Personal characteristics as predictors for dual career dropout versus continuation – A prospective study of adolescent athletes from German elite sport schools

Baron-Thiene, Anna; Alfermann, Dorothee

doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2015.04.006

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“…The other narrative was the enjoyment and relationship narrative for Anna, which we define as athletes being motivated mainly by enjoyment of playing sport and social aspects of it (e.g., team spirit, support of key people). In line with previous research (e.g., Baron-Thiene & Alfermann, 2015;Franck, 2018;Franck, Stambulova, & Weibull, 2016;Morris, Tod, & Oliver, 2015;Storm, 2015), both narratives reflect non-inear JST, meaning there were ups and downs in the processes. The crossroads clearly show that the JST is a nonlinear path, consisting of dynamic individual events, meaning the athletes' face different challenges that can shift the direction of their development and ultimately affect the outcome of the transition.…”

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Individual Pathways Through the Junior-to-Senior Transition: Narratives of Two Swedish Team Sport Athletes

Franck

Stambulova

2018

Journal of Applied Sport Psychology

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Athletes frequently describe the junior-to-senior transition (JST) as the most difficult within-career transition, and many athletes have acknowledged that they failed to cope well with it. Athletes' development in the JST is influenced by narratives existing within relevant contexts and settings. This study served as a follow-up to the quantitative longitudinal study to gain a deeper understanding of individual JST paths through a qualitative narrative approach. The aim was to explore 2 team sport athletes' (John, the football player, and Anna, the basketball player) JST pathways, emphasizing psychosocial factors that were perceived as facilitating and debilitating the process. Narrative type interviews were conducted, and the holistic-form structural analysis was used. Through their narratives, John and Anna reconstructed their JST paths, attaching meanings to certain events, recounting the people involved, and making personal reflections. John had a performance and family narrative and Anna had an enjoyment and relationship narrative. They perceived their key facilitating persons to be their family members and teammates. The debilitating factors were some coaches' behaviors. At the time of this study, John and Anna had already terminated their athletic careers and had refocused on getting an education. Although they did not reach elite senior levels in their sports, they found their athletic careers to be meaningful life experiences. Lay Summary: The aim was to explore two team sport athletes' junior-to-senior transition (JST) pathways, emphasizing psychosocial factors involved in the transition process. The findings revealed two narratives. John (football player) storied his JST as a performance and family narrative and Anna (basketball player) as an enjoyment and relationship narrative.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

Individual Pathways Through the Junior-to-Senior Transition: Narratives of Two Swedish Team Sport Athletes

Franck

Stambulova

2018

Journal of Applied Sport Psychology

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“…coaching and teaching staff involved) in combination with inability to meet DC demands can lead to potential DC "costs" including, for example, high stress, overtraining and burnout, increased risk of injuries, or premature dropout (e.g. Baron-Thiene & Alfermann, 2015;Gustafsson, Kenttä, Hassmén, & Lundqvist, 2007;Ivarsson, Stambulova, & Johnson, 2018).…”

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Swedish university student-athletes’ dual career scenarios and competences

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Stambulova

Lindahl

et al. 2019

International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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The paper presents the Swedish data on university student-athletes' dual career (DC) competences and coping, from the European project "Gold in Education and Elite Sport" (GEES). A cross-sectional quantitative design was implemented with the objectives to explore: (a) the student-athletes' perceived need to develop DC competences in order to successfully combine sport and study, (b) if the student-athletes experienced and how they coped with specific DC scenarios, and (c) the magnitude of the association between the student-athletes' possession of prioritised DC competences for each scenario and their scenario-specific coping. Seventy-one university student-athletes with a mean age of 25.21 completed the DC competency questionnaires developed within GEES. The student-athletes reported their perception of importance and possession of 38 DC competences (e.g. cope with stress, prioritising), as well as coping with seven DC scenarios (e.g. miss significant days of study), and selected the five most important competences (from the list of 38) to cope with each scenario. The results revealed that the student-athletes: (a) perceived a need to develop more than 70% of the DC competences to successfully combine sport and studies, (b) had experienced and coped average-to-good with the DC scenarios, and (c) possession of the top five prioritised competences was moderately-to-strongly related to their coping in three scenarios. The study extends understanding of Swedish university student-athletes' DC competences and has contributed to the development of Swedish National Guidelines for elite athletes' dual careers (2018).

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“…The need for such support has been illustrated in two recent studies of adolescent athletes (Baron-Thiene & Alfermann, 2015;Stambulova et al, 2014). For instance, Stambulova and colleagues (2014) examined the social and cultural influences on the dual career experiences of Swedish adolescent athletes at sport schools.…”

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Supporting adolescent athletes' dual careers: The role of an athlete's social support network

Knight

Harwood

Sellars

2018

Psychology of Sport and Exercise

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network in facilitating a dual career in sport and education, and; (b) gain insights into the factors that may optimize the provision of such support. Design: A two-stage qualitative study. Method: In stage one, four different sport and education settings in the UK were examined: A tennis academy, a football academy, a national field hockey squad, and a high-performance swimming squad. Interviews were conducted with two athletes and associated significant others from each setting. In stage two, nine current or former international athletes from a variety of sports and countries recalled their experiences of managing a dual career. Analysis was conducted following the procedures outlined by Miles, Huberman, and Saldaña (2014). Results: Overall, athletes in stage one and two perceived that to maintain their dual careers, they were heavily dependent upon the support of significant others. The role of the support network was to recognize the demands of a dual career, anticipate problems, value education, minimize barriers, and create autonomy-supportive environments. Key factors to optimize such support were focusing on the whole person, providing integrated support, and fostering a culture that promotes continuing education. Conclusions: Results indicate that athletes require particular types of support within their home, at school, and in their sport context to be able to manage their dual career. However, a range of individual and group-level factors may influence the extent to which such support is available to athletes.

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Personal characteristics as predictors for dual career dropout versus continuation – A prospective study of adolescent athletes from German elite sport schools

Cited by 90 publications

References 27 publications

Individual Pathways Through the Junior-to-Senior Transition: Narratives of Two Swedish Team Sport Athletes

Individual Pathways Through the Junior-to-Senior Transition: Narratives of Two Swedish Team Sport Athletes

Swedish university student-athletes’ dual career scenarios and competences

Supporting adolescent athletes' dual careers: The role of an athlete's social support network

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