Pub Date : 2021-09-09DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2021.1969995
C. Edwards, G. Molnár, D. Tod
ABSTRACT Women with high levels of drive for muscularity (DFM) may display what could be perceived as non-normative corporeal desires because their commitment to muscle may contrast Western societal expectations of femininity. Little, however, is known about women’s experiences with high levels of DFM. Thus, we explored the stories of women with high DFM and disclose the socio-cultural and personal influences shaping this desire. In-depth life-history interviews were undertaken with 10 females who had extreme scores on the Drive for Muscularity Scale. Participants’ stories focused on a set of early social interactions, in which they were exposed to dominant social narratives of femininity. As a result, they felt pressured to comply with contemporary appearance-related gender norms. Such pressures often manifested in situations where their body was perceived to be outside of gendered contours. Participants’ narratives also identified the lack of control they had over their circumstances. In turn, participants revealed that they developed a strong desire to gain control over their situation and, as a result, they responded by ‘tightly controlling’ and shaping their corporeal self as per gendered expectations. However, through a range of problematic moments (e.g. relationship breakdowns), participants’ gendered ontological security became unsettled. Consequently, these disruptions prompted them to reconsider their relationship to embodiment and its connection to their circumstances. This realisation led to the emergence of a muscularity-focused coping strategy eventually leading to high levels of DFM. Findings reveal that, similar to men, women in this study also use muscle to cope with and negotiate life events.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-06DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2021.1969996
Monica Nelson, Shannon Jette
ABSTRACT The pressures around body composition that male athletes face outside of their competitive season – when they have the opportunity to increase their strength and muscle mass through weight gain – are not well-understood. In this article, we utilise a poststructuralist theoretical framework to analyse in-depth interviews with eight male American Olympic Weightlifters, a population that continuously leverages their body compositions against their competitive potential. We find that although our interviewees primarily relied on athletic discourses emphasising body functionality and rejected male body ideals, they combined athletic ideas about the ‘inefficiency’ of body fat with dominant discourses about its ‘unhealthiness,’ a conflation that was associated with an unwillingness to increase their weight classes. We reflect on this seeming tendency to avoid a major physiological strategy (i.e. hypertrophy) that increases strength.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2021.1965012
Meghan Victoria Harlow, R. Bassett-Gunter, J. Fraser-Thomas
ABSTRACT There is limited and conflicting evidence of the benefits of early years (<6) sport participation, yet sport programmes directly targeting this demographic are commonplace. Given known positive and negative outcomes associated with sport participation among older children and youth, there is a need to explore unique benefits, risks, and associated experiences of younger children’s sport involvement; this research may inform parenting decisions around early sport enrolment, and implications for children’s development over the life course. In this exploratory study, experiences and perceived outcomes of preschooler sport participation were examined from the perspective of parents (n = 10), coaches (n = 7), and children aged 3–5 years (n = 10). Results emerging from individual semi-structured interviews revealed themes related to (a) physical activity and energy management, (b) physical literacy and sport skill acquisition, (c) understanding success and failure, (d) socialisation and social skills, and (e) life skills and school readiness. Findings indicate substantive diversity in experiences and perceived outcomes across participants, tied in part to children’s age, length of time in programs, programme/sport type, and concurrent attendance of other programs (e.g. music, daycare, kindergarten). Preschooler sport experiences were not universal, and despite parents’ sometimes inflated expectations, positive developmental outcomes did not emerge through children’s mere attendance alone, but rather were the result of unique interacting contextual factors. Continued research is warranted, as positive outcomes among older children and youth in sport should not automatically be imprinted upon the preschooler demographic.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2021.1969997
Laura Schuft, S. Férez, Alessandro Bergamaschi, F. d’Arripe-Longueville
ABSTRACT Although studies have suggested that physical activity may diminish HIV-related fatigue, little is known about the physical experience or meanings attributed to either. We considered chronic fatigue and physical activity in terms of how they were experienced, interpreted and interrelated within narratives about living with HIV. Thematic analysis of 35 semi-structured interviews with people living with HIV in France led to the creation of four ideal-type narratives. The ideal types illustrated relations between diverse physical and social experiences of fatigue and physical activity. These dimensions of the HIV experience were part of larger identity narratives about the body and self, revealing tensions between the latter as healthy or ill, tired or active, vulnerable or robust, needing or heeding expected health behaviours. Illness narratives – and the meanings attributed to body and self – emerged as faceted by both physical experiences of the body and social experiences, and as situated within larger socio-political contexts and biopedagogies.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-31DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2021.1922493
Maria Luisa M. Guinto, Ian Lawrence N. Logan
ABSTRACT This paper contributes to the discourse on sport for development from the psychosocial lens by examining the case of the 3R sport-based intervention for the Filipino survivors of super typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. Using the five essential principles of effective psychosocial interventions to frame the design, pilot implementation, and preliminary assessment of 3R, it presents a theory-informed post-disaster sport initiative. It also demonstrates how the principles of safety, calmness, connectedness, efficacy, and hope are operationalised in the context of sport outcomes. Fifty-two PE teachers and 39 students, all survivors of Haiyan, participated in the study. Results provided empirical support to the interrelated components of psychosocial care and illustrated how sport interventions could facilitate disaster recovery through the innovative, holistic, inclusive, and culturally nuanced application of effective psychosocial mechanisms. Ultimately, this case study confirms that post-disaster sport interventions are not merely about sport but more about the tangential and vital social processes that occur through the channel of sport.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-27DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2021.1969998
