Role of the Branch of Sports in Moral Decision-making

ABSTRACT

The aim of the study is to examine the role of sport in moral decision making. The universe of the study consists of 410, sample consists of 200 athletes. The study used the scale “Development of the Attitudes to Moral Decision-making in Youth Sport Questionnaire” developed by Lee et al. Frequency, min-max values and one-way Anova test were used in the analysis of the data. Athletes had the highest mean value in the acceptance of cheating sub-dimension and the lowest value in the acceptance of gambling sub-dimension. It was found that athletes in the 11–12 and 13–14 age groups continued to gain proportionately. It has been determined that moral decision-making attitudes differ according to sports branch.

KEYWORDS:

• Sport branch
• moral decision-making
• cheating
• gamesmanship
• winning in proportion

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