Sports and Male Role Strain

Abstract

The article provides an analysis of role strain experienced by a sample of athletes and nonathletes. Komarovsky's typology of role strain is applied to and further developed through our interview data. The modes of role strain experienced by athletes involved ambiguity of norms, decreasing internal and external rewards for role performance, structural insufficiency of resources, role conflict, overload of role obligations, and role‐intrinsic anxiety and physical damage. The nonathletes experienced role strain involving the incongruity between personality characteristics and the demands of the athletic role.

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