Efficacy of European Sport Tutorship model (ESTPORT) in the dual career of athletes in Spain

Autor: Elena Conde, Luis Manuel Martínez-Aranda, Alejandro Leiva-Arcas, Juan Alfonso García-Roca, Antonio Sánchez-Pato
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Journal of Human Sport and Exercise, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 59-70 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1988-5202
DOI: 10.14198/jhse.2023.181.06
Popis: The aim of this study was to know the influence of Estport model in the dual career of student-athletes, from San Antonio Catholic University (Spain), as part of the Erasmus + project: Development an innovative European Sport Tutorship model for the dual career of athletes- ESTPORT, through of the evaluation of their perceptions, regarding their sports and academic career within the sports tutor service. The sample consisted of 109 student-athletes, of which 59 were men and 50 were women with ages between 19 and 40 years (M = 26.10; SD = 4.62) belonging to the Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM) and of different sports level: amateur (2.8%), semi-professional (40.4%) and professional (56.9%). Results showed that the pace at which the athletes carried out their studies was 1.8 ± 0.8 years per academic year. Regarding the difficulties of athletes to reconcile sports and studies, men lost more rhythm than women in studies (z = 3.2; p = .001). The role of the sports tutor was valued to a greater extent by the athletes who competed at the national level (z = 3.2; p = .001) since they consider it important to have someone who listens to them and were at their disposal (z = 3.4; p = .001), provide guidance with the necessary academic procedures within the university (z = 2.9; p = .003), be also a personal help (z = 2.8; p = .004) that assists and support them when managing the time in their academic career (z = 2.8; p = .005).
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