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      Blank canvas or under construction? Examining the pre-academy experiences of young developing professional team sports athletes

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          Abstract

          Introduction

          Extensive research has been carried out on Talent Development (TD) environments and an increasing amount of work shows the development of psychological characteristics as an important formal part of the academy experience. Importantly, however, very little attention has been paid to what types of skills, if any, young players arrive with. In other words, there seems to be an assumption that young athletes arrive at the academy as a blank canvas.

          Methods

          As such, to investigate whether players' arrive with these psychological characteristics, we looked across a sample of young footballers' and rugby players' personal experiences (such as, family input, sporting background or personal challenges) prior joining the academy. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted, and data were analysed via thematic analysis.

          Results

          Our findings suggested that young athletes acquired an aptitude from general experiences, whereby they had already started to develop and deploy specific skills (such as, reflective practice, mental skills or seeking social support) to navigate particular challenges, prior to arriving at the academy.

          Conclusion

          Implications include the need for coaches and psychologists to assess young athletes' skillsets and pre-academy experiences upon arrival and use this as a starting point for developing tailored and individualised pathways that would enable them maximise their potential.

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              The development of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory, an instrument for assessing positive outcomes reported by persons who have experienced traumatic events, is described. This 21-item scale includes factors of New Possibilities, Relating to Others, Personal Strength, Spiritual Change, and Appreciation of Life. Women tend to report more benefits than do men, and persons who have experienced traumatic events report more positive change than do persons who have not experienced extraordinary events. The Posttraumatic Growth Inventory is modestly related to optimism and extraversion. The scale appears to have utility in determining how successful individuals, coping with the aftermath of trauma, are in reconstructing or strengthening their perceptions of self, others, and the meaning of events.
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                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Front Sports Act Living
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Front Sports Act Living
                Journal ID (publisher-id): Front. Sports Act. Living
                Title: Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
                Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
                ISSN (Electronic): 2624-9367
                Publication date (Electronic): 15 March 2023
                Publication date Collection: 2023
                Volume: 5
                Electronic Location Identifier: 990617
                Affiliations
                [ 1 ]Department of Sport, Health Sciences and Social Work, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom
                [ 2 ]Grey Matters Performance Ltd., London, United Kingdom
                [ 3 ]Moray Hopuse School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
                Author notes

                Edited by: Kirsten Spencer, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

                Reviewed by: Ashley John Cripps, University of Notre Dame Australia, Australia Blake Bennett, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

                [* ] Correspondence: Foivos Papastaikoudis foivos.papastaikoudis@ 123456hotmail.co.uk

                Specialty Section: This article was submitted to Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement, a section of the journal Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

                Article
                DOI: 10.3389/fspor.2023.990617
                PMC ID: 10050735
                PubMed ID: 37008628
                SO-VID: 6dac8444-8dc1-4b79-9f6c-3dadbdf9f85a
                Copyright © © 2023 Papastaikoudis, Collins and Collins.
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                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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                Date received : 10 July 2022
                Date accepted : 14 February 2023
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 4, Equations: 0, References: 73, Pages: 0, Words: 0
                Categories
                Subject: Sports and Active Living
                Subject: Original Research

                Keywords: lose talent development,coping skills,challenge,post-traumatic growth,talent pathway,social support
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                Keywords: lose talent development, coping skills, challenge, post-traumatic growth, talent pathway, social support

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