Adjusting to the Receiving Country Outside the Sport Environment: A Composite Vignette of Canadian Immigrant Amateur Elite Athlete Acculturation. Issue 3 (3rd July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Schinke, Robert J.; Blodgett, Amy T.; McGannon, Kerry R.; Ge, Yang; Oghene, Odirin; Seanor, Michelle
• Is Part Of: Journal of applied sport psychology. Volume 29:Issue 3(2017)
• Page Start: 270
• Page End: 284
• Publication Date: 2017-07-03
• Subjects: Sports -- Psychological aspects -- Periodicals; Exercise -- Psychological aspects -- Periodicals; 796.019
• DOI: 10.1080/10413200.2016.1243593
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1041-3200

Abstract

Abstract : This qualitative project is focused on the challenges that newcomer athletes revealed when they considered their earliest encounters with a receiving culture during general daily life. Conversational interviews with 24 national and international amateur newcomer athletes were subjected to interpretive thematic analysis and developed into a composite vignette. This vignette unearths three themes revealing hope (theme: opportunities abound); uncertainty and fear (theme: weighing the risks for the journey ahead); and anger, humiliation, and hardening (theme: public stonings). Understanding the fluidities within the vignette will permit practitioners to explore the uncertainties of acculturation and find entry points to support athlete acculturation.