Abstract

CAJINA-GUEDEAT, M  and  REYES-BOSSIO, M. Emotional subjective experience in extreme sports participants: a qualitative study. CPD [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.1, pp.1-17.  Epub Apr 12, 2021. ISSN 1989-5879.

Participants in extreme sports have usually been studied from a risk perspective. The present study seeks to move away from this preconception and aims to study the emotional subjective experience. A qualitative methodology with phenomenological-hermeneutic design was used taking as a tool conversational systems. The informants were 8 extreme athletes belonging to the same group. Extreme sports included were: Mountain climbing, rappelling, bungee jumping, and mountaineering. The results indicate that fear is a generator of freedom, it can be useful, it is rewarding and it is also a promoter of personal transformations. This research gives theoretical value to the reason for involvement in extreme sports.

Keywords : extreme sport; subjective experience; fear; transformation.

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