ISSP Position Stand: Culturally competent research and practice in sport and exercise psychology
2013 (English)In: International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, ISSN 1612-197X, E-ISSN 1557-251X, Vol. 11, no 2, p. 123-142Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The multicultural landscape of contemporary sport sets a challenge to rethink sport and exercise psychology research and practice through a culturally reflexive lens. This ISSP Position Stand provides a rigorous synthesis and engagement with existing scholarship to outline a roadmap for future work in the field. The shift to culturally competent sport and exercise psychology implies: (a) recognizing hidden ethnocentric philosophical assumptions permeating much of the current theory, research, and practice; (b) transitioning to professional ethics in which difference is seen as not inherent and fixed but as relational and fluid; and (c) focusing on meaning (instead of cause) in cross-cultural and cultural research projects, and cultural praxis work. In the paper, we first provide an overview of the concepts of cultural competence and ethics of difference. Second, we present a step-by-step approach for developing a culturally competent project rooted either within cross-cultural or cultural research. Third, we focus on cultural praxis as a project that blends theory, research, and lived culture of practice. Finally, we summarize main points in nine postulates and provide recommendations for enhancing cultural competence in the field of sport and exercise psychology. © 2013 Copyright International Society of Sport Psychology.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Morgantown, WV: Fitness Information Technology Inc. , 2013. Vol. 11, no 2, p. 123-142
Keywords [en]
cross-cultural psychology, cultural psychology, cultural praxis, culturally competent researcher, culturally competent practitioner
National Category
Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-21717DOI: 10.1080/1612197X.2013.779812Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84878784657OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-21717DiVA, id: diva2:614897
2013-04-082013-04-082025-10-01Bibliographically approved