Re-characterizing confidence because of religious and personal rituals in sport. Findings from a qualitative study of 15 year old student-athletes.

Autor/in	Hoven, Matt
Titel	Re-characterizing confidence because of religious and personal rituals in sport. Findings from a qualitative study of 15 year old student-athletes. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Re-Charakterisierung des Selbstbewusstseins durch religiöse und persönliche Rituale im Sport. Ergebnisse aus einer qualitativen Studie mit 15-jährigen Schüler-Athleten.
Quelle	In: Sport in society, 22 (2019) 2, S. 296-310 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1461-0981; 1743-0437; 1743-0445
DOI	10.1080/17430437.2017.1360582
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Einstellung (Psy); Selbstvertrauen; Aberglaube; Religion; Ritual; Sportpsychologie; Sportsoziologie; Wettkampf; Wettkampftraining; Sozialwissenschaften; Jugendlicher
Abstract	Sport psychology research on athletic confidence could be enriched if athletes' use of religious and personal rituals in sport is considered when characterizing confidence. Drawn from interviews with twelve 15-year-old student-athletes at two Canadian Catholic high schools, this paper reports that youth used religious and personal rituals - such as spiritual self-reflection, superstitions, prayer and religious rituals - for building confidence because of the felt intensity of competition. It is concluded that in order to better incorporate factors like religious background when understanding player confidence, researchers should pay attention to existential and spiritual dimensions of human living, and by extension, analyse youth sport experiences as both performance and as ritual, thus legitimizing the organic incorporation of religious and personal rituals in athletic competition. This paper acts as a step in deeper explorations of the spiritual side of sport psychology regarding confidence boosting for peak performance. (Autor).
Erfasst von	Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft, Bonn
Update	2019/3