Brett Smith

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of social support on the lives of 6 men who had acquired a spinal cord injury and become disabled through playing sport was investigated using categorical-content analysis, where participants experienced emotional, esteem, informational, and tangible support from various sources.

TL;DR: This study looks at three different neurological conditions: spinal cord injury, stroke and multiple sclerosis using a meta-ethnographical method and identifies three groups of hope:Hope as a dichotomy, hope as a paradox and transcendence.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the identified narratives types may be constitutive, as well as reflective, of physical activity experiences and therefore may be a useful tool on which to base physical activity promotion initiatives.

TL;DR: In this article, a small group of men who had experienced spinal cord injury (SCI) through playing sport and defined themselves as disabled were interviewed and their autobiographical memories of pain were explored in relation to the narratives constructed by the participants some years after the event.

TL;DR: Mayan et al. as discussed by the authors explored athletes' accounts of emotions as social phenomena in sport using qualitative inquiry methods and found that emotional expressions were perceived to impact team functioning and performance, communicated team values, served affiliative functions among teammates, and prompted communal coping to deal with stressors as a team.