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Orientations Toward Sport of Male and Female Intercollegiate Athletes
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Sage, George Harvey |
| Copyright Year | 1980 |
| Abstract | The social outcomes of sport experiences have been of particular interest to a number of investigators in recent years (e.g., Staniford, 1979). Because it is often contended that one of the most salient outcomes of sport participation is the attitude that participants develop toward competitive sports, over the past decade a great deal of research has been focused on orientations toward competitive games and sports (see Snyder & Spreitzer, 1979a, for a review). The most frequently used instrument for assessing orientation towards sport has been the Webb (1969) Attitude Toward Play Inventory. With this instrument, respondents are asked: "What do you think is most important in playing a game?" They are then asked to rank three responses: (a) to play it fairly (play fair orientation), (b) to play as well as you are able (skill orientation), and (c) to beat your opponent (win or victory orientation). Webb (1969) found that as boys and girls advanced in age, their fundamental attitudes toward play changed. Webb reported that this change is represented by the "substitution of 'skill' for 'fairness' as the paramount factor in play activity, and the increasing importance of victory" (p. 164). He considered this attitudinal trend as a professionalization of play. Webb's scale has been employed by several investigators. Mantel and Vander Velden (1974) assessed the orientation of preadolescent boys and found that those who had played on organized sports teams placed greater emphasis on playing well and beating opponents than did those who had not participated in youth sports programs; the latter valued playingfairly more highly. Maloney and Petrie (1972) administered the Webb scale to 567 Canadian students in grades 8, 9, 10 and 12. Their findings were similar to Webb's in that older students expressed a stronger professional orientation toward play than did younger students; moreover, males expressed higher professionalization scores than females at all grade levels. They also found that students "involved in a combination of casual, interscholastic, and community sporting activities were |
| Starting Page | 355 |
| Ending Page | 362 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1123/jsp.2.4.355 |
| Volume Number | 2 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://journals.humankinetics.com/previewpdf/journals/jsep/2/4/article-p355.xml |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1123/jsp.2.4.355 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
