Tag: career transition

Bengt Nybelius, together with Risto Keskitalo the founder of the European Athlete as Student Network (EAS), was a brilliant mind, who settled the objectives and the structure of the organisation in 2004. He passed away in 2011, and EAS decided to establish a scholarship to carry on the legacy of his work. Therefore, we are happy to announce the Call for Papers of the “2023 Bengt Nybelius Scholarship”.

With an explicit focus on “transitions,” this special issue of the ISCJ will provide a scholarly forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the events and experiences of sport coaches as they move into, through, and out of coaching roles and environments. Submissions related to pedagogy (e.g., learning, knowledge, development), psychology (e.g., coping, stress, change/acculturation, adaptations, reconstructions), sociology (e.g., power, society, cultures), and management (e.g., employment, policy) are welcomed.

From ancient times until today, athletes have been considered as the main protagonists of the sport system. The proposed special issue, guest edited by Stephan Wassong, Angela J. Schneider and Rob Hess, focuses on this topic by analyzing various facets of this role ascribed to, and sought by, athletes, especially those in the orbit of the Olympic movement, including the Paralympics, Youth Olympic Games and Special Olympics.

Transitions in sport life is a rapidly growing research and applied area in sport sciences – especially in sport psychology and sport sociology. We invite well contextualized, theoretically and methodologically sounded papers based on empirical quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method projects, case studies, and applied research (e.g. support system in the transitions).

Psychology of Sport and Exercise is the Official Journal of the European Federation of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC). Psychology of Sport and Exercise is an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined.