youth sports, we aim to obtain information about healthy related quality of life of the parents of young specialized and multisport athletes. We seek to also learn more about the potential positive and negative patterns of parental influence on child sport experiences through qualitative methods. This
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Health-Related Quality of Life of Specialized Versus Multi-Sport Young Athletes: A Qualitative Evaluation
Trisha Patel and Neeru Jayanthi
Making the Invisible, Visible: An Exploration of Track-and-Field Coaches’ Perspectives of Their Planning Processes
Karen L. Johns, Paul Potrac, and Philip R. Hayes
a Completed one full interview. b Completed 2 full interviews. No letter = completed 3 full interviews. *Coach with athlete(s) on a funded program at the time of data collection. Research Strategy and Philosophy Adopting a qualitative approach to this study, allowed the research team to investigate
Experiences in Physical Education for Children at Risk for Developmental Coordination Disorder
Chantelle Zimmer, Janice Causgrove Dunn, and Nicholas L. Holt
; Zwicker, Suto, Harris, Vlasakova, & Missiuna, 2018 ). Whether or not participants had a formal diagnosis, findings from these qualitative studies have shown that many children seem to experience stress in physical activity contexts at school, such as physical education and recess. However, their
Instructors’ Perceptions and Experiences of Teaching Online Exercise Classes to Older Adults: A Qualitative Study
Matthieu Dagenais, Aleksandra Krajnovic, Sarah Galway, and Kimberley Gammage
important to understand their perspectives of exercise for older adults. Hawley-Hague et al. ( 2016 ) conducted a qualitative study to understand exercise instructors’ perceptions and experiences of teaching fitness classes to older adults in in-person settings. They found instructors played a critical role
Possibilities for Qualitative Research in Sport Psychology
William B. Strean
Various forms of qualitative research can aid our applied practice by increasing our understanding of the contexts and psychological dynamics of sport. To reap greater benefits from qualitative research, a key step will be to recognize and accept different views of knowledge that underlie many qualitative approaches. From this perspective, this paper focuses on possibilities to use qualitative research in sport psychology to describe, interpret, verify, and evaluate phenomena of interest. The potential of qualitative research to allow for surprises and produce understandable and credible findings and theories is also addressed. The spirit of the paper and the conclusion focus on the many ways in which the “goodness” (Peshkin, 1993) or “strength” (Maxwell, 1996) of qualitative research can be part of what is done in sport psychology.
A Qualitative Exploration of Perceptions of a Digital Intervention to Promote Physical Activity in Older Adults
Sebastien Pollet, James Denison-Day, Katherine Bradbury, Rosie Essery, Elisabeth Grey, Max Western, Fiona Mowbray, Kirsten A. Smith, Joanna Slodkowska-Barabasz, Nanette Mutrie, Paul Little, and Lucy Yardley
, Bradbury, & Muller, 2015 ), which uses in-depth qualitative research in an iterative process to obtain an understanding of user views, context, and experiences. This is then used to adapt and optimize the intervention to ensure it is maximally meaningful, feasible, and engaging for the target population
Qualitative Video Analysis of Track-Cycling Team Pursuit in World-Class Athletes
Samuel Sigrist, Thomas Maier, and Raphael Faiss
pursuit performance can therefore be quantitatively evaluated with the final end time and qualitatively described with a proper analysis of the riders’ capacities to maintain a homogeneous team dynamic with minimized inter-rider gaps over the 4000-m effort. However, the hypothesis that the quality of the
The Civilized Bodies of Middle-Aged Women: A Qualitative Study of Participation in an Exercise Intervention in Denmark
Maria Hybholt
of understanding established through social interaction ( Baur & Ernst, 2011 ). Social situations always involve dynamic hierarchical power balances ( Elias, 1987 ). Qualitative research is thus highly relevant in the present study, as it has its legitimacy in the nuanced and complex understanding of
A Systematic Methodology for Preserving the Whole in Large-Scale Qualitative-Temporal Research
Orland Hoeber, Ryan Snelgrove, Larena Hoeber, and Laura Wood
Although there are multitudes of large qualitative-temporal datasets that are relevant to various areas of sport management (e.g., social media, news archives, policy documents, public forums), these are difficult and unreasonable to manually explore due to their sizes, the importance of the
Qualitative Analysis of a Kinesiology Student-Led Sustainable Exercise Program Targeting Underserved Communities
Lisa S. Chaudhari, Rachel Lang-Balde, Joshua Carlos, and Steven Loy
evaluated. 12 , 14 – 16 As a result, a qualitative study of the program was designed to examine the impact of the program systematically, using tenets of qualitative research that provide a platform to share the nuances from the perspectives of community and participant health, as well as student
