Standing on the ice: experiences of women national ice hockey players in Turkey

Objective: To summarize the current literature that describes the gendered environments of women′s sports which are higher risk for ACL injury, and determine whether the existing literature relates gendered aspects of the sport environment to injury. Design: Scoping review. Data sources: Electronic search of Medline, Embase, CINAHL, SPORTDiscus, SCOPUS, and Women′s Studies International databases from inception to March 2024. Eligibility criteria: Studies were included if at least 50% of the study participants were adult women participating in organized sports with higher risk for ACL injury. Results: Of the initially identified 17,148 studies, 854 underwent full text review, and 73 were included in this scoping review. In 19 studies, reference to injury was restricted to one or two direct quotes from an athlete and the other 54 studies had no mention of injury. We identified three repeating patterns describing the gendered sport environments that women athletes encounter. Fifty-five studies described embedded stereotypes that devalue women and women′s sport. Forty-five studies described ways the sport environment reproduces restrictive gender norms for women. Forty-six studies reported that gendered inequities including gendered wage inequality and provision of subpar training facilities were structurally embedded in women′s sport environments. Conclusion: Existing literature describes a range of gendered inequities that exist for women in their sport environments; however, there has been no concerted effort to date to link those gendered environmental factors to ACL injury. Such research is needed if we are serious about eliminating the ACL injury rate disparity between women and men.

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‘Why Do People Participate in Long-Distance Running’: Serious Leisure Experiences of Long-Distance Runners in Terms of Self-Determination Theory

Doğusan,

Koçak

2024

Pamukkale Journal of Sport Sciences

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The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of individuals who perform long-distance running as a serious leisure activity within the framework of the Self-Determination Theory. According to the theoretical framework, the aim was to understand how participation in a serious leisure activity affects the basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness. In this phenomenological study, runners were observed in their own serious leisure area. The semi-structured interview technique was used in the study. Interviews were conducted with 15 women and 21 men, a total of 36 recreational long-distance runners, who participated in running groups in Ankara, Turkey. As a result of the participants’ opinions and the observations, themes were formed according to the basic concepts of autonomy, competence, and relatedness within the framework of the Self-Determination Theory. According to the opinions of participants, the effects of participation in long-distance running on the relatedness need were more prominent than other psychological needs. This study reveals that as a serious leisure activity long-distance running provides participants within a sense of success, psychological relief, and happiness by satisfying different levels of the basic psychological needs of the participants.

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Standing on the ice: experiences of women national ice hockey players in Turkey

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Female empowerment through sport: an exploratory narrative review

Female empowerment through sport: an exploratory narrative review

Gendered sport environments and their theoretical contributions to women’s ACL injury risk: a scoping review

‘Why Do People Participate in Long-Distance Running’: Serious Leisure Experiences of Long-Distance Runners in Terms of Self-Determination Theory

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