Achieving Work-Life Balance in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Setting, Part I: The Role of the Head Athletic Trainer

作者：Mazerolle Stephanie M^*; Goodman Ashley; Pitney William A

来源：Journal of Athletic Training, 2015, 50(1): 82-88.

DOI：10.4085/1062-6050-49.3.88

• organizational support
• quality of life
• work schedules

Context: Supervisor support has been identified as key to the fulfillment of work-life balance for the athletic trainer (AT), yet limited literature exists on the perspectives of supervisors.
Objective: To investigate how the head AT facilitates work-life balance among staff members within the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I setting.
Design: Qualitative study.
Setting: Web-based management system.
Patients or Other Participants: A total of 18 head ATs (13 men, 5 women; age = 44 +/- 8 years, athletic training experience = 22 +/- 7 years) volunteered for an asynchronous, Web-based interview.
Data Collection and Analysis: Participants responded to a series of questions by journaling their thoughts and experiences. We included multiple-analyst triangulation, stakeholder checks, and peer review to establish data credibility. We analyzed the data via a general inductive approach.
Results: Four prevailing themes emerged from the data: modeling work-life balance, encouraging disengagement from the AT role, cooperation and community workplace, and administrative support and understanding.
Conclusions: Head ATs at the Division I level recognized the need to promote work-life balance among their staffs. They not only were supportive of policies that promote work-life balance, including spending time away from the role of the AT and teamwork among staff members, but also modeled and practiced the strategies that they promoted.

• 出版日期2015-1