The Goldman Dilemma is dead: what elite athletes really think about doping, winning, and death
| Autor: | Jason Mazanov, James R. Connor, Jules Woolf |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Athletes 05 social sciences Validity Cognition 030229 sport sciences biology.organism_classification Glory humanities Rigour Dilemma 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Drug control Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management 0502 economics and business Sociology Cognitive interview human activities Social psychology health care economics and organizations 050212 sport leisure & tourism Social Sciences (miscellaneous) |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. 9:453-467 |
| ISSN: | 1940-6959 1940-6940 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/19406940.2016.1194875 |
| Popis: | In the 1980s and 1990s, Goldman’s eponymous ‘Dilemma’ asked if athletes would take a substance that guaranteed sporting glory but killed them in 5 years. The 50% acceptance rate was widely reported as evidence supporting the need for anti-doping policy. Evidence from athletes surveyed in 2011 showed only 1% acceptance. To explore why such striking variation exists, and its implications for policy, this study investigated both the validity and reliability of the original Dilemma and how early twenty-first century elite athletes interpret and understand the Dilemma. The reporting of the original Dilemma demonstrated a lack of scientific rigour, which raises questions about the Dilemma’s status as valid and reliable evidence to inform sports drug control policy. Cognitive interviews with a sample of 30 athletes (30 athletes; 14 female; 19 international; age 22.17 ± 2.13) revealed the death outcome made the Dilemma implausible; it was too absolute an outcome given athletes’ non-sporting aspirations (e... |
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