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Resocialization of the athletes
Retirement of professional athletes deliberates as a part of athlete reward through prolonged engagement in sports, but in the realms, can abruptly lead to problems such as depressions and mental depressions. For the professional players who terminate their sports career, retirement life encounters many challenges and severe concerns in health matters. The professional and social transformations induced after retirement from sports activity, can immensely effect leading to distressful life, feeling of individual vacuum in their lives. Several of the retired athletes, experiences lessened self-confidence, personal crisis, abuse of substances/alcohol and eating disorderly habits consequent to their retirement based on (Sanders and Stevinson, 2017). Retired athlete’s faces challenges during their retirement period, this consequently leads to extreme changes in their social, occupational lives, personal and generally their career cognitive as they attempt to adjust in new life basis.
The decline of athlete steadiness to life after retirement is caused by lack of purpose-led by failed goal achievement in any sports-related goals and also the degree of athletes getting ready to live and embrace a new direction in life towards a prospective lack of athlete control. Consequently, the individual athletes may further develop a vulnerability to psychosocial and psychological hitches, for instance, anger feelings, depression, anxiety, lowered self-respect, self-esteem, and self-control. Retired athletes, chooses for retirement in sports, after continued training injuries, which later affect their future interaction with the society, and reduced interest to engage in training sports and adjusting to new life.
Career programs and other educational training need further further recognition, as one of the best practice accomplished by rewards, leading to athletes gaining a healthy live of retirement. Based on researchers studies, the rate of athletes participating in established career programs prior retire, enjoys improved personal control levels, which result to increased self-efficacy in connection to their capability to effectively adjusting to life after retirement Grineva and Aristova (2015). One of the significant causes of retirement to many athletes and career termination is revealed through the faced nature of injuries which influences the quality of changes/transitions an athlete faces after retirement.
Nevertheless, several of the retired athletes are attributed with various skills, expertise and competencies that can further be exploited in diverse life spheres. Job creation helps them improve continuously in their passion to sport careers and exercised skills as a way to support their professions. Various countries have established coordinated training programs that have offered retired athletes basically on their expertise in educating the young hopeful people through inspirations and motivation in sports career (Torregrosa et al, 2015). The society needs to embrace and recognize the retired athletes by way of understanding their retirement challenges, and aware of the various developmental body changes in their lives, thereby promoting career sport programs. Consequent, the transition of retired athletes to to normal life, seems the hardest phase in live but establishment of career educational programs facilitates them with future practice of their acquired skills in their respective careers as an athlete career rewards.
An athlete sport is revealed as part of the hardest experience, whereby players suffer from various injuries, athletes, therefore, suffer prolonged depressions after retirement. There is a fundamental need for counseling and psychotherapy by professional therapists or counselors which increasingly has been one of most contributing factors to challenges in numerous retired athletes in the society Knights et al, (2016). Current study conducted, revealed that, most of the retired athletes susceptible to various mental body health conditions for instance, depression, and high blood pressure undermining their social interactions. Sports counseling and psychotherapy can adversely facilitate athletes in developing self-tolerance to diverse challenges and difficulties through feelings and emotions, thereby widening their personal identity in establishing benefits in sport career lives and even beyond performance not only in fields of sports whilst promoting their career goals in sports. Sports counseling and psychotherapy is important to retired athletes in resolving their live issues experienced in their commitment to further training after retirement.
One of the best criteria’s in supporting the retired athletes in the society, can be achieved through career transitioning programs in developing retired athletes careers and supporting their wide-ranging careers in varied spheres of life. The society establishing career consultants jobs for the retired athletes, engaging with existing junior sport academies in trainings, increasing awareness of their past experiences, current situations and future anticipations in their careers. The purpose of trainings is to cope and solve the depression life, lack of goals/purpose, and struggle with joblessness life as they join the society on their retirement Grineva and Aristova, (2015). This facilitates them build a healthy life in extend that their identities do not relax entirely after retirement on their various sport skills and prowess. Based to the current study specifies that challenges in career changeover are further possible to emerge with the elite and professional sports.
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Grineva, K.E. and Aristova, N.G., 2015. Resocialization of Professional Athletes. ББК 60.54 П84, p.182.
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