Louise C Graham, A. Blackett
ABSTRACT Women are under-represented in high-performance head coach positions throughout global sport. To shed light on why this under-representation exists within UK swimming, an autoethnographic account of the first author’s experiences as a woman who competed and coached in high-performance swimming over a thirty-year career is presented. Critical reflexive conversations with the second author, coupled with sourcing artefacts such as memories, photographs and emails inspired four evocative personal stories that chart the voyage of: 1) a child entering and aspiring in the sport, 2) the transition from a retired female athlete to novice coach; 3) progression in becoming an international coach, and; 4) reaching the pinnacle of a coaching career and then beginning a coach tutor role. Accounts of how gender as a relation of power was exercised and navigated during the inauguration and progression as a woman who coached in a patriarchal profession are offered. In the pursuit of winning Olympic medals, an unrecognised double bind was revealed to have been negotiated throughout the entirety of the coach development pathway whereby masculine ideals were uncritically reproduced within the cultural landscape of elite UK swimming. Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, capital, field and doxa offer analytical insight for how masculine norms were socially reproduced. This double bind is argued as having and continuing to impede women coaches’ progression towards achieving equality within high-performance settings like UK swimming. The study highlights the value of acknowledging socio-cultural factors in coach education to address gender imbalances at an elite level.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-11DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2021.1952297
L. Sharpe, Janine K. Coates, Carolynne Mason
ABSTRACT This paper responds to the calls for researchers to be more transparent about their processes of conducting participatory research with young people. Set within the context of a doctoral project that explores the inclusion of young people with SEND in the UK School Games framework, the paper highlights challenges and triumphs of researching alongside young people with SEND. Participants were aged between 11 and 18 and attended either a special school, a SEND unit within a mainstream secondary school or a mainstream college. The paper offers two contributions to the field, first is the novel methodology, which offers researchers and practitioners fresh approaches to engage young people in research. Second is three reflective vignettes that are positioned within the methodology and provide transparency and insight into the messy and confusing processes of informed consent, data co-construction and research dissemination within a participatory research framework.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-02DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2021.1954074
Fiona J. Leggat, R. Wadey, Melissa C. Day, S. Winter, Phoebe Sanders
ABSTRACT The research-practice gap is an ongoing concern for sport and exercise science researchers. Despite ongoing efforts to ‘bridge’ the gap between research and practice, a know-do gap remains. Drawing from alternative fields of research (e.g. healthcare, implementation science), the purpose of this article is to outline an emerging research approach to maximise research uptake in practice. Specifically, this article explains the what, why, and how of integrated knowledge translation (iKT), and how this approach to research is well suited to qualitative researchers. Challenging the traditional way academics have conducted research, iKT proposes that researchers work with and not on those in practice settings. As an approach to research under which many forms of qualitative inquiry can fall, the article illustrates how the practical nature of iKT aligns with what qualitative researchers from various traditions do in action. We discuss how iKT possesses three synergies with qualitative inquiry: meaningful researcher engagement, understanding context, and tolerating flexible research designs.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-02DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2021.1954073
E. Ori, T. Mchugh, T. Berry
ABSTRACT Emerging adults aged 18–30 years are a unique population who have lifelong experience with digital media. This has contributed to comfort and familiarity with using the internet as a preferred source of information in particular with regard to exercise. Previous research suggests emerging adults may be conflicted about whether or not to believe the information encountered online. The purpose of this study was to explore what aspects of an exercise blog message are believed, and which aspects contribute to personal relevance for a population of emerging adult women. Using a qualitative descriptive design, one-on-one interviews were completed by the principal investigator with ten women (Mage = 25.6 years) residing in a Western Canadian province, all of whom had or were currently attending university. All interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim. Qualitative content analysis was used to examine and categorise the data, in line with qualitative description designs. Following data analysis, three themes emerged related to blog article believability: information relevance, selective believability, and projecting believability. Exercise blogs may provide an opportunity for some individuals to learn about and diversify personal exercise opportunities. Additionally, participants expressed concern for others, and the potential of these media to contribute to negative outcomes for individuals without prior knowledge in the health disciplines.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-29DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2021.1946130
Matthew Smith, C. Arthur
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to gain greater understanding of interpersonal conflict between managers and players within an elite team sport environment. We consider conflict from multiple perspectives, and disseminate findings in an accessible way to encourage those involved in team sport to engage with the material. Through the adoption of a narrative inquiry approach, autobiographical extracts recalling incidences of conflict from a manager (Sir Alex Ferguson) and certain key players (e.g. David Beckham) have been analysed using reflexive thematic analysis, with finding presented through the mean of ethnodrama scenes. Such scenes were developed as a dialogue between Ferguson and his players, to illustrate the episodes of conflict through the eyes of both the players and Ferguson, with creative non-fiction techniques used to further bring the script to life. These scripts reflect the differences in the interpretation of the same conflict situations and allow the reader to reflect on the determinants of these conflicts, and the resulting consequences. It is hoped that the ethnodrama enhances further understanding of leader-athlete conflict in elite sport, through illustrating examples of conflict from different perspectives. In addition, the findings provide a stimulus for those working in sports teams to reflect on their own experiences of conflict and consider how such conflict might be prevented or managed.
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