Narrative Practice and its Potential Contribution to Sport Psychology: The Example of Flow

By A. Sparkes, Sarah Partington. 2003

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Gender Studies

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Narrative inquiry in psychology: exploring the tensions within (2006, background): “Here, rather than being considered a validity or reliability ‘check’ in (quasi)foundationalist terms and with truth-as-correspondence overtones, the different perspectives offered by critical friends are used as a resource for challenging and developing the interpretations made by any one researcher”
Athlete Burnout: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study (2007, unknown): “His involvement was, therefore, akin to what Sparkes and Partington (2003) have termed “a critical friend.””
Narrative inquiry: ongoing conversations and questions for sport and exercise psychology research (2010, background): “As such, sport psychology has something to gain from engaging in the debate that surrounds the narrative turn in other disciplines (Sparkes & Partington, 2003, p. 293).”
The dark side of flow: a qualitative study of dependence in big wave surfing (2009, methodology): “Here the first author was required to make a defendable case to the second and third authors, that her categorization of themes was supported by the data (Sparkes & Partington, 2003).”
A Qualitative Study of Performance Leadership and Management in Elite Sport (2011, unknown): “As part of this process a critical friend questioned any interpretations made at each stage of the data analysis (Faulkner & Sparkes, 1999; Holt & Sparkes, 2001; Sparkes & Partington, 2003), particularly following any deductive reasoning that occurred.”
Abandoning The Performance Narrative: Two Women's Stories of Transition from Professional Sport (2009, background): “In light of these points, Sparkes and Partington (2003) have suggested narrative practice has much to offer sport psychology in that it can provide “a more sophisticated appreciation of people as active social beings and focus attention on the way personal and cultural realities are constructed…”
Living, resisting, and playing the part of athlete: Narrative tensions in elite sport (2013, unknown): “…health (e.g., Carless & Douglas, 2008; Carless & Sparkes, 2008), eating practices (e.g., Papathomas & Lavallee, 2006; Busanich, McGannon & Schinke, 2012), flow (Sparkes & Partington, 2003), aging (e.g., Phoenix & Smith, 2011), and professional sport (e.g., Douglas & Carless, 2006a, 2009a, 2009b).”
Understanding team resilience in the world's best athletes: A case study of a rugby union World Cup winning team. (2015, background): “Emerging findings were regularly presented to these peers to assist with 8 interpretations and to encourage a reflective approach (Sparkes & Partington, 2003).”
"In the Boat" but "Selling Myself Short": Stories, Narratives, and Identity Development in Elite Sport (2013, background): “This excerpt demonstrates links to a variety of cultural narrative resources, including a discovery narrative (Douglas & Carless, 2006a), an action narrative (Carless & Douglas, 2008a), and the storied experience of flow (Sparkes & Partington, 2003).”
Sport and physical activity in a high security Spanish prison: an ethnographic study of multiple meanings (2009, unknown): “Throughout this process the co-authors adopted the role of ‘critical friend’, providing a theoretical sounding board to encourage reflection and critique regarding the connecting of emerging themes to data and their ongoing interpretation (Sparkes & Partington, 2003).”
Qualitative Research in Sport Psychology Journals: The Next Decade 2000-2009 and Beyond (2012, methodology): “…& Lincoln, 2000; Patton, 2002; Strauss & Corbin, 1998) or sport psychology specific sources (e.g., Biddle, Markland, Gilbourne, Chatzisarantic, & Sparkes, 2001; Côté, Salmela, Baria, & Russell, 1993; Scanlan, Ravizza & Stein, 1989; Smith & Sparkes, 2005; Sparkes, 1998; Sparkes & Partington, 2003).”