The last few years eating disorders have become a hot topic in the world of climbing, however very little research has been done. The available research shows alarming levels of eating disorders amongst climbers. This study has the purpose of highlighting climbing’s impact as a social phenomenon and as a sport on people with an eating disorder. The method utilized to achieve this purpose is a narrative inquiry which implies an interpretive research paradigm. Six interviews were carried out with four female and two male respondents who had different eating disorder problems while being active in climbing. A narrative thematic analysis was performed to find overarching themes within their stories. The study shows that there are different narratives in climbing that a person with an eating disorder can utilize to convince oneself and others that their behaviour is justified, through this there is a normalization of eating disorders in climbing where the person with an eating disorder is an active agent that drives the normalization. One example of this could be when a climber with an eating disorder sees other climbers that are skinny and yet climb at a high level, from this the person might create a narrative for their body and their climbing where it is justified to be unhealthily skinny. Another result from the study is that the respondents got confirmation from their climbing that their weight loss was the way to go within climbing, they had both seen short term positive effects to their results in climbing and also received positive feedback from their climbing friends. This confirmation the respondents received from climbing accelerated or maintained their eating disorders.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-114413 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Sundgren, Martin |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för idrottsvetenskap (ID) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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