Retirement Transition in Ballet Dancers: "Coping Within and Coping Without"

Abstract: Retirement transitions in ballet dancers have been under researched. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the experiences of career transition in ballet dancers, from a life course perspective. Drawing upon existing transition models (SCHLOSSBERG, 1981) and sport literature (TAYLOR & OGILVIE, 1994), the paper investigates how ballet dancers cope (or not) with the transition and explores the different factors influencing the coping process. Qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews from fourteen international ballet dancers were used adopting an idiographic approach through interpretative phenomenological analysis and tenets of grounded theory methodology. The results identified a main theme "Coping strategies: Coping within & without" and eight sub-categories: Denial, alienation, indecision, severance, acceptance, letting go, renegotiation and reconstruction. The individual can experience different responses, which trigger different coping processes and subsequently.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1348

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Retirement Transition in Ballet Dancers: "Coping Within and Coping Without" ; volume:11 ; number:2 ; day:11 ; month:02 ; year:2010 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 11, Heft 2 (11.02.2010)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Roncaglia, Irina

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-11.2.1348
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs100210
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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