ATHLETIC PARTICIPATION AS AN INDICATOR OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
1998; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Volume: 30; Issue: Supplement Linguagem: Inglês
10.1097/00005768-199805001-00699
ISSN1530-0315
AutoresShelly Chandler, Debbie Johnson, Courtney Riggs,
Tópico(s)Diverse Approaches in Healthcare and Education Studies
Resumo699 Social Learning Theory (Bandura, 1973) attributes violent and abusive behaviors displayed by adults to learning through direct or vicarious prior exposure to such behaviors during youth. Recently, several well publicized incidents of domestic violence perpetrated by athletes have created the impression that prior or current athletic participation contributes to domestic violence. The purpose of this study was to compare the rate of self-reported verbal, physical, and sexual abuse of others in college athletes to nonathletes. A 40 item questionnaire was completed anonymously in a classroom setting by 115 athletes and 217 nonathletes attending a Southern university. The students completed demographic items then forced-choice(yes/no) and 5-step Likert items regarding the rate of abusive behavior they had experienced. A personal computer was used to perform descriptive statistics, frequency analysis, and Chi-squared analysis. Results indicated that athletes were no more likely to have physically or verbally abused members of the opposite sex than nonathletes, however, athletes were more likely to have physically abused members of the same sex (p<.01). Athletes were also more likely to have fondled (p<.01) or forced sex with (p<.05)(sexually abused) someone of the opposite sex than nonathletes. Those that reported abusing others were more likely to report having been abused themselves (p<.05). The results of this study support Bandura's contentions that violent and abusive behaviors are learned from prior exposure and suggest that athletic participation contributes to physical abuse in same sex and sexual abuse in opposite sex interactions.
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