"We are not sportsmen, we are professionals": professionalism, doping and deviance in elite sport

Christiansen, Ask Vest

doi:10.1504/ijsmm.2010.029714

Cited by 28 publications

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“…In cyclists, the temptation to dope was linked to the place that cycling has in the athlete's life (LentillonKaestner, Hagger & Hardcastle, 2012;Lentillon-Kaestner & Carstairs, 2010;Christiansen, 2010). More specifically, cyclists with wide interests experienced a drastically decreased sense of pressure and temptation to use PEDs.…”

Section: An Identity Beyond Sportmentioning

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A qualitative analysis of the factors that protect athletes against doping in sport

Erickson

McKenna

Backhouse

2015

Psychology of Sport and Exercise

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Objective: To explore the protective factors against performance enhancing drug (PED) use in sport via a qualitative analysis of athletes' lifelong athletic careers. Method: Ten competitive athletes (M=5, F=5) representing five different sports (field hockey, boxing, football, triathlon, rugby league) were recruited through convenience sampling to undertake a semi-structured interview. Method: Verbatim transcripts were analyzed using an established three-stage coding process which identified the common themes through the narratives. Results: Personal and situational protective factors were identified in the athletes accounts. Personal factors included:(i) a strong moral stance against cheating; (ii) an identity beyond sport; (iii) self-control; and (iv) resilience to social group pressures. Secure attachments across the lifespan, which facilitated the promotion of moral decision making and assisted in the development of anti-doping attitudes, was collectively identified as a situational factor. When systemic factors, such as a pro-doping climate, came into play key attachments in the athletes' lives interplayed with personal factors to reduce the risk of doping. Conclusions: These findings offer insights into factors that protect against using PEDs in sport and further our understanding of the complex interaction between risk and protective factors at individual, psychosocial and societal levels among competitive athletes. As a complex behavior, doping in sport cannot be prevented by focusing on the individual athlete alone; contextual factors beyond the athlete's control also impact on this behavior. Thus, a paradigm shift beyond an athlete-centered approach to anti-doping is warranted.

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Section: An Identity Beyond Sportmentioning

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A qualitative analysis of the factors that protect athletes against doping in sport

Erickson

McKenna

Backhouse

2015

Psychology of Sport and Exercise

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“…There were five articles in European Sport Management Quarterly (Hanstad, 2008;Probert & Leberman, 2009;Tainsky & Winfree, 2008;Wagner, 2010Wagner, , 2011. Two articles were in both the Journal of Sport Management (Huybers & Mazanov, 2012;Woolf, Rimal, & Sripad, 2014) and the International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing (Christiansen, 2010;Denham, 2007) Half (eight) of the articles used primary data; one of these articles (Hanstad, 2008) also employed secondary data, including document and media analysis. Of the eight primary data articles, six featured athletes or athletic populations.…”

Section: Taking Stock Of Doping Research (In Sport Management Journals)mentioning

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Doping in sport: Whose problem is it?

Engelberg

Skinner

2016

Sport Management Review

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In the last few years there has been a significant increase in the number and scope of social science research into doping in sport. However, despite this apparent progress, the field remains a disparate body of work and lacks both direction and leadership. Whilst sport management is a discipline that is well suited to provide such leadership, scholarly research into this controversial topic has not been published widely in sport management journals.This special issue aims to redress this gap by bringing together a range of scholarly articles from a variety of perspectives from authors from North America, Europe and Australia. The issues and challenges covered are varied, but each paper brings a common theme: the implications for the management of doping in sport. The six papers in this Special Issue of Sport Management Review are a significant addition to the slowly growing body of sport management scholarly work on doping in sport. It is hoped that future research will be prompted with this Special Issue and the discipline of sport management will recognise and respond to the challenges presented by doping.

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“…The paradoxical role of science and technology within sport is reflected in literature concerned with the role of performance enhancement in sport (Morgan 2009, Partridge 2011) and the ethical basis for existing anti-doping regulations (Savulescu et al 2004, Kayser et al 2007, Hemphill 2009, Gleaves 2010. Such philosophically led discussion is complemented by literature on what might be called the culture of performance enhancement or the experiences of elite athletes within which athletes go to great lengths (or are coerced into going to great lengths) to win especially when careers depend upon it (Christiansen 2010). While the somewhat crude characterization of the unethical medical practitioners and sports scientists presented in ACC Report seeks to demonize their role, Miah (2007, p. 152) argues, 'very often, the athlete's physician has an interest in making the athlete well for competition, rather than simply well.…”

Section: Heroic By Defaultmentioning

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Protecting sport from itself: a critical analysis of the 2013 Australian Crime Commission’s Report into Crime and Drugs in Sport

Outram

2015

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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"We are not sportsmen, we are professionals": professionalism, doping and deviance in elite sport

Cited by 28 publications

References 3 publications

A qualitative analysis of the factors that protect athletes against doping in sport

A qualitative analysis of the factors that protect athletes against doping in sport

Doping in sport: Whose problem is it?

Protecting sport from itself: a critical analysis of the 2013 Australian Crime Commission’s Report into Crime and Drugs in Sport

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