The Impact of Forced Retirement on Professional Athletes

The Impact of forced retirement on professional athletes is prevalent throughout all professional sports. This review explores the key factors associated with involuntary retirement from sport, the impact it has on professional athlete’s wellbeing, and the process of preparing for retirement as a whole. Throughout the process of gathering information there was a total of 10 critical mass peer reviewed articles that included a total of 469 participants. Researchers used various data collection methods to gather information. Findings indicated a variety of important variables that coexist throughout the process of forced retirement in sports; including one’s overall life satisfaction, various stressors, and the most common in injuries. It is clear that involuntary retirement is a tragic outcome caused by a professional athlete’s passion to compete for his/her choice of sport.

Grantor dc:publisher

SUNY Brockport, Department of Kinesiology, Sport Studies, and Physical Education

Year dc:date.issued

2021

Author dc:creator

• Summers, Justin S

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Houston-Wilson, Cathy

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/8671

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:soar.suny.edu:20.500.12648/8671