Ben Ives, Ben Clayton, Laura Gale, William Taylor, Thomas M. Leeder, Adam J. Nichol
{"title":"‘I’m not the police’: practical strategies for sport coach mentors to develop trust and trustworthiness","authors":"Ben Ives, Ben Clayton, Laura Gale, William Taylor, Thomas M. Leeder, Adam J. Nichol","doi":"10.1080/2159676x.2023.2271015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2023.2271015","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines trust and trustworthiness in sport coach mentor-mentee relationships. Specifically, we investigate the place and importance of trust from the mentor’s perspective and establish how trustworthy impressions are actively developed. Guided by theoretical ideas addressing trust relations, we conducted 18 online, two-to-one semi-structured interviews with nine mentors affiliated with two National Governing Bodies (NGBs) of sport. Data were subjected to a phronetic, iterative analysis, which involved inductive and deductive sensemaking and an interactive writing process. Key findings suggested a) that the mentors defined trust as a crucial construct in the development of mentee motivation, learning, and engagement, b) establishing trustworthy impressions was important for the mentors’ material and non-material interests, c) mentors reported how mentees were initially aloof due to an apparent distrust of NGBs, and d) mentors used numerous interactional strategies to create trustworthy impressions. These included i) deformalising mentor-mentee relationships, ii) actively demonstrating reliability as mentors, iii) using mutually beneficial lies to simultaneously secure buy-in and build mentee confidence and self-esteem, iv) illustrating their own fallibility as sport coaches, v) considering the value of displaying their own coaching competency, and vi) developing mentees’ competencies through empowerment. The findings offer practical strategies for NGBs and other [non]sporting bodies to support mentors in creating trustworthy impressions and building successful mentoring relationships.","PeriodicalId":48542,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135995576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Luisa Fernanda Pereira Vargas, Anthony Papathomas, Florence-Emilie Kinnafick, Paul Rhodes
{"title":"Stories of acceptance and resistance: illness identity construction in athletes (mis)diagnosed with a personality disorder","authors":"Maria Luisa Fernanda Pereira Vargas, Anthony Papathomas, Florence-Emilie Kinnafick, Paul Rhodes","doi":"10.1080/2159676x.2023.2271014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2023.2271014","url":null,"abstract":"Mental illness identities are personally and socially constructed and impact psychological wellbeing. This study explored how athletes diagnosed with a personality disorder construct their illness identity and the various ways this impacted experience. Guided by an interpretivist paradigm, we recruited two powerlifters, Samantha and Alex, who engaged in a series of one-to-one interviews. In total, 11 hours of data was collected and analysed using dialogical narrative analysis. The personality disorder diagnosis had significant but divergent influences on each athlete. Samantha accepted the diagnosis, aligning to dominant medical understandings of mental illness and using these to construct renewed understandings of the self. In contrast, Alex told a counternarrative to dominant medical discourses of mental illness, which was characterised by stories of activism. Alex sought an alternate diagnosis, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which better validated their experience. We discuss implications of this work for those operating in sport, such as the importance of allowing athletes to develop their own understandings of mental illness to allow for the construction of an authentic self.","PeriodicalId":48542,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135992599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building bridges: a Qualitative exploration of the athlete – guide partnership in high-performance parasport","authors":"Staci Mannella, Andrea Bundon","doi":"10.1080/2159676x.2023.2260392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2023.2260392","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIndividuals who are visually impaired compete in Paralympic sports with the help of their sighted guides. The guide participates alongside the athlete, and the pair seek to achieve optimal performance together. The partnership transforms many sports -typically understood to be individual- into team sports, yet little is known about this unique sport relationship. The purpose of this study was to explore how the athlete – guide partnership challenges and reproduces normative assumptions of bodies, abilities, and high-performance sport. The study was informed by a critical interpretivist paradigm and included interviews with both athletes and guides from six high-performance athlete – guide pairs (12 interviews). The data were analysed through a reflexive thematic analysis and two themes were constructed. Changing ‘Visibility’: Reshaping Perspectives Through the Athlete – Guide Partnership illustrates how being part of the athlete – guide partnership led participants to different understandings about high-performance sport and disability. Tandeming Sport Systems Built for One demonstrates the challenges participants encountered navigating in tandem sport systems intended to support solo athletes. The findings suggest that the athlete – guide partnership creates inclusivity in Para sport by allowing athletes to fully participate. However, the partnership is also exposed to detrimental aspects of high-performance sport environments that prioritise performance rather than athlete well-being. The findings contribute to a growing body of critical disability sport scholarship that calls out ableism in sport. It also can inform the practices of the sport sector with the aim of better understanding and supporting the needs of visually impaired athletes.KEYWORDS: DisabilitysportParalympicsblindvisually impaired AcknowledgementsTo the many athletes and guides we have had the privilege of working with. May you resonate with the experiences of these participants and know that your work is appreciated.