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Is hockey just a game? Contesting meanings of the ice hockey life projects through a career-threatening injury.
- Source :
- Journal of Sports Sciences; May2017, Vol. 35 Issue 10, p923-928, 6p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- This study is situated within an existential--narrative theoretical framework to examine the impact of career-threatening injury on professional ice hockey players' well-being and career construction. Professional ice hockey culture is construed as a privileged space characterised by hegemonic masculinity, fierce competition as well as high-risk behaviours often resulting in sports injuries. In this paper, we analyse two players' life stories with a particular focus on injury as a boundary situation involving social and temporal breakdown and re-evaluation of meaning of sporting life projects. Emergent narratives surrounding existential themes of loss of meaning and loneliness in the face of injury were analysed in connection with players' search for authenticity and realignment with self-concept. Each player developed resistant narratives to the dominant ethos of professional sport in order to restore well-being and sense of self. The relational aspects of injury are highlighted in practical recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MEDICAL rehabilitation
SPORTS injuries
HOCKEY injuries
ADAPTABILITY (Personality)
COMPETITION (Psychology)
CONCEPTUAL structures
INTERPERSONAL relations
INTERVIEWING
LIFE
LONELINESS
MASCULINITY
RESEARCH methodology
RESEARCH funding
PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience
RETIREMENT
RISK-taking behavior
SELF-perception
SOCIAL isolation
SPORTS psychology
QUALITATIVE research
GROUP process
SPORTS participation
WELL-being
THEMATIC analysis
PROFESSIONAL athletes
PSYCHOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02640414
- Volume :
- 35
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Sports Sciences
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 121304056
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2016.1201211