The Effect of Sportsmanship and Motivation on Athletic Aggression

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Abstract:

The main objective of this experiment was to find what relationships threre are between sportsmanship, motivation and athletic aggression. There we three preset propositions that they anticipated for their theory: (a) self-determined sport motivation will be positively predictive of sportspersonship orientations, (b) sportspersonship orientations will mediate the relationship between self-determined sport motivation and athletic aggression, and (c) sportspersonship orientations will impact athletic aggression in two distinctive ways. A positive relationship between sports orientation and instrumental aggression is expected. Yet, a negative relationship is anticipated between the orientations and the reactive aggression.

To test their hypothesis they experiment with over 200 men in for two different studies. For the first study they tested 102 male physical education students and for the second study they tested 102 male athletes. For study one and study two the males completed the same set of scales: Sport Motivation Scale, Multidimensional Sportspersonship Orientations Scale, and Bredemeier's Athletic Aggression Inventory.

The results of study one were the same as the purposed ideas. Yet in study two, their hypothesis was incorrect.

Introduction:

The introduction starts off by explaining definitions of sportsmanship. They explain that there are a couple of different ways to look at sportsmanship. Sportspersonship pertains to athletes' endorsement or rejection of injurious or unsuitable acts in sport. Another way of referring to sportspersonship is to say that it provides a clear indication of the extent to which an athlete is willing to stretch the rules for victory. The definition the r...

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... believe that the information in this article is correct. I don't think that there is anything that could conflict.

There are not many problems that I can think of with this experiment. I believe that the one problem with it is in the opponents of the people who were being tested. The opponents of the people did not factor in with this experiment. I think that this can make a huge difference in the way people stick with their sportspersonship orientations. For instance, as I described above, someone who is pushing me a great deal and having a bad attitude is going to make me have a bad attitude as well. This is true of many athletes that I have witnessed both as a referee and as a player. The researchers doing this experiment should have taken this into consideration. It is very important aspect of sportsmanship orientations and reactive aggression.

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