Event Title
Life After Division III Sports: The Relationship Between Athletic Identity and Well-Being for Retired Athletes
Location
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
Start Date
1-5-2014 2:00 PM
End Date
1-5-2014 3:00 PM
Project Type
Poster
Description
At a school with 30% of the population playing varsity sports, athletic identity is a major aspect of student life on campus. However, there comes a time in every athletes career when they must retire for one reason or another. Our participants are Colby athletes who have retired for a variety of reasons. We are interested in examining if the loss of one part of the participants identity, in this case athletic identity, is related to their level of well-being. We are also interested in whether a persons level of self-complexity plays a significant role in that relationship. We hypothesize that there is a relationship between a persons self-complexity and how strongly their athletic identity is with their feeling about retirement and well-being. More specifically, we predict that the more important an individuals athletic identity is, the greater impact there will be on their well-being after retirement.
Faculty Sponsor
Tarja Raag
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Psychology Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Social Sciences
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
280
Life After Division III Sports: The Relationship Between Athletic Identity and Well-Being for Retired Athletes
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
At a school with 30% of the population playing varsity sports, athletic identity is a major aspect of student life on campus. However, there comes a time in every athletes career when they must retire for one reason or another. Our participants are Colby athletes who have retired for a variety of reasons. We are interested in examining if the loss of one part of the participants identity, in this case athletic identity, is related to their level of well-being. We are also interested in whether a persons level of self-complexity plays a significant role in that relationship. We hypothesize that there is a relationship between a persons self-complexity and how strongly their athletic identity is with their feeling about retirement and well-being. More specifically, we predict that the more important an individuals athletic identity is, the greater impact there will be on their well-being after retirement.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2014/program/398