Jochen Mayer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3747539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jochen Mayer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jochen |
| FAMILY NAME | Mayer |
| SIGNATURE | MAYER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Design Schwäbisch Gmünd |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2317-4164 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The physical literacy promoting university
Universities represent significant settings for shaping lifelong health- and physical activity-related behaviours and predispositions among their members. Existing research on physical literacy (PL), a multi-dimensional concept supporting an active and healthy lifestyle across the lifespan, has primarily focused on individual-based interventions rather than addressing the organisational context for PL promotion in universities. Therefore, the goa…
Mapping the ‘lifelong journey’ of physical literacy
Physical literacy (PL) describes individuals’ unique relationship with physical activity by integrating physical, cognitive, affective, and social aspects. The person-centered concept highlights a ‘lifelong journey’ for each individual and postulates beneficial effects on biopsychosocial health. Despite extensive suggestions on how to assess the concept, no instrument has so far sufficiently aligned with these ‘individual journeys’ for PL. Theref…
Admired Vulnerability or Shattered Heroism? Media Framing of Elite Athletes’ Mental Illnesses in German Print Media
This study examines the media’s framing of mental illness among elite athletes in German print media from 2013 to 2023. Traditionally, elite sport culture has glorified invulnerability, marginalized mental health challenges, and stigmatized perceived weakness. Through a reflexive thematic analysis of 200 articles from three major German newspapers, we constructed four dominant frames: mental illness (a) as a bug in the performance-oriented sport …
Anyone who weighs up risks doesn’t belong here”
Using reflexive thematic analysis, we generated four themes: (1) Externalizing risks and refraining from proactivity, (2) Relinquishing control under medical uncertainty, (3) Fluctuating prioritization of health or success, and (4) Calculated health-risk taking to achieve success. The findings illustrate that athletes' risk management strategies vary based on career stage, injury experiences, situational priorities, and social pressures. The insi…
Structural dynamics of whistleblowing on doping in sport
While anti-doping organisations, state authorities and investigative journalists increasingly rely on information from whistleblowers, little is known about the social conditions influencing athletes', coaches' and other insiders' decision to blow the whistle on doping. To address characteristic shortcomings and blind spots of previous research, we introduce theoretical considerations and the qualitative mixed methods approach of a sociological r…
Risk profiles for self-medication with analgesics among elite German handball players
This study presents empirical evidence on self-medication with analgesics among elite German handball players. The aim is to elucidate the intentions behind therapeutic and preventive analgesic use and identify high-risk profiles for this complex health-risk behavior based on psychosocial factors. Data were collected from 459 handball players (233 female, 226 male athletes) across the highest German divisions (1 st - 3 rd and German Youth Handbal…
Sport for Development and Peace in the United Nations
In 2017, it was decided that the United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace (UNOSDP) is to be closed. This qualitative study aims to analyse the reasons for the closure as well as its effects on Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) in the United Nations. Against the background of the systems theory, we conducted interviews with participants from relevant organisations. It is shown that the way the UNOSDP worked underwent a change a…
Exploring print media coverage of elite athletes’ mental illness between 2010 and 2023 in Germany
As personal fate of prominent figures like elite athletes will always meet great interest in the public, it is of utmost importance that the media report responsibly and promote critical thinking in society. The study shows the media's willingness to question conventional ideals embedded in the sports culture and take a more critical approach to the topic of mental illness in high-performance sports. By demonstrating a greater understanding of th…
Individualisierte Athletenentwicklung als komplexe Managementaufgabe in Stützpunktnetzwerken des Leistungssports
Die Schaffung optimaler Rahmenbedingungen für eine möglichst individualisierte Athletenentwicklung stellt Leistungssportorganisationen vor vielschichtige Herausforderungen. Im vorliegenden Beitrag begründen wir das Design eines Organisationsentwicklungsprogramms zur Förderung der individualisierten Athletenentwicklung (PRIO-Intervention), welches derzeit im Netzwerk aus dem Olympiastützpunkt und Bundesstützpunkten der Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar …
Coordination processes in partnerships between German governmental organizations and German sports federations in jointly implemented SDP projects
Sports and physical activity are increasingly used as instruments of development policy. Within this field of sport for development and peace (SDP), one can observe a large number of partnerships between national governmental organizations and national sport federations. These are particularly important although these organizations pursue different core objectives with their SDP engagement. The aim of this qualitative study is to analyze how Germ…
National ‘Sport for Development and Peace’-programmes in light of UN recommendations and national sports organisations’ endeavours. A document analysis of the role of ‘Sports’ in Germany’s development…
Sport and physical activity have become an integral part of development policy in many countries of the world. However, national governmental organisations act in a complex setting of multiple stakeholders. Among the most notable influential stakeholders in the 'Sport for Development and Peace' field are international bodies such as the United Nations as well as national sports organisations. Against the backdrop of a systems theory based governa…
