Exploring Relationships between Passion and Attitudes Toward Performance Enhancing Drugs in Canadian Collegiate Sport Contexts

Wilson, Austin; Potwarka, Luke R.

doi:10.1123/jis.2014-0093

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“…Bélanger and colleagues (2019) also show that people who obsessively engage in the passionate activity tend to favor counterfinal means. Accordingly, athletes obsessively passionate about their sport display more permissive attitudes towards PES, as opposed to harmoniously passionate athletes, who see sport as a more balanced addition to their life [ 39 ].…”

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The Motivational Underpinnings of Intentions to Use Doping in Sport: A Sample of Young Non-Professional Athletes

Chirico

Lucidi

Pica

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Doping use is considered as a deviant behavior in sport contexts, and it is necessary to recognize preventive factors to shut down the negative consequences. We proposed that athletes experiencing loss of personal significance would be more prone to doping use intentions. This pathway should occur through the effect of the enhanced predominance of obsessive (vs. harmonious) passion that such athletes experience concerning their sport activity, which, in turn, facilitates the adoption of moral disengagement strategies to find justifications for it, when they perceive that significant others approve their intention. The study relied on a cross-over design, with a convenience sample of 437 athletes recruited at four sports sciences Universities evenly distributed in Italy. Questionnaires administered contained a validated tool based on Kruglanski’s theorizing on radical and deviant behavior (e.g., Loss of Significance, Obsessive, and Harmonious passion) and deriving from social cognitive theory (e.g., Moral disengagement). Results of the study tested a serial mediation moderated model, which links the different variables to explain the influence they have on the intentions to use doping. Overall, this research suggests a motivational dynamic that may be at the heart of illicit behaviors in sport, such as using drugs-enhancing performance potentially among athletes of all kinds.

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The Motivational Underpinnings of Intentions to Use Doping in Sport: A Sample of Young Non-Professional Athletes

Chirico

Lucidi

Pica

et al. 2021

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“…Informants in the current study reported that, at the professional level, 'anything goes.' In a broad sense, 'urgency' here might relate to what has been termed 'obsessive passion' (Wilson & Potwarka, 2015).…”

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Exploring the Progressive Use of Performance Enhancing Substances by High-Performance Athletes

Smith

Stavros

2020

Substance Use & Misuse

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BackgroundGiven the implications associated with the use of performance-enhancing substances (PESs), a variety of stakeholders from clinicians to managers must remain informed about usage precipitants and be able to anticipate conditions signaling athlete vulnerability to increasingly hazardous exposures. ObjectivesTo gain deeper qualitative insight into athlete PES usage and explore the variables leading high-level athletes to escalate their PES use regimens. To reveal PES experiences of athletes during their careers and, unlike other studies, not to focus exclusively on 'doping' as measured by the use of WADA-banned substances. MethodsA macro life course-based framework from which the data could emerge through a thematic coding analysis was utilized. Sixteen narrative life course histories of retired highperformance athletes report on the factors impelling their escalation in PES use, including for some, the first use of banned PES. ResultsInformant reports, thematically coded, reveal performance maximization urgency to be a central factor in escalating PES use, driven by four variables: Requirements, Opportunities, Influencers and Outcomes. These variables each comprise two key components that stimulate an urgency ecosystem affecting an athlete's proximity to an escalation threshold. Conclusions/ImportanceSuch a comprehensive investigation of PES use precipitants has not previously been undertaken. Advances in PES use were instantiated by a substantive, sometimes radical and often sudden increase in urgency to improve performance related to output requirements, specific demands, knowledge and access, timing windows, the competitive landscape, loyalty to coaches, efficiency expectations and likelihood of detection. This study informs incremental models of doping, the use of which is encouraged in order to analyze life course narratives to better understand athlete behaviors.

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“…From an athletic participant perspective on the fairness of drug testing, Wilson and Potwarka (2015) studied how an athlete's passion predicted attitudes toward PEDs. The study showed athletes with more obsessive passion toward athletics had more positive attitudes toward using PEDs.…”

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NCAA Drug Testing Policies and Penalties: The Role of Team Performance

Elliott

Kellison

Cianfrone

2018

Journal of Intercollegiate Sport

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Under National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules, all Division I and II student-athletes are subject to year-round drug testing. In addition to these NCAA-mandated tests, the NCAA encourages each member school to establish its own drug testing policy. Drug testing has been studied frequently, often from the legal, athlete motivation, or economic perspectives. Yet, on the collegiate level, it is unclear the extent to which drug testing policies vary across institutions and divisions. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to compare the drug testing policies of high-and low-performing athletic programs to determine whether student-athletes competing on successful teams in revenue-generating sports are held to different standards than those participating on less successful athletic teams. Drug testing policies were collected from "high-performing" Division I and II athletic programs (i.e., those ranked in the top 25 in football, men's basketball, or women's basketball between 2012-2017); these policies were compared with those of "low-performing" athletic programs (i.e., those ranked in the bottom 50 of the Directors' Cup between 2012-2017). The results indicate several contrasts between high-and low-performing athletic departments in how they penalize athletes for positive drug penalties, particularly at the Division I level.

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Exploring Relationships between Passion and Attitudes Toward Performance Enhancing Drugs in Canadian Collegiate Sport Contexts

Cited by 7 publications

References 32 publications

The Motivational Underpinnings of Intentions to Use Doping in Sport: A Sample of Young Non-Professional Athletes

The Motivational Underpinnings of Intentions to Use Doping in Sport: A Sample of Young Non-Professional Athletes

Exploring the Progressive Use of Performance Enhancing Substances by High-Performance Athletes

NCAA Drug Testing Policies and Penalties: The Role of Team Performance

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