Observed prosocial and antisocial behaviors in male and female soccer players

Journal of Applied Sport Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue SUPPL.1, 2009, Pages 62-76

  Kavussanu, Maria ^a   Stamp, Rebecca ^a   Slade, Geoff ^a   Ring, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449670943     PISSN: 10413200     EISSN: 15331571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10413200802624292     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Ames, C. (1992). Achievement goals, motivational climate, and motivational processes. In G. C. Roberts (Ed.), Motivation in sport and exercise (pp. 161-176). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
2. Bandura, A. (1991). Social cognitive theory of moral thought and action. In W. M. Kurtines, & J. L. Gewirtz (Eds.), Handbook of moral behavior and development: Theory, research, and applications (Vol. 1, pp. 71-129). Hillsale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
3. Bandura, A. (1999). Moral disengagement in the perpetration of inhumanities. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 3, 193-209.
4. Baron, R. M., & Kenny, D. A. (1986). The moderator-mediator distinction in social psychological research. Conceptual strategic and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 1173-1182.
5. Bredemeier, B. J., & Shields, D. L. (1984). The utility of moral stage analysis in the investigation of athletic aggression. Sociology of Sport Journal, 1, 138-149.
6. Bredemeier, B. J., & Shields, D. L. (1986). Game reasoning and interactional morality. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 147, 257-275.
7. Bredemeier, B. J. L., Weiss, M. R., Shields, D. L., & Cooper, B. (1986). The relationship of sport involvement with children's moral reasoning and aggression tendencies. Journal of Sport Psychology, 8,304-318.
8. Carlo, G., Raffaelli, M., Laible, D. J., & Meyer, K. A. (1999). Why are girls less physically aggressive than boys? Personality and parenting mediators of physical aggression. Sex Roles, 40, 711-729.
9. Cohen, J. (1992). A power primer. Psychological Bulletin, 112(1), 155-159.
10. Cohen, J., Cohen, P., West, S. G., & Aiken, L. S. (2003). Applied multiple regression/Correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences (3rd ed.). London: Lawrence Erlbaum.
11. Conroy, D. E., Silva, J. M., Newcomer, R. R., Walker, B. W., & Johnson, M. S. (2001). Personal and participatory socializers of the perceived legitimacy of aggressive behavior in sport. Aggressive Behavior, 27, 405-418.
12. Coulomb-Cabagno, G., & Rascle, O. (2006). Team sports players' observed aggression as a function of sex, competitive level, and sport type. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 36, 1980-2000.
13. Coulomb-Cabagno, G., Rascle, O., & Souchon, N. (2005). Players' sex and male referees' decisions about aggression in French soccer: A preliminary study. Sex Roles, 52, 547-553.
14. Davis, M. H. (1980). A multidimensional approach to individual differences in empathy. JSAS Catalog of Selected Documents in Psychology, 10(4), 85.
15. Davis, M. H. (1983). Measuring individual differences in empathy: Evidence for a multidimensional approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44(1), 11-126.
16. Eisenberg, N., & Fabes, R. A. (1998). Prosocial development. In N. Eisenberg (Ed.), Handbook of child psychology. Vol 3: Social, emotional, and personality development (pp. 701-778). New York: Wiley.
17. Eisenberg, N., & Lennon, R. (1983). Sex differences in empathy and related capacities. Psychological Bulletin, 94, 100-131.
18. Eisenberg, N., & Miller, P. A. (1987). The relation of empathy to prosocial and related behaviors. Psychological Bulletin, 101, 91-119.
19. Eisenberg, N., Spinrad, T. L., & Sadovsky, A. (2006). Empathy-related responding in children. In M. Killen, & J. G. Smetana (Eds.) Handbook of moral development (pp. 517-550). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
20. Feshbach, S., & Feshbach, N. D. (1986). Aggression and altruism: A personality perspective. In C. Zahn-Waxler, E. M. Cummings, & R. Iannotti (Eds.), Altruism and aggression: Biological and social origins. New York: Cambridge University Press.
21. Fife-Schaw, C. (2001). Questionnaire design. In G. M. Breakwell, S. Hammond, & C. Fife-Schaw (Eds.), Research methods in psychology (pp. 158-176). London: Sage.
22. Fry, M. D., & Newton, M. (2003). Application of achievement goal theory in an urban youth tennis setting. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 15, 50-66.
