ABSTRACT

Despite conceptual advances and preliminary associations highlighting the benefits of thriving in sport, opportunities for continued research are numerous. Notably, sport-specific research involving thriving has predominantly taken an individual athlete perspective. Interestingly, evidence from the organisational domain suggests that thriving can manifest at a collective level through interdependent team member interactions. Given the potential for thriving to emerge as a higher-level phenomenon in interdependent sport, a critique of thriving at the group-level is advanced. More specifically, we provide a summary of existing individual athlete thriving literature and organisational thriving research at the group-level (Part 1), propose three approaches to conceptualising thriving in interdependent sport (i.e. common, team, and collective thriving) grounded in multilevel research (Part 2), pose guiding questions and key considerations for future exploration (Part 3), and conclude by emphasising the potential value of examining thriving as a higher-level construct for sport researchers and invested partners (Part 4).

摘要

尽管概念上的进步和初步协会强调了在体育运动中蓬勃发展的好处，但继续研究的机会很多。值得注意的是，涉及蓬勃发展的特定运动研究主要采用了运动员个人的观点。有趣的是，来自组织领域的证据表明，繁荣可以通过相互依存的团队成员互动体现在集体层面。鉴于在相互依存的运动中蓬勃发展可能成为一种更高层次的现象，因此对团体层面的繁荣提出了批评。更具体地说，我们总结了现有的个人运动员蓬勃发展文献和团体层面的组织繁荣研究（第 1 部分），提出了三种概念化相互依存运动中繁荣的方法（即共同、团队、