PERCEPTION ABOUT CAREER TERMINITION AMONG FEMALE ATHLETES Cover Image

РАЗЛОЗИ ОКОНЧАЊА ВРХУНСКЕ СПОРТСКЕ КАРИЈЕРЕ ЖЕНА У СПОРТУ
PERCEPTION ABOUT CAREER TERMINITION AMONG FEMALE ATHLETES

Author(s): Jelena Arsić
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Sociology, Sports Studies
Published by: Факултет за спорт
Keywords: Sport careers; Women in Sports; Athlete career terminition

Summary/Abstract: Each transition in elite sport career can bring relief, depression, joy or other similar psychological feelings, ora combination of some of them, depending on one›s individual perception of the situation. All athletes are expected toleave the field of high sport performance and to find new challenges and a new way of life, one day. So, terminationof sport career can be described as an inevitable event that will happen in the life of every athlete sooner or later.Athletes end their sports career for several reasons, including age, injury, the decline of their sports performance, gradualchanges in the status of the sport, the problems with the sports community and institutions, or for the sake of someother interests. This is where there is no difference between male and female athletes. Factors that come from the sportsenvironment are the same or similar nature. However, the basic difference in the reasons for termination of sports careermale athletes compared to female athletes, make a slightly different reasons, which are not directly related to the sport.Usually it comes to issues of a personal nature, problems within the family, the ability to choose a new profession andas the most important and common, natural need to form their own families and establishing the role of the mother.

  • Issue Year: 3/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 83-86
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Serbian