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Linnér, L., Stambulova, N., Eriksson, P., Wredenberg, A., Augustsson, C. & Lindahl, K. (2024). Developing the System of Dual Career Support for University Student-Athletes: An update of the Swedish National Dual Career Guidelines. In: FEPSAC 17th Congress 2024: Abstract Book. Paper presented at FEPSAC 17th Congress, Performance Under Pressure In Sports, Military/Police, Performing Arts, Medicine, Business And Daily Life, Innsbruck, Austria, 15-19 July, 2024 (pp. 693-693).
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2024 (English)In: FEPSAC 17th Congress 2024: Abstract Book, 2024, p. 693-693Conference paper, Poster (with or without abstract) (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In 2018, the first version of the Swedish national dual career (DC) guidelines was issuedby the Swedish Sports Confederation to answer the call from the EuropeanUnion’s guidelines on DCs (2012) and to promote a system of DC support acrossSwedish National Sports Universities (RIUs) and Elite Sports-Friendly Universities(EVLs). The policy document was a culturally informed synthesis of current nationaland international DC research, best practice examples across RIUs/EVLs, and in linewith the Swedish strategy for Sports. Since that time, Swedish DC system at universitylevel has been developed, which is seen, for example, in annual educations for DCpractitioners across RIUs/EVLs and national sports federations, as well as in establishingthe role of a DC-coordinator and national standard for DC policy for study flexibilityacross all universities. Alongside this organizational development there has beena rapid increase in DC research. Several reviews (e.g., Stambulova & Wylleman, 2019;Tessitore et al., 2021, Kegelaers et al., 2022) and recent FEPSAC position statement onathletes’ DCs (Stambulova et al., 2024) contribute to development of the EuropeanDC discourse promoting athletes’ striving for DC excellence. Considering the developmentsmade, a national working group of practitioners and DC researchers acrossRIUs/EVLs and officials of the Swedish Sports Confederation met in a series of meetingsduring 2023-2024 to update the Swedish national DC guidelines. The updatedversion outlines the organizational model for RIUs and EVLs centered around developingDC development environments (Storm et al., 2021) and with context-informedand evidence-based guidelines on how to facilitate student-athletes’ (a) academicdevelopment, (b) athletic development, (c) balance between sport, studies, and privatelife, and (d) career transitions. The updated guidelines set a national standardfor DC support in line with recommendations from national (e.g., Linnér, 2021) andinternational DC research (e.g., Stambulova et al., 2024).

National Category
Psychology
Research subject
Health Innovation, M4HP
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-54681 (URN)
Conference
FEPSAC 17th Congress, Performance Under Pressure In Sports, Military/Police, Performing Arts, Medicine, Business And Daily Life, Innsbruck, Austria, 15-19 July, 2024
Available from: 2024-09-30 Created: 2024-09-30 Last updated: 2025-01-29Bibliographically approved
Linnér, L. & Stambulova, N. (2024). Ecology in Policy: Holistic Ecological Approach in the updated Swedish National Guidelines for Elite Athletes’ Dual Careers. In: FEPSAC 17th Congress 2024: Abstract Book. Paper presented at FEPSAC 17th Congress, Performance Under Pressure In Sports, Military/Police, Performing Arts, Medicine, Business And Daily Life, Innsbruck, Austria, 15-19 July, 2024 (pp. 935-935).
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Ecology in Policy: Holistic Ecological Approach in the updated Swedish National Guidelines for Elite Athletes’ Dual Careers
2024 (English)In: FEPSAC 17th Congress 2024: Abstract Book, 2024, p. 935-935Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Athletes’ dual careers (DC) can be understood as an individual process of using personalresources and strategies to cope with the challenges of being a student-athlete(e.g., Brown et al., 2015), summarized as viewing DCs from a holistic developmentalapproach (Wylleman, 2019). DCs can also be understood from a holistic ecologicalapproach (HEA; Henriksen & Stambulova, 2023), considering athletes as embeddedinto a system of interrelated sport-, study- and private life relationships in a DC developmentenvironment (DCDE; Henriksen et al., 2020). In this presentation we willshare how the HEA has supported an update of the Swedish national guidelines forelite athletes’ DCs (Swedish Sports Confederation, 2018) to promote an ecologicallyinformed system of DC support across Swedish sports universities. This updated policydocument (2024) is informed by the HEA in several ways to help optimize environmentsfor student-athletes and strengthen the cooperation between stakeholdersinvolved. For example, the updated guidelines outline the organizational model forSwedish sports universities centered around optimizing DCDEs and their essentialfeatures (Storm et al., 2021). Here, the HEA helped to clarify a leading role of a DCsupport team with a DC-coordinator and DC support providers in sport and studydomains, in charge of interorganizational collaboration (Mathorne, 2021), macro- andmicro-level integration, holistic structure, and developing a shared DC philosophyacross stakeholders (e.g., Linnér et al., 2020). The guidelines also emphasize the importanceof career transition support based on transition environment frameworks (Henriksen et al., 2023) for example, in student-athletes’ transition from national elitesport high schools to sports universities. Annual national DC education held by theSwedish Sports Confederation has supported the process of integrating an environmentperspective in the DC support across Swedish sports universities.

