ABSTRACT

The interactions between athletes, parents, and coaches outside of the immediate training and competition environments can shape sport participants’ overall experiences. Accordingly, researchers have explored novel approaches that enable the investigation of experiences that occur beyond the sport activity itself. Technological innovations, combined with careful ethical considerations, have led to the development of research methods that can be used to assess participant conversations in their natural sport and social environments. This article introduces sport researchers to the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR), an ambulatory ecological assessment method that provides access to daily social interactions among athletes, parents, and coaches within and beyond the immediate sport activity (e.g. commute to/from activity, locker rooms, hotels). The EAR software is embedded within a portable device (e.g. Android device) and is programmed to record brief segments of audio from participants’ daily lives. In addition to discussing the utility of this approach for sport contexts, we introduce the Audio Coding System for Social Environments in Sport (ACSSES), which was developed to assess the interactions captured from athletes’ natural sport and social environments using the EAR. Evidence for the reliability and validity of the ACSSES, the associated coder training protocol, and proposed implications for research are discussed.

摘要

运动员、父母和教练之间在直接训练和比赛环境之外的互动可以塑造运动参与者的整体体验。因此，研究人员探索了新颖的方法，可以对体育活动本身之外发生的经历进行调查。技术创新与谨慎的伦理考虑相结合，导致了研究方法的发展，这些方法可用于评估参与者在自然运动和社会环境中的对话。本文向体育研究人员介绍了电子激活记录器 (EAR)，这是一种动态生态评估方法，可提供运动员、父母和教练在当前体育活动内外（例如，往返活动、更衣室）之内和之外的日常社交互动, 酒店）。EAR 软件嵌入在便携式设备（例如 Android 设备）中，并被编程为记录参与者日常生活中的简短音频片段。除了讨论这种方法在运动环境中的效用之外，我们还介绍了运动社会环境音频编码系统 (ACSSES)，该系统旨在评估使用 EAR 从运动员的自然运动和社会环境中捕获的交互。讨论了 ACSSES 的可靠性和有效性的证据、相关的编码员培训协议以及对研究的建议影响。我们介绍了体育社会环境音频编码系统 (ACSSES)，该系统旨在评估使用 EAR 从运动员的自然运动和社会环境中捕获的交互。讨论了 ACSSES 的可靠性和有效性的证据、相关的编码员培训协议以及对研究的建议影响。我们介绍了体育社会环境音频编码系统 (ACSSES)，该系统旨在评估使用 EAR 从运动员的自然运动和社会环境中捕获的交互。讨论了 ACSSES 的可靠性和有效性的证据、相关的编码员培训协议以及对研究的建议影响。