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Enhancing Sporting Behavior for Youth: Values and Strategies

Explore the influence of moral values in sports, teaching good sporting behavior, and strategies to promote sportsmanship across different levels. Discussing youth attitudes, moral development, barriers, and character-building through sports.

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Enhancing Sporting Behavior for Youth: Values and Strategies

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  1. Chapter 10 Sporting Behavior C H A P T E R 10 Sporting Behavior

  2. Chapter Outline • Sporting Behavior at Different Levels of Sport • Youth Attitudes • Development of Moral Values • Moral Values Applied to Sport (continued)

  3. Chapter Outline (continued) • Moral Values Taught Through Sport • Strategies for Good Sporting Behavior • Chapter Summary

  4. Good Sporting Behavior Sporting behavior, sportsmanship defined: • The ethical behavior exhibited by a sportsperson or athlete generally considered to involve participation for the pleasure gained from a fair and hard-fought contest, refusal to take unfair advantage of a situation or of an opponent, courtesy toward one’s opponent, and graciousness in both winning and losing.

  5. Sporting Behavior at Different Levels • The behavior of professional athletes influences youth athletes. • Media and coaches emphasize winning and competition. • Athlete needs to be taught fair play, moral development, character. • Participation sports tend to be more balanced.

  6. Youth Attitudes Toward Sporting Behavior (Josephson, 2007, 2008) Survey of 5,275 high school athletes reports: • Girls more committed to honesty, fair play. • Baseball, football, and basketball players indicated inclination to worse behavior. • Poor behavior by coaches was reported by 25% to 33%. (continued)

  7. Youth Attitudes Toward Sporting Behavior (continued) • Survey of 5,275 high school athletes reports: • Of males, 60% thought it proper to inflict pain. • Majority said hazing, stealing, cheating okay.

  8. Development of Moral Values Some theorists believe behavior is based on moral development.

  9. Kohlberg’s Six Stages of Moral Reasoning • Preconventional 1. Punishment and obedience 2. Pleasure or pain • Conventional 3. Good boy or girl 4. Law and order (continued)

  10. Kohlberg’s Six Stages of Moral Reasoning (continued) • Postconventional 5. Social contract 6. Principled conscience

  11. Barriers to Good Sporting Behavior • Importance placed on winning • Intellectual understanding • Coaches’ attitudes • Parental pressure • Traditions and customs

  12. Sport as a Builder of Character and Morals • Values can be learned through sport socialization. • Some factors related to sporting behavior: • Sport type • Performance level • Position

  13. Key Point Cause and effect cannot be determined because athletes may have already had good or bad traits before participating in sport.

  14. Discussion • First, think about this question: What is character? • Now consider this: Does sport build character?

  15. Two Types of Character • Social character: Teamwork, loyalty, work ethic, and perseverance • Moral character: Honesty, fairness, integrity, and responsibility • Discussion: Where do you think individual-sport athletes, team-sport athletes, and nonathletes rank in each of these two categories?

  16. Sport Ethic of High-Performance Sport (Coakley, 2004) • Striving for excellence • Competing to win • Sacrifice • Love of the game • Commitment to team • Playing with pain and adversity

  17. Strategies for Good Sporting Behavior • Parents teach values to kids at young age. • Coaches and officials need to prohibit play if rules are not followed. • Parents, coaches model good behavior. • Fans decrease rowdiness and alcohol use. • Professional athletes and organizations must realize that they are role models. • We must reward good behavior!

  18. Discussion • What strategies do you think could promote good sporting behavior? • Consider the possibility for success of campaigns such as Colorado High School Activities Association’s Game Management and Sportsmanship Expectation Guide (2009).

  19. Program Resources for Promoting Good Sporting Behavior • True Competition (www.truecompetition.org) • National Sportsmanship Day • Colorado’s sportsmanship program • Josephson Institute of Ethics(www.charactercounts.org)

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