Drawing Careers
Narrative interviews are the methodological gold standard for biographical research. To facilitate memory work in interviewees, qualitative researchers increasingly fuse interviewing with visual elicitation strategies. In this article, we advance the integration of methods by introducing a graphic elicitation strategy that allows interviewees to map biographical developments and critical health experiences, in addition to verbalizing them. The bi…
Why does theory matter? Reflections on an apparently self-evident question in sport sociology
In a seminar on the social determinants of physical activity, we recently had a discussion about the risks of TV viewing for the development of children. Referring to several studies (Dennison, Erb
Presenteeism in the elite sports workplace
Playing hurt is a widespread phenomenon in elite sports that often goes along with using painkillers, disregarding medical guidelines, and hiding pain from coaches, teammates and medical staff. This paper theoretically conceptualizes the phenomenon of playing hurt as a sport-specific sickness presenteeism problem. To empirically analyse the willingness to play hurt, we refer to survey data from 723 elite German athletes, both male and female, in …
Ageing societies and physical activity
The German Young Olympic Athletes' Lifestyle and Health Management Study (Goal Study)
The studies' results will serve as the basis for developing tailored health promotion strategies to be in cooperation with German elite sports associations
Fertility assimilation of immigrants
Arms and Aggression in the Middle East, 1948-1991
In a 1995 article in Journal of Conflict Resolution, Kinsella and Tillema argued that, between 1948 and 1991, American arms transfers to Israel exercised a restraining influence on both Israel and its Arab rivals, whereas Soviet transfers to Egypt and Syria tended to destabilize the region. This article reexamines Kinsella and Tillema's Poisson results by applying a more sophisticated statistical method to their data set. Using a multiplicative P…
Fertility assimilation of immigrants
Drawing Careers
Narrative interviews are the methodological gold standard for biographical research. To facilitate memory work in interviewees, qualitative researchers increasingly fuse interviewing with visual elicitation strategies. In this article, we advance the integration of methods by introducing a graphic elicitation strategy that allows interviewees to map biographical developments and critical health experiences, in addition to verbalizing them. The bi…
Presenteeism in the elite sports workplace
Playing hurt is a widespread phenomenon in elite sports that often goes along with using painkillers, disregarding medical guidelines, and hiding pain from coaches, teammates and medical staff. This paper theoretically conceptualizes the phenomenon of playing hurt as a sport-specific sickness presenteeism problem. To empirically analyse the willingness to play hurt, we refer to survey data from 723 elite German athletes, both male and female, in …
Why does theory matter? Reflections on an apparently self-evident question in sport sociology
In a seminar on the social determinants of physical activity, we recently had a discussion about the risks of TV viewing for the development of children. Referring to several studies (Dennison, Erb
National ‘Sport for Development and Peace’-programmes in light of UN recommendations and national sports organisations’ endeavours. A document analysis of the role of ‘Sports’ in Germany’s development…
Sport and physical activity have become an integral part of development policy in many countries of the world. However, national governmental organisations act in a complex setting of multiple stakeholders. Among the most notable influential stakeholders in the 'Sport for Development and Peace' field are international bodies such as the United Nations as well as national sports organisations. Against the backdrop of a systems theory based governa…
Arms and Aggression in the Middle East, 1948-1991
In a 1995 article in Journal of Conflict Resolution, Kinsella and Tillema argued that, between 1948 and 1991, American arms transfers to Israel exercised a restraining influence on both Israel and its Arab rivals, whereas Soviet transfers to Egypt and Syria tended to destabilize the region. This article reexamines Kinsella and Tillema's Poisson results by applying a more sophisticated statistical method to their data set. Using a multiplicative P…
Arms and Aggression in the Middle East, 1948-1991
In a 1995 article in Journal of Conflict Resolution, Kinsella and Tillema argued that, between 1948 and 1991, American arms transfers to Israel exercised a restraining influence on both Israel and its Arab rivals, whereas Soviet transfers to Egypt and Syria tended to destabilize the region. This article reexamines Kinsella and Tillema's Poisson results by applying a more sophisticated statistical method to their data set. Using a multiplicative P…
Fertility assimilation of immigrants
The German Young Olympic Athletes' Lifestyle and Health Management Study (Goal Study)
The studies' results will serve as the basis for developing tailored health promotion strategies to be in cooperation with German elite sports associations
Ageing societies and physical activity
Why does theory matter? Reflections on an apparently self-evident question in sport sociology
In a seminar on the social determinants of physical activity, we recently had a discussion about the risks of TV viewing for the development of children. Referring to several studies (Dennison, Erb
Presenteeism in the elite sports workplace
Playing hurt is a widespread phenomenon in elite sports that often goes along with using painkillers, disregarding medical guidelines, and hiding pain from coaches, teammates and medical staff. This paper theoretically conceptualizes the phenomenon of playing hurt as a sport-specific sickness presenteeism problem. To empirically analyse the willingness to play hurt, we refer to survey data from 723 elite German athletes, both male and female, in …
Drawing Careers
