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The impact of dual-career support systems on perceived barriers among European student-athletes with disabilities
Leiva-Arcas, Alejandro; Vaquero-Cristóbal, Raquel; Meroño, Lourdes; José Maciá-Andreu, María; García-Roca, Juan Alfonso; Abenza-Cano, Lucía; Manuel Almeida-Pereira, Antonino; Capranica, Laura; Comyns, Thomas M.; Bota, Aura; Ramírez-Muñoz, Amaia; Maicas-Pérez, Luis; Isidori, Emanuele; Sánchez-Pato, Antonio
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2025
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The aim of this study was to compare the socio-demographic, sporting characteristics and perceptions of student-athletes with disabilities of perceived barriers according to the state system of dual career support. Two hundred and twelve student-athletes with disabilities from two European countries with state centralisation in dual career-related education competences (n = 97) and three European countries with a laissez-faire system (n = 115) participated in this research. The perceptions of dual-career student-athletes (EST-PORT) questionnaire, the exercise benefits/barriers scale (EBBS), and the athletic identity measurement scale (AIMS) were used for data collection. Student-athletes in countries with laissez-faire systems perceived the difficulty of combining family care (p = 0.024; ES = 0.31), the time required to practice sport (p = 0.005; ES = 0.38), as well as the limitation of timetables (p < 0.001; ES = 0.52) and places that make sport practice possible (p < 0.001; ES = 0.73) as barriers. In conclusion, when a country’s educational system does not have structured support systems for dual careers, student-athletes perceive more barriers, regardless of their sporting level.
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Education Sciences, 2025, 15, 345
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This work was supported by the ERASMUS+ SPORT program under Grant number 622213-EPP-1-2020-1-ES-SPO-SCP. Project: “Dual Career of Student-Athletes with Disabilities as a Tool for Social Inclusion—Para-Limits”. Principal Investigator: Alejandro Leiva-Arcas and Antonio Sánchez-Pato. This study has been awarded with the Bengt Nybelius Scholarship from The Eu-ropean Athlete as Student network.