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Case Studies in Sport and Exercise Psychology
Although sport participation holds potential to facilitate substance use recovery, the role of sp... more Although sport participation holds potential to facilitate substance use recovery, the role of sport and links to identity transformation are contentious. Using an instrumental and intrinsic case study, we used narrative inquiry to explore autobiographies as cultural sites of analysis in relation to the role that one sport (i.e., triathlon) plays in substance use recovery. We conducted a social constructionist narrative thematic analysis of four public autobiography sources (e.g., one book and three documentary films) chronicling one man’s 27-year journey of substance use recovery using recreational triathlon. A central narrative threaded the substance use recovery process: redemption narrative. Redemption narrative meaning(s) unfolded in distinct ways depending on identity themes: (a) athlete to triathlete: (re)creating a non-substance-using identity and (b) generative athlete: claiming a sober identity. The redemption stories and shifting identities were connected to recovery capi...
Routledge eBooks, Apr 15, 2020
Routledge eBooks, Jun 14, 2022
Communication and sport, Jul 11, 2023
Coinciding with athlete mothers’ stories gaining media visibility, sport media researchers are st... more Coinciding with athlete mothers’ stories gaining media visibility, sport media researchers are studying media discourses to learn more about socially constructed motherhood and sport. The present study extends media research on elite athlete mothers, by using feminist narrative inquiry to interrogate discrimination meanings in sport. North American sport media stories were collected on Canadian athletes’ (i.e., boxer Mandy Bujold, basketball player Kim Gaucher) journeys to the 2020 Tokyo Games after being discriminated against due to their motherhood status. Thematic narrative analysis of 103 stories identified three narrative motifs (i.e., recurring concepts) in stories linked to discrimination meanings: last shots, forced to choose, and more than us. The first two motifs are discussed in relation to a motherhood penalty narrative linked to sexism and discrimination. The more than us motif is discussed in relation to the resolution to compete for both athletes, linked to maternal activism and social change. All three motifs exposed and challenged maternal discrimination in sport, using ‘feminist consciousness’ linked to a neoliberal feminist status quo. These findings show the pedagogical potential of media stories for athlete maternity rights awareness and structural change, while highlighting a need for intersectional feminist reform regarding athlete parents and post-pandemic recovery.
Routledge eBooks, Nov 22, 2020
Culturally accepted bodies within elite sporting cultures point to entrenched 'slim-to-win' ideol... more Culturally accepted bodies within elite sporting cultures point to entrenched 'slim-to-win' ideologies. Consequently, sporting insiders (e.g., coaches, team managers, athletes) perceive 'slim' and 'fatless' body shapes as a necessary means in order to achieve competitive performance. As such, body practices centring on a 'slim-to-win' ideology are practised through publicly conducted daily weigh-ins, regular skin fold tests, surveillance of athletes' body shape and eating. As a means of attaining the ideal and culturally accepted shape, athletes' health and wellbeing is being compromised within the context of the slim-to-win ideology. Indeed, many athletes are becoming injured as they attempt to conform their bodies to a shape which is perceived to enhance competitive performance Within the present chapter, the focus is on the ways in which one sporting culture [swimming] has taken up the 'slim-towin' ideology and how in response, athletes have come to engage with health risk culture (e.g., overdosing on laxative medication; taking illicit substances such as methamphetamines; throwing up after meals; risky medical intervention, overuse injuries). The ways in which long term health and wellbeing of athletes is comprised in relation to these practices, in the name of competitive performance, is also of interest.
Sport Management Review, 2020
In this paper, the authors make use of narrative inquiry from the position of a story teller by u... more In this paper, the authors make use of narrative inquiry from the position of a story teller by using creative nonfiction to bring forward the complexities of abuse in sport. Through the use of vignettes, one female athlete's story of how she self-managed her abuse post sport by acting out sexually is made known. As taboo stories tend to be silenced in sport literature, this research foregrounds how one athlete took back the power and control with men as a way of self-managing the physical and emotional abuse she experienced from male coaches. Although a temporary fix, the vignettes highlight how this athlete's selfmanagement strategies were a complex form of empowerment, a contrast to what she felt when she was the recipient of abuse. The reader is encouraged to construct their own understanding of the athlete's stories, thinking with her story rather than about her story. This paper contributes to understandings of athlete abuse by providing insight into the lack of support an athlete received post sport and further how she was expected to fend for herself, formulating her own self-management/coping strategies. Sport managers developing interventions and strategies related to abused athletes should consider the diverse challenges that they face.
