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Herstory: Women’S Professional Career Experiences In Sport Psychology, Rena M. G. Curvey
Herstory: Women’S Professional Career Experiences In Sport Psychology, Rena M. G. Curvey
Theses and Dissertations--Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology
The purpose of this study was to explore women’s professional career experiences in sport psychology. Using qualitative methodology, seventeen female sport psychology practitioners participated in intensive semi-structured interviews from May 2021 to July 2021. This study resulted in two distinct manuscripts. First, guided by constructivist grounded theory methodology, embedded in a feminist standpoint framework, this study developed a grounded theory to help explain what sources attract and retain women in sport psychology. The developed theory includes the following main categories: sources of career attraction, training and professional development, and sources of career retention, and ten subcategories. This theory contributes to …