Health, well-being and the 'logic' of elite youth sports work.

Autor/inn/en	Platts, Chris; Smith, Andy
Titel	Health, well-being and the 'logic' of elite youth sports work. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Gesundheit, Wohlbefinden und die "Logik" der Elite-Jugendsportarbeit.
Quelle	Aus: Green, Ken (Hrsg.); Smith, Andy (Hrsg.): Routledge handbook of youth sport. London: Routledge (2016) S. 492-504 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	978-0-203-79500-2; 978-0-415-84003-3; 978-1-134-46993-2; 978-1-134-47000-6; 978-1-134-47007-5
Schlagwörter	Pädagogik; Emotion; Jugendpsychologie; Kinderpsychologie; Risikobereitschaft; Wohlbefinden; Gesundheit; Leistungssport; Pädagogik; Risikofaktor; Sozialer Konflikt; Sportförderung; Sportsoziologie; Gesundheitsgefährdung; Jugendpsychologie; Kinderpsychologie; Wohlbefinden; Risikobereitschaft; Talentsuche; Nachwuchsförderung; Auswahl; Sozialer Konflikt; Soziales Verhalten; Gesundheit; Gesundheitsbewusstsein; Gesundheitsgefährdung; Kinder- und Jugendsport; Leistungssport; Sportförderung; Sportsoziologie; Auswahl; Nachwuchsförderung; Risikofaktor; Talentsuche
Abstract	Section 7: elite youth sport The authors move beyond the more dominant performance-oriented approaches to elite youth sport (such as that which is often evident in discussions of talent identification and development) and explain why the trend toward earlier and more intensive involvement in elite sport by many young people has not been an unalloyed blessing. Drawing upon ideas most widely developed in analyses of risk, pain and injury in sport, Platts and Smith outline how in elite youth sport there is an institutionalized expectation that athletes will take serious risks with their health within the cultures of risk which characterize their workplaces. These risks, they suggest, often emerge out of many athletes' commitment to the norms and values of what Hughes and Coakley (1991) refer to as the 'sport ethic' that frequently constrains athletes to engage in often health-compromising behaviours, and which characterizes aspects of the relational constraints to which young athletes are subject. Following a consideration of the subcultural meanings that are often associated with various processes that constitute the cultures of risk in youth sport, Platts and Smith examine some of the structural features and realities'of the work situations of young elite sports workers. To that end, they suggest that young elite athletes are constrained from an early age to internalize the logic of sports work and the values of the sports worlds they inhabit. These values, it is held, include the routine punishment of mistakes, the close and regular surveillance of performance (including weight) that may result in a variety of publically enforced punishments, and constant social comparisons between oneself and others which often encourages young athletes to ensure they live up to (and preferably exceed) expectations. The costs to young athletes' health of the strategies they adopt in relation to the management of emotions, their interpersonal relations in the workplace, and the difficulties they may face in managing the often blurred boundaries between their public and private lives concludes the chapter. (Einleitung).
Erfasst von	Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft, Bonn
Update	2017/3