Retirement among team sports: professional and amateur comparative
Abstract
Recently researchers have increased their interest in the post sport life of the elite athletes (Park, Lavalle,and Tod 2013). The unique economic features of each sport make interesting the comparison between them (Aquilina, 2013).The aims of this study were to analyse if the quality of the sport retirement (based on the perceived difficulties on different dimensions), the features of the sport retirement (planning, the willfulness, the type of career path and the academic level) were different between professional and amateur athletes. A cross-sectional descriptive study based on surveys was applied. An ad hoc questionnaire of closed question was answered by 127 retired elite athletes. Fifty-three athletes were from a professional sport while seventy-four athletes were from a non-professional sport. The professional athletes experienced in a greater grade difficulties related with their working career, their family, their social network, and they lived the working integration less positively than the amateur athletes. The amateur athletes suffered more frequently economic difficulties. As it could be expected due the greater relation with sport, a higher number of professional athletes were exclusively devoted to sport, while more amateur sport combined their sport career with working. Moreover, among those who combined the sport career with studies, the professional athletes gave more frequently priority to sport. Planning the retirement was more frequent among the professional athletes. No significant differences were found in relation with the willfulness of the sport retirement and the study level of the athletes.
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