Abstract

The domain of the sports field is continuously increasing in Korea. Korea is powerful sports country that has produced many world-class athletes and strives for the positive role in various domains.BR However, sports do not only show positive aspects but negative events that undermine the fair play and fairness of sports continue to occur. Corruption such as violence, sexual assault, match fixing, doping, admissions bribery, accounting fraud of sports organizations, and conflicts in the process of selection has ultimately shaken the foundation of sports by lowering trust in sport.BR Currently, sports corruption is becoming a hot potato. In this regard, it is the time when research is urgently needed to raise the national dignity that has fallen due to sports corruption and enhance the national status. Therefore, this study is significant in developing honest sportsmen. The purpose of this study is to explore corruption perception for sports corruption and examine its effect on integrity, triggering factors, and behavior factors for proper knowledge as a honest sportsman.BR The final samples were extracted using the convenience sampling of non-probability sampling for sampling of participants and a self-administration method was applied to complete a questionnaire. To practice social distancing and prevent infectious diseases due to COVID-19, a survey was conducted for two months via the on-line survey platform of N company. 300 questionnaires were responded. Unfaithful 14 responses were excluded and finally 286 responses(95.3%) were used for the analysis.BR The results are as follows. First, corruption perception for sports corruption had a significant effect on integrity. Second, corruption perception for sports corruption had a significant effect on triggering factors. In conclusion, the findings provide theoretical implications that corruption perception for sports corruption plays an important role in integrity, trigging factors, and behavioral factors.

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