23. Haynes, L. A., & Avery, A. W. (1979). Training adolescents in self-disclosure and empathy skills. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 26, 526-530.
24. Jones, M. V., Bray, S. R., & Olivier, S. (2005). Game location and aggression in rugby league. Journal of Sports Sciences, 23, 387-393.
25. Kavussanu, M. (2006). Motivational predictors of prosocial and antisocial behaviour in soccer. Journal of Sports Sciences, 24, 575-588.
26. Kavussanu, M. (2007). Morality in sport. In S. Jowett, & D. E. Lavallee (Eds.) Social psychology in sport (pp. 265-278). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
27. Kavussanu, M., & Ntoumanis, N. (2003). Participation in sport and moral functioning: Does ego orientation mediate their relationship? Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 25, 501-518.
28. Kavussanu, M., & Roberts, G. C. (2001). Moral functioning in sport: An achievement goal perspective. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 23, 37-54.
29. Kavussanu, M., Seal, A. R., & Phillips, D. R. (2006). Observed prosocial and antisocial behaviors in male soccer teams: Age differences across adolescence and the role of motivational variables. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 18, 1-19.
30. Kavussanu, M., & Spray, C. M. (2006). Contextual influences on moral functioning of male youth footballers. The Sport Psychologist, 20, 1-23.
31. Kirshnit, C. E., Ham, M., & Richards, M. H. (1989). The sporting life: Athletic activities during early adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 18, 601-615.
32. McGinley, M., & Carlo, G. (2007). Two sides of the same coin? The relations between prosocial and physically aggressive behavior. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 36, 337-349.
33. Miller, B. W., Roberts, G. C., & Ommundsen, Y. (2004). Effect of motivational climate on sportspersonship among competitive youth male and female soccer players. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 14, 193-202.
34. Miller, B. W., Roberts, G. C., & Ommundsen, Y. (2005). Effect of perceived motivational climate on moral functioning, team moral atmosphere perceptions, and the legitimacy of intentionally injurious acts among competitive youth soccer players. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 6, 461-477.
35. Miller, P. A., & Eisenberg, N. (1988). The relation of empathy to aggressive and externalizing/antisocial behavior. Psychological Bulletin, 103, 324-344.
36. Newton, M., Duda, J. L., & Yin, Z. N. (2000). Examination of the psychometric properties of the Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire-2 in a sample of female athletes. Journal of Sports Sciences, 18, 275-290.
37. Ommundsen, Y., Roberts, G. C., Lemyre, P. N., & Treasure, D. (2003). Perceived motivational climate in male youth soccer: Relations to social-moral functioning, sportspersonship and team norm perceptions. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 4, 397-413.
38. Pecukonis, E. V. (1990). A cognitive/affective empathy training program as a function of ego development in aggressive adolescent females. Adolescence, 25, 59-76.
39. Rest, J. R. (1984). The major components of morality. In W. Kurtines, & J. Gewirtz (Eds.), Morality, moral behavior, and moral development (pp. 556-629). New York: Wiley.
40. Rowe, N., Adams, R., & Beasley, N. (2004). Driving up participation in sport: The social context, the trends, the prospects and the challenges. In Sport England Driving up participation: The challenge for sport (pp. 6-13). London: Sport England.
41. Sage, L., & Kavussanu, M.(2007).The effects of goal involvement on moral behavior in an experimentally manipulated competitive setting. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 29, 190-207.
42. Sage, L., Kavussanu, M., & Duda, J. L. (2006). Goal orientations and moral identity as predictors of prosocial and antisocial functioning in male association football players. Journal of Sports Sciences, 24,455-466.
43. Shields, D. L., & Bredemeier, B. L. (1995). Character development and physical activity. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
44. Shields, D.L., LaVoi, N.M., Bredemeier, B.L., & Power, F.C.(2007).Predictors of poor sportspersonship in youth sports: Personal attitudes and social influences. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 29,747-762.
45. Stephens, D. E., & Bredemeier, B. J. L. (1996). Moral atmosphere and judgements about aggression in girls' soccer: Relationships among moral and motivational variables. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 18, 158-173.
46. Tabachnick, B. G., & Fidell, L. S. (2001). Computer-assisted research design and analysis. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
47. Wilkinson, J. (2001). Direct observation. In G. M. Breakwell, S. Hammond, & C. Fife-Schaw (Eds.), Research Methods in Psychology (pp. 224-238). London: Sage.