ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
The Motivational Underpinnings of Intentions to Use Doping in Sport: A Sample of Young Non-Professional Athletes.
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- From Doping Intentions to Life Aspirations: A Goal Systems Perspective of Performance Enhancement in Sport.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The effects of athletes' moral identity on clean sport behavior intentions: a cross-national study of the mediating role of moral disengagement and self-efficacy.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- Significance loss brings to extreme self-care related behaviors: the role of interpersonal influence and obsessive (vs. harmonious) passion.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- It's just how we do it: social processes in rapid weight loss for combat sports.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2024Article
- Study of an Anti-Doping Education Program in Spanish Sports Sciences Students.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Moral Disengagement as a Self-Regulatory Cognitive Process of Transgressions: Psychometric Evidence of the Bandura Scale in Chilean Adolescents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Use, Perceptions and Attitudes of Cognitive and Sports Performance Enhancing Substances Among University Students.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2022Article
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Abstract
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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