The Work of Cultural Transition : An Emerging Model
Ryba, T. V., Stambulova, N. B., & Ronkainen, N. J. (2016). The Work of Cultural Transition : An Emerging Model. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 00427. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00427
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In today’s uncertain, fluid job market, transnational mobility has intensified. Though the
concept of cultural transition is increasingly used in sport and career research, insight
into the processes of how individuals produce their own development through work and
relationships in shifting cultural patterns of meaning remains limited. The transnational
industry of sports, in which athletes’ psychological adjustment to cultural transitions
has implications for both performance and meaningful life, serves as a backdrop for
this article. This study applied the life story method to interviews with 15 professional
and semi-professional athletes, focusing particularly on the cultural transition aspect
of their transnational athletic careers. The aims of the study were to identify the
developmental tasks of cultural transitions and strategies/mechanisms through which
cultural transitions were enacted. Three underlying mechanisms of the transition process
that assisted athletic career adaptability were social repositioning, negotiation of cultural
practices, and meaning reconstruction. Based on the data analyses, a temporal model
of cultural transition is proposed. The results of this research provide professionals
working in the fields of career counseling and migrant support with a content framework
for enhancing migrant workers’ adaptabilities and psychological wellbeing.
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