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Student-Athletes’ Decision-Making Process For Selecting An Academic Major, Gina S. Pearson
Student-Athletes’ Decision-Making Process For Selecting An Academic Major, Gina S. Pearson
Masters Theses
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine how collegiate student-athletes experience the decision-making process for selecting their academic major at a midsize, Division I university in the Midwest. With four participants from four different sports, this study’s results centered around four research questions: what was most important to the student-athlete when selecting a major, what challenges they ran into, what role others played in their decision-making process, and how the student-athletes’ athletic identity manifested in their decision-making for their major.
Results of this study indicated that student-athletes value the practical application to a career that their major can …