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Individual Pathways Through the Junior-to-Senior Transition: Narratives of Two Swedish Team Sport Athletes
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Department of Psychology. Halmstad University, Sweden.
Halmstad University, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6198-0784
2020 (English)In: Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, ISSN 1041-3200, E-ISSN 1533-1571, Vol. 32, no 2, p. 168-185Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

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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Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. Vol. 32, no 2, p. 168-185
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Sport and Fitness Sciences Psychology
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Social Sciences, Sport Science; Social Sciences, Psychology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-97675DOI: 10.1080/10413200.2018.1525625ISI: 000549313400001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85058862254OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-97675DiVA, id: diva2:1460875
Available from: 2020-08-25 Created: 2020-08-25 Last updated: 2021-05-07Bibliographically approved

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