Routledge eBooks, Feb 5, 2016
International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, May 14, 2017
Where a licence is displayed above, please note the terms and conditions of the licence govern yo... more Where a licence is displayed above, please note the terms and conditions of the licence govern your use of this document. When citing, please reference the published version. Take down policy While the University of Birmingham exercises care and attention in making items available there are rare occasions when an item has been uploaded in error or has been deemed to be commercially or otherwise sensitive.
Routledge eBooks, May 16, 2023
Journal of Exercise, Movement, and Sport (SCAPPS refereed abstracts repository), 2013
Background: A recent systematic review highlighted the need to examine steps / day correlates dur... more Background: A recent systematic review highlighted the need to examine steps / day correlates during pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) that extend beyond the intrapersonal (e.g., age, disease severity) level. The purpose of the current study was determine whether daily temperature was significantly associated with daily steps at the beginning and end of PR. Methods: 194 patients (mean age = 66.15; 54% male) wore a pedometer for 7 days and recorded their daily steps in a log book at the beginning, end, 3, and 9 months after completing PR. For purposes of the current analysis, we only examined the PR assessments. Next, patients’ addresses were linked to environment Canada’s weather data for each day they wore the pedometer to obtain the average daily temperature for the beginning and end of PR assessments. Results: Separate linear growth models were conducted in MPlus 7.0 (i.e., 1 for each assessment period) using daily temperature as time varying covariate to examine its association with steps / day controlling for age and gender. Results showed daily temperature was significantly associated with daily steps at the beginning of PR (beta’s ranged from .10 to .20, p < .01), but not the end of PR. Conclusions: It appears that when patients are in the early stages of their PR, daily temperature may be associated with the number of steps they take on a daily basis. However, as they progress through their PR, temperature becomes less important.Acknowledgments: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Journal of Exercise, Movement, and Sport (SCAPPS refereed abstracts repository), 2012
Background:Several studies in non-diseased populations have shown that a relationship exists betw... more Background:Several studies in non-diseased populations have shown that a relationship exists between the perceived environment (i.e., home and community) and moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA). Yet, little is known about this relationship in people living with heart disease. The purpose of the present study was to shed light on this issue. Methods: 269 patients were recruited that were < 65 years (55%), had < grade 12 education (59.5%), were male (74.3%), had coronary artery disease (51.3%), and had = 1 comorbidity. The patients completed a questionnaire assessing demographic, clinical, perceived home environment (e.g., having access to a treadmill), perceived access to MVPA opportunities in their communities (e.g., having access to walking trails), and physical activity variables at baseline, three, six, nine, and 12 months after hospitalization for heart disease. Charts were reviewed for height, weight and clinical diagnosis.Results:In terms of the home environment, partial correlations (i.e., controlling for age, gender, education, and season) between MVPA and each home environment variable showed that having skis (i.e., water and / or snow) was significantly related to increased MVPA at baseline (r = .14) and 6 months after hospitalization (r = .23), whereas having access to skates was also significant at 6 months (r = .13). In terms of the community environment, having access to courts (e.g.,tennis, basketball, etc…) was significantly related to MVPA 3 months after hospitalization (r = .21), whereas having access to walking paths was significantly related 9 months after hospitalization (r = .13). Conclusions:The relationship between the perceived environment and MVPA in heart disease patients appears to be time dependent. However, further studies need to incorporate objective environmental measures to better understand the role of the environment in heart disease patients.Acknowledgments: Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation
Routledge eBooks, Nov 22, 2020
Within the present chapter, the benefits of studying the media as a cultural site to expand sport... more Within the present chapter, the benefits of studying the media as a cultural site to expand sport injury psychology research are explored by bringing together research in sport sociology, sport communication and sport psychology. To accomplish this purpose, what constitutes 'sport media research' is outlined, followed by research in sport sociology concerning risk culture to contextualize sport media work on injury. Media research focusing on sport injury is then presented to show the value of studying the media as a socio-cultural site of analysis and to learn more about sport injury meanings, athlete identities and the implications. We conclude with future research avenues and centralize three critical discussion questions to spark interest on media work in sport injury psychology.
