Performance Enhancing Drug Use Among Professional Athletes: Testing the Applicability of Key Theoretical Concepts Derived From Situational Action Theory
| Autor: | C. Jordan Howell, Caitlyn N. Muniz, Shamila Shadmanfaat, John K. Cochran, Lauren N. Miley, Saeed Kabiri |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Sociology and Political Science biology Athletes Performance-enhancing drugs media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Applied psychology biology.organism_classification 050501 criminology Key (cryptography) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Action theory (philosophy) Situational ethics Psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology 0505 law media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Sport and Social Issues. 44:336-355 |
| ISSN: | 1552-7638 0193-7235 |
| Popis: | Doping, or performance enhancing drug use, has long been a social and health problem among athletes. Despite the issues associated with doping and the illegality of using these drugs, little criminological research has examined why athletes engage in this deviant behavior. The present study seeks to do so by applying key theoretical concepts derived from, and testing the predictive efficiency of, situational action theory on professional athletes’ past, current, and future performance enhancing drug use. We employ self-report data from a random sample of 680 professional athletes from Rasht, Iran. Ordinary least squares regression is used to analyze these data. Findings suggest that crime propensity and criminogenic exposure increase athletes’ doping behavior. In addition, we find the interaction term between crime propensity and criminogenic exposure influences performance enhancing drug use among professional athletes, while increasing the model’s predictive power. Finally, in contrast to situational action theory, we find that known correlates of deviance (education, age, and gender) still influence athletes’ doping behavior even when key theoretical variables are included in the model. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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