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Dual-career through the elite university student-athletes’ lenses: The international FISU-EAS survey

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  • Giancarlo Condello
  • Laura Capranica
  • Mojca Doupona
  • Kinga Varga
  • Verena Burk

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Athletes have the right to combine their sport and higher education careers (e.g., dual career), but differences in the recognition of the student-athlete’s status and availability of dual career programmes and services exist worldwide. The purpose of this study was to investigate the dual career phenomenon through the international student-athletes’ views. Student-athletes competing at the 2017 Summer Universiade were recruited to respond a 31-item online survey encompassing demographic characteristics (Q1-8), sport and university engagement (Q9-13), student-athletes’ knowledge and possible sources of information regarding dual career (Q14-22); and dual career support at personal, sport, and academic levels (Q23-31). Four hundred twenty-six respondents (males: 46%, females 54%), competing in 22 different sports (individual: 74%, team: 26%) from Africa (4%), America (20%), Asia (34%), Europe (39%), and Oceania (3), had experienced previous international sports events (94%). Differences among continents emerged for sport (p

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  • Giancarlo Condello & Laura Capranica & Mojca Doupona & Kinga Varga & Verena Burk, 2019. "Dual-career through the elite university student-athletes’ lenses: The international FISU-EAS survey," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(10), pages 1-18, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0223278
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223278
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    1. Laura Capranica & Mojca Doupona & Ilvis Abelkalns & Ugis Bisenieks & Antonio Sánchez-Pato & Francisco José Cánovas-Alvarez & António J Figueiredo & Juan Alfonso García-Roca & Alejandro Leiva-Arcas & L, 2022. "Understanding dual career views of European university athletes: The more than gold project focus groups," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(2), pages 1-20, February.
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    3. M. Mingione & G. Mattia & K. Podnar & L. Capranica, 2025. "Can I be a sportsperson and a worker? Analytics on athlete and coach dual careers," Journal of Marketing Analytics, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 13(2), pages 467-482, June.

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