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Adjusting to the Receiving Country Outside the Sport Environment: A Composite Vignette of Canadian Immigrant Amateur Elite Athlete Acculturation.
- Source :
- Journal of Applied Sport Psychology; Jul-Sep2017, Vol. 29 Issue 3, p270-284, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- This qualitative project is focused on the challenges that newcomer athletes revealed when they considered their earliest encounters with a receiving culture during general daily life. Conversational interviews with 24 national and international amateur newcomer athletes were subjected to interpretive thematic analysis and developed into a composite vignette. This vignette unearths three themes revealing hope (theme: opportunities abound); uncertainty and fear (theme: weighing the risks for the journey ahead); and anger, humiliation, and hardening (theme: public stonings). Understanding the fluidities within the vignette will permit practitioners to explore the uncertainties of acculturation and find entry points to support athlete acculturation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10413200
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Applied Sport Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 123791125
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10413200.2016.1243593