Implicit versus explicit attitude to doping: Which better predicts athletes’ vigilance towards unintentional doping?

Abstract

Athletes with positive implicit and explicit doping attitudes were less likely to read the ingredients table of an unknown food product, but were more likely to be aware of the possible presence of banned substances in a certain food product. Implicit doping attitude appeared to explain athletes' behavioural response to the avoidance of unintentional doping beyond variance explained by explicit doping attitude.

Sport injury prevention in-school and out-of-school? A qualitative investigation of the trans-contextual model

“…It might also explain why the latter case (i.e., automaticity and habit) was more commonly found out-of-school amotivation. Such content related to amotivation might somewhat reflect concepts such as implicit attitude, implicit motivation, and habit, that growing amount of research have used them for the explanation of health behaviors [43–46]. Existing literature regarding the role of amotivation on sport injury prevention has been scarce, so it would be worthwhile for future studies to incorporate amotivation, and even other related factors (e.g., habit, implicit attitude) into the TCM [47].…”

Paper vs. Pixel: Can We Use a Pen-and-Paper Method to Measure Athletes' Implicit Doping Attitude?

“…In each block participants are given a single stimulus, and are asked to categorize the stimulus according to word-pairs representing combinations of dichotomous superordinate concept (e.g., fruit vs. snack) and attribute valence categories (e.g., like vs. dislike; Petróczi et al, 2011 ; Brand et al, 2014b ; Schindler et al, 2015 ). However, as some topics do not have obvious dichotomous complementary categories (i.e., doping), researchers have also developed a four-block single-category IAT (SC-IAT) consisting of a single concept category, and two attribute categories (Karpinski and Steinman, 2006 ; Chan et al, 2017 ). The SC-IAT design is advantageous in measuring implicit doping attitude as the concept of “doping” does not have a clear contrast category.…”

El Dopaje Deportivo Como Cuestión Socialmente Viva: Una Revisión Bibliográfica

“…75 En esta misma vía, se considera que un programa educativo orientado a la prevención, no debería centrarse en promover la permisividad, crear nuevas reglas anti-dopaje o endurecer las prohibiciones, 23,76 por el contrario se cree que un abordaje de las expectativas de creencia 77 y un tratamiento diferencial sobre las normas vigentes y sus fundamentos, tomando como punto de referencia las experiencias vividas por deportistas aficionados, profesionales y retirados, podría arrojar resultados más promisorios frente al dopaje. 78 En el contexto cercano de los atletas, resulta necesario promover un clima anti-doping que contribuya a robustecer ciertos rasgos de personalidad, tales como la postura moral contra el engaño; la identidad más allá del deporte; el autocontrol; la resiliencia a las presiones del grupo social; 79 la actitud implícita o explícita frente al dopaje; 80 reconocer diversas estrategias para la implementación del Código Mundial Antidopaje. 81,82 El reconocimiento de los principios antidopaje requiere estrategias diversas para llegar a los atletas jóvenes.…”