Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain).
Span J Psychol. 2013;16:E38. doi: 10.1017/sjp.2013.18.
The main objective of the present study was to compare the athletic retirement of elite Greek and Spanish athletes in terms of (a) pre-conditions of retirement, (b) transitional period, and (c) consequences of the transition. For this purpose, elite athletes from Greece (n = 76) and Spain (n = 57) described in retrospect their experience leaving competitive sports through the Retirement from Sports Survey (Alfermann, Stambulova, & Zemaityte, 2004). Separate one-way ANOVAs and chi-square tests revealed differences and similarities between the transitional processes of athletes from the two countries. More similarities than differences were detected in the retirement of Greek and Spanish athletes. Based on these commonalities, we proposed a Southern European perspective on the topic. According to the present results the main characteristics of this pattern could be the lack of retirement planning, high athletic identity after the sports career, and predominance of relocation in the sports world after retirement.
本研究的主要目的是比较希腊和西班牙精英运动员的退役情况，具体涉及（a）退役前的条件，（b）过渡阶段，以及（c）过渡的结果。为此，通过运动退役调查（Alfermann、Stambulova 和 Zemaityte，2004），回顾性地描述了来自希腊（n = 76）和西班牙（n = 57）的精英运动员离开竞技体育的经历。单独的单向方差分析和卡方检验揭示了来自两个国家的运动员过渡过程中的差异和相似之处。在希腊和西班牙运动员的退役过程中，发现更多的相似之处，而不是差异。基于这些共同点，我们提出了一个关于这一主题的南欧视角。根据目前的结果，这种模式的主要特征可能是缺乏退休规划、运动生涯后高度的运动员身份认同，以及退休后在体育界重新安置的主导地位。
