Winning in the long run: Towards a psychosocial sustainability of dual careers
Main funder
Funder's project number: OKM/38/626/2015,42/6
Funds granted by main funder (€)
- 241 000,00
Funding program
Project timetable
Project start date: 01/01/2016
Project end date: 31/12/2018
Summary
The concept of dual careers for athletes refers to the challenge of combining an athletic career with education or employment. Our four-year project focuses on talented adolescent athletes, who often prioritize their athletic career as they struggle to reconcile the training and competition demands of high achievement sport with the academic requirements in upper secondary school. Understanding developmental path as a process of transformation through participation in cultural practices, this research will add important insights into the ways in which adolescent athletes actively construct and negotiate their life trajectories in the context of youth sport culture. Our aim is to provide empirical evidence to national stakeholders for a contextually appropriate dual career strategy for young athletes in Finland.
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Related publications and other outputs
- Student Athletes’ Causal Attributions for Sport and School Achievement in Relation to Sport Dropout and Grade Point Average (2023) Saarinen, Milla; et al.; A1; OA
- Student-athletes’ mood state profiles : the role of sports, sex, and performance level in sports and in school (2023) Heikura, Enni E.; et al.; A1
- The role of career adaptability resources in dual career pathways : A person-oriented longitudinal study across elite sports upper secondary school (2023) Ojala, Juulia; et al.; A1; OA
- The development of school and sports task values among adolescent athletes : The role of gender (2022) Viljaranta, Jaana; et al.; A1; OA
- Antecedents and Consequences of Student-Athletes’ Identity Profiles in Upper Secondary School (2020) Moazami-Goodarzi, A.; et al.; A1; OA
- Developing narrative identities in youth pre-elite sport : bridging the present and the future (2020) Ronkainen, Noora J.; et al.; A1; OA
- Development of School and Sport Burnout in Adolescent Student-Athletes : A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Study (2020) Sorkkila, Matilda; et al.; A1; OA
- Identity tensions in dual career : the discursive construction of future selves by female Finnish judo athletes (2020) Kavoura, Anna; et al.; A1; OA
- Coaches' reflections on the meaning and value of Masters athletics (2019) Ronkainen, Noora J.; et al.; A1; OA
- “She is where I’d want to be in my career” : Youth athletes’ role models and their implications for career and identity construction (2019) Ronkainen, Noora J.; et al.; A1; OA