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. When considering the experiences of individuals who have historically been marginalised, language matters. While there are ongoing debates amongst disability scholars about preferred language (i.e. person first vs. identity first) we have opted to use identity first (i.e. disabled athletes) as this aligns with disability justice advocates and scholars who centre action in their social justice efforts.2. In some sports and classes, visually impaired athlete are ‘permitted’ but not ‘required’ to have a guide as is in the case for athletes classified as B3 in Nordic skiing. In other sports, the use of a guide is mandatory. This is the case for all visually impaired athletes competing in cycling – the events for visually impaired athletes all involve the use of a tandem bike and sighted pilot.3. The other examples are boccia where athletes in the BC1, BC3 and BC4 classe","PeriodicalId":48542,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134960449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrew J. Higham, James A. Newman, James L. Rumbold, Joseph A. Stone
{"title":"You wouldn’t let your phone run out of battery: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of male professional football coaches’ well-being","authors":"Andrew J. Higham, James A. Newman, James L. Rumbold, Joseph A. Stone","doi":"10.1080/2159676x.2023.2260377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2023.2260377","url":null,"abstract":"Little is known about how coaches make sense of and experience well-being within their given context as athletes have traditionally been at the forefront of well-being research, which is concerning given coaches are as susceptible to well-being challenges. Considering well-being and coaching comprise of many idiosyncratic and sociocultural interactions, the present study employed a combined bioecological and interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach to explore how six professional football coaches make sense of and experience well-being within the context of football clubs. Due to IPA’s contextualist position, commitment to the individual, and ability to empower and give voice, two group experiential themes were created: ‘The endeavour to comprehend coaches’ well-being’, and ‘Volatility of the football coaching profession: fragmented well-being’. Findings showed that football coaches made sense of their well-being by drawing on past playing experiences and sociocultural interactions, with some coaches comprehending well-being as a physical and mental battery. Additionally, several coaches experienced a fragmentation of self and subsequent well-being due to conflicts within and between their ecological niche. A combined bioecological and IPA approach facilitated and enriched how well-being was contextually made sense of and experienced.","PeriodicalId":48542,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135966670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Whiteness, Canadian university athletic administration, and anti-racism leadership: ‘A bunch of white haired, white dudes in the back rooms’","authors":"Braeden McKenzie, Janelle Joseph, Sabrina Razack","doi":"10.1080/2159676x.2023.2259397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2023.2259397","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis paper theorises ‘whiteness’ in relation to systems of power, leadership, and oppression within post-secondary sport athletic departments in Ontario, Canada. Using results from the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) Anti-Racism Project, we position whiteness as a significant and unavoidable obstacle to productive anti-racism leadership and labour within university athletics. While many Canadian university athletic departments have publicly embraced a call to anti-racism practice and policy, progress too-often remains contingent on largely white, male, and older leadership groups making decisions surrounding instances of racism that they often have no history personally experiencing, witnessing, or most concerningly, handling professionally. Examples from the project include administrators who often have more than 20-years-experience referencing ‘blindness’, naiveté, or not knowing where to look as reasons for viewing racism as a cursory or circumscribed problem, or as an issue not on the same scale as other athletic departments have attempted to tackle (e.g. sexual violence and concussion). We argue that these denials of the existence of racism work to reproduce the dominant structures of power, destabilise efforts for education or policy initiatives and maintain the oppression, racial hierarchies and marginalisation of racialised people within collegiate athletics.KEYWORDS: anti-racismhigher educationuniversity sportstaff Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Ontario University Athletics.Notes on contributorsBraeden McKenzieBraeden McKenzie is a PhD Candidate and Course Instructor working in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto and a Research Assistant in the Indigeneity, Diaspora, Equity and Anti-racism in Sport (IDEAS) Research Lab.Janelle JosephJanelle Joseph is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto and the founder of the IDEAS Research Lab.Sabrina RazackSabrina Razack is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physcial Education at the University of Toronto.","PeriodicalId":48542,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136154076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fernando Santos, Martin Camiré, Dany J. MacDonald, Leisha Strachan, Marta Ferreira, Scott Rathwell
