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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Athletic identity"”.
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Former Major League Baseball (MLB) players and athletic identity
… best in the world at their sport. For these men, athletic identity is the dominating force in their lives, yet all MLB players must eventually retire from the sport that has defined their lives for so long. Transition into retirement is difficult for players who have never considered a life …
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Athletic Identity, Need Satisfaction, and Burnout in Collegiate Athletes
… but studies of the relationship between athletic identity and burnout have produced varying results. The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that may contribute to burnout in athletes by determining the direction and strength of a relationship between burnout, athletic …
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An Investigation of Athletic Identity Among Interscholastic and Collegiate Athletes
… specific characteristics of those with a strong athletic identity. The degree to which competition level, gender, race, team sport participation versus individual sport participation, and one sport versus multiple sports participation affects athletic identity was investigated. A comparison …
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Validation of the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale With a Hong Kong Sample
Within athletic domains, athletic identity is a cognitive structure guiding and organising how the person processes self-related information (Brewer, Van Raalte, & Linder, 1993). Being one of the domains of the self-concept, athletic identity is the “degree of importance, strength, and exclusivity …
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Physical self-concept and athletic identity among former collegiate athletes : examining the influence on self
… physical self-concept, global self-esteem, and athletic identity among former collegiate athletes. 308 former Division 1 NCAA collegiate athletes participated in the study. This study replicated findings that physical self-worth demonstrates a positive relation with global self-esteem. Athletic …
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'I am simply an athlete' : a psychological exploration of athletic identity in physical impairment and amputation
… was to complete a meta-synthesis exploring the identity-related experiences of elite athletes with physical impairments. This review demonstrated that sport facilitated valued identities, whereby individuals could adopt ‘athlete’ as a dominant identity, move from ‘incompetence’ to ‘competence’, …
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Campus Recreation Program Involvement, Athletic Identity, Transitional Loss and Life Satisfaction in Former High School Athletes
… the athlete role for participants. While strong athletic identity can have positive implications, it can also create vulnerability to emotional difficulty following exit from sport (Brewer, 1993). Exit from sport is inevitable, resulting from a wide range of sources such as injury, aging, …
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Athletic Identity, Coping, and Perceptions of Stress among Students Transitioning to College and out of Competitive Sport
… sport, the effects that an individual’s athletic identity has on the utilization of various coping strategies, and the influence of both of these factors on perceptions of stress among this population of students. Method: After conducting a thorough literature review, a structural model …
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The Role of Athletic Identity in General Mental Health and Alcohol-Related Help-Seeking Intentions of College Students
… Specifically, college students involved in athletics tend to have low help-seeking rates—though help-seeking research for this population is relatively limited. Athletic identity (i.e., identification with the athlete role) is a relevant construct for examining this population, however …
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Objective Measures and Insight Assessments of Muscle Dysmorphia
… to exercise, motivation and reason to exercise, athletic identity, and behaviors of muscle dysmorphia and examine their relationship to insight and recognition of criteria for muscle dysmorphia through correlation and regression tests. Participants (N = 85) completed a series of questionnaires to …
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Stereotypes of a black male (student-athlete) misunderstood, and it's still all good: The life of Eric Christopher Garrett
… Black male student-athletes to their academic identity at the expense of their athletic identity. Intentionally or otherwise, the limited attention paid to Black male student-athlete’s salient identities in sport studies research has contributed to constraints placed on their goal of achieving …
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Using art therapy to reduce anxiety in college athletes transitioning out of sport
… years are impactful in the emerging adulthood’s identity development, especially for an athlete. An athletic identity may play a role in behaviors, attitudes, and the transition from athlete to non-athlete. In this study, the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale, the Athletes’ Retirement Decision …
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African American Male Student-Athletes: Identity and Academic Performance
… current research was to examine racial, male and athletic identities and their individual and collective impact on the academic performance of African American male Division I student-athletes (AAMSAs). Data was collected using the Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity (MIBI), the Male Role …
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Identity in Elite Youth Professional Football
The concepts of Athletic Identity (Brewer, Van Raalte, & Linder,1993) and identity (Erikson, 1950, 1968) both carry notions of having a clear sense of self definition. Applied practitioners in elite professional football settings (e.g. Holt & Dunn, 2004; Harwood, 2008; Nesti & Littlewood, 2010; …
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A Study of Retirement Transition and Fandom of Retired Hockey Players
… the research examined the role athlete identity theory has this important period of their lives (Brewer et al., 1993). Previous research has heavily ignored studying former professional players and the sport of hockey, but while some similarities exist in the athletic transitions for all …
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What's Sport Got to Do With It? Women with Disabilities and Identity Development
… by their disabilities. This imposed social identity or "master status" may override other attempts to establish an identity apart from disability. Little is known about what role sport participation has in identity development in women with physical disabilities. The purpose of this study …
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An Examination of Psychological Variables Affecting Injured Athletes Prior to Returning to Play
… in a number of different ways. Following injury, athletic identity is often lost, bringing upon feelings of anger and depression (Brewer, 1993; Fortunato & Marchant, 1999). As athletes begin to re-enter sports, lower levels of sport-confidence are exhibited (Johnston & Carroll, 1998). Social …
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Life after hockey : an examination of athletic career transition and the National Hockey League's career transition program
The existent body of athletic career retirement literature is scant in studies of career transition programs. In an effort to attend to this analytical gap, the present study set out to examine the transitions of National Hockey League (NHL; ice hockey) alumni, as well as the effect ~and …
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