National Category
Psychology
Research subject
Health Innovation, M4HP
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-54683 (URN)
Conference
FEPSAC 17th Congress, Performance Under Pressure In Sports, Military/Police, Performing Arts, Medicine, Business And Daily Life, Innsbruck, Austria, 15-19 July, 2024
Available from: 2024-09-30 Created: 2024-09-30 Last updated: 2025-01-29Bibliographically approved
Henriksen, K., Book Jr, R., Kamuk Storm, L., Linnér, L., Sæther, S. A., Lundkvist, E., . . . Erikstad, M. (2024). Editorial: SJSEP Welcomes Conceptual Papers. Scandinavian journal of sport and exercise psychology, 6, 42-45
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2024 (English)In: Scandinavian journal of sport and exercise psychology, ISSN 2596-741X, Vol. 6, p. 42-45Article in journal, Editorial material (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The field of sport and exercise psychology research is growing steadily, its journals receive many more submissions than they can publish and we witness significant methodological and empirical progress. The journals in the field provide an outlet for multiple types of contributions including original empirical papers, scientific reviews, rigorously described case examples of applied work, methodological advancements, and more. As in any scientific field, we need these different types of contributions to move forward. Borrowing from an inspirational visualization of the research as a craft occupation (Forscher, 1963), we need not only to make bricks (facts, individual empirical studies) but also to build edifices or buildings (explanations, theories). Beyond scientific reviews (e.g., systematic and scoping reviews), however, scientists may experience unnecessary struggles when they set out to publish conceptual theory-building articles, perhaps because of a lack of accepted journal formats and templates for non-empirical scientific papers (Jaakkola, 2020). For example, Ph.D. students often engage in a new topic area. As their area is new, a systematic or scoping review is not viable, but they find that a paper outlining key ideas, models, and definitions could provide a solid theoretical foundation for their research. A foundation for which there is rarely space in their first empirical scientific paper. Journals may also reject conceptual papers because such papers do not fit with the aims and scope of the journal, or because reviewers judge the paper based on criteria that may be suitable for empirical papers or reviews but are misaligned with the aim of a conceptual paper. Despite the potential value of papers that develop concepts, integrate or expand theories relying neither on empirical data nor on a systematic review of the scientific literature, such papers remain a rare treat within the field of sport and exercise psychology. In SJSEP we wish to provide an outlet for conceptual, theoretical and non-empirical contributions that are rigorous, cogent, transparent, systematically developed, and hold the potential to move our field forward. These papers play a vital role by offering fresh and innovative perspectives, challenging existing ideas, and shaping the discourse within our discipline. Beyond a mere call for such papers, in this editorial, we outline key quality criteria for conceptual papers within the context of an SJSEP article.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Aalborg: Dansk Idrætspsykologisk Forum, 2024
Keywords
Editorial, Call for papers
National Category
Psychology
Research subject
Health Innovation, M4HP
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-54680 (URN)10.7146/sjsep.v6i.149032 (DOI)
Available from: 2024-09-30 Created: 2024-09-30 Last updated: 2024-10-22Bibliographically approved
Linnér, L., Stambulova, N., Ivarsson, A., Franck, A. & Lindahl, K. (2024). In pursuit of dual career excellence: factors associated to satisfaction of Swedish University student-athletes. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
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2024 (English)In: International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, ISSN 1612-197X, E-ISSN 1557-251XArticle in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

