Sport psychology consultants’ perceptions of their challenges at the London 2012 Olympic Games
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Sport psychology consultants’ perceptions of their challenges at the London 2012 Olympic Games. / Elsborg, Peter; Diment, Greg; Elbe, Anne-Marie.
In: The Sport Psychologist, Vol. 29, No. 2, 2015, p. 183-195.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Sport psychology consultants’ perceptions of their challenges at the London 2012 Olympic Games
AU - Elsborg, Peter
AU - Diment, Greg
AU - Elbe, Anne-Marie
N1 - CURIS 2015 NEXS 319
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The objective of this study was to explore how sport psychology consultants perceive the challenges they face at the Olympic Games. Post-Olympics semistructured interviews with 11 experienced sport psychology consultants who worked at the London Games were conducted. The interviews were transcribed and inductively content analyzed. Trustworthiness was reached through credibility activities (i.e., member checking and peer debriefing). The participants perceived a number of challenges important to being successful at the Olympic Games. These challenges were divided into two general themes: Challenges Before the Olympics (e.g., negotiating one’s role) and Challenges During the Olympics (e.g., dealing with the media). The challenges the sport psychology consultants perceived as important validate and cohere with the challenge descriptions that exist in the literature. The findings extend the knowledge on sport psychology consultancy at the Olympic Games by showing individual contextual differences between the consultants’ perceptions and by identifying four SPC roles at the Olympic Games.
AB - The objective of this study was to explore how sport psychology consultants perceive the challenges they face at the Olympic Games. Post-Olympics semistructured interviews with 11 experienced sport psychology consultants who worked at the London Games were conducted. The interviews were transcribed and inductively content analyzed. Trustworthiness was reached through credibility activities (i.e., member checking and peer debriefing). The participants perceived a number of challenges important to being successful at the Olympic Games. These challenges were divided into two general themes: Challenges Before the Olympics (e.g., negotiating one’s role) and Challenges During the Olympics (e.g., dealing with the media). The challenges the sport psychology consultants perceived as important validate and cohere with the challenge descriptions that exist in the literature. The findings extend the knowledge on sport psychology consultancy at the Olympic Games by showing individual contextual differences between the consultants’ perceptions and by identifying four SPC roles at the Olympic Games.
U2 - 10.1123/tsp.2013-0105
DO - 10.1123/tsp.2013-0105
M3 - Journal article
VL - 29
SP - 183
EP - 195
JO - Sport Psychologist
JF - Sport Psychologist
SN - 0888-4781
IS - 2
ER -
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