Narrative research in sport and exercise science in the early 21st century: a state-of-the-art critical review

RT Book, J Svensson, N Stambulova - Qualitative Research in …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The aims of this review were to: 1) offer a comprehensive analysis of narrative research in
sport and exercise sciences since the beginning of the 21st century, 2) enhance conceptual …

Clarifying concepts:“Well-being” in sport

LR Trainor, A Bundon - Frontiers in sports and active living, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The purpose of this commentary is to critique the application of well-being in the field of sport
and exercise psychology and to provide recommendations for future research. Over the last …

Exposing a motherhood penalty in sport: A feminist narrative inquiry of media stories of Canadian athlete mothers' journeys to the 2020 Tokyo Games

KR McGannon, S Kulkarni, W Hladun… - Communication & …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
Coinciding with athlete mothers' stories gaining media visibility, sport media researchers are
studying media discourses to learn more about socially constructed motherhood and sport …

Inescapable tensions: Performance and/or psychological well-being in Olympic and Paralympic athletes during sport disruption

LR Trainor, EV Bennett, AM Bundon… - … Research in Sport …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Recently there has been a shift from exploring psychological distress to exploring
psychological wellbeing (PWB) in the sport context (see Foskett & Longstaff, 2018; …

From the pitch to personal growth: Investigating self-esteem as a mediator and parental support as a moderator in youth sports in China

K Yi, H Luo, L Wei - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
This study focuses on the intricate connections among youth sports, personal development,
and skill acquisition in contemporary China. Building upon established theoretical …

From birth to rebirth: comeback meanings in media stories of Canadian athlete mothers' sporting journeys

KR McGannon, W Hladun, S Kulkarni… - Sport, Education and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Sport media is a public pedagogy that impacts sportswomen's embodied subjectivities by
circulating gender ideologies and discourses as forms of truth. In this study we used relativist …

From minding the gap to widening the gap: Paralympic athletes' experiences of wellbeing during the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 games

A Bundon, LR Trainor, EV Bennett… - Frontiers in Sports and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In March 2020, it was announced that the Tokyo Games would be postponed for one year
due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While athletes commonly face challenges in sport such as …

Beyond the game: Well-being amid life disruptions among elite athletes

MLM Guinto, DF Ang - Performance Enhancement & Health, 2025 - Elsevier
This study examines how elite athletes perceived, experienced, and coped with the
significant interruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, including canceled …

The COVID-19 Pandemic crisis-transition and its influence on sport

N Stambulova, K Henriksen - Psychology of Crises in Sport: Causes …, 2024 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the whole world, and sports have been no exception.
This chapter is about how a world health crisis resulted in a crisis within sports and among …

The relationship of resilience, self-compassion, and social support to psychological distress in women collegiate athletes during COVID-19

M Mikesell, TA Petrie, TLA Chu… - Journal of Sport and …, 2023 - journals.humankinetics.com
Given how COVID-19 had caused significant increases in collegiate athletes' psychological
distress, we examined the extent to which such distress may have been ameliorated by the …