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Effect of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Elite Spanish Student-Athletes’ Perception of the Dual Career

The aim of the present research was to assess elite student-athletes’ perception of the dual career during the lockdown caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, compared with a group of elite student-athletes who could develop their dual career under normal conditions. A total of...

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Autores principales: Abenza-Cano, Lucia, Leiva-Arcas, Alejandro, Vaquero-Cristóbal, Raquel, García-Roca, Juan Alfonso, Meroño, Lourdes, Sánchez-Pato, Antonio
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7779607/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33408676
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.620042
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author Abenza-Cano, Lucia
Leiva-Arcas, Alejandro
Vaquero-Cristóbal, Raquel
García-Roca, Juan Alfonso
Meroño, Lourdes
Sánchez-Pato, Antonio
author_facet Abenza-Cano, Lucia
Leiva-Arcas, Alejandro
Vaquero-Cristóbal, Raquel
García-Roca, Juan Alfonso
Meroño, Lourdes
Sánchez-Pato, Antonio
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description The aim of the present research was to assess elite student-athletes’ perception of the dual career during the lockdown caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, compared with a group of elite student-athletes who could develop their dual career under normal conditions. A total of 150 elite athletes who were also undergraduate or postgraduate students self-completed the “Perceptions of dual career student-athletes (ESTPORT)” questionnaire. From them, 78 did it during the mandatory lockdown period due to the state of emergency caused by COVID-19 (COVID-19 group) and 72 completed it in the previous year to Rio 2016 Olympic Games (control group). The COVID-19 group was found to spend a significantly higher number of hours per week studying, while no significant differences were observed between groups in any training time variable. Student-athletes of the COVID-19 group showed better perception of whether their sport career could help them cope with their academic career and better general perception of remote learning and the use of tasks and videoconferencing as learning support tools. A lower percentage of athletes of the COVID-19 group than of the control group wished to continue with their sport career once they finished their studies. To conclude, student-athletes of the COVID-19 group show adaptations with regard to the organization of their studies and the importance they give to them and to the services provided by dual-career programs, compared with student-athletes from an ordinary pre-Olympic year. In general, student-athletes’ perception of the dual career is very positive.
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spelling pubmed-77796072021-01-05 Effect of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Elite Spanish Student-Athletes’ Perception of the Dual Career Abenza-Cano, Lucia Leiva-Arcas, Alejandro Vaquero-Cristóbal, Raquel García-Roca, Juan Alfonso Meroño, Lourdes Sánchez-Pato, Antonio Front Psychol Psychology The aim of the present research was to assess elite student-athletes’ perception of the dual career during the lockdown caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, compared with a group of elite student-athletes who could develop their dual career under normal conditions. A total of 150 elite athletes who were also undergraduate or postgraduate students self-completed the “Perceptions of dual career student-athletes (ESTPORT)” questionnaire. From them, 78 did it during the mandatory lockdown period due to the state of emergency caused by COVID-19 (COVID-19 group) and 72 completed it in the previous year to Rio 2016 Olympic Games (control group). The COVID-19 group was found to spend a significantly higher number of hours per week studying, while no significant differences were observed between groups in any training time variable. Student-athletes of the COVID-19 group showed better perception of whether their sport career could help them cope with their academic career and better general perception of remote learning and the use of tasks and videoconferencing as learning support tools. A lower percentage of athletes of the COVID-19 group than of the control group wished to continue with their sport career once they finished their studies. To conclude, student-athletes of the COVID-19 group show adaptations with regard to the organization of their studies and the importance they give to them and to the services provided by dual-career programs, compared with student-athletes from an ordinary pre-Olympic year. In general, student-athletes’ perception of the dual career is very positive. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7779607/ /pubmed/33408676 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.620042 Text en Copyright © 2020 Abenza-Cano, Leiva-Arcas, Vaquero-Cristóbal, García-Roca, Meroño and Sánchez-Pato. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Leiva-Arcas, Alejandro
Vaquero-Cristóbal, Raquel
García-Roca, Juan Alfonso
Meroño, Lourdes
Sánchez-Pato, Antonio
Effect of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Elite Spanish Student-Athletes’ Perception of the Dual Career
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title_full Effect of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Elite Spanish Student-Athletes’ Perception of the Dual Career
title_fullStr Effect of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Elite Spanish Student-Athletes’ Perception of the Dual Career
title_full_unstemmed Effect of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Elite Spanish Student-Athletes’ Perception of the Dual Career
title_short Effect of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Elite Spanish Student-Athletes’ Perception of the Dual Career
title_sort effect of coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) on elite spanish student-athletes’ perception of the dual career
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7779607/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33408676
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.620042
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