Superstitious Behaviour in Sportspersons in Relation to Their Performance at Intercollegiate Level

Gupta, Bhoomi; Dutt, Siddharth

doi:10.30877/ijmh.6.2.2019.192-202

Cited by 2 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 16 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Superstition is considered as a natural psychologic mechanism to help the athlete to come along with the stress related to competitive condition and demonstrate his best performance under stress. Since superstition is accompanied with activities including risk and unpredictability, it plays an essential role in sport (Gupta and Dutt, 2019). Sport superstition includes repetitive, formal and consecutive attempts separate from technical performance and the athlete or his fans believe that they may control chance or foreign factors through expressing such behavior.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Validation of sport superstition questionnaire

abdolbaghi

bakhsh

Zarandi

et al. 2021

JPS

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background: It is for several decades that superstition has been analyzed among sport analysts. Superstition helps the athlete to come along with the stress related to competitive conditions. Sport superstition is introduced as illogical beliefs or a way of thinking that influences the results of events. Considering this point and comparing the results of a scientific research will result in finding the most accurate information. We may indicate the importance of using valid instruments to measure data. Aims: This study was conducted to evaluate the validity of the spectator sports superstition questionnaire. Methods: The present study was applied in terms of purpose and in terms of method of work is correlational (factor analysis with principal component analysis). The statistical population of the study was the fans of the Iranian Football, Basketball and Volleyball Premier League teams in the 2019-20season. According to the sample size based on questionnaire items (26 cells), 390 people were selected. In order to collect data, a standard questionnaire was used which was translated into Persian and analyzed for validity in the target population. For the validity of the questionnaire, the construct validity, convergent and divergent of Fornell and Larker were used and its reliability was obtained through Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.775. Descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (confirmatory factor analysis) were used to analyze the data using SPSS and Amos software. Results: Based on the results of factor analysis, the components of industrial superstition, superstitious beliefs, superstitious behaviors and the source of control were approved as four dimensions of sports superstition. Analysis of the data showed that the factor load of all questions is higher than the base value and the research model has a significant fit, which indicates the desirability of the sports superstition questionnaire. Conclusion:The Sports Superstitions Questionnaire is a reliable and valid scale that can be used to assess the level of superstitions in sports and increase the insight and understanding of fans and individuals towards it.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Validation of sport superstition questionnaire

abdolbaghi

bakhsh

Zarandi

et al. 2021

JPS

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Preliminary research of superstitious behavior in orienteering

Bačanac¹,

Juhas²

2021

Fizička kultura

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Superstitious behaviors stem from athletes' need to reduce competitive pressure and uncertainty of outcome, as it gives them the illusion of control over a number of external factors (luck factors) that may affect their competitive result. This study aims to determine the presence of superstitious behavior, its relationship to age, gender, competitive experience and self-confidence of competitors, and adequacy of Bleak and Frederick scale (1998) use to our athletes. From the original Superstitious Rituals Questionnaire developed by Bleak and Frederic (1998), after translation into Serbian, four items were removed, and the question of confidence in one's own orienteering skills was added, and the respondents were allowed to list personal superstitious behaviors not mentioned in the questionnaire. The questionnaire was completed by 78 orienteers (45 men, 33 women), aged 10-70 years and with an average competitive experience of 15.2 years. Based on the obtained research results, it was determined that from 10 to 68% of Serbian orienteers use 15 out of a total of 41 superstitious rituals, that the average number of these rituals per respondent was small (M/SD = 5.38 +/-3.46), that their effectiveness assessed on a scale of 0-5 was low (2.88 +/-1.31), that no one used 6 rituals, and that a significant number of orienteering-specific rituals were listed that were not present in the applied questionnaire. There is a significant positive correlation between the number of uses of superstitious rituals and female gender (r=.25), and a negative one with age, competitive experience, and self-confidence in orienteering skills (r=-.40; -.38; -.39, respectively). The fact that Serbian orienteers practice a relatively small number of superstitious behaviors listed in the applied questionnaire, mentioning at the same time, other superstitious rituals that they usually consider necessary routines of pre-start preparation, indicate the need to construct a new superstitious behavior questionnaire specific to orienteering and our sports culture.

show abstract

Superstitious Behaviour in Sportspersons in Relation to Their Performance at Intercollegiate Level

Cited by 2 publications

References 16 publications

Validation of sport superstition questionnaire

Validation of sport superstition questionnaire

Preliminary research of superstitious behavior in orienteering

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About