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Participation of elite women athletes in wheelchair basketball: Meaning and experience.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Participation of elite women athletes in wheelchair basketball: Meaning and experience./
Author:	Woodson, Andrea D.
Description:	148 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Jean Pyfer.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-04B.
Subject:	Health Sciences, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3215129
ISBN:	9780542655593

Participation of elite women athletes in wheelchair basketball: Meaning and experience.
Woodson, Andrea D.

Participation of elite women athletes in wheelchair basketball: Meaning and experience. - 148 p.

Adviser: Jean Pyfer.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Texas Woman's University, 2006.

The purpose of the study was to examine the meaning and experience of participation in wheelchair basketball by elite women players. Three themes were particularly addressed: (a) self-process, (b) personal meanings, and (c) relationships. The study was designed to address the problem of recruitment and retention of women as serious wheelchair basketball players with sport identities. Participants were 10 elite women wheelchair basketball players representing the 2003-2004 USA Women's Wheelchair Basketball team. Qualitative research was chosen as the method for this study based on extensive reading (i.e., Berg, 1998; Bogdan & Taylor, 1975; Borland, 2001; Creswell, 1998; DePoy & Gitlin, 1994; Mason, 1996; Moustakas, 1994; Patton, 2002). Phenomenology was chosen as the subtype of qualitative research to be used. Tape recorded interviews of the ten participants were transcribed and evaluated. Each interview was transcribed for analysis using the phenomenological approach (Moustakas, 1994). The process began with the researcher experiencing the phenomenon through immersion in the words of the participants. Ten subthemes emerged from the interview data: confidence, identity, body image, family support, siblings, friends, travel, recognition as an athlete, reintroduction to sport, and education/advocate. The majority of the participants were introduced to wheelchair basketball through other individuals with disabilities who participated in wheelchair basketball or by a parent of a child who was involved in a disability sport. Each increased her confidence level after becoming an elite athlete by interacting with other women who have similar identities, and through gaining more knowledge about disability and sports. All of the participants were able to expand friendships worldwide through participating in wheelchair basketball. Each athlete was able to increase her confidence and have comfort with her disability because of the relationships they formed with other athletes who had disabilities similar to her own. All of the athletes in the current research study reported that wheelchair basketball was the major part, if not the main focus, of their life. Wheelchair basketball became a meaningful element within each participant's life in that their everyday life schedule changed drastically due to the amount of travel, training, and competition for the Paralympics.

ISBN: 9780542655593Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017817
Health Sciences, General.

Participation of elite women athletes in wheelchair basketball: Meaning and experience.
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