The work of cultural transition: an emerging model
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In today's uncertain, fluid job market, transnational mobility has intensified. Though the concept of cultural transition is increasingly used in sport and career research, insight into the processes of how individuals produce their own development through work and relationships in shifting cultural patterns of meaning remains limited. The transnational industry of sports, in which athletes' psychological adjustment to cultural transitions has implications for both performance and meaningful life, serves as a backdrop for this article. This study applied the life story method to interviews with 15 professional and semi-professional athletes, focusing particularly on the cultural transition aspect of their transnational athletic careers. The aims of the study were to identify the developmental tasks of cultural transitions and strategies/mechanisms through which cultural transitions were enacted. Three underlying mechanisms of the transition process that assisted athletic career adaptability were social repositioning, negotiation of cultural practices, and meaning reconstruction. Based on the data analyses, a temporal model of cultural transition is proposed. The results of this research provide professionals working in the fields of career counseling and migrant support with a content framework for enhancing migrant workers' adaptabilities and psychological wellbeing.
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Cultural modes (a group's languages, norms, customs, values, and artifacts) are essential for healthy functioning as they organize thoughts, feelings, actions, define one's place, and frame social interactions to meet basic, social, and health needs.
“Modes are essential for healthy functioning as they organize and pattern one’s thoughts, feelings, and actions, define one’s place in the world relative to others (e.g., self-esteem, ethnic identity, cultural worldview), and frame one’s social interactions to meet their basic, social, and health needs (Kitayama et al., 2007; Markus and Kitayama, 2010; Ryba et al., 2016).”
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- Authors
- Ryba, T. V., Stambulova, N. B., & Ronkainen, N. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Southern Denmark (DK)
- Halmstad University (SE)
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Ryba, Tatiana V.
- Venue
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2016-03-24
- Volume
- 7
- Pages
- 427-427
- ISSN
- 1664-1078 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4806227
- OpenAlex
- W2326337557
- Cited by
- 128
- References
- 61
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 4
- FWCI
- 22.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Frontiers in Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Jyväskylä University Digital Archive (University of Jyväskylä) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Hogskolan Ihalmstad (Halmstad University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Kulturministeriet (TKIF2011-021)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Communication › International Student and Expatriate Challenges
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Sport Psychology and Performance
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Physical Education and Sports Studies
- Keywords
- cultural transition, transnational mobility, professional athletes, sports careers, career adaptability, meaning reconstruction, migrant workers, psychological adjustment, life story method
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