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Stress And Flourishing During First Year College Transition: A Comparison Of Former High School Athletes, Recreational Athletes, And Non-Athletes, Becca Pierce
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The effects of transitioning to college have been reported, but little is known about how levels of high school athletic identity (AI; Taylor & Ogilvie, 1994), athletic satisfaction (AS; Park et al., 2013), and current recreational sport participation relate to the transition to college. The purpose of this study was to compare the psychological well-being of first-year college students based on previous and current athletic participation. Random stratified and snowball sampling of U.S. universities yielded a sample of 347 first-year college students. Mean differences (p = .007, ɳ2 = .035) in flourishing were found between continued (M …