{"title":"Decision-makers’ interactions that co-determine Positive youth development through sport: a critical realist examination","authors":"Fernando Santos, Martin Camiré, Dany J. MacDonald, Leisha Strachan, Marta Ferreira, Scott Rathwell","doi":"10.1080/2159676x.2023.2257692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2023.2257692","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe purpose of the present study was to examine Portuguese coaches, coach developers, and sport administrators’ (i.e. decision-makers) interactions that co-determine positive youth development through sport. A critical realist approach was adopted using Elder-Vass’s framework on the causal power of social structures. A total of 47 Portuguese decision-makers from provincial and national sport organisations were interviewed, leading to 2350 minutes of interview data. The findings provide insights into how participants varied in their perspectives on the place of performance and positive youth development in the youth sport system. Coaches and sport administrators believed performance was the main priority and their discourses were shaped by (inter)actions with norm circles influencing their dispositions and beliefs about the purpose of youth sport. Conversely, coach developers challenged the status quo and were much more deliberate in wanting to change the priorities of the youth sport system. Coach developers were in a privileged position to ‘broker’ change by using their individual agency to work to further include positive youth development. Considering the pressures imposed by norm circles and the active role of individual agency, practical and theoretical implications are offered to develop a youth sport system where positive youth development can become a legitimate and worthwhile pursuit.KEYWORDS: Social influencecoachingyouthsportsocial justice Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by National Funds through the FCT-Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the scope of the project UIDB/05198/2020 (Center for Research and Innovation in Education, inED).Notes on contributorsFernando SantosFernando Santos is an associate professor at the School of Higher Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal and a member of the Center for Research and Innovation in Education. His interests lie in positive youth development, coaching and coach education.Martin CamiréMartin Camiré is a full professor at the University of Ottawa’s School of Human Kinetics, Canada. His interests lie in examining how positive youth development can be facilitated in the context of sport.Dany J. MacDonaldDany J. MacDonald is a full professor at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada whose interests lie in the development of youth in sport.Leisha StrachanLeisha Strachan is a full professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management at the University of Manitoba, Canada. Her research is focused on positive youth development through sport, positive coaching behaviors and parent involvement.Marta FerreiraMarta Ferreira is a Ph.D. student at the University of Vigo, Spain and an assistant professor at the School of Higher Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal whose interest lie in positive youth development, coachi","PeriodicalId":48542,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135203601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gay men, well-being, and sport participation: A phenomenological analysis","authors":"Jake Quinton, Kyle Rich","doi":"10.1080/2159676x.2023.2255202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2023.2255202","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48542,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60169565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘You made us feel at home’: towards Indigenous feminist methodologies with young wāhine in sport and exercise","authors":"M. Nemani, H. Thorpe, K. Hemi, A. Rolleston","doi":"10.1080/2159676x.2023.2250536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2023.2250536","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48542,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42855847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shifting power relations in disability sport and social activism research: an emancipatory approach","authors":"D. Haslett, M. Griffiths, David E. Lupton","doi":"10.1080/2159676x.2023.2249915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2023.2249915","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48542,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48400020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jessica R. Nachman, L. Hayhurst, Mitchell McSweeney, Rachel Wang
{"title":"Co-creating knowledge on bicycling: a decolonial feminist participatory action research approach to arts-based methods","authors":"Jessica R. Nachman, L. Hayhurst, Mitchell McSweeney, Rachel Wang","doi":"10.1080/2159676x.2023.2243955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2023.2243955","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48542,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47306897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}