You wouldn’t let your phone run out of battery: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of male professional football coaches’ well-being.

HIGHAM, Andrew, NEWMAN, James, RUMBOLD, James and STONE, Joseph (2023). You wouldn’t let your phone run out of battery: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of male professional football coaches’ well-being. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health.

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Abstract

Little is known about how coaches make sense of and experience well-being within their given context as athletes have traditionally been at the forefront of well-being research, which is concerning given coaches are as susceptible to well-being challenges. Considering well-being and coaching comprise of many idiosyncratic and sociocultural interactions, the present study employed a combined bioecological and interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach to explore how six professional football coaches make sense of and experience well-being within the context of football clubs. Due to IPA’s contextualist position, commitment to the individual, and ability to empower and give voice, two group experiential themes were created: ‘The endeavour to comprehend coaches’ well-being’, and ‘Volatility of the football coaching profession: fragmented well-being’. Findings showed that football coaches made sense of their well-being by drawing on past playing experiences and sociocultural interactions, with some coaches comprehending well-being as a physical and mental battery. Additionally, several coaches experienced a fragmentation of self and subsequent well-being due to conflicts within and between their ecological niche. A combined bioecological and IPA approach facilitated and enriched how well-being was contextually made sense of and experienced.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Bioecological model; ecological niche; phenomenology; professional soccer; well-being; 1106 Human Movement and Sports Sciences; 1303 Specialist Studies in Education; 1608 Sociology; 4206 Public health; 4207 Sports science and exercise; 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2023.2260377
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Elements
Depositing User:	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited:	14 Sep 2023 16:06
Last Modified:	11 Oct 2023 11:31
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/32379

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