Sport Education and Society, Jul 7, 2017
Given that research outside of sport and exercise has found that stigma may cause severe conseque... more Given that research outside of sport and exercise has found that stigma may cause severe consequences (e.g. depression), it is important to explore the concept in regard to its connection to socio-cultural issues in the development and persistence of stigmatisation in sporting contexts. Analytic autoethnography and Goffman's theory of stigma was used to explore one female swimmer's experiences of 'enacted' and 'felt' competitive performance stigma occurring in elite swimming and a masters swimming context. Competitive performance stigma has not been conceptualised or explored as a stigma type in sport research, however through the presentation and analysis of two vignettes and the use of Goffman, this is achieved. The social agents that contributed to both 'enacted' and 'felt' competitive performance stigma and the consequences/effects (e.g. withdrawal from sport, feelings of shame) for this swimmer are highlighted. Our analysis further highlights the role of particular cultural insiders (e.g. coaches, team managers and other swimmers) in the reproduction of competitive performance stigma through acts of labelling, discrimination and social isolation. These acts positioned the female swimmer as an 'outsider' because of her competitive performance which in turn led to her withdrawal from these two sporting contexts highlighting the implications for recipients of stigmatisation.
Substance abuse, 2021
Popular culture has recently seen the emergence of the so-called comical wine mom persona, partic... more Popular culture has recently seen the emergence of the so-called comical wine mom persona, particularly on social media sites such as Instagram. Given the increasing use of alcohol amongst women and the emergence of alcohol as a tool for women and mothers to assert agency and gender equity, a critical analysis of wine mom culture warrants attention. Forty Instagram posts associated with the #winemom hashtag were selected using theoretical sampling and analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. The central objective was to use a postfeminist lens to critically explore how wine mom culture is part of the consumption, (re)production and (re)configuration of the ideologies of 'good' and 'bad' motherhood occurring in online gendered spaces. The findings demonstrated the ubiquity of wine mom culture and its contribution to normalized images and meanings of 'liberated motherhood' that may have problematic sociocultural and health implications related to women's alcohol consumption.
Case Studies in Sport and Exercise Psychology
Although sport participation holds potential to facilitate substance use recovery, the role of sp... more Although sport participation holds potential to facilitate substance use recovery, the role of sport and links to identity transformation are contentious. Using an instrumental and intrinsic case study, we used narrative inquiry to explore autobiographies as cultural sites of analysis in relation to the role that one sport (i.e., triathlon) plays in substance use recovery. We conducted a social constructionist narrative thematic analysis of four public autobiography sources (e.g., one book and three documentary films) chronicling one man’s 27-year journey of substance use recovery using recreational triathlon. A central narrative threaded the substance use recovery process: redemption narrative. Redemption narrative meaning(s) unfolded in distinct ways depending on identity themes: (a) athlete to triathlete: (re)creating a non-substance-using identity and (b) generative athlete: claiming a sober identity. The redemption stories and shifting identities were connected to recovery capi...
Routledge eBooks, Apr 15, 2020
Routledge eBooks, Jun 14, 2022
Communication and sport, Jul 11, 2023
Coinciding with athlete mothers’ stories gaining media visibility, sport media researchers are st... more Coinciding with athlete mothers’ stories gaining media visibility, sport media researchers are studying media discourses to learn more about socially constructed motherhood and sport. The present study extends media research on elite athlete mothers, by using feminist narrative inquiry to interrogate discrimination meanings in sport. North American sport media stories were collected on Canadian athletes’ (i.e., boxer Mandy Bujold, basketball player Kim Gaucher) journeys to the 2020 Tokyo Games after being discriminated against due to their motherhood status. Thematic narrative analysis of 103 stories identified three narrative motifs (i.e., recurring concepts) in stories linked to discrimination meanings: last shots, forced to choose, and more than us. The first two motifs are discussed in relation to a motherhood penalty narrative linked to sexism and discrimination. The more than us motif is discussed in relation to the resolution to compete for both athletes, linked to maternal activism and social change. All three motifs exposed and challenged maternal discrimination in sport, using ‘feminist consciousness’ linked to a neoliberal feminist status quo. These findings show the pedagogical potential of media stories for athlete maternity rights awareness and structural change, while highlighting a need for intersectional feminist reform regarding athlete parents and post-pandemic recovery.
