Browsing by Subject "athletic identity"

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    Crossing the Finish Line: Career Adaptability and its Relationship to Athletic Identity, Academic Motivation, and Role Conflict for Division I Student-Athletes
    (2017-05) Letawsky Shultz, Nicole
    The responsibilities of being a Division I student-athlete often leave little time for experiences outside of sport that are critical for their future careers. Many student-athletes have unrealistic expectations of competing in their sport after college, while others expend little effort exploring potential careers. This study examines how career adaptability, the skills and competencies necessary to navigate work responsibilities and transitions over one’s lifespan, is related to athletic identity, academic motivation, and role conflict for student-athletes. The findings are based on data from a survey of 662 student-athletes at six Division I institutions and indicate that private (intrinsic) athletic identity, academic motivation, and role balance are positively associated with career adaptability. This study clarifies career development’s relationship with athletic identity and supports academic motivation and role conflict as constructs influential to student-athletes’ career development.
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    Processes of Identity Integration: An Examination of Sports & Ethnic Identities
    (2016-09) Walker, Lovey
    Erikson’s (1968) theory on identity development emphasizes that a coherent sense of self contributes to positive adjustment and psychological well-being. These experiences of coherence and positive adjustment are believed to partly come from the integration of a person’s multiple identity domains, such as religious beliefs, sexual identity, or a professional career. Yet, there have been few studies that fully account for this process of integration across multiple identity domains. Therefore, the goals of this study were to 1) empirically examine the different ways people experience multiple identity domains and 2) explore how these identity experiences are related to adjustment. This study focused on two specific domains of identity—ethnicity and sports—among an ethnically diverse sample of college students (N= 195). The study was conducted using an embedded mixed-methods design, which relied on both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis. Participants’ reported identity experiences concerning the significance, relatedness, and integration of the two domains (qualitative) were linked to psychological, emotional, and academic outcomes (quantitative). Results from these analyses will be discussed and framed around some of the potential differences Students of Color and White students might have concerning their identity experiences. Implications for future research on identity development will also be discussed.