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Bright, Chris and Molnár, Győző 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1732-5672
(2023)
Negotiating Identity Conflict Through Football: Experiences of People Living with Type 1 Diabetes.
In:
Critical Issues in Football a Sociological Analysis of the Beautiful Game.
Critical Research in Football
(Chap 6).
Routledge, London, pp. 1-20.
ISBN 978-1-032-18309-1 (hbk) 978-1-032-18311-4 (pbk) 978-1-003-25399-0 (ebk)
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Abstract
Diabetes has become a condition which is acknowledged for its global impact on healthcare and society. However, much of sport research has followed a physiology- focus that has increased awareness of the condition’s effect on the body with a limited understanding around its socio-cultural consequences. This chapter fills this gap by exploring the identity conflict that footballers with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) experience. Six male T1D football players were recruited and interviewed. Data were captured utilising a netnographic approach. The data were then put to a narrative thematic analysis. Participants demonstrated that athletic identity and elitism in sport adversely impacts their identification with T1D. The data also revealed that the social-relational model of disability’s connection with identity is the closest replication of identity negotiation between disability, T1D and participants. Stigma surrounding T1D was shown to have a significant impact on reducing identification with the condition, which was also linked to behaviour that negated medical advice and adherence to it. The Neo-Tribe concept offers an explanatory framework as to how identity conflict was negotiated through the temporary identification with T1D and the positive lever of football, driving an increased uptake in peer support and subsequent medical adherence.
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| Additional Information: | Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Divisions: | College of Business, Psychology and Sport > School of Sport and Exercise Science |
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| Copyright Info: | © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Will Roberts, Stuart Whigham, Alex Culvin and Daniel Parnell; individual chapters, the contributors, The right of Will Roberts, Stuart Whigham, Alex Culvin and Daniel Parnell to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted, [In accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988], All rights reserved, No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, without permission in writing from the publishers, [Including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system] |
| Depositing User: | Gyozo Molnar |
| Date Deposited: | 15 May 2025 15:17 |
| Last Modified: | 15 May 2025 15:18 |
| URI: | https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/14912 |
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