Winning in the long run: Towards a psychosocial sustainability of dual careers
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Funder's project number: OKM/38/626/2015,42/6
Funds granted by main funder (€)
- 241 000,00
Funding program
- Funding programs
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
- The role of parental affection and psychological control in adolescent athletes’ symptoms of school and sport burnout during the transition to upper secondary school (2018) Aunola, Kaisa; et al.; A1; OA
- Understanding youth athletes' life designing processes through dream day narratives (2018) Ronkainen, Noora J.; et al.; A1; OA
- Urheilija vai opiskelija? Urheilulukiolaisten identiteettiprofiilit (2018) Koivusalo, Laura; et al.; A1; OA
- Urheilun ja opiskelun yhdistämisessä tarvitaan valmennusta kahdelle uralle (2018) Saarinen, Milla; et al.; D1; OA
- A person-oriented approach to sport and school burnout in adolescent student-athletes: The role of individual and parental expectations (2017) Sorkkila, Matilda; et al.; A1; OA
- Career Adapt-Abilities Scale – Dual Career Form (CAAS-DC) : psychometric properties and initial validation in high-school student-athletes (2017) Ryba, Tatiana V.; et al.; A1; OA
- “Sport has always been first for me” but “all my free time is spent doing homework” : Dual career styles in late adolescence (2017) Ryba, Tatiana V.; et al.; A1; OA
- Valmentajan rooli urheilijan kaksoisuran rakentumisessa (2017) Saarinen, Milla; et al.; D1
- A new perspective on adolescent athletes’ transition into upper secondary school : A longitudinal mixed methods study protocol (2016) Ryba, Tatiana V.; et al.; A1; OA
- Urheilijoiden kaksoisuraan liittyvän tutkimuksen tämänhetkinen tilanne Suomessa (2016) Ryba, Tatiana V.; et al.; A2; OA
