The Role of Psychological Androgyny in Athletic Success : Psychological Androgyny as a means to Athletic Success: A British Female Athlete Perspective

ISBN-13: 9783659251771 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 476 str.

Roland Hegarty

Opis

The vast demands of athletics, its physiological and psychological pressures, the weight of expectation, the immediacy of problems, and the diversity, range and complexity of environmental contingencies have been widely reported in a number of studies. Throughout its history, masculinity has been regarded as naturally and inevitably more important to athletic challenges than has femininity. Nonetheless, it is argued in this research that these challenges of athletics call for athletes whose behaviour exhibits flexibility and adaptability to the varied, and sometimes conflicting, circumstances they face; athletes in which masculinity and femininity were not unique to each sex but were shared by both, and athletes who did not share the view that athleticism was the solemn and periodic exaltation of masculinity. Essentially, the nature of athleticism asks whether it is the psychologically androgynous personality who would best have available the desired range of positive behaviours needed to be a successful athlete.

O autorze

Roland Hegarty is a Sports Lecturer at University College Birmingham. He did his Bachelors in Leisure Management and Masters in Tourism Business Administration at UCB. He did his PhD at Loughborough University focusing upon psychological androgyny. He was awarded his PGCE with Fellow status from the HEA, and is now pursuing a Masters in Education.