Global Sport Business Journal

Abstract
Athletic departments in Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) universities provide academic support services to student-athletes. Even though student-athletes receive career assistance from academic counselors, some studies have found they are behind non-athletes in career development. This study examines the relationship between athletic identity and career identity in student-athletes in comparison with non-athletes, between genders of student-athletes, and between earlier and later years in college for student-athletes using multiple instruments: Athletic Identity Measurement Scale; Vocational Identity Scale of the My Vocational Situation; and the Occupational Engagement Scale-Student. Using responses from 109 student-athletes and 277 non-athletes, this study found that no relationship existed between athletic identity and vocational identity or occupational engagement. Non-athletes had higher occupational engagement levels, while student-athletes had higher vocational identity. Female student-athletes had higher occupational engagement levels than male student-athletes. Student-athletes in years 3 and 4 had higher occupational engagement levels than those in years 1 and 2.
Recommended Citation
McPherson, Lacole
(2013)
"Exploring the Relationship between Student-Athletes, Occupational Engagement, and Vocational Identity,"
Global Sport Business Journal: Vol. 1:
Iss.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/gsbj/vol1/iss1/4
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