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of the Dissertation Seeing Stars: Emotional Trauma in Athlete Retirement: Contexts, Intersections, and Explorations by Scott P. Tinley Claremont Graduate University 2012 Few areas of modern sport are as misunderstood in popular and academic literature as that of retired professional and elite athletes. While the subject has been studied, the case of the retiring athlete has yet to be fully explored in a detailed, qualitative, and interdisciplinary study focusing on nuanced contexts affecting the quality of an athlete’s exit from sport. Utilizing 3 participant groups—29 elite athletes (16 sports, 18 males, 11 females), 9 professional sport administrators, and 8 sport media journalists—over an 18-month period extensive semi-structured interviews resulted in 1,436 raw data themes assigned to 13 direct, 3 indirect, and 3 emerging philosophical contexts. Significant direct contexts emerged including health, social support/influence, and preretirement counseling. Unexplored indirect contexts include athlete’s relationship with media, corporate sport structures, and sport consumers. Emerging philosophical contexts include issues of fear-mortality, bodily awareness, and shifting Identities. Positive ideology, appreciation, and predisposed conditions such as having realistic perspective, and a knowledge of self were noted. Participant group responses and all 19 contexts were identified and noted for their interdependency. Hypotheses included that socially-constructed and cultural ideas exist about retired athletes and are embedded in perceptions of fame and fortune associated with the role of professional athletes. Results indicated that considerations of micro and macro social processes of athlete commodification (especially immediacy in production/consumption by the corporate sport and media/fan nexus) contributed to the quality of their transition. Cultural narratives and mythologies about athletes-as-heroes—including ways in which the athletes themselves internalize these popular ideas—produce a system in which elite athletes are often unprepared for life after sport. Analysis of the data suggested that role residue and mortality themes were present, while a longitudinal portion of the study confirmed the significant affecting contexts. Suggestions for reconsideration of retired elite athlete’s sociocultural and economic roles were included as ambiguity in responsibility remained prevalent. Significant contributions of the study include application of data that offers behavioral, social, and cultural scientist insight to the transcendent challenges that constitute fluid and emerging human conditions when individuals move from one life condition to another. Additional contributions suggest social costs for disposing of transitioning athletes.