The purpose of this study was to provide a systematic review of studies on athletes' career
transition out of sport from 1968 until the end of 2010. A total of 126 studies were evaluated …

In this review article, a content area of athlete career in sport psychology is analyzed through
the cultural lens: that is, through paradigmatic perspectives of cross-cultural psychology …

Abstract The ISSP Position Stand on Career Development and Transitions of Athletes draws
attention to viewing athletes from the perspective of their career development and their …

Objectives The first aim of this study was to explore how elite male athletes having had a
long duration as well as successful sport career perceived the transitional challenges …

The purpose of this chapter is to comprehensively overview this research area and expand
the perspectives provided in the two earlier editions of this Handbook. In this chapter, we first …

OBJECTIVES: This study examined factors that might facilitate or hinder self-identity
formation and adaptation to athletic retirement among a sample of competitive athletes …

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 …

OBJECTIVES: The focus of this paper is on a cross-national comparison of elite French and
Swedish athletes in terms of (a) pre-conditions for the athletic retirement;(b) coping and …

The dominant narrative within the literature on elite sport is characterised by a total focus on
performance. Scholars in other areas have noted how although alternatives to the dominant …

Much like the Greek mythological figure Adonis, male athletes with hypermuscular and
hyperlean physiques embody the ultimate form of masculinity (A. Furnham, N. Badmin, & I …