- Title
- Exploring English youth academy footballers’ experiences through role strain theory
- Creator
- Hayman, Rick; Polman, Remco; Borkoles, Erika
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/196466
- Identifier
- vital:18690
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.25035/jade.03.03.03
- Identifier
- ISSN:2642-9276
- Abstract
- Throughout adolescence and early adulthood, talented athletes must dedicate increasing personal resources to their sport. Recent empirical research found that applying Role Strain Theory (RST) was useful to contextualise international junior golfers’, acrobats’, gymnasts’ and Australian Rules footballers’ experiences of how they combined and coped with the competing role demands of sport and education. Findings demonstrated how role strain (RS) severity and regularity fluctuated during their youth careers but subsided during the latter teenage years. Surprisingly, limited research exploring how youth academy footballers simultaneously combine sport, education and social demands exists. This study determined the extent to which RS was experienced by six high performing male youth footballers who each had between four and five consecutive years’ experience within the foundation and youth development stage squads at an English professional football academy. Implications for most effectively supporting elite level youth players during crucial developmental and transitional career stages are provided.
- Publisher
- Bowling Green State University
- Relation
- Journal of athlete development and experience Vol. 3, no. 3 (2021), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright authors This Research Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at ScholarWorks@BGSU
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- Academy football; Adolescence; Role strain theory; Transitions; 4207 Sports science and exercise
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