Social-Ecological Determinants of Elite Student Athletes' Dual Career Development in Hong Kong and Taiwan

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ID3484882
AutoresRaymond Kim Wai Sum, Raymond Kim-Wai Sum (0000-0002-4051-9945, Chinese University of Hong Kong, autor de correspondencia), Hsiu-Hua Tsai (0000-0001-6444-8814, National Taiwan University), Amy Sau Ching Ha (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Chih-Fu Cheng (National Taiwan Normal University), Fong-Jia Wang (0000-0002-6292-5434, Chinese University of Hong Kong), Minghui Li (0000-0001-7847-9240, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Año2017
Volumen7
Número2
Fecha de publicación2017-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSAGE Open (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2158-2440 • E-ISSN: 2158-2440
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2158244017707798
OpenAlexW2614954998
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas34

Previous research has encouraged a cultural specific framework to be developed through research in Asian countries, such as China, to help internationalize the findings and help athletes to adapt them to their society and culture. Based on a socioecological framework, this study investigated how social-ecological determinants affect elite student athletes' (ESA) experience of the socialization process of dual career development in Hong Kong and Taiwan. We interviewed eight ESAs who trained at the national level, studying simultaneously at universities in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Grounded theory techniques and procedures were used to analyze the data. Results revealed that ESAs are affected by interrelated determinants at different levels: individual (career aims, identities, roles, characters, self-efficacy, and motivation), micro-level (coaches, teammates, parents, siblings, physical education [PE] teachers, other teachers, alumni, seniors, and classmates), meso-level (interrelations between individual and micro-level), exo-level (government, financial, policy, academic, medical, and parent-teacher association), macro-level (attitudes, norms, values, beliefs, resources, and culture), and chrono-level (transition

Athletes · Career development · China · Developmental psychology · Elite · Macro level · Political science · Politics · Socialization · Medicine · Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport Psychology and Performance · Sports, Gender, and Society