"It's a Story of Another World": Perceptions of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Among Japanese Athletes With Psychiatric Impairments.

IF 1.7 3区医学 Q2 REHABILITATION Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI:10.1123/apaq.2024-0171

Shigeharu Akimoto, Shinichi Nagata, Emma V Richardson

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Abstract

This study explored how athletes with psychiatric impairment in Japan perceived the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Data from 15 interviews were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis; consequently, three themes were generated: (1) The Paralympics: "A Story of Another World"-the participants viewed the Paralympics only as a movement and not directly related to them; (2) "Do I Really Have to Work That Hard?"-"supercrip" representations through the Paralympics led to the disempowerment and disablement of people with psychiatric impairment, exacerbating their symptoms; (3) "A Futsal That Really Isn't Very Good"-the privileged status of the Paralympics presents only a facet of disability sport, which has resulted in other sports for people with psychiatric impairment, such as football, not being properly valued. This study adds to the literature regarding the legacy of the Paralympics and emphasizes moving beyond using the Paralympics as a vehicle for a more inclusive world.

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Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly 医学-康复医学

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期刊介绍： APAQ is an international, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal designed to stimulate and communicate scholarly inquiry relating to physical activity that is adapted in order to enable and enhance performance and participation in people with disability. Physical activity implies fine, gross, functional, and interpretive movement including physical education, recreation, exercise, sport, and dance. The focus of adaptation may be the activity or task that is to be performed, environment and facilities, equipment, instructional methodology, and/or rules governing the performance setting. Among the populations considered are persons with motor, intellectual, sensory, and mental or other disabilities across the life span. Disciplines from which scholarship to this aim may originate include, but are not limited to, physical education, teacher preparation, human development, motor behavior and learning, biomechanics, exercise and sport physiology, and exercise and sport psychology. Scientific inquiry may originate from quantitative or qualitative inquiry, as well as from multimethod designs.