"In the Boat" but "Selling Myself Short": Stories, Narratives, and Identity Development in Elite Sport

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Living, resisting, and playing the part of athlete: Narrative tensions in elite sport (2013, background): “Similar to some other elite sportspeople (see Douglas & Carless, 2009a, Carless & Douglas, 2013), Suzanne seemed to achieve – through reflection over time – new self-understanding of a moral and ethical kind that led her away from a performance story and towards the values of a relational narrative.”
A meta-study of athletic identity research in sport psychology: Current status and future directions (2016, methodology): “However, their studies have also illustrated how some athletes resist the performance narrative and sustain alternative identity narratives (Carless & Douglas, 2013a, 2013b; Douglas, 2009).”