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Researching abuse in women's artistic gymnastics: A trauma-informed approach
Örebro University, School of Health Sciences. Swiss Olympic, Switzerland.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3918-7904
2024 (English)In: Trauma-Informed Research in Sport, Exercise, and Health: Qualitative Methods / [ed] Jenny McMahon; Kerry R. McGannon, Taylor & Francis, 2024, p. 123-139Chapter in book (Other academic)
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Women's artistic gymnastics (WAG) recently gained mainstream media attention as a sport that physically, psychologically, and sexually abuses gymnasts. Since the 1980s, WAG scholarship has documented such practices and the devastating consequences they have for gymnasts. In this chapter, I present the qualitative research project: #gymnastalliance: An international study on women's gymnasts speaking out about abuse, which aimed to understand the process and experiences of recognising and disclosing abuse later in live. To achieve this, I purposefully recruited 19 former gymnasts, aged 20 and 50 years, who, through individual semi-structured online interviews, shared with me their experiences of speaking out about the physical, psychological, and sexual abuse they were subjected to when participating in women's gymnastics. Drawing on five trauma-informed research guidelines for qualitative research, I reflect on how I have attempted to (1) recognise women's gymnasts' trauma events, experiences, and effects; (2) prevent the inadvertent (re)traumatisation of the research participants; and (3) manage possible negative reactions to the research process and findings.

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Taylor & Francis, 2024. p. 123-139
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-118454DOI: 10.4324/9781003332909-10Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85192034698ISBN: 9781003332909 (electronic)ISBN: 9781032366104 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-118454DiVA, id: diva2:1927481
Available from: 2025-01-15 Created: 2025-01-15 Last updated: 2025-01-15Bibliographically approved

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