Analytical process of the holistic-content narrative analysis
| Phase | Description | Outcome | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Initial reading and identification of core patterns | Recognizing the recurring issues, events and strategies as core patterns. Discussing and refining these collaboratively | Core patterns Training and competing Committing career Work community (Compromises to) civilian life Individualism and entrepreneurialism Sport system | ||
| 2. Coding the core patterns, forming the focal areas and themes | Starting an NVivo project. Coding the core patterns and grouping similar together to form focal areas that capture key narrative emphases, focusing on “positive” and “negative” career perspectives. Merging similar focal areas into themes through iterative comparison and discussion | 12 focal areas | → | 6 themes |
| Psyche and stress | → | Mental and physical demands | ||
| Competing and training | ||||
| Meaning of work | → | Significance of career and achievements | ||
| Succeeding and merits | ||||
| Sociocultural capital | → | Professional life | ||
| Total commitment | ||||
| Home and family | → | Personal life | ||
| Life beyond sports | ||||
| Work community | → | Systematic demands | ||
| Federations and organizations | ||||
| Entrepreneurial activities | → | Individualistic mindset | ||
| Individualism | ||||
| 3. Interpretation of tensions | Moving between the themes, initial core patterns and research question to find the “so what” of the findings. “Contradicting” pairs of themes are merged as tensions | 6 themes | → | 3 tensions |
| Mental and physical demands | → | Tension of performance | ||
| Significance of career and achievements | ||||
| Professional life | → | Tension of identity | ||
| Personal life | ||||
| Systematic demands | → | Tension of work economy | ||
| Individualistic mindset | ||||
| 4. Revisiting theoretical ideas with interpreted tensions | Going back to theory and linking the tensions to the career sustainability dimensions (time, person, context) to strengthen theoretical robustness | Tensions with the knots between different career sustainability dimensions | ||
| Phase | Description | Outcome | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Initial reading and identification of core patterns | Recognizing the recurring issues, events and strategies as core patterns. Discussing and refining these collaboratively | |||
| 2. Coding the core patterns, forming the focal areas and themes | Starting an NVivo project. Coding the core patterns and grouping similar together to form focal areas that capture key narrative emphases, focusing on “positive” and “negative” career perspectives. Merging similar focal areas into themes through iterative comparison and discussion | |||
| Psyche and stress | → | Mental and physical demands | ||
| Competing and training | ||||
| Meaning of work | → | Significance of career and achievements | ||
| Succeeding and merits | ||||
| Sociocultural capital | → | Professional life | ||
| Total commitment | ||||
| Home and family | → | Personal life | ||
| Life beyond sports | ||||
| Work community | → | Systematic demands | ||
| Federations and organizations | ||||
| Entrepreneurial activities | → | Individualistic mindset | ||
| Individualism | ||||
| 3. Interpretation of tensions | Moving between the themes, initial core patterns and research question to find the “so what” of the findings. “Contradicting” pairs of themes are merged as tensions | |||
| Mental and physical demands | → | Tension of performance | ||
| Significance of career and achievements | ||||
| Professional life | → | Tension of identity | ||
| Personal life | ||||
| Systematic demands | → | Tension of work economy | ||
| Individualistic mindset | ||||
| 4. Revisiting theoretical ideas with interpreted tensions | Going back to theory and linking the tensions to the career sustainability dimensions (time, person, context) to strengthen theoretical robustness | Tensions with the | ||
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