TY - JOUR
T1 - Correlations between the factors characteristic of competitive sports and the dark triad
AU - Ueno, Yuki
AU - Shimotsukasa, Tadahiro
AU - Suyama, Satoshi
AU - Oshio, Atsushi
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by a Grant-in-Aid JSPS Fellows (No.16J00972).
Publisher Copyright:
© JPES.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Correlations between the factors characteristic of competitive sports, such as the type of athletic event and competitive level, and the dark triad were investigated. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 506 Japanese university athletes (217 male and 289 female, mean age = 19.9, SD = 0.8). A three-way ANOVA indicated significant and marginal significant main effects of gender (male/ female), type of athletic event (record-style events/ game-style events), and competitive level (low-competitive group/ high-competitive group) on total dark triad score and its sub-scale scores, including Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism, as well as marginally significant two-way and three-way interactions among their specific combinations. These results are suggestive of correlations between the dark triad and gender, type of athletic event, and competitive level. It is suggested that future studies should investigate causal relationships between the strength of the dark triad and the processes of exhibiting performance and problem behaviors in athletes.
AB - Correlations between the factors characteristic of competitive sports, such as the type of athletic event and competitive level, and the dark triad were investigated. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 506 Japanese university athletes (217 male and 289 female, mean age = 19.9, SD = 0.8). A three-way ANOVA indicated significant and marginal significant main effects of gender (male/ female), type of athletic event (record-style events/ game-style events), and competitive level (low-competitive group/ high-competitive group) on total dark triad score and its sub-scale scores, including Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism, as well as marginally significant two-way and three-way interactions among their specific combinations. These results are suggestive of correlations between the dark triad and gender, type of athletic event, and competitive level. It is suggested that future studies should investigate causal relationships between the strength of the dark triad and the processes of exhibiting performance and problem behaviors in athletes.
KW - Athletes
KW - Competition level
KW - Dark triad
KW - Gender
KW - Type of athletic event
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U2 - 10.7752/jpes.2017.02080
DO - 10.7752/jpes.2017.02080
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85021697040
SN - 2247-8051
VL - 17
SP - 533
EP - 536
JO - Journal of Physical Education and Sport
JF - Journal of Physical Education and Sport
IS - 2
M1 - 80
ER -