Tag: Ingrid Okkenhaug

SSSF, a multidisciplinary social sciences sport studies journal, welcomes articles that deal with sport and social change and social stability in a wide sense, articles about the profound and comprehensive processes affecting sport. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Does responsibility fall on the players or the sporting context? A study of the use of injury-prevention programmes in Swedish elite floorball clubs by Taru Tervo, Andreas Simensen & Staffan Karp (open access).

Forskning om talangfulla idrottare har en stark tradition inom idrottsvetenskaplig forskning, där centrala frågor handlar om idrottares utvecklingsprocesser i olika faser och övergångar. I denna peer review-artikel av Max Bergström, Ingrid Okkenhaug, Rune Høigaard & Stig Arve Sæther redovisas en studie av kvinnliga och manliga norska ungdomslandslagsspelare (U19) i handboll om deras erfarenhet av sin egen utvecklingsmiljö, och om det finns könsskillnader i spelarnas förväntningar relaterade till en professionell karriär som seniora spelare.

Research into talented athletes has a strong tradition within sports sciences research where central questions deal with athletes’ development processes which take place in various phases and transitions. In this peer review article by Max Bergström, Ingrid Okkenhaug, Rune Høigaard & Stig Arve Sæther, a study of female and male Norwegian youth national team players (U19) in handball reveals their experience of their own development environment, and if there are gender differences in the players' expectations related to a professional career as a senior player.