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Moral Disengagement in Sport - Coggle Diagram
Moral Disengagement in Sport
Moral Disengagement
A set of psychological mechanisms individuals use to
justify transgressive behaviour.
Minimises negative affect that normally forms from engaging in harmful behaviour.
What is the role of emotion in regulating MB, in Bandura's social cognitive theory?
Starts with experiences as children, develop moral standards. Happens through experiences with reinforcement and punishment. People learn to do the right thing in general and if we don’t do the right thing, we feel bad. Feeling bad helps to stop people from doing the same bad thing again.
Where and how do the 4 steps operate to minimise negative self-sanctions?
The first set restructure behaviour in the mind. Making it look better than it is.
Second set takes the blame away from the player. Give the load to someone else.
Third set is the consequences of behaviour.
Fourth set operate on the victim.
Quantitative Research on MD in Sport
(Boardley & Kavussanu, 2007)
Aims
Develop a sport-specific measure of MD
Examine set and sport difference in MD
Examine links between MD and MB
Method
Item development and validation
2 studies: male and female participants in soccer, netball, hockey, and basketball.
Results
In both studies males scored higher in MD. tended to endorse MD mechanisms.
In both studies, rugby and football scored higher than other sports for endorsing MD mechanisms.
Netball is lowest - it is because of netball as a sport or because it is a predominantly female sport?
More disengagement has a strong positive relationship with antisocial behaviour. Moral behaviour has been seen as a mediator in many studies. There is a negative relationship with prosocial behaviour and moral disengagement. However, moral disengagement and prosocial behaviour has a smaller correlation than to antisocial behaviour.
Boardley & Kavussanu (2010)
Examined
The effects of goal orientation and perceived value of toughness on antisocial behaviour and whether they were mediated by MD.
Method
Male soccer players (N = 307) completed psychometric questionnaires assessing the study variables.
Results
Ego orientation had a positive and task orientation has a negative
direct
effect on antisocial behaviour towards opponents.
MD mediated effects of ego orientation and perceived value of toughness on antisocial behaviour toward opponents and teammates.
Limitations
Cross-sectional study - cannot tell what came first.
Only male athletes - can only be generalised to males and only football.