Career transitions in sport: Bridging holistic developmental and ecological approaches

IF 3.3 2区心理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Psychology of Sport and Exercise Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI:10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102900

Natalia Stambulova , Kristoffer Henriksen

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Abstract

The key idea of this review paper is to consider career transition scholarship in sport psychology through a lens of bridging holistic developmental and ecological approaches to demonstrate their intersections and complementarity in advancing the understanding of career transitions in sport. This paper is intended to: (a) outline an evolution of the career transition topic in sport psychology, emphasizing its development over the last 25 years; (b) summarize major current achievements of career transition research in bridging holistic developmental and ecological approaches; (c) address debates in, and formulate future challenges for, transition research and practice. We consider the evolution of the topic by analyzing the contributions of several milestone publications in Psychology of Sport and Exercise that prepared and spurred on the development of the bridges between transition research focusing on individual athletes and on their related environments. We proceed with situating career transition research within athlete career sport psychology discourse and propose a taxonomy of frameworks used in transition scholarship. Narrative synthesis underlined by bridging the two approaches in focus was used to summarize research- and practice-related knowledge on the transitions of athletes, coaches, and parents. In the final parts we invite the readers to debate some conceptual and research-to-practice issues within the topic as well as discuss future challenges in bridging the holistic developmental and ecological approaches in career transition research and practice.

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Psychology of Sport and Exercise 医学-心理学

CiteScore

6.40

自引率

5.90%

发文量

172

审稿时长

69 days

期刊介绍： Psychology of Sport and Exercise is an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined. The journal is open to the use of diverse methodological approaches. Manuscripts that will be considered for publication will present results from high quality empirical research, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, commentaries concerning already published PSE papers or topics of general interest for PSE readers, protocol papers for trials, and reports of professional practice (which will need to demonstrate academic rigour and go beyond mere description). The CONSORT guidelines consort-statement need to be followed for protocol papers for trials; authors should present a flow diagramme and attach with their cover letter the CONSORT checklist. For meta-analysis, the PRISMA prisma-statement guidelines should be followed; authors should present a flow diagramme and attach with their cover letter the PRISMA checklist. For systematic reviews it is recommended that the PRISMA guidelines are followed, although it is not compulsory. Authors interested in submitting replications of published studies need to contact the Editors-in-Chief before they start their replication. We are not interested in manuscripts that aim to test the psychometric properties of an existing scale from English to another language, unless new validation methods are used which address previously unanswered research questions.