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Eating Disorders in Male Athletes: Factors Associated With Onset and Maintenance

Julie Freedman, Sally Hage, and Paula A. Quatromoni

, & McLean, 2018 ). Contemporary research is needed to better characterize the male athlete ED experience, and qualitative research can offer important insights to guide prevention, detection, and treatment efforts. The research literature on EDs in sport is small and predominantly features female athletes

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A Qualitative Study of the Mindfulness Meditation Training for Sport: Division I Female Soccer Players’ Experience

Amy Baltzell, Nicole Caraballo, Kristen Chipman, and Laura Hayden

This study explored how members of a Division I varsity women’s soccer team experienced a 6-week, 12 session mindfulness meditation training for sport (MMTS) program. The coaching staff and entire team participated in the MMTS program. Seven of the team members volunteered to be interviewed after their participation in the MMTS program. Thematic analysis was implemented. Most participants reported difficulty understanding the process of meditation at the start of the MMTS program. Post-MMTS, they reported an enhanced ability to accept and experience a different relationship with their emotions, both on and off the field. They also noted the importance of creating a phrase of care for self and team for cohesion purposes. Enhanced mindfulness, awareness, and acceptance of emotional experiences were attributed directly to the mindfulness training. Participants provided specific recommendations for future sport-focused mindfulness meditation programs.

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A Qualitative Exploration of Choking in Elite Golf

Denise M. Hill, Sheldon Hanton, Nic Matthews, and Scott Fleming

This study explores the antecedents, mechanisms, influencing variables, and consequences of choking in sport and identifies interventions that may alleviate choking. Through the use of qualitative methods, the experiences of six elite golfers who choked frequently under pressure were examined and compared with five elite golfers who excelled frequently under pressure. The perspectives of four coaches who had worked extensively with elite golfers who had choked and excelled, were also considered. The study indicated that the participants choked as a result of distraction, which was caused by various stressors. Self-confidence, preparation, and perfectionism were identified as key influencing variables of the participants’ choking episodes, and the consequence of choking was a significant drop in performance that affected negatively future performances. Process goals, cognitive restructuring, imagery, simulated training, and a pre/postshot routine were perceived as interventions that may possibly prevent choking.

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A Qualitative Approach to Understanding the Impact of Partner Play in Doubles Racquet Sports

Sarah Deck, Brianna DeSantis, Despina Kouali, and Craig Hall

postpositivist perspective recognizing the contextually bound nature of the findings to understand the meaning of human experiences was adopted ( Greenfield, Greene, & Johanson, 2007 ). Following a guide for qualitative analysis delivered by O’Connor and Gibson ( 2003 ), the following process took place: (a

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Collegiate Athletes’ Perceptions of the Connection Between Mental Health and Sport Performance: A Qualitative Investigation

Kelzie E. Beebe, Trent A. Petrie, Heather R. Kiefer, Lindsey E. Slavin, and Macey L. Arnold

and indirectly, researchers also have started to attend to the connection between mental health and sport performance. In qualitative studies of current or former elite athletes (e.g., “competitive elite” or above, per Swann et al., 2015 ) who had experienced clinical depression, Doherty et

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Exploring the Sport–Alcohol Relationship: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study of Student-Athlete Drinking Following the Transition out of University

Mark Jankowski, Sarah Partington, Nick Heather, and Elizabeth Partington

 al. ( 2014 ) argue that there are few detailed longitudinal data sets on athletes and call for both more longitudinal work and more qualitative work to further elucidate the mechanisms underpinning the sport–alcohol relationship. In addition, Green et al. ( 2014 ) suggest the need for further study of the

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Overtraining During Preseason: Stress and Negative Affective States Among Professional Rugby Union Players

Adam R. Nicholls, Jim McKenna, Remco C.J. Polman, and Susan H. Backhouse

The aim of this study was to explore the perceived factors that contribute to stress and negative affective states during preseason among a sample of professional rugby union players. The participants were 12 male professional rugby union players between 18 and 21 years of age (M age = 19 years, SD = 0.85). Data were collected via semistructured interviews and analyzed using an inductive content analysis procedure. Players identified training (structure and volume), the number of matches played and the recovery period, diet, sleep, and travel as factors that they believed contributed to their experience of stress and negative affective states. The present findings suggest that players may require more time to recover between matches, alongside interventions to help players manage the symptoms of stress and negative affect during times in which players are overtraining.

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How Parents Influence Junior Tennis Players’ Development: Qualitative Narratives

Larry Lauer, Daniel Gould, Nathan Roman, and Marguerite Pierce

Junior tennis coaches commonly argue that parents must push their children and be very involved to develop their talent, despite the strain on the parent-child relationship that may occur from these tactics. To examine parental influence on talent development and the parent-child relationship, nine professional tennis players, eight parents, and eight coaches were retrospectively interviewed about each player’s junior development based Bloom’s three stages of talent development (1985). Results are presented through aggregated, nonfiction stories of three tennis development pathways: smooth, difficult, and turbulent. Smooth pathways were typical of parents who were supportive and maintained a healthy parent-child relationship while facilitating talent development. Difficult and turbulent pathways involved parents who stressed the importance of tennis and created pressure by pushing their child toward winning and talent development. For difficult pathways, parent-child relationships were negatively affected but conflicts were mostly resolved, whereas for turbulent pathways, many conflicts remained unresolved.

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Perceived Barriers and Facilitators of Sports Rehabilitation Adherence in Injured Volleyball Athletes: A Qualitative Study From Greece

Eleftherios Paraskevopoulos, Georgios Gioftsos, Georgios Georgoudis, and Maria Papandreou

qualitative studies have explored factors related to ERA in injured athletes. In the first study, Levy, Polman, Nicholls, and Marchant ( 2009 ) found that motivation, confidence, coping, SS, and pain were important themes that emerged from their semistructured interviews in recreational athletes (RA) with

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A Program and Session Evaluation of Student-Athletes’ Experiences Participating in a Mental Illness Destigmatization Intervention

Graig M. Chow, Nicole T. Gabana, Charles Cox, Brandon T. Cooper, and Matthew D. Bird

destigmatization interventions for SAs, most researchers have focused on quantitatively investigating the effectiveness of programs (e.g.,  Kern et al., 2017 ) or have gathered limited qualitative data, which provides little insight into interventions (e.g.,  Van Raalte et al., 2015 ). Furthermore, previous sport