The Construction of the Adolescent Male Body through Sport
- 1 July 2006
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Health Psychology
- Vol. 11 (4), 577-587
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105306065018
Abstract
The present study examined the role played by sport in understanding adolescent males' views about their body. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 40 adolescent boys aged between 15 and 17 years. An inductive thematic analysis of boys' narratives showed that sport provided adolescent males with a context for discussing their body image. Attributes which males liked about their body were synonymous with those associated with being successful at sport. In addition, sport was used as a forum for competing with other males both through playing sport and by using sport performance to make favourable social comparisons about their body size.Keywords
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