Browsing Brage NIH by Author "Kristiansen, Elsa"
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Achievement involvement and stress coping in elite wrestling
Kristiansen, Elsa; Roberts, Glyn C.; Abrahamsen, Frank Eirik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2007-06-07)The present study explored the relationship between task involvement and coping with stress in elite competition. Participants were 82 elite wrestlers, both male (n=60) and female (n=22), from four different European ... -
Chasing an Olympic dream: A holistic approach to how youth athletes narrate injuries, performance, and the value of being seen
Kristiansen, Elsa; Broch, Trygve B; Stensrud, Trine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)This article explores how athletes experience injuries and performance pressures when striving for an “Olympic dream”, and focuses on how ten young women, aged 19–22, understand present and past experiences with injuries. ... -
Communicating the athlete as a brand: an examination of LPGA star Suzann Pettersen
Kristiansen, Elsa; Williams, Antonio S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-09-03)This paper explored how a renowned LPGA female golfer, Suzann Pettersen, has built and leveraged her personal brand. Utilizing the Athlete Brand Equity model (ABE) as the theoretical framework, a qualitative case study was ... -
Comparing the expectations, experiences and legacies of volunteers at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo 2011 and Val di Fiemme 2013
Schnitzer, Martin; Kristiansen, Elsa; Hanstad, Dag Vidar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Volunteers play an important role in delivering events, especially events over a longer period of time. For example, the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (Nordic WSC) take place every two years in a member country of the ... -
Competing for culture: Young Olympians' narratives from the first winter Youth Olympic Games
Kristiansen, Elsa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-01-11)The purpose of this investigation was to study how the Norwegian Olympic Youth Team experienced the first winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) by examining how they balanced the regular competitive programme, the Culture and ... -
Developing young athletes: the role of private sport schools in the Norwegian sport system
Kristiansen, Elsa; Houlihan, Barrie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-09-30)The aim of the paper is to analyse the increasingly prominent role of private sports schools in the development of elite athletes in Norway. The context for the analysis is the apparent paradox between the emergence of a ... -
Elite women wrestlers' muscles : physical strength and a social burden
Sisjord, Mari Kristin; Kristiansen, Elsa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009-06)Wrestling is a male-dominated sport in terms of participation, commonly perceived as a masculine sport due to the requirement of muscular strength, courage, fighting spirit, as well as and the element of combat. Integral ... -
From community based identities to individual benefits for volunteers: a comparison of three sporting events
Kristiansen, Elsa; Skille, Eivind Å.; Hanstad, Dag Vidar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-05-28)The purpose of this paper is to explore and identify different types of volunteers at three major sporting events: the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria; the 2012 GöteborgsVarvet (a half-marathon race), ... -
Ideology or reality? The awareness of educational aims and activities amongst German and Norwegian participants of the first summer and winter Youth Olympic Games
Krieger, Jörg; Kristiansen, Elsa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This paper explores the awareness of the young German and Norwegian participants in the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) of the additional educational mission of this new event, implemented by the International Olympic Committee. ... -
Journalists and Olympic athletes: a Norwegian case study of ambivalent relationship
Kristiansen, Elsa; Hanstad, Dag Vidar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-06)This case study explores the relationship between media and sport. More specifically, it examines the association (i.e., the contact and communication) between Norwegian journalists and athletes during the 2010 Olympic ... -
Motivational processes affecting the perception of organizational and media stressors among professional football players: A longitudinal mixed methods research study
Kristiansen, Elsa; Ivarsson, Andreas; Solstad, Bård Erlend; Roberts, Glyn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine professional football players’ perceptions of organizational and media stressors over a season using Achievement Goal Theory (AGT) as the overarching motivational ... -
Negotiating gender in professional soccer: an analysis of female footballers in the United States
Kristiansen, Elsa; Broch, Trygve B.; Pedersen, Paul M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-05-10)Youth soccer is thriving in the United States but the country's professional soccer leagues over the past couple decades have had mixed results in terms of commercial viability with some leagues surviving (e.g., MLS) ... -
Organizational stress and coping in U.S. professional soccer
Kristiansen, Elsa; Murphy, Daniel; Roberts, Glyn C. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-03-21)The present study was an exploration of organizational stressors perceived by U.S. professional soccer players, and the coping strategies they employed to manage these stressors. Eight players (four female and four male) ... -
Perception of and coping with organizational and media stress in elite sport: does the coach matter?
Kristiansen, Elsa (Doctoral thesis, 2011)Grounded within the motivational framework of Achievement Goal Theory (AGT) and the transactional stress perspective, the purpose of the present dissertation was to investigate how elite athletes perceive and cope with ... -
Perceptions of need-support when “having fun” meets “working hard” mentalities in the elite sport school context
Berntsen, Hedda; Kristiansen, Elsa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The aim of this study was to investigate athletes and coaches’ perceptions of coach need-supportive behaviour and to increase our understanding of the athlete-coach dynamic in the endorsement process. Video-based interviews ... -
Political framing of sports: the mediated politicisation of Oslo’s interest in bidding for the 2022 Winter Olympics
Seippel, Ørnulf; Broch, Trygve B.; Kristiansen, Elsa; Skille, Eivind Å.; Wilhelmsen, Terese; Strandbu, Åse; Thorjussen, Ingfrid M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-05-14)Sport is a malleable phenomenon: it is not obvious what might be contentious about sports and how sports eventually turn into political questions. For years, there had been discussions on whether the city of Oslo should ... -
Serious athletes or media clowns? Female and male wrestlers' perceptions of media constructions
Sisjord, Mari Kristin; Kristiansen, Elsa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-09)The present study explores Norwegian female and male elite wrestlers’ perceptions of media coverage of wrestling and of themselves as athletes. In-depth interviews were conducted with four female and four male elite ... -
Stakeholders, challenges and issues at a co-hosted youth olympic event: Lessons learned from the European Youth Olympic festival in 2015
Kristiansen, Elsa; Strittmatter, Anna-Maria; Skirstad, Berit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)The 12th European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) was arranged in Austria and Liechtenstein in January 2015. By using a stakeholder framework, the study aims to: (a) identify and differentiate between primary and secondary ... -
Stress-related breathing problems: an issue for elite swimmers
Kristiansen, Elsa; Abrahamsen, Frank Eirik; Stensrud, Trine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)The purpose of this preliminary study was to test if there are any links between breathing problems, and physiological and psychological recovery (or perceived lack thereof) in elite swimmers. In order to do so, twenty-four ... -
Talent development in a longitudinal perspective: Elite female handball players within a sport school system
Kristiansen, Elsa; Stensrud, Trine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The purpose of the present longitudinal study was to explore the psychological and physical transition into (and subsequent 3 years in) a Sport Academy High School of 10 young female handball players. Psychological (coping ...