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dc.contributor.advisorReinold, Marcel
dc.contributor.authorTelje, Emil
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-21T08:14:16Z
dc.date.available2024-08-21T08:14:16Z
dc.date.issued2024-05-29
dc.description.abstractThis study examines how the influence of group dynamics affects decision-making among experienced backcountry skiers in avalanche terrain. The study explores individual skiers' perspectives of group experiences in avalanche terrain and investigates how group dynamics have affected their decision-making. The study has a scientific-theoretical position of a critical qualitative orientation. This orientation proceeds with a relativist ontology, social constructionist epistemology and a hermeneutic phenomenological methodology. The collection of data was through semi-structured interviews with ten experienced backcountry skiers living in Tromsø (Norway). The skiers were strategically sampled through the snowball method (Tjora, 2021). Reflexive thematic analysis with a deductive theory driven approach was used to analyze the data (Braun et al., 2022). The study’s findings show that group dynamics had a multifaceted influence on the decision-making process. Different group dynamics influence groups before, during and even after skiing in avalanche terrain. They were also influential when the skiers decided who to ski with, and where to go skiing. Learning group dynamics were also mainly connected to negative experiences in avalanche terrain, which have certain implications for recreationists as well as professionals teaching avalanche safety. The findings provide new evidence concerning experienced skiers use of decision-making frameworks, while also demonstrating the need for further research on group dynamics and social factors, because of their relevance and influence towards decision-making in avalanche terrain.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/34306
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2024 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDIDR-3901
dc.subjectBackcountry skiingen_US
dc.subjectGroup dynamicsen_US
dc.subjectAvalanche terrainen_US
dc.titleGroup dynamics in avalanche terrain. A qualitative study of backcountry skier’s experiences with group dynamics and their influence on decision-making in avalanche terrainen_US
dc.typeMaster thesisen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen_US


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