Journal article
Modal salient belief and social cognitive variables of anti-doping behaviors in sport: Examining an extended model of the theory of planned behavior
Psychology of Sport and Exercise, Vol.16(Pt. 2), pp.164-174
2015
Abstract
Objectives
This study examined the modal salient behavioral, normative, and control beliefs within the theory of planned behavior (TPB) in the context of anti-doping in sport. We tested the efficacy of four hypothesized expectancy-value models as predictors of the directly-measured social-cognitive components of the TPB toward doping avoidance: attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control (PBC), and intention.
Methods
After developing the belief-expectancy and belief-value of modal salient beliefs items based on a pilot belief-elicitation study of young elite athletes (N = 57, mean age = 18.02), 410 young athletes (mean age = 17.70) completed questionnaire items of the modal salient beliefs and direct measures of the social-cognitive components of doping avoidance. Variance-based structural equation modeling was used to examine the four proposed expectancy-value models.
Results
Belief-expectancies, belief-values, and the expectancy-belief multiplicative composites formed positive associations with their corresponding social cognitive variables. The model in which belief-expectancies were the sole predictors of the social cognitive provided the most parsimonious and reliable model to explain the relationship between modal salient beliefs and directly-measured social-cognitive variables for doping avoidance in sport.
Conclusion
Belief-expectancies including behavioral belief strength (e.g., “doping avoidance is likely to ease the worry of being caught doping”), normative belief strength (“my coach thinks that I should avoid doping”) and control belief strength (“I expect I have power to ‘say no’ to doping”) are the belief-based components that underpin direct measures of the social-cognitive variables from the TPB with respect to doping avoidance.
Details
- Title
- Modal salient belief and social cognitive variables of anti-doping behaviors in sport: Examining an extended model of the theory of planned behavior
- Authors/Creators
- D.K.C. Chan (Author/Creator) - Curtin UniversityS. Hardcastle (Author/Creator) - University of BrightonJ.A. Dimmock (Author/Creator) - The University of Western AustraliaV. Lentillon-Kaestner (Author/Creator) - University of Teacher Education, SwitzerlandR.J. Donovan (Author/Creator) - Curtin UniversityM. Burgin (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityM.S. Hagger (Author/Creator) - Curtin University
- Publication Details
- Psychology of Sport and Exercise, Vol.16(Pt. 2), pp.164-174
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Identifiers
- 991005541971507891
- Copyright
- © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Psychology and Exercise Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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