Higham, Andrew (2025). Using Photo-Elicitation to see the Bigger Picture: A Longitudinal Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Male Football Coaches’ Well-Being Experiences. SHU Research Data Archive (SHURDA). http://doi.org/10.17032/shu-0000000221
Summary
Chapter 5 is a combined longitudinal interpretative phenomenological analysis (LIPA) and photo-elicitation approach conducted with seven male football coaches across an entire football season. The study aimed to explore how football coaches temporally experience and make sense of well-being using auto-driven photo-elicitation. The study builds upon both those in Chapters 3 and 4 as it was acknowledged that well-being is not a static state but fluctuates in relation to proximal processes over time. Therefore, it was evident that a longitudinal exploration of well-being was necessary to capture the temporal fluctuations and changing experiences over time. Moreover, it was identified in Chapter 3 that some coaches struggled to explain their well-being and what it is, hence why an auto-driven photo-elicitation approach was employed to empower the participants and to enrich sensemaking endeavours. Findings resulted in the creation of three group experiential themes (GETs): ‘Striving to be present and true to self’; ‘Well-being sensemaking and experiences shaped by time’; and ‘Navigating the (in)stability of football, coaching and life’. All the GETs comprise of relevant subthemes which go into rich experiential detail on specific factors that influenced well-being states. The chapter communicates that ‘third spaces’, authenticity, sociohistorical events, and familial interactions shape well-being experiences over time.
| Alternative title: | A phenomenological exploration of professional football coaches’ well-being over the course of a competitive season | ||||||
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| Keywords: | Well-being, Coaches, Football, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Photo-elicitation | ||||||
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| Academic units: | Faculty of Health and Wellbeing (HWB) > Academic Departments > Academy of Sport and Physical Activity | ||||||
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| Publisher of the data: | SHU Research Data Archive (SHURDA) | ||||||
| Publication date: | 29 January 2025 | ||||||
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| DOI: | http://doi.org/10.17032/shu-0000000221 | ||||||
| SHURDA URI: | https://shurda.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/221 | ||||||
