Elite athletes’ lifestyles: Consumerism to professionalism

ABSTRACT: Today, elite athletes form an important social group, and the non-sport facets of their lives matter as much as their sports performances. However, there has been little empirical research on the lifestyles of elite athletes. Therefore, this study aimed to develop knowledge about the Iranian elite athletes’ lifestyle. The study was conducted with a qualitative approach in two phases. Glaserian grounded theory was used in the first phase, and thematic analysis was used in the second phase. Participants of the first phase included 19 sports experts, such as sports sociologists, sports psychologists, and sports coaches, who were selected by purposive and snowball sampling methods for holding unstructured in-depth interviews. The data were simultaneously analyzed using a set of open, theoretic

SUBMITTER: Mohamadi Turkmani E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9512170 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature