Social Connectedness and Mental Wellbeing for Young Pacific Rugby Union and Rugby League Players: A Qualitative Study

Marsters, Caleb; Seath, Jemaima Tiatia; Shiu, Roannie Ng

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“…However, with family honour also came expectations and pressure to uphold family security and pride ( 3 , 107 , 113 ). Pasifika athletes, one to two generations removed from the Islands, saw themselves as “Kiwi kids” ( 114 ), with identity and meaning spliced between traditional family and modern urban youth cultures.…”

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Emerging athletes’ career transitions in professional sport: an existential multi-case perspective

Thomas,

Lucas,

Walters

et al. 2024

Front. Sports Act. Living

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IntroductionThis article examines athletes preparing for, transitioning into, or going through the developmental stages of a professional sports career, referred to as the emerging athlete career transition. This transition includes events such as selections, Junior-to-Senior promotions, contracting, migration, and early exits. The article presents the collective findings of a multi-case study in three professional sports: rugby league, basketball, and boxing.MethodConsistent with pragmatic qualitative research methodology, a stratified data set was collected and analysed, incorporating researcher-practitioner fieldwork, interviews, documents and artefacts for these cases. This article explores unique events and the demographic and cultural implications of navigating emergent transitions along professional sporting pathways in New Zealand.FindingsThese findings highlight the importance of building self-efficacy as a pre-condition for coping through preparation and experience.RecommendationsRecommendations include fostering collaborative cultures and authentic support relationships to facilitate better coping alongside athletic and personal development in these high-pressured environments. Furthermore, understanding existential perspectives of meaning, choice, and responsibility provides insights for developing the resources that allow emerging athletes to thrive in life beyond sport.

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Emerging athletes’ career transitions in professional sport: an existential multi-case perspective

Thomas,

Lucas,

Walters

et al. 2024

Front. Sports Act. Living

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“…Minority groups have navigated Western systems through their cultures across multiple sectors, including health, sport and business (Mila-Schaff,2010: Ofe-Grant, 2018: Marsters et al, 2020. We must consider Pacific Island and other minority groups when creating strategies and engagement in education, ensuring we take a strengths-based position.…”

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I have Cultural Pride in a Western Space: University Cultural Clubs

Enari¹

2021

Journal of Social Inclusion

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Tertiary institutions perpetuate colonial legacies, teaching Eurocentric curriculums and using English as the language of instruction with little regard for non-European pedagogy. Many students from non-Western backgrounds have felt they needed to neglect their cultural ways of being and knowing to assimilate in university classes.University cultural clubs aim to be a safe space for different ethnic groups to gather on campus. As a former member of a university cultural club -the Griffith Pasifika Association, I tell our story and provide an analysis of our experience. I feel much of my cultural and academic success is attributed to this group, and for many of its members, this association is a family, where we can learn about our cultural heritage. This club was not only a space for supporting students from the Pacific Islands, but also for solidifying member's cultural pride. This association has caused necessary disruption to the traditional Eurocentrism of tertiary education, but, through this process, the University itself has now become a new domain for cultural pride for Pasifika students.

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Social Connectedness and Mental Wellbeing for Young Pacific Rugby Union and Rugby League Players: A Qualitative Study

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Emerging athletes’ career transitions in professional sport: an existential multi-case perspective

Emerging athletes’ career transitions in professional sport: an existential multi-case perspective

I have Cultural Pride in a Western Space: University Cultural Clubs

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