Sustainable Careers of Athletes: Themes and Concepts Regarding Transition Theories Involving Athletes

Jeongwon Choi and Hyun-Duck Kim
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Jeongwon Choi: Department of Health, Exercise & Sports Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Hyun-Duck Kim: Department of Sport Marketing, Keimyung University, Daegu 42601, Korea

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 9, 1-12

Abstract: Athletes’ transition has been one of the crucial social issues for athletes, their families, and significant others. This study aimed to provide a thematic analysis of research on athletes’ transition, considering the widely adopted transition theories. That is, this study is designed to evaluate the models that describe athletes’ transition, published in peer-reviewed journals from 2000 to 2020 within the domain of sports and relevant areas. Ten articles were included in this qualitative method-based research, and the selected articles were analyzed using the text data-mining technique using Leximancer version 5.0. The results can provide a methodologically significant contribution to the study of athletes’ transition. In addition, this study provides some insights regarding sustainable careers to help athletes and advance future studies.

Keywords: athletes’ transition; career transition; text-mining; sustainable career (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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