Factors Affecting Professional Athletes During Retirement: Retirement or Emptiness?
Abstract
Professional athletes usually do not have the opportunity to take up new hobbies or activities or may not feel the need for such activities. Therefore people who have had to quit sports in the early stages of their lives generally have some struggle adapting within society thus experiencing disadvantages during the middle-age period of the life cycle. Individuals, as a whole, generally enter retirement unprepared. As a result retirement, and especially the rst year of retirement, constitutes a dif cult period. For athletes, this period is even more dif cult. International research in the form of published articles and news coverage concur that for professional athletes the process of retirement, whether by choice or by necessity, represents a dif cult and traumatic period. According to research, professional athletes encounter heavy psychological, biological, economic, and social struggles during this period. According to the Turkish Statistical Institute’s data, professional athletes in Turkey are few in number and their sportive competence is at a discussable level. Only in more recent years have athletes gained acceptance within society and commensurate nancial support from the government. It is not uncommon during the present generation for parents to encourage their children to pursue sports professionally. So, as children are encouraged to pursue athletics as a profession, what work is being done to prepare the way for elite athletes to transition into the period known as retirement? The aim of this study is to put forward a framework assisting professional athletes in making a post-career plan and structuring their transition into life during retirement. Results of this study have shown that athletes face very dif cult struggles during the period prior to, during and after leaving professional sports and require help in reorganizing their lives. During this period, the kinds and extent of help required are discussed.
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Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
Sociology
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Ezgi Uyral
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Publication Date
December 31, 2017
Submission Date
June 10, 2017
Acceptance Date
July 18, 2017
Published in Issue
Year 2017 Volume: 1 Number: 1