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A Social Network Analysys of Influences On Athletes To Play With Pain and Injuries

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ID2349742
AuthorsHoward L Nixon (Appalachian State University, corresponding author)
Year1992
Volume16
Issue2
Pages127-135
Publication date1992-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Sport and Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0193-7235 • E-ISSN: 1552-7638
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/019372359201600208
OpenAlexW2086235935
LanguageEN
Citations received93
References cited17

This paper shows how structural social network analysis can be a potentially powerful way of conceptualizing and explaining athletes' acceptance of the risks of pain and injury in sport. In particular, this paper shows how concepts and assumptions from structural social network analysis can clarify the conditions that make athletes vulnerable to cultural and interpersonal messages exhorting or encouraging them to play with pain and injuries. It is argued that the willingness of athletes to risk pain and injuries is affected by structural features of their sports networks (called 'sportsnets'), by relations with individual sportsnet members, and by 'the culture of risk' that is deeply embedded in serious athletic subcultures

Athletes · Interpersonal communication · Physical therapy · Social media · Social network (sociolinguistics · Sports injury · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Computer Science · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society

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