Deck 24: Athletes Careers and Transitions

Question 1

What is not true regarding the cultural praxis of athletes' careers?

A) it promotes the growth of multicultural counseling
B) athlete career experiences are context-specific
C) it promotes the study of transnational and minority athletes
D) it is based on the holistic lifespan perspective

Answer 1

it is based on the holistic lifespan perspective

Question 2

Schlossberg's (1981) model proposed that which of the following has/have an impact on adaptation to transition?

A) Characteristics of the pre- and post-transition environments
B) Attributes of the individual in their roles in the adaptation to the transition
C) Athletes' perceptions of the transition
D) All of these

Answer 2

All of these

Question 3

Career assistance is about helping athletes become more resourceful for sport and life, developing transferable skills and connecting their past with their present and future experiences.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

It is not important for athletes to foreclose their athletic identity in order to transition successfully out of or away from sport.

Question 5

Which of the following statistics regarding athletes' experiences of retirement are not true?

A) Athletes who did not plan for retirement are most at risk
B) 20% of athletes experience a crisis when they retire
C) The strength of a performer's identity as an athlete has no bearing on their retirement experiences
D) 80% of athletes cope successfully with retirement between 8-19 months

Question 6

The quality of career transition will be determined by a variety of psychological, social, and environmental factors.

Question 7

Career researchers and practitioners have re-conceptualized an athlete as _________________.

A) an athletic performer
B) a whole person
C) a social justice advocate
D) none of these answers accurately fill-in-the-blank in the posed question

Question 8

Given the nature of international competitions, it is important for practitioners working with elite athletes to help them prepare for relocation and cope with acculturation challenges upon arrival.

Question 9

The idea of a normative transition in sport and non-sport contexts does not exist.

Question 10

Stambulova (2016) offered a structure of athlete careers, which does not include the following element?

A) career assistance is informed by both career development and career transition research
B) a new paradigm is referred to as the "cultural praxis of athletes' careers"
C) transition in the athletic career is viewed as distinct and separate from life career transitions
D) the foundation of the model is the conceptualization of an athlete as a whole person

Question 11

Major athlete transitions currently being studied are:

A) athletic retirement
B) cultural transitions
C) junior-to-senior transition
D) All of these areas are gaining traction
E) dual career transitions

Question 12

Athletes typically only experience a few transitions during their athletic career regardless of its length.

Question 13

The degree of perceived control that athletes have with respect to the end of their career can impact how they respond to career transition.

Question 14

Success of a career transition intervention is heavily dependent on developing and maintaining a trusting consultant-client relationship.

Question 15

Which of the following marks one of the major shifts in how career research in sport psychology has developed?

A) all of these answers are examples of major shifts in the understanding of career transitions in sport
B) moved from a focus on retirement to including within-career transitions (e.g., junior-to-senior)
C) vast array of worldwide career assistance programs focused on athletes at all levels of sport
D) creation of sport-specific frameworks for career research