In this study we aimed to explore factors associated to Dual Career (DC) satisfaction in Swedish university student-athletes to contribute to the evaluation of the Swedish sports university system. We considered DC satisfaction as a key indicator of the student-athletes’ ability to maintain an optimal DC balance in their striving for DC excellence and searched for the factors facilitating this process. Using a repeated cross-sectional design, we sampled participants during three consecutive educational years (2020-2022) using an online survey. We sampled 561 high-performance university student-athletes (54% female) with a mean age of 23.82 (SD = 3.35). The student-athletes represented all universities and 54 sports federations in the Swedish sports university system. We performed a Chi-squared Autonatic Interaction Detection (CHAID) analysis to test the potential relationships between independent variables (i.e., DC coping, DC competences, DC support, mental health, autonomy, competence and relatedness support, perception of study and sport flexibility, gender, hours worked alongside DC, and years of study at university) and the dependent variable (i.e., DC satisfaction). Our findings showed that the factors related to DC satisfaction were student-athletes’ DC coping (i.e., their ability to cope with interrelated sport, study, and private life challenges), together with receiving relevant DC support and experiencing relatedness. Taken together, this points towards the importance in creating DC development environments (DCDEs) characterised by individualised empowerment support (i.e., complementing student-athletes coping efforts and adding to their DC competences) and strong peer-relationships with relatedness in a community of student-athletes. © 2024 The Author(s).

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
New York: Taylor & Francis, 2024
Keywords
dual career, excellence, student-athlete, satisfaction, university
National Category
Psychology
Research subject
Health Innovation, M4HP
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-55038 (URN)10.1080/1612197X.2024.2437516 (DOI)001371235100001 ()2-s2.0-85210934723 (Scopus ID)
Funder
RiksidrottsförbundetUniversity of Gothenburg
Available from: 2024-12-06 Created: 2024-12-06 Last updated: 2024-12-18Bibliographically approved
Linnér, L., Sanchez, X., Saarinen, M., Kiens, K. & Borrueco, M. (2024). Performing under new pressure: Post-experiences of young career scholars. In: FEPSAC 17th Congress 2024: Abstract Book. Paper presented at FEPSAC 17th Congress, Performance Under Pressure In Sports, Military/Police, Performing Arts, Medicine, Business And Daily Life, Innsbruck, Austria, 15-19 July, 2024 (pp. 844-845).
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2024 (English)In: FEPSAC 17th Congress 2024: Abstract Book, 2024, p. 844-845Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The aim of the symposium is to invite young career scholars, who finalized their withinthe last 3 years, to share their experience of transitioning into their post-careerphase in life. In this symposium each presenter chooses a career theory/frameworkand applies it as a guide for sharing their post-career transition experience. Doingthis we want to illustrate various career theories/frameworks (Stambulova et al., 2021)and exemplify different career trajectories both within and outside academia afterPhD, as well as provide our experiences and coping for other scholars (e.g., PhD-studentsand/or supervisors) to learn from. After a short introduction, the first presenterwill use Stambulova’s (2009, 2020) transition model to share his experience of transitioninginto the leadership-role at a sports university trying to practice what hepreached in his about athletes’ dual careers. The second presenter will share hertransition to a postdoctoral position in a new country using Savicka’s (2005) theoryon career construction as a lens. The third presenter will reflect on her career trajectorypost-and how openness and curiosity towards lived experiences (Harris, 2009),in both research and applied practice, has provided a sound foundation for a richand meaningful, yet unpredictable and messy, career. The fourth presenter will followproviding an ecological examination (e.g., LaVoi, 2016) of a young woman’s attemptto develop a career in academia outlining the challenges in trying to enter ahigh-performance and male-dominated context. After the presentations a generaldiscussion will follow focusing on, for example, how the PhD-education preparedthe presenters for the new pressures (i.e., challenges) in the post-phase and howcareer-theory and research knowledge helped them to cope. Major lessons learnedwill also be shared to support the development and successful transitions of futurePhD-graduates in sport and exercise psychology.

