Athletes going through transition periods such as injury or retirement have previously reported feelings of depression and anxiety, especially when feeling unsupported. Cessation of competitive sport during the pandemic has forced athletes through a non-normative transition and has reduced many opportunities to satisfy their basic psychological needs increasing the risk of poor wellbeing and loneliness. Whilst athletes are often praised for their resilience—a trait that serves to support them during tough times—the inability to play sport can be particularly challenging for those with strong athletic identities. An online cross-sectional survey (n = 744) was conducted to capture adult athlete and non-athlete mental health factors (specifically wellbeing, depression, anxiety, loneliness) during emergence from a COVID-19 lockdown. Results showed that resilience was positively correlated with mental health but was no higher in athletes than non-athletes. Furthermore, athletes reported greater anxiety than non-athletes, a difference mediated by negative affectivity—a subfactor of athletic identity. We present evidence that after a temporary transition away from sport, athletes' resilience is comparable to non-athletes leaving them just as likely to suffer poor mental health. Moreover, athletes with strong athletic identities are likely to experience anxiety symptoms above and beyond those reported by non-athletes. Findings have implications for the development of self-management guidance for athletes as the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions on sport participation continue.
Newspapers and magazines are cultural products and can therefore be considered as works of fiction as well as fact. This article discusses the creation of the news magazine Der Spiegel as an example of cultural transfer, providing an insight into the diverse origins of Der Spiegel, the influence of the magazine on post-war German journalism, and the adoption of British and American models by much of the German press. The origins, format, content, and writing style of four magazines published in the US, Britain, and Germany are analysed and compared: the US magazine Time, the British weekly magazine News Review, Diese Woche, the immediate precursor to Der Spiegel, and Heute, an illustrated feature magazine published in the US Zone of Germany. All four magazines used colourful language and stylistic devices to interpret the news as well as report it and sometimes peddled a fiction of objectivity that was in fact highly opinionated. Diese Woche was no different in this respect from Time and News Review. The idea that British and American news reporting was accurate and truthful and never mixed fact and opinion, whereas it was only the German press that mixed information with tendentious comment, was one of many myths circulated in post-war Germany. Zeitungen und Zeitschriften sind kulturelle Produkte, die oft Fakten mit Fiktion vereinen. Dieser Aufsatz behandelt die Entstehung des Nachrichtenmagazins Der Spiegel als Beispiel für kulturellen Transfer und bietet dabei Einblicke in seine vielfältigen Ursprünge. Beleuchtet werden außerdem der Einfluss, den die Zeitschrift Der Spiegel auf den Journalismus im Nachkriegsdeutschland hatte, sowie dieÜbernahme britischer und amerikanischer Modelle durch einen großen Teil der deutschen Presse. In diesem Aufsatz werden die Ursprünge, das Format, der Inhalt und der Schreibstil von vier Zeitschriften analysiert und verglichen, die in den USA, Großbritannien und Deutschland veröffentlicht wurden: die amerikanische Zeitschrift Time, die britische Wochenzeitschrift News Review, Diese Woche, der unmittelbare Vorgänger des Spiegels, und Heute, eine illustrierte Reportagezeitschrift, die in der amerikanischen Besatzungszone in Deutschland veröffentlicht wurde. Alle vier Zeitschriften bedienten sich einer bilderreichen, durch Meinungen gefärbten Sprache, um die Nachrichten gleichzeitig zu berichten und zu interpretieren. Manchmal verbreiteten sie die Fiktion einer Objektivität, die in Wahrheit nicht immer realisiert wurde. In dieser Hinsicht unterschied sich Diese Woche nicht von Time und News Review. Die Vorstellung, dass die britische und amerikanische Berichterstattung immer genau und wahrheitsgetreu sei und nie Fakten und Meinungen vermische, während nur in der deutschen Presse
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