Narrative interviews are the methodological gold standard for biographical research. To facilitate memory work in interviewees, qualitative researchers increasingly fuse interviewing with visual elicitation strategies. In this article, we advance the integration of methods by introducing a graphic elicitation strategy that allows interviewees to map biographical developments and critical health experiences, in addition to verbalizing them. The bi…
National ‘Sport for Development and Peace’-programmes in light of UN recommendations and national sports organisations’ endeavours. A document analysis of the role of ‘Sports’ in Germany’s development…
Sport and physical activity have become an integral part of development policy in many countries of the world. However, national governmental organisations act in a complex setting of multiple stakeholders. Among the most notable influential stakeholders in the 'Sport for Development and Peace' field are international bodies such as the United Nations as well as national sports organisations. Against the backdrop of a systems theory based governa…
Individualisierte Athletenentwicklung als komplexe Managementaufgabe in Stützpunktnetzwerken des Leistungssports
Die Schaffung optimaler Rahmenbedingungen für eine möglichst individualisierte Athletenentwicklung stellt Leistungssportorganisationen vor vielschichtige Herausforderungen. Im vorliegenden Beitrag begründen wir das Design eines Organisationsentwicklungsprogramms zur Förderung der individualisierten Athletenentwicklung (PRIO-Intervention), welches derzeit im Netzwerk aus dem Olympiastützpunkt und Bundesstützpunkten der Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar …
Coordination processes in partnerships between German governmental organizations and German sports federations in jointly implemented SDP projects
Sports and physical activity are increasingly used as instruments of development policy. Within this field of sport for development and peace (SDP), one can observe a large number of partnerships between national governmental organizations and national sport federations. These are particularly important although these organizations pursue different core objectives with their SDP engagement. The aim of this qualitative study is to analyze how Germ…
Sport for Development and Peace in the United Nations
In 2017, it was decided that the United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace (UNOSDP) is to be closed. This qualitative study aims to analyse the reasons for the closure as well as its effects on Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) in the United Nations. Against the background of the systems theory, we conducted interviews with participants from relevant organisations. It is shown that the way the UNOSDP worked underwent a change a…
Exploring print media coverage of elite athletes’ mental illness between 2010 and 2023 in Germany
As personal fate of prominent figures like elite athletes will always meet great interest in the public, it is of utmost importance that the media report responsibly and promote critical thinking in society. The study shows the media's willingness to question conventional ideals embedded in the sports culture and take a more critical approach to the topic of mental illness in high-performance sports. By demonstrating a greater understanding of th…
Admired Vulnerability or Shattered Heroism? Media Framing of Elite Athletes’ Mental Illnesses in German Print Media
This study examines the media’s framing of mental illness among elite athletes in German print media from 2013 to 2023. Traditionally, elite sport culture has glorified invulnerability, marginalized mental health challenges, and stigmatized perceived weakness. Through a reflexive thematic analysis of 200 articles from three major German newspapers, we constructed four dominant frames: mental illness (a) as a bug in the performance-oriented sport …
Anyone who weighs up risks doesn’t belong here”
Using reflexive thematic analysis, we generated four themes: (1) Externalizing risks and refraining from proactivity, (2) Relinquishing control under medical uncertainty, (3) Fluctuating prioritization of health or success, and (4) Calculated health-risk taking to achieve success. The findings illustrate that athletes' risk management strategies vary based on career stage, injury experiences, situational priorities, and social pressures. The insi…
Structural dynamics of whistleblowing on doping in sport
While anti-doping organisations, state authorities and investigative journalists increasingly rely on information from whistleblowers, little is known about the social conditions influencing athletes', coaches' and other insiders' decision to blow the whistle on doping. To address characteristic shortcomings and blind spots of previous research, we introduce theoretical considerations and the qualitative mixed methods approach of a sociological r…
Risk profiles for self-medication with analgesics among elite German handball players
This study presents empirical evidence on self-medication with analgesics among elite German handball players. The aim is to elucidate the intentions behind therapeutic and preventive analgesic use and identify high-risk profiles for this complex health-risk behavior based on psychosocial factors. Data were collected from 459 handball players (233 female, 226 male athletes) across the highest German divisions (1 st - 3 rd and German Youth Handbal…
The physical literacy promoting university
Universities represent significant settings for shaping lifelong health- and physical activity-related behaviours and predispositions among their members. Existing research on physical literacy (PL), a multi-dimensional concept supporting an active and healthy lifestyle across the lifespan, has primarily focused on individual-based interventions rather than addressing the organisational context for PL promotion in universities. Therefore, the goa…
Mapping the ‘lifelong journey’ of physical literacy
Physical literacy (PL) describes individuals’ unique relationship with physical activity by integrating physical, cognitive, affective, and social aspects. The person-centered concept highlights a ‘lifelong journey’ for each individual and postulates beneficial effects on biopsychosocial health. Despite extensive suggestions on how to assess the concept, no instrument has so far sufficiently aligned with these ‘individual journeys’ for PL. Theref…
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