TY - JOUR
T1 - Testing contesting theory: Conceptual metaphors and prosocial behavior
AU - Shields, David Light
AU - Funk, Christopher D.
AU - Bredemeier, Brenda Light
N1 - This investigation was conducted to determine whether contesting orientations add predictive utility for prosocial behavior, both in and out of sports...
PY - 2016/1/11
Y1 - 2016/1/11
N2 - Objectives This investigation was conducted to determine whether contesting orientations add predictive utility for prosocial behavior , both in and out of sports, beyond other variables related to the component processes of moral action. Design Cross-sectional. Methods Intercollegiate US athletes (n = 2380; 56.4% male), from both individual and team sports, completed measures of contesting orientation, three moral variables (moral attentiveness, moral identity, integrity), three sport-specific variables (athletic identity, goal orientation, and fear of failure), and three outcome variables (sportspersonship, academic honesty , and prosocial helping). Data was analyzed using both correlational and regression analyses. Results Regression analyses demonstrated that contesting orientations were the best predictors of sportspersonship, but were insignificant predictors of nonsport forms of prosocial behavior. Conclusions Consistent with contesting theory, contesting orientation are salient and potent predictors of sportspersonship, but do not predict behavior outside of contest situations.
AB - Objectives This investigation was conducted to determine whether contesting orientations add predictive utility for prosocial behavior , both in and out of sports, beyond other variables related to the component processes of moral action. Design Cross-sectional. Methods Intercollegiate US athletes (n = 2380; 56.4% male), from both individual and team sports, completed measures of contesting orientation, three moral variables (moral attentiveness, moral identity, integrity), three sport-specific variables (athletic identity, goal orientation, and fear of failure), and three outcome variables (sportspersonship, academic honesty , and prosocial helping). Data was analyzed using both correlational and regression analyses. Results Regression analyses demonstrated that contesting orientations were the best predictors of sportspersonship, but were insignificant predictors of nonsport forms of prosocial behavior. Conclusions Consistent with contesting theory, contesting orientation are salient and potent predictors of sportspersonship, but do not predict behavior outside of contest situations.
KW - Contesting theory
KW - Sportsmanship
KW - Moral functioning
KW - Prosocial behavior
KW - Competition
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1469029216301224
U2 - 10.1016/j.psychsport.2016.09.001
DO - 10.1016/j.psychsport.2016.09.001
M3 - Article
VL - 27
JO - Psychology of Sport and Exercise
JF - Psychology of Sport and Exercise
ER -