A Qualitative Exploration of Collegiate Student-Athletes’ Constructions of Health
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https://doi.org/10.17161/jis.v13i1.11731Keywords:
Student-athlete, health, sport, student health, Constructions of healthAbstract
Collegiate student athletes are faced with unique challenges as they are often forced to negotiate between demanding social, athletic, and academic roles. These competing priorities can put student athletes at greater risk for experiencing physical and psychological health problems than their non-athlete peers. To better understand the underlying behaviours and lifestyle factors leading to these negative outcomes, we must consider how they think about health. The purpose of this study was to examine how student athletes conceptualize health in the Canadian context, and to examine how they formulate these understandings. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 actively-competing collegiate student athletes from nine varsity sports at two academic institutions, and data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Participants constructed health holistically, with particular emphasis on physical and mental domains over social well-being. The quality of one’s physical health was equated in many ways with athletic capacity, as was the quality of mental health to a lesser degree. Participants discussed a variety of sources from which they drew health ideas, but sport experiences were commonly cited as particularly significant and formative. Findings can inform future research into health conceptualizations of other university student populations, and may inform further inquiry into how health ideas manifest into behaviour. Recommendations are provided for collegiate sport administrators including placing heavier emphasis on mental health resources, and improving support while athletes are acclimating to the demanding lifestyle of varsity sport.
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Michaelson, V., McKerron, M., & Davison, C. (2015). Forming ideas about health: A qualitative study of Ontario adolescents. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 10(1), 27506. http://doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v10.27506
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Riciputi, S., & Erdal, K. (2017). The effect of stereotype threat on student-athlete math performance. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 32, 54-57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2017.06.003
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Rothschild-Checroune, E., Gravelle, F., Dawson, D. & Karlis, G. (2012). Balancing academic and athletic time management: A qualitative exploration of first year student athletes’ university football experiences. Society and Leisure, 35(2), 243-261. http://doi.org/10.1080/07053436.2012.10707843
Saxe, K., Hardin, R., Taylor, E. A., & Pate, J. R. (2017). Transition blues: The experience of female collegiate student-athletes. Journal of Higher Education Athletics & Innovation, 1(2), 25-48. http://doi.org/10.15763/issn.2376-5267.2017.1.2.25-48
Sevinc, S., & Gizir, C. A. (2014). Factors negatively affecting university adjustment from the views of first-year university students: The case of Mersin University. Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice, 14(4), 1301-1308.
Sharf, B. F., & Vanderford, M. L. (2008). Illness narratives and the social construction of health. In T. L. Thompson, A. Dorsey, K. I. Miller, & R. Parrot (Eds.), Handbook of Health Communication (pp. 9-34). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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Sparkes, A. C., & Smith, B. (2014). Qualitative research methods in sport, exercise and health. New York: Routledge.
Sundgot-Borgen, J. & Torstveit, M. (2004). Prevalence of eating disorders in elite athletes is higher than in the general population. Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, 14(1), 25-32.
Tarlov, A. R. (1992). The coming influence of a social sciences perspective on medical education. Academic Medicine, 67(11), 724-731. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00001888-199211000-00003
The World Bank. (2007). World development report: Development and the next generation, Washington, DC.
Theberge, N. (2008). “Just a normal bad part of what I do”: Elite athletes’ accounts of the relationship between health and sport, Sociology of Sport Journal, 25(2), 206-222. http://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.25.2.206
Tracey, J., & Corlett, J. (1995). The transition experience of first-year university track and field student athletes. Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2(22), 81-102
Vertinsky, P. (2009). Mind the gap (or mending it): Qualitative research and interdisciplinarity in kinesiology. Quest, 61(1), 39-51. http://doi.org/10.1080/00336297.2009.10483599
Waddington, I. (2004). Sport, health, and public policy. In K. Young (Ed.), Sporting bodies, damaged selves: Sociological studies in sports-related injury. London: Elsevier.
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Crocker, B., & Duncan, L. R. (2020). A Qualitative Exploration of Collegiate Student-Athletes’ Constructions of Health. Journal of Intercollegiate Sport, 13(1), 24-47. https://doi.org/10.17161/jis.v13i1.11731
