WHAT CHALLENGES COULD YOU FACE DURING YOUR TRANSITION PHASE? TAKE THE TEST!
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Please answer your questions as honestly as possible
For each question, choose one, and only one, answer. Since your answer reveals the phase you are in, plenty of information will be given to you in a factsheet. It is possible that it will be suggested to you more than once to look at the same factsheet. Don't worry, it just means that those documents are central to your career phase. Therefore, it would be wise to read them carefully.
For you, retirement from you sports career will take place:
When I will define a clear plan about my future
When my athletic level no longer allows me to continue
Only if external circumstances, like injury, force me to leave
Only when I have family obligations
How do you consider the place that sport has in your life?
My sport is in harmony with the other activities in my life
My sport is an important part of my life. I would feel kind of lost if I could not practise sport for any reason (de-selection, injury, important life event, etc.)
My sport is the only thing that really excites me
Imagine you had a long period with poor performances: how would you react if you were told you were no longer part of the elite sports programme?
I would understand the decision and take it as an opportunity to work on my sports skills as well as my plans for the future
"No pain no gain!" I would work even harder and try to come back as soon as possible
I would feel totally lost and would do everything possible to be selected in the elite group again
What would you do in case of serious injury, forcing you to be out of competition for a long time?
I would take advantage of the forced break to make plans about my future in sport and beyond sport
I would be very annoyed and would start working hard with one goal in mind: to come back as soon as possible
I would feel devastated and overwhelmed by the feeling of wasting time
When thinking about planning your career beyond sport, what is your natural reaction?
I like to plan my professional career after sport ahead of time because it makes me feel comfortable and clear in my mind
Thinking about my future after sport is difficult, as I do not know what else I want to do apart from being an athlete
If I start to think about my future career after sport, it means I am no longer motivated for sport, and this will distract me from my focus
As a woman athlete, have you ever considered motherhood?
Yes, motherhood is a project that needs to be carefully prepared and pre-planned
I still have a lot of time to think about it
Motherhood is not part of my plans
I will deal with it when the time comes
Do you have the impression that being an athlete will help you in your life after sports?
Yes, of course: I have a clear idea about the skills that sport has allowed me to develop and that I could also use in a future career
I don't know: anyway I will think about it only when I retire from sport
Not at all: no skills developed during my sports career are relevant to my future outside sport
When thinking about your transition into a new career after sport, what is the dominant feeling?
I feel satisfied about my sports career and curious to discover new things
I feel kind of sad because I have to adjust to a new, unknown life
I feel depressed and forgotten by people who used to show interest when I was athlete