Experiences of bullying victimisation in female interuniversity athletes

Jewett, Rachel; Kerr, Gretchen; MacPherson, Ellen; Stirling, Ashley

doi:10.1080/1612197x.2019.1611902

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“…Despite definitions of bullying tending to result from an educational context (e.g., Olewus, 1993), recent workplace research has highlighted how bullying involves the targeting of an individual who feels a relative lack of power in response to mistreatment over a long period of time (Sprigg et al, 2019). In sport, while Olewus' definition has retained some support (Jewett et al, 2019), other studies have suggested bullying presents different features in this context (Kerr, Jewett, et al, 2016). Here, bullying can occur as a result of teasing behaviours carried out for "entertainment purposes" which may not carry a clear intent to harm (Kerr, Jewett, et al, 2016).…”

Section: Understanding Bullying In Sportmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By exploring these perspectives with coaches, it may raise awareness such that coaches may better address this problem. Finally, researching bullying within the professional soccer academy context answers calls from developmental literature (Volk et al, 2014) to consider bullying with groups other than young children, whilst adding to a growing focus on the experiences of bullying in sport with high-performing young adults (Jewett et al, 2019).…”

Section: Present Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

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When it is no longer a bit of banter: Coaches’ perspectives of bullying in professional soccer

Newman

Eccles

Rumbold

et al. 2021

International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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Studies exploring bullying in sport psychology remain relatively limited despite various media reports of the abusive practice of some professional soccer coaches. This research explores coaches' views of bullying in professional soccer academies and how it is framed in relation to banter. Five professional soccer coaches were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide. The methodology and analysis were guided by interpretative phenomenological analysis. Coaches highlighted key components which identify bullying in professional soccer environments, such as intent to harm; frequency of behaviour; and an imbalance of power. Coaches also highlighted different individual and contextual factors which separated bullying from banter. These included individual differences; unintentional behaviour; immaturity; and the masculinity of the soccer culture. These findings provide an important extension to the bullying literature in sport by highlighting coaches' own perspectives on this concept within the professional soccer context. The findings also illustrate the subtle nuances through which coaches separate bullying from banter. As such, important applied implications are discussed for the development of coach education programmes to raise greater awareness around these concepts as well as the potential consequences of bullying and banter on player welfare in professional soccer.

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Section: Understanding Bullying In Sportmentioning

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Section: Present Studymentioning

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When it is no longer a bit of banter: Coaches’ perspectives of bullying in professional soccer

Newman

Eccles

Rumbold

et al. 2021

International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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“… Stirling et al (2011) highlight that traditional sport culture does not encourage victims to break the law of silence as it is considered a sign of weakness, which causes continuity in bullying behaviors by the aggressor ( Vveinhardt et al, 2017 ). On the other hand, bullying in sport has a negative emotional impact on the victims ( Kentel and McHugh, 2015 ), who tend not to enjoy the sport, to have low self-esteem ( Jewett et al, 2019 ), to feel isolated from the rest of the team ( Evans et al, 2016 ), to have a low athletic as well as academic performance ( Vveinhardt et al, 2017 ; Jewett et al, 2019 ) and to change sport clubs or abandon sport practice ( Evans et al, 2016 ; Nery et al, 2020 ).…”

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“I Gave Up Football and I Had No Intention of Ever Going Back”: Retrospective Experiences of Victims of Bullying in Youth Sport

2022

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Bullying is a global issue that, beyond school, is present in different social contexts, such as sport environments. The main objective of this study was to get to know the experiences of victims of bullying in sport throughout their youth sport training. Semi-structured interviews to four Spanish women and seven Spanish men were carried out, within an age range of 17–27 (Mage = 21 years, SD = 3.69). The following main themes were established by means of a hierarchical content analysis: (a) “bullying characterization,” (b) “dealing with bullying,” and (c) “consequences of bullying.” The results show the presence of physical, verbal and social bullying in the sport context, with the changing room being the space where this type of behavior is most frequently developed. Most victims show an internal attribution (self-blame) for the bullying event, related to their motor skills and their personal physical and psychological characteristics. Double victimization can be observed, at the sport club and at the educational center. Passive strategies are used to deal with the situation, while little support is shown by sport agents (teammates and coaches). The victims, as a consequence of the bullying experience, suffer from short and long-term negative effects on a psychosocial level. The study highlights the necessity to design and implement programs focused on the prevention, detection and intervention of bullying for sport organizations, bearing in mind all the agents that make them up (coaches, management teams, families, and players). Furthermore, the importance of promoting the creation of safe sport environments, free from any kind of violence, is emphasized.

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“…While still fully unrevealed importance of various sociodemographic variables for bullying behaviour in individual cultural media rightly raise the question how gender and age of the target group relate to bullying in sports context. As stated by Kerr et al (2016), bullying is part of sports culture, but in this context, seeking to ensure a safe environment for athletes, it is significant both to assess the role of gender in more detail and to analyse bullying prevention possibilities (Jewett et al, 2019). It is also important to draw attention to sports participants' age as potentially significant for the person's behaviour and role related to bullying (Cook et al, 2010).…”

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Gender and age variables of bullying in organized sport: Is bullying “grown out of”?

Vveinhardt¹,

Fominienė²

2019

jhse

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Purpose: The article presents the specificity of bullying in organized sport with regard to sport participants' gender and age variables. Trends in bullying manifestation through such constituents as antisocial behaviour and aggression in sport, bullying actions in sport, previous experiences and memories of bullying, lack of bullying control are analysed. Methodology: The survey was conducted employing Bullying and Harassment in Sport Questionnaire (BHISQ). A sample of 382 youth amateur athletes (adolescents and young adults), involved in different sports, participated in this study. Written and online surveys and statistical data analysis were chosen. Analyses were made applying Mann-Whitney U test to gender analyses and Kruskal-Wallis H test to three age groups. Findings: Athletes men are more aggressive physically, verbally or non-verbally than women. Men, not only as a bullies, but also in the role of a victim, are more expressive than women in addition, it has been found that persons who were bullied in the past also apply the same negative behaviour themselves in sport activities later. Athletes' age has a significant influence on the form of bullying as older persons use a more refined arsenal of means of negative behaviour. Although it has been found that male's use bullying more often, it is noted that the environment legitimizing aggressiveness may influence greater openness of men, which should be taken into account in future research.

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Experiences of bullying victimisation in female interuniversity athletes

Cited by 29 publications

References 32 publications

When it is no longer a bit of banter: Coaches’ perspectives of bullying in professional soccer

When it is no longer a bit of banter: Coaches’ perspectives of bullying in professional soccer

“I Gave Up Football and I Had No Intention of Ever Going Back”: Retrospective Experiences of Victims of Bullying in Youth Sport

Gender and age variables of bullying in organized sport: Is bullying “grown out of”?

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