Routledge eBooks, Nov 22, 2020
Culturally accepted bodies within elite sporting cultures point to entrenched 'slim-to-win' ideol... more Culturally accepted bodies within elite sporting cultures point to entrenched 'slim-to-win' ideologies. Consequently, sporting insiders (e.g., coaches, team managers, athletes) perceive 'slim' and 'fatless' body shapes as a necessary means in order to achieve competitive performance. As such, body practices centring on a 'slim-to-win' ideology are practised through publicly conducted daily weigh-ins, regular skin fold tests, surveillance of athletes' body shape and eating. As a means of attaining the ideal and culturally accepted shape, athletes' health and wellbeing is being compromised within the context of the slim-to-win ideology. Indeed, many athletes are becoming injured as they attempt to conform their bodies to a shape which is perceived to enhance competitive performance Within the present chapter, the focus is on the ways in which one sporting culture [swimming] has taken up the 'slim-towin' ideology and how in response, athletes have come to engage with health risk culture (e.g., overdosing on laxative medication; taking illicit substances such as methamphetamines; throwing up after meals; risky medical intervention, overuse injuries). The ways in which long term health and wellbeing of athletes is comprised in relation to these practices, in the name of competitive performance, is also of interest.
Sport Management Review, 2020
In this paper, the authors make use of narrative inquiry from the position of a story teller by u... more In this paper, the authors make use of narrative inquiry from the position of a story teller by using creative nonfiction to bring forward the complexities of abuse in sport. Through the use of vignettes, one female athlete's story of how she self-managed her abuse post sport by acting out sexually is made known. As taboo stories tend to be silenced in sport literature, this research foregrounds how one athlete took back the power and control with men as a way of self-managing the physical and emotional abuse she experienced from male coaches. Although a temporary fix, the vignettes highlight how this athlete's selfmanagement strategies were a complex form of empowerment, a contrast to what she felt when she was the recipient of abuse. The reader is encouraged to construct their own understanding of the athlete's stories, thinking with her story rather than about her story. This paper contributes to understandings of athlete abuse by providing insight into the lack of support an athlete received post sport and further how she was expected to fend for herself, formulating her own self-management/coping strategies. Sport managers developing interventions and strategies related to abused athletes should consider the diverse challenges that they face.
Routledge eBooks, Feb 5, 2016
International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, May 14, 2017
Where a licence is displayed above, please note the terms and conditions of the licence govern yo... more Where a licence is displayed above, please note the terms and conditions of the licence govern your use of this document. When citing, please reference the published version. Take down policy While the University of Birmingham exercises care and attention in making items available there are rare occasions when an item has been uploaded in error or has been deemed to be commercially or otherwise sensitive.
Routledge eBooks, May 16, 2023
Journal of Exercise, Movement, and Sport (SCAPPS refereed abstracts repository), 2013
Background: A recent systematic review highlighted the need to examine steps / day correlates dur... more Background: A recent systematic review highlighted the need to examine steps / day correlates during pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) that extend beyond the intrapersonal (e.g., age, disease severity) level. The purpose of the current study was determine whether daily temperature was significantly associated with daily steps at the beginning and end of PR. Methods: 194 patients (mean age = 66.15; 54% male) wore a pedometer for 7 days and recorded their daily steps in a log book at the beginning, end, 3, and 9 months after completing PR. For purposes of the current analysis, we only examined the PR assessments. Next, patients’ addresses were linked to environment Canada’s weather data for each day they wore the pedometer to obtain the average daily temperature for the beginning and end of PR assessments. Results: Separate linear growth models were conducted in MPlus 7.0 (i.e., 1 for each assessment period) using daily temperature as time varying covariate to examine its association with steps / day controlling for age and gender. Results showed daily temperature was significantly associated with daily steps at the beginning of PR (beta’s ranged from .10 to .20, p < .01), but not the end of PR. Conclusions: It appears that when patients are in the early stages of their PR, daily temperature may be associated with the number of steps they take on a daily basis. However, as they progress through their PR, temperature becomes less important.Acknowledgments: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Journal of Exercise, Movement, and Sport (SCAPPS refereed abstracts repository), 2012
