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“Who Am I to Tell Them How to Coach?”—An Analysis of Coach Developers’ Professional Identity Formation

James Davidson and Robert C. Townsend

Recent shifts internationally in coach education and development research have led to a distinct focus on the professional identity and practice of coach developers ( Allanson et al., 2021 ; Leeder & Cushion, 2020 ; Stodter & Cushion, 2019b ). Positioned either as knowledgeable experts in

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Racial Identity and Its Impact on Job Applicants

Astin D. Steward and George B. Cunningham

Across two experimental studies, the purpose of this research project was to examine how Whites evaluate African Americans with a strong racial identity. In Study 1, participants evaluated applicants for an athletic director position. Relative to their weakly identified counterparts, applicants believed to possess a strong racial identity were rated as a poorer fit for the job. Results from Study 2, which was also set within the context of hiring an athletic director, show that participant social dominance orientation moderates the relationship between racial identity and subsequent evaluations. The authors discuss theoretical and practical implications, limitations, and future directions.

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When Culture Meets Capital: Commercialism, National Identity, and Vancouver’s Initial Attempt to Join the NHL

John Wong and Scott R. Jedlicka

’s application into the NHL through the dynamic interplay between commercialized sport and national/regional identity. Long before Parliament proclaimed hockey as the national (winter) sport of Canada, the perception of hockey as a Canadian cultural product was widely accepted as fact. 2 While a game hitting an

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Fantasy Sport, FoMO, and Traditional Fandom: How Second-Screen Use of Social Media Allows Fans to Accommodate Multiple Identities

Ben A. Larkin and Janet S. Fink

Fantasy sport has become a prominent topic of study for sport management scholars over the last decade, and along with the rise of this research have come questions regarding how fantasy sport involvement impacts fans’ loyalty to their favorite team(s). Although this question has been posed several times, results have been mixed. We posit that this is largely attributable to the fact that to this point researchers have not considered the situational environment under which fantasy sport has proliferated or the psychological processes of consumers facing multiple consumption options. Therefore, we examined a model featuring fear of missing out as an antecedent to fantasy sport involvement, social media involvement, and team identity salience during games. Furthermore, we examine the role social media involvement plays in allowing fans to accommodate both their fantasy sport and team identities during games. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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Understanding Well-Being in High-Performance Coaches: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Approach

Marketa Simova, Peter Olusoga, Christopher J. Brown, and Stiliani “Ani” Chroni

). The win-at-all-cost narrative can create a cultural frame to which individuals try to fit their identity (e.g., masking emotions to appear stoic; Potrac et al., 2017 ) and where harmful practices go unquestioned ( Feddersen et al., 2020 ). This presents a risk to individuals’ performance ( Bakker

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“But I Am a Runner”: Trying to Be a Rogerian Person-Centered Practitioner With an Injured Athlete

Steven Vaughan, Hayley E. McEwan, and Amy E. Whitehead

90 Contract/consent. Sarah’s story (needs analysis). Session 2 18 Clinic 75 Reviewed the week and feelings. Discussion about identity, struggle to accept being injured, and sadness associated with not being able to run. Session 3 38 Clinic 90 Catch-up, discussion about the desire to challenge self

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From Athlete to Advocate: The Changing Media Coverage of Michael Phelps Pre- and Postretirement

Joshua R. Jackson, Emily J. Dirks, and Andrew C. Billings

Michael Phelps’s public identity can largely be encapsulated in one word: “Olympian.” The 23-time gold medalist is subsequently associated with discipline, strength, and perfection. However, Phelps’s streamlined Olympic personae changed in 2014 ( Gilles & Reese, 2018 ) when he was arrested for

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“. . . Without It I Would Not Have Thought I Had Changed”: Phenomenological Case Study Research as a Methodology for Change

Emma Whewell

From a sociocultural perspective, becoming a teacher means developing a professional identity. Learning to teach-like teaching itself is always the process of becoming, of changing, and of adapting. If it is assumed that all individuals wishing to become a teacher have had a range of life course

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Realizing, Adapting, and Thriving in Career Transitions From Gymnastics to Contemporary Circus Arts

Fleur E.C.A. van Rens and Edson Filho

specialization sports such as gymnastics, former athletes particularly struggle with athletic retirement due to the loss of their athletic self-identity ( Gagné, Ryan, & Bargmann, 2003 ; Warriner & Lavallee, 2008 ). Similar to career transitions within sport, coping skills and personal resources are critical in

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Cross-Cultural Comparison of Satellite Fanship: A Consumer Culture Theory Perspective

Yiran Su, Xiaochen Zhou, Daniel Funk, and Jason Daniels

identity, social status, and happiness ( Lee, 2003 ). It revolves around the idea that an individual’s desires and goals align with their ability to engage in and adapt to marketplace practices and rituals ( Firat et al., 2013 ). Consumer culture research is complicated by modern societies’ frequent lack