The event-focused interview: what is it, why is it useful, and how is it used?

Jackman, Patricia C.; Schweickle, Matthew J.; Goddard, Scott G.; Vella, Stewart A.; Swann, Christian

doi:10.1080/2159676x.2021.1904442

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“…Secondly, it requires a set of articulated notions or concepts to analyze the data collected and to produce empirical evidence about this activity. To date, the methods used in the field of sports sciences to collect data on the dynamic, situated, embodied and lived character of the athletes' ongoing activity include the event-focused interview (Jackman et al 2022), the self-confrontation micro-phenomenological interview (Poizat et al 2022), and other phenomenologically-inspired methods (e.g., Allen-Collinson 2016;Allen-Collinson, 2009;Høffding and Martiny 2016;Køster and Fernandez 2021).…”

Section: The Challenges Of Empirically Studying Expert Athletes' Pre-...mentioning

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Documenting and analyzing pre-reflective self-consciousness underlying ongoing performance optimization in elite athletes. The theoretical and methodological approach of the course-of-experience framework

Terrien¹,

Huet²,

Iachkine³

et al. 2023

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Traditional theories of motor learning emphasize the automaticity of skillful actions. However, recent research has questioned this principle of automaticity by emphasizing the role of pre-reflective self-consciousness accompanying athletes’ unfolding activity. Yet empirical documentation and analysis of athletes’ pre-reflective self-consciousness are associated with epistemological discussion and methodological challenges. In the present paper, we present the course-of-experience framework as a means of studying elite athletes’ pre-reflective self-consciousness in the unfolding activity of performance optimization. We carried out a synthetic presentation of the ontological and epistemological foundation of the course-of-experience framework, rooted in an enactive approach of human cognition. Then we illustrated the methodology associated with this framework by an in-depth analysis of two elite windsurfing riders’ courses of experience. The analysis of global and local characteristics of the riders’ course of experience reveal (a) the meaningful activities accompanying the experience of ongoing performance optimization; (b) the multidimensionality of attentional foci and the normativity of performance self-assessment; and (c) a micro-scale phenomenological description of continuous improvement. These results highlight the fruitfulness of the course-of-experience framework to describe the experience of being absorbed in an activity of sport performance optimization by documenting and analyzing athletes’ pre-reflective self-consciousness.

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Documenting and analyzing pre-reflective self-consciousness underlying ongoing performance optimization in elite athletes. The theoretical and methodological approach of the course-of-experience framework

Terrien¹,

Huet²,

Iachkine³

et al. 2023

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“…The current research was grounded in the interpretivist tradition and involved in-depth 'eventfocused interviews' (Jackman et al 2022) with runners sampled on the basis that they recently partook in a recreational run described as positive and rewarding. The 12 participants (Table 1) were drawn from a larger project that analysed runners' subjective experiences during positive, rewarding runs, through a psychological lens, integrating models on optimal experiences with self-regulation frameworks (Jackman et al 2021).…”

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“…After gaining ethical approval from Patricia's university, we purposively sampled participants following event-focused interview guidelines (Jackman et al 2022). Accordingly, participants were eligible if aged 18 or over and they recently had a positive, rewarding experience in a recreational run.…”

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“…Drawing on guidelines for event-focused interviews (Jackman et al 2022), we sought rich, indepth recollections of participants' experiences during the specific positive, rewarding run upon which they were sampled. The interviews (M length = 74.2 minutes) were conducted online by Patricia, who herself is a runner and experienced interviewer.…”

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Feeling good, sensory engagements, and time out: embodied pleasures of running

Jackman

Allen‐Collinson

Ronkainen

et al. 2022

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

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Despite considerable growth in understanding of various aspects of sporting and exercise embodiment over the last decade, in-depth investigations of embodied affectual experiences in running remain limited. Furthermore, within the corpus of literature investigating pleasure and the hedonic dimension in running, much of this research has focused on experiences of pleasure in relation to performance and achievement, or on specific affective states, such as enjoyment, derived after completing a run. We directly address this gap in the qualitative literature on sporting and exercise embodiment by contributing novel insights on the mindbody pleasures of running via focusing analytic attention towards the pleasures recalled by runners as experienced during positive, rewarding running experiences. Applying conceptual insights drawn from sociological phenomenology, we analyse data from an in-depth, event-focused interview study with distance runners who reported positive, rewarding experiences in recent recreational runs. Through reflexive thematic analysis, we present findings in relation to three themes: (1) 'running feels like it should'; (2) sensory engagements; and (3) time out. The study contributes fresh perspectives, both conceptually and in relation to datacollection approach, to a small literature on the lived experience of pleasure in sport, exercise and physical cultures.

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“…Despite this, we recognise that other philosophical positions could have been adopted to generate different forms of knowledge. The event-focused interview method (Jackman et al, 2021) was used as we sought to generate detailed, chronological recall of experiences after, and in relation to, specific running activities.…”

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