National Category
Psychology
Research subject
Health Innovation, M4HP
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-54682 (URN)
Conference
FEPSAC 17th Congress, Performance Under Pressure In Sports, Military/Police, Performing Arts, Medicine, Business And Daily Life, Innsbruck, Austria, 15-19 July, 2024
Available from: 2024-09-30 Created: 2024-09-30 Last updated: 2025-01-30Bibliographically approved
Linnér, L. (2024). Practicing What You Preach: From a PhD about Athletes’ Dual Careers to Leadership of a Sports University. In: FEPSAC 17th Congress 2024: Abstract Book. Paper presented at FEPSAC 17th Congress, Performance Under Pressure In Sports, Military/Police, Performing Arts, Medicine, Business And Daily Life, Innsbruck, Austria, 15-19 July, 2024 (pp. 983-983).
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Practicing What You Preach: From a PhD about Athletes’ Dual Careers to Leadership of a Sports University
2024 (English)In: FEPSAC 17th Congress 2024: Abstract Book, 2024, p. 983-983Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Coming into my PhD I never would have thought what would follow. What followedwas several years of national and international collaboration on athletes’ dual careerssupporting my PhD on the same topic (Linnér, 2021). This granted me the opportunityto later accept a part-time position and take a lead as Head of operations anddevelopment at Halmstad university as one of six National sports universities in Sweden.Using Stambulova’s (2009, 2020) athletic career transition model as an inspirationmy aim for this presentation is to share my journey of transitioning from PhDto a multifaceted role encompassing teaching, administration, research and development,and the helm of operations and development running a sports university.In essence, my transition can be summarized as moving from researching athletes’dual careers and exploring dual career development environments (e.g., Henriksenet al., 2020) to developing a dual career development environment and support inpractice, while continuing to do research and collaborate about athlete’s career developmentand transitions. Keeping in mind a whole-person approach, my transitionmainly revolved around vocational changes, whereas psychological, psychosocial,and financial aspects of my life remained mainly the same. I will outline my key transitiondemands including the dual responsibility of steering the sports university towardsincreased integration of efforts based on developing stakeholder relationshipswhile also contributing to research through paper publication as a central expectationwithin the university. I will summarize my main coping resources (e.g., organizationalskills, determination, an in-depth understanding of athletes’ dual careers,pre-existing relationships with stakeholders, and supportive colleagues) and barriers(e.g., lack of understanding from the organization) and outline my coping strategies(e.g., strategic planning, self-compassion) in balancing the roles of being a youngscholar and an organizational leader.

National Category
Psychology
Research subject
Health Innovation, M4HP
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-54684 (URN)
Conference
FEPSAC 17th Congress, Performance Under Pressure In Sports, Military/Police, Performing Arts, Medicine, Business And Daily Life, Innsbruck, Austria, 15-19 July, 2024
Available from: 2024-09-30 Created: 2024-09-30 Last updated: 2025-01-29Bibliographically approved
Linnér, L., Stambulova, N., Franck, A. & Lindahl, K. (2023). What Matters the Most? Factors Contributing to the Successful Dual Career Coping of Swedish University Student-Athletes. In: : . Paper presented at SVEBI (Svensk Förening för Beteende- och Samhällsvetenskaplig Idrottsforskning) årskonferens, Göteborg, Sverige, 23-24 november, 2023.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>What Matters the Most? Factors Contributing to the Successful Dual Career Coping of Swedish University Student-Athletes
2023 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Introduction and Aim 

Research reveals that athletes might have short- and long-term benefits of combining sport and education, that is, pursuing a dual career (DC) pathway (Stambulova & Wylleman, 2019). To facilitate this challenging pathway, the Swedish Sports Confederation (2018) has developed the Swedish national DC guidelines for the recently established system of National Sports Universities (RIUs) and Elite-sports Friendly Universities (EVLs). The Swedish Sports Confederation invited Halmstad University DC research group to conduct an annual national survey to monitor the DC experiences of RIU/EVL student-athletes for three years (2020-2022). In this presentation we will share the findings from three years of data collection across RIUs/EVLs with an emphasis on what factors contributed to the successful DC coping of Swedish university student-athletes. 

