Disability Studies 2023A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Likert Scale, Invisible Disability, Intellectual Disability

• School: Western University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: Disability Studies 2023A/B
• Professor: Shelley Macpharland

Document Summary

Infantilization = adults and children competing together no age categories: missed opportunity to experience failure, dignity of being able to fail. Measuring athlete identity: athlete identity measurement scale, 7 point likert scale strongly agree to strongly disagree, ncaa division i student-athletes mean average of 49. 56. Athlete: daughter/son, sister/brother, mother/father, care-taker, church member, community member, boss, employee, supervisor, student, friend, girlfriend/boyfriend, musician, artist, intellectual, traveller, etc. Low self-complexity more prone to mood disturbance after career transition: career transitions (injury, cut, retirement) are more difficult with low self- complexity/exclusive athlete identity, former olympic athletes. Andrew sparkes (1998: wrote paper about a young women named rachel (student at his university, equestrian, competitive swimmer, high athlete identity, tumor near spine, caused a lot of pain and caused her to stop swimming and riding horses. Feelings of loss and fragmentation: my body has failed me because it can no longer perform the function i want it to.