Key result
Status transitions such as sport termination and beginning university were associated with an increase in maladaptive health behaviors (p<0.05), while athletic identity scores remained unchanged.
Why the study?
The study was conducted to examine the athletic identity, status transitions, and health-related behavioral dynamics of student athletes.
Cross-Sectional (n=398)
p-value: p=<.05
Student athletes maintain their athletic identity despite changes in sport participation, but their health behaviors become increasingly maladaptive.
Transitions should not yet change practice in student-athletes; cross-sectional data leaves open causal links and intervention targets.
The aim of the present study is to examine the athletic identity, status transitions and health-related behavioral dynamics of student athletes. Descriptive survey model was used and 398 individuals participated in the present study. Data was collected by Athletic Identity Measurement Scale (AIMS), information form, ranking and closed-ended qualitative questions. According to findings, it was found that the students' downright transitions increased in processes. On the contrary, ANOVA analyses show no differences in athletic identity scores according to grade levels (p>.05). An increase was seen in maladaptive health behaviors (p<.05). Additionally, maladaptive health behaviors increase after sport termination and beginning of university. It was concluded as a result of the study that individuals' acceptance of athletic identity becomes continuous in spite of the changes in their sport participation status; however, health behaviors are not compatible with the continuity of athletic identity.
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Boz et al. (2021) conducted a cross-sectional in Student athletes (n=398). Status transitions (sport termination and beginning of university) was evaluated on Athletic identity scores and maladaptive health behaviors (p=<.05). Status transitions such as sport termination and beginning university were associated with an increase in maladaptive health behaviors (p<0.05), while athletic identity scores remained unchanged.
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