Effects of an educational intervention regarding fair play on sports team coaches

Abstract

The objective of this study was to analyse the effectiveness of an intervention program aimed at coaches to evaluate their attitude in favour of fair play in sports, aspects such as fun, the need to win, antisocial behaviours (hard play, gamesmanship, and cheating) in young athletes of the Balearic Islands. The sample includes soccer, basketball and volleyball teams with a total of 1097 participants (854 boys and 243 girls) with an average age of 12.50 years and an age range between 10-16 years of the categories novice, juvenile and cadet of the 2016-2017 season, to which the adapted Spanish version of the Sport Deception Disposition Questionnaire (CDED) and the Fair Play Attitude Scale (EAF) was administered at two different times (pretest-posttest). The results show that young athletes value sport positively as fun at both moments of the season. The intervention program works, although not significantly, in the reduction of antisocial behaviours of victory, gamesmanship and cheating. With regard to sex, men obtain higher results in the so-called antisocial behaviours of sport in the first phase of the program, while women obtain greater results in prosocial sports behaviours. In a novel way, women obtain higher scores in hard play and cheating in the second phase of the program.

The Development of Fair Play in Physical Education and School Sports: A Systematic Review

“…The selected studies addressed fair play in different ways. Four out of the thirteen studies (Azevedo et al, 2016;Burgueño, Medina-Casaubón, 2020;Gil-Madrona et al, 2016;Vidoni et al, 2013), treated it as an element included in the intervention programme, while another eight (Casado-Robles et al, 2020;Cecchini et al, 2007;Cecchini et al, 2003;Naves et al, 2019;Lis-Velado, Carriedo, 2019;Palou et al, 2007;Palou et al, 2020;Perlman, Goc, 2010), referred to fair play as the subject matter of study. The study carried out by Vidoni and Ward (2009) addressed fair play from both perspectives.…”

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“Temos que devolver o jogo ao(à) jogador(a)”

“…A não aceitação social destas condutas é característica de estudos que avançam sobre a moralidade sustentadas em escalas psicológicas estandardizadas para avaliação da aceitação à trapaça e jogabilidade no esporte (CRUZ et al, 2018;LEE;WHITEHEAD;NTOUMANIS, 2007;LUCIDI et al, 2017;MALETE;CHOW;FELTZ, 2013;PALOU et al, 2013PALOU et al, , 2020RING;KAVUSSANU, 2018), as quais refletem uma tendência dominante orientada à perspectiva da moral deontológica no campo esportivo, devido ao entendimento de que os valores sociais são estáveis, absolutos e universais, e são representados no esporte pelas regras imperiosas e inquestionáveis -logo, obedecer a regra do esporte é o equivalente ao respeito das normas sociais, afinal, nesta perspectiva, ambas, normas e regras, cada uma em seu contexto, são boas em si e merecem o devido respeito.…”

Análise do comportamento de equipes de futebol por meio das ações ofensivas e defensivas com bola: uma perspectiva a partir da pedagogia do esporte

“…Desta forma, o desafio se encontra no desenvolvimento de uma pedagogia mais crítica para além das ações motoras (KIRK, 2019(KIRK, , 2023PALOU et al, 2020).…”