Conforming to reforming: A systems understanding of aesthetic sport coaches’ behaviors and practices toward female athletes’ bodies

IF 5.2 1区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHIATRY Body Image Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI:10.1016/j.bodyim.2024.101784
Dana K. Voelker , Amanda J. Visek , Katherine E. Fairhurst , Jordyn L. Learner
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Coaches’ role in athletes’ eating pathology has been largely understood according to athletes’ accounts of the coaching behaviors and practices that harmed them. Uniquely, this study engaged coaches as research participants to more fully inform future intervention efforts. Using a multiparadigm approach, this study explored how coaches’ understood, constructed, and communicated sport-related body ideals with their female athletes through specific coaching behaviors and practices along with systems of influence and interaction that informed them. Ten coaches (Mage= 35.6) of female aesthetic sport athletes were interviewed. Data were analysed via interpretive description. Results indicated coaches’ negative experiences as athletes themselves informed their intention to prevent harm with athletes they coached. Coaches nonetheless emphasized weight, shape, size, and appearance ideals steeped in sport tradition. Dissonance was salient between wanting to prevent harm using strategic approaches to body-related communication, while also reinforcing body ideals believed to promote high performance. Yet, neither athletes’ performance goals nor prevention of harm were attained. Influences across coaches’ ecosystems explained their behaviors and practices. A novel framework is proposed to describe five intersectional body ideal orientations embodied by the coaches, ranging from body ideal conformity to body diversity advocacy. This framework can inform coach-centered, systems-based education and research.

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从顺应到改革:从系统角度理解体育美育教练对女运动员身体的行为和做法
教练员在运动员饮食病理学中的作用主要是根据运动员对伤害他们的教练行为和做法的描述来理解的。与众不同的是,本研究让教练员作为研究参与者,为未来的干预工作提供更全面的信息。本研究采用多范式方法,探讨了教练员如何通过具体的教练行为和实践,以及影响和互动系统,与她们的女运动员一起理解、构建和交流与运动相关的身体理想。研究人员采访了 10 名女性审美体育运动员的教练员(年龄= 35.6)。通过解释性描述对数据进行了分析。结果表明,教练员作为运动员本身的负面经历使他们有意防止对所执教的运动员造成伤害。尽管如此,教练们还是强调体重、体形、大小和沉浸在体育传统中的外观理想。一方面,他们希望通过与身体相关的交流策略来预防伤害,另一方面,他们又希望强化那些被认为能提高成绩的身体理想,这两者之间的矛盾十分突出。然而,运动员的成绩目标和预防伤害的目标都没有实现。教练生态系统中的各种影响因素解释了他们的行为和做法。我们提出了一个新颖的框架来描述教练所体现的五种交叉性身体理想取向,从身体理想一致性到身体多样性倡导。这一框架可以为以教练为中心、以系统为基础的教育和研究提供参考。
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Body Image
Body Image Multiple-
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期刊介绍: Body Image is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes high-quality, scientific articles on body image and human physical appearance. Body Image is a multi-faceted concept that refers to persons perceptions and attitudes about their own body, particularly but not exclusively its appearance. The journal invites contributions from a broad range of disciplines-psychological science, other social and behavioral sciences, and medical and health sciences. The journal publishes original research articles, brief research reports, theoretical and review papers, and science-based practitioner reports of interest. Dissertation abstracts are also published online, and the journal gives an annual award for the best doctoral dissertation in this field.
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