Method

Officially recognized RIU/EVL student-athletes received an invitation by e-mail to take part in the study by liaisons at each RIU/EVL. Across the years we sampled 561 participants (54% female) with a mean age of 23.82 (SD = 3.35). The participants represented all universities in the system (n = 22), 54 sport federations and studied across a variety of educations with an average study pace of 87%.  

The survey was developed for this project based on the Swedish national DC guidelines, the Dual Career Survey (Stambulova et al., 2015) and relevant existing and validated instruments, all informed by national and international DC research (e.g., Brown et al., 2015; Linnér et al., 2019) and findings from two Erasmus+ sports projects: the Gold in Education and Elite Sport project (GEES; e.g., De Brandt et al., 2018) and the Ecology of Dual Career project (ECO-DC; e.g., Henriksen et al., 2020). The instrument covered (a) demographic information, (b) DC-experiences including coping with perceived challenges, the Dual Career Competency Questionnaire for Athletes (De Brandt et al., 2018), health and wellbeing (e.g., Besèr et al., 2014), DC support, and need-supportive interpersonal behaviours from key support providers through the Interpersonal Behaviours Questionnaire (Rocchi et al., 2017), and (c) overall satisfaction with RIU/EVL and DC. 

Results 

Using a classification and regression tree analysis (Machuca et al., 2017) we explored associations between factors related to successful DC coping. Findings of this study indicated that the key factor for coping with the DC is student-athletes’ organization and planning competence (e.g., plan in advance and use time efficiently) and that stakeholders DC support and competence-needs-supportive behaviors can compensate student-athletes’ lack of organization and planning competence. Findings also show that the combination of factors leading to least successful coping is low organization and planning competence in combination with low emotional competence (e.g., stress management). 

Conclusions

Previous research has revealed a plethora of factors and competences (e.g., De Brandt et al., 2018) related to student-athletes’ DC success. This study helps support providers in suggesting what matters the most. These findings provide important implications for how DC support can be improved to facilitate sustainable DCs of athletes at RIUs/EVLs in Sweden. Among such implications is the importance of monitoring students-athletes’ ability to plan and, when necessary, provide DC support to facilitate development of such a competence. 

National Category
Psychology
Research subject
Health Innovation, M4HP
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-52130 (URN)
Conference
SVEBI (Svensk Förening för Beteende- och Samhällsvetenskaplig Idrottsforskning) årskonferens, Göteborg, Sverige, 23-24 november, 2023
Available from: 2023-11-28 Created: 2023-11-28 Last updated: 2023-11-30Bibliographically approved
Linnér, L. (2022). Athletes' dual careers in a changing world: A Scandinavian perspective. In: Book of abstracts - SVEBI 2022: . Paper presented at SVEBI 2022, Sport in a Changing World, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden, June 14–15, 2022 (pp. 63-63).
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Athletes' dual careers in a changing world: A Scandinavian perspective
2022 (English)In: Book of abstracts - SVEBI 2022, 2022, p. 63-63Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Grounded in the Scandinavian context and by sharing research findings, good practice examples and recommendations for support, this symposium aims to facilitate understanding of athletes’ dual career (DC) experiences in the process of maintaining balance in the face of challenge, or even global crises. The need to safeguard athletes’ development by facilitating the balance between sport and education has been highlighted by the European Union guidelines on DCs of athletes (2012), and research has since developed and flourished (Stambulova & Wylleman, 2019). After a brief introduction by the organizer the symposium is structured keeping in mind a developmental perspective and moving from research to practice. Researchers and practitioners across three Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) will collectively share knowledge throughout athletes’ DCs in relation to childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and from primary to secondary/high school and university level.

