Tracing the Origins of Athlete Development Models in Sport: a Citation Path Analysis
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Bruner, Mark W.
Erickson, Karl
McFadden, Kimberley
Côté, Jean
Date
2016-05-11
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journal article
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en
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Athlete Development , Expertise , Transition , Citation , Review
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Reviews of the sport psychology literature have identified a number of models of athlete development in sport (Alfermann & Stambulova, 2007; Durand-Bush &Salmela, 2001). However, minimal research has investigated the origins of knowledge from which each model was developed. The purpose of this study was to systematically examine the influential texts responsible for providing the basis of athlete development models in sport. A citation path analysis of the sport psychology literature was used to generate a knowledge development path of seven athlete development models in sport. The analysis identified influential texts and authors in the conceptualization of athlete development. The popula-tion of 229 texts (articles, books, book chapters) was selected in two phases. Phase1 texts were articles citing seven articles depicting models of athlete development(n
75). Phase 2 included texts cited three or more times by Phase 1 articles (n
154). The analysis revealed how the scholarship of Benjamin Bloom (1985) has been integrated into the field of sport psychology, and how two articles appearing in 1993 and 2003 helped shape present conceptualizations of athlete development
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1750-984X Print
1750-9858 Online
1750-9858 Online