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Influences of perfectionism and motivational climate on attitudes towards doping among Korean national athletes: a cross sectional study

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Title
Influences of perfectionism and motivational climate on attitudes towards doping among Korean national athletes: a cross sectional study
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Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, December 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13011-017-0138-x
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Moonjung Bae, Jungjoong Yoon, Hyunyong Kang, Taegyu Kim

Abstract

The motives for elite athletes to dope are related primarily to maintaining and improving their physical performance. Especially, elite athletes training to compete in the Olympics may feel unique situational pressure, which may in turn induce powerful motivation for doping and predict doping behavior. This study aimed to investigate possible factors associated with attitudes towards doping in Korean national athletes who competed in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. A total of 198 athletes (95 female, 103 male) completed the questionnaire, which covered demographic information, doping-related experiences, Performance Enhancement Attitude Scale (PEAS), Perfectionism in Sports Scale (PSS; coach's criticism, concern over mistakes, and personal standards), and Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire-2 (PMCSQ-2; ego-involving and task-involving climates). Pearson's correlation coefficients were used to identify correlations among PEAS, PSS, and PMCSQ-2 scores, and stepwise multiple linear regression was performed to investigate possible factors significantly associated with attitudes towards doping. The coach's criticism of PSS was slightly or weakly related to the concern over mistakes of PSS and the ego-involving climate of PMCSQ-2, respectively. And the concern over mistakes sub-scale of perfectionism was related to attitudes towards doping, but weakly. Effective anti-doping policy should meet athletes' perfectionism, and more studies that identify other factors that influence athletes' doping attitudes are needed.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 77 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 12%
Student > Bachelor 8 10%
Lecturer 5 6%
Researcher 5 6%
Other 7 9%
Unknown 32 42%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 15 19%
Psychology 10 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 6%
Social Sciences 5 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 5%
Other 3 4%
Unknown 35 45%