not phenomenological, and it seems that this is because they lack such a methodological foundation. The authors believe that an authentically phenomenological analysis of sport is possible, but it must respect the fundamental distinctions that differentiate phenomenology from other styles of thinking.Keywords: philosophy of sport, phenomenology, phenomenalism meaning could be modified depending on the authors' actual goal. This situation is, of course, unsatisfactory and ultimately unacceptable. The purpose of this paper is thus to clarify the reasons for which, in our opinion, there is a frequent substantial loss of the meaning -and the value -of phenomenology as it is misinterpreted in sport related research.We would like to sketch a brief critical overview of a number of representatively chosen, mostly sportresearch related texts which have the ambition to call themselves "phenomenological". We shall demonstrate how the misunderstanding of some of the key distinctions introduced by phenomenological philosophy often brings the authors to even epistemologically inconsistent assertions. These may be interesting from some points of view, but can in no way obtain objective scientific validity in the way the authors wish, i.e. simply by being labeled phenomenology.As the phenomenology is a discipline stemming from a particular historical context, its fundamental meaning is clearly defined in contrast to certain epistemological and ontological positions. Phenomenology fights especially against two ultimately inconsequent ways of thinking -first, skepticism and psychologism; and second, naive objective realism. The key problem with the majority of sport-research appropriations of

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“…Although there are different phenomenological approaches (i.e., transcendental, hermeneutic, existential), the significance of existentialphenomenology for consumer and event tourism research is pivotal due to its ability to explore and designate multifaceted phenomena from a first-person perspective (Fahlberg, Fahlberg, & Gates, 1992;Thompson, Locander, & Pollio, 1989) In general, the analysis of tourist experience can be met in the literature in three main schools of thought: (a) experience and consumption, where experience is defined according to its significance for individuals and their societies and involves the sense of authenticity, (b) the relationship between experience, motivation and tourist types, and (c) the experience-behavior nexus, where the experience is seen as a multifunctional leisure activity that engages all the senses (Shaw & Williams, 2004).…”

Section: Phenomenology and Consumer Researchmentioning

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Extracting meanings of event tourist experiences: A phenomenological exploration of Limassol carnival

Ziakas

Boukas

2013

Journal of Destination Marketing & Management

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The common examination of the event and tourism experience can reveal the attached meanings that exemplify the valued characteristics of a destination in the perceptions of tourists. From this standpoint, this study employed a phenomenological approach conducting eight unstructured interviews to explore the experience and assigned meanings of tourists who attended the carnival in Limassol, Cyprus. Results indicate that the meanings of tourist experiences in the carnival were extracted as continuously evolving products shaped by the interaction of two interrelated dramaturgical states, namely the generalized sociality and perceived community metamorphosis, and the interfering dimension of obstruction referring to organizational aspects constraining the tourist experience. The findings of this exploratory phenomenological study bring into the fore the need for more effectively incorporating events into a destination's product mix by designing experiences that leverage event meanings in synergy with unique destination features, thereby enhancing their impact on tourists. On these grounds, it is argued that the phenomenological perspective applied on the study of event tourism can enable destination marketing and management to develop a joint framework for cross-leveraging events and destination assets, hence, synergistically optimizing both social and tourism ends for host destinations. To this end, the study highlights the need for future research to start exploring systematically the relationship between the meanings of tourist experiences and the characteristics of a destination's product mix.

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Exercise and Existence: Exercise Behavior from an Existential-Phenomenological Perspective

Cited by 24 publications

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The Role of Spirituality in Sport Psychology Consulting: An Analysis and Integrative Review of Literature

The Role of Spirituality in Sport Psychology Consulting: An Analysis and Integrative Review of Literature

Phenomenology is not Phenomenalism. Is there such a thing as phenomenology of sport?

Extracting meanings of event tourist experiences: A phenomenological exploration of Limassol carnival

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