Background:Several studies in non-diseased populations have shown that a relationship exists betw... more Background:Several studies in non-diseased populations have shown that a relationship exists between the perceived environment (i.e., home and community) and moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA). Yet, little is known about this relationship in people living with heart disease. The purpose of the present study was to shed light on this issue. Methods: 269 patients were recruited that were < 65 years (55%), had < grade 12 education (59.5%), were male (74.3%), had coronary artery disease (51.3%), and had = 1 comorbidity. The patients completed a questionnaire assessing demographic, clinical, perceived home environment (e.g., having access to a treadmill), perceived access to MVPA opportunities in their communities (e.g., having access to walking trails), and physical activity variables at baseline, three, six, nine, and 12 months after hospitalization for heart disease. Charts were reviewed for height, weight and clinical diagnosis.Results:In terms of the home environment, partial correlations (i.e., controlling for age, gender, education, and season) between MVPA and each home environment variable showed that having skis (i.e., water and / or snow) was significantly related to increased MVPA at baseline (r = .14) and 6 months after hospitalization (r = .23), whereas having access to skates was also significant at 6 months (r = .13). In terms of the community environment, having access to courts (e.g.,tennis, basketball, etc…) was significantly related to MVPA 3 months after hospitalization (r = .21), whereas having access to walking paths was significantly related 9 months after hospitalization (r = .13). Conclusions:The relationship between the perceived environment and MVPA in heart disease patients appears to be time dependent. However, further studies need to incorporate objective environmental measures to better understand the role of the environment in heart disease patients.Acknowledgments: Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation
Routledge eBooks, Nov 22, 2020
Within the present chapter, the benefits of studying the media as a cultural site to expand sport... more Within the present chapter, the benefits of studying the media as a cultural site to expand sport injury psychology research are explored by bringing together research in sport sociology, sport communication and sport psychology. To accomplish this purpose, what constitutes 'sport media research' is outlined, followed by research in sport sociology concerning risk culture to contextualize sport media work on injury. Media research focusing on sport injury is then presented to show the value of studying the media as a socio-cultural site of analysis and to learn more about sport injury meanings, athlete identities and the implications. We conclude with future research avenues and centralize three critical discussion questions to spark interest on media work in sport injury psychology.
Sport Education and Society, Jul 7, 2017
Given that research outside of sport and exercise has found that stigma may cause severe conseque... more Given that research outside of sport and exercise has found that stigma may cause severe consequences (e.g. depression), it is important to explore the concept in regard to its connection to socio-cultural issues in the development and persistence of stigmatisation in sporting contexts. Analytic autoethnography and Goffman's theory of stigma was used to explore one female swimmer's experiences of 'enacted' and 'felt' competitive performance stigma occurring in elite swimming and a masters swimming context. Competitive performance stigma has not been conceptualised or explored as a stigma type in sport research, however through the presentation and analysis of two vignettes and the use of Goffman, this is achieved. The social agents that contributed to both 'enacted' and 'felt' competitive performance stigma and the consequences/effects (e.g. withdrawal from sport, feelings of shame) for this swimmer are highlighted. Our analysis further highlights the role of particular cultural insiders (e.g. coaches, team managers and other swimmers) in the reproduction of competitive performance stigma through acts of labelling, discrimination and social isolation. These acts positioned the female swimmer as an 'outsider' because of her competitive performance which in turn led to her withdrawal from these two sporting contexts highlighting the implications for recipients of stigmatisation.
Substance abuse, 2021
Popular culture has recently seen the emergence of the so-called comical wine mom persona, partic... more Popular culture has recently seen the emergence of the so-called comical wine mom persona, particularly on social media sites such as Instagram. Given the increasing use of alcohol amongst women and the emergence of alcohol as a tool for women and mothers to assert agency and gender equity, a critical analysis of wine mom culture warrants attention. Forty Instagram posts associated with the #winemom hashtag were selected using theoretical sampling and analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. The central objective was to use a postfeminist lens to critically explore how wine mom culture is part of the consumption, (re)production and (re)configuration of the ideologies of 'good' and 'bad' motherhood occurring in online gendered spaces. The findings demonstrated the ubiquity of wine mom culture and its contribution to normalized images and meanings of 'liberated motherhood' that may have problematic sociocultural and health implications related to women's alcohol consumption.