National Category
Psychology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-50159 (URN)
Conference
SVEBI 2022, Sport in a Changing World, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden, June 14–15, 2022
Available from: 2023-03-22 Created: 2023-03-22 Last updated: 2024-05-06Bibliographically approved
Linnér, L., Stambulova, N. & Henriksen, K. (2022). Facilitating student-athletes’ dual career transition: A Scandinavian university case study. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, 11(2), 107-123
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Facilitating student-athletes’ dual career transition: A Scandinavian university case study
2022 (English)In: Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, ISSN 2157-3905, E-ISSN 2157-3913, Vol. 11, no 2, p. 107-123Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This study combines the holistic ecological and holistic developmental approaches through a mixed-methods intrinsic case study with a convergent design to explore how a Dual Career (DC) Development Environment (DCDE) facilitated student-athletes’ transition to a Scandinavian university. The case was explored through multiple sources of data inspired by the research methodology in the holistic ecological approach and the DC-Environment Success Factors (DC-ESF) working model. Semi-structured interviews, with student-athletes and support providers, and documents analysis were complemented by a quantitative monitoring of the student-athletes’ transition experiences. Findings are presented in a joint display by merging the qualitative and quantitative data in an empirical version of the DC-ESF model. The empirical model summarizes the case by situating the environment in student-athletes’ development and showing a challenging transition with athletic and non-athletic demands, and a well-coordinated and supportive environment with a mission of a balanced and synchronized whole and targeting empowerment of the whole person. The student-athletes developed their DC competences and a holistic attitude to development, improved in sport and study, and in their ability to balance their DC. This study contributes to the literature by bridging the gap between transition and environment research. By integrating the two approaches the study explicitly shows the fit between the student-athletes’ needs and the environment’s support leading to the conclusion that effective DCDEs works to meet student-athletes’ needs by helping them to develop DC competencies to create and maintain an optimal DC balance. © 2021. American Psychological Association

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association (APA), 2022
Keywords
Dual career development environment, holistic developmental approach, holistic ecological approach, student-athlete, transition, university
National Category
Psychology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-45710 (URN)10.1037/spy0000275 (DOI)000733074300001 ()2-s2.0-85119300774 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2021-10-05 Created: 2021-10-05 Last updated: 2022-08-25Bibliographically approved
Linnér, L. & Stambulova, N. (2022). Supporting an applied practice: The dual career assistance framework. In: 16th European Congress of Sport Psychology: Abstract book. Paper presented at 16th European (FEPSAC) Congress of Sport Psychology, Padova, Italy, 11-16 July, 2022.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Supporting an applied practice: The dual career assistance framework
2022 (English)In: 16th European Congress of Sport Psychology: Abstract book, 2022Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In this presentation we will share the Dual Career Assistance framework (DCA; Linnér, 2021) developed to merge the DC research, that has flourished in recent years (Stambulova & Wylleman, 2019), in a model that can guide applied practice. The DCA framework merges the holistic developmental (Wylleman, 2019) and the holistic ecological (Henriksen & Stambulova, 2017) approaches by suggesting a support that integrates a whole person, whole career, and whole environment perspective. It is based on findings from the PhD studies of Linnér (2021), European DC research (e.g., Brown et al., 2015) and the Erasmus+ projects ‘Gold in Education and Elite Sport’ (e.g., De Brandt, 2017) and ‘Ecology of DC’ (e.g., Henriksen et al., 2020), with a focus on the university level. Briefly explained, the DCA framework sets the aim of DC assistance to be helping student-athletes develop and maintain optimal DC balance to facilitate their striving for career excellence (Stambulova et al., 2015, 2020). Maintaining balance is not without challenges, and the framework points the attention to the DC scenarios and transitions capable of compromising balance (e.g., Linnér et al., 2021). Support providers are guided in helping student-athletes to choose efficient coping strategies to meet their challenges and maintain their DC balance, based on their current possession of DC competences (e.g., De Brandt, 2017) and available DC support (e.g., Knight et al., 2018), or lack thereof, within a DC development environment (Storm et al., 2021). Target areas for DC assistance based on the framework will be discussed.

National Category
Psychology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-50160 (URN)
Conference
16th European (FEPSAC) Congress of Sport Psychology, Padova, Italy, 11-16 July, 2022
Available from: 2023-03-22 Created: 2023-03-22 Last updated: 2023-03-23Bibliographically approved
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