Narrative analysis and sport and exercise psychology: Understanding lives in diverse ways

B Smith, AC Sparkes - Psychology of sport and exercise, 2009 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: This article seeks to expand our understanding on narrative and the analysis
of stories within the domain of sport and exercise psychology. Its intention is to describe, and …

A meta-study of athletic identity research in sport psychology: Current status and future directions

NJ Ronkainen, A Kavoura, TV Ryba - International Review of Sport …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this meta-study is to provide a critical synthesis of qualitative research on athletic
identity in sport psychology. A total of 108 empirical studies were identified, including 63 …

Sporting resilience during COVID-19: What is the nature of this adversity and how are competitive elite athletes adapting?

S Gupta, PJ McCarthy - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health issue which has severely disrupted and deferred
several landmark international sporting competitions. Like the general population, athletes …

Abandoning the performance narrative: Two women's stories of transition from professional sport

K Douglas, D Carless - Journal of applied sport psychology, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Despite its potential to illuminate psychological processes within socio-cultural contexts,
examples of narrative research are rare in sport psychology. In this study, we employed an …

Self-regulation, stress appraisal, and esport action performance

MG Trotter, EAC Obine, BT Sharpe - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Electronic sport has seen substantial growth in market value and popularity in the last 10
years. With this growth has come the pursuit of elite esports performance, especially from a …

The experience of depression during the careers of elite male athletes

S Doherty, B Hannigan, MJ Campbell - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The topic of depression during the career of elite male athletes has been the subject of much
public interest and attention in recent years. Despite numerous debates and personal …

The new psychology of sport and exercise: The social identity approach

SA Haslam, F Boen, K Fransen - 2020 - torrossa.com
After having attended a friendly football match between Chelsea FC and Dynamo Moscow to
mark the end of World War II, the novelist George Orwell (1945) famously remarked that …

Living, resisting, and playing the part of athlete: Narrative tensions in elite sport

D Carless, K Douglas - Psychology of sport and exercise, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Objectives To explore:(i) How elite and professional sport culture might steer
individuals towards particular stories, identities, and actions;(ii) How athletes navigate or …

Narrative research in sport and exercise science in the early 21st century: a state-of-the-art critical review

RT Book, J Svensson, N Stambulova - Qualitative Research in …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The aims of this review were to: 1) offer a comprehensive analysis of narrative research in
sport and exercise sciences since the beginning of the 21st century, 2) enhance conceptual …

“Sport has always been first for me” but “all my free time is spent doing homework”: Dual career styles in late adolescence

TV Ryba, NB Stambulova, H Selänne, K Aunola… - Psychology of Sport and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objectives In adolescence, personally meaningful autobiographical memories begin to
integrate into cultural narrative structures to form a life story. We examined how and to what …