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Supplement usage and doping attitudes in elite youth sports: The mediating role of dietary supplement acceptance.
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- Enhancing Performance in Young Athletes: A Systematic Review of Acute Supplementation Effects.Nutrients · 2024Pooled it
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- Systematic review of undeclared prohibited substances and pharmacological adulterants in dietary supplements: prevalence, detection, and risks in sport.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Review
- Gender Differences in Anti-Doping Rule Violations Based on a 19-Year Data Analysis from the Serbian Anti-Doping Agency: National Study.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Health-Related Quality of Life and Dietary Supplement Use in Physically Active People and Athletes: A Cross-Sectional Study.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Perceived motivational climate, doping attitudes, and doping temptation among elite adolescent athletes: The moderating role of perfectionism.European journal of sport science · 2025Article
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- "Where" and "What" Do Adolescent Athletes Learn When It Comes to Food Literacy Compared With Adolescents that Do Not Play Sports? A Gender-Based Thematic Analysis.Current developments in nutrition · 2025Article
- Dialogue and sports supplementation: reflections from the social sciences: a systematic review.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Review
- Motivations for Using Dietary Supplements in Elite Ice Hockey-Controlling Weight and Enhancing Performance.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Exploring adolescents' experiences navigating the intersection of their gender, sport, and dietary identities: an interpretative phenomenological study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
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Abstract
This study investigated whether dietary supplement acceptance mediated the relationship between supplement use and doping attitudes in youth sports. To this end, we employed a two-wave half-longitudinal design during a sports season (time point one [T1] to time point two [T2]). The sample consisted of 217 elite youth athletes (47% male; mean age = 16.98 years, standard deviation = 0.88) who competed in team sports (43%; N = 93; basketball, floorball, handball, and ice hockey) and individual sports (57%; N = 124; alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, swimming, and tennis). The participants were recruited from eight Norwegian sports academy high schools that provide extracurricular, higher-level training and specialization for youth athletes. Results from structural equation modeling analysis indicated that dietary supplement acceptance (T2) mediated the positive relationship between supplement use (T1) and doping attitudes (T2) when accounting for prior levels of the mediator and the outcome variable. These findings suggest that when young athletes used dietary supplements at the start of the season to improve their performance, they were more likely to view the use of supplements as acceptable and to report more favorable attitudes toward doping at the end of the season six months later. For those seeking to prevent doping in youth sports, targeting athletes' views on the acceptable use of dietary supplements may be important.
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