Abstract
The objective of the present study was to map amateur athletes’ positions on forgiving an aggressor in sport under various circumstances. One hundred and twenty-eight participants judged forgiveness in 32 scenarios built from combinations of five factors (moral disengagement, intention, consequence, apology, and incentive). Following a cluster analysis, ANOVAs, and chi-squared tests, a three-cluster solution was found: “Mainly Forgive, with Non-Additive Integration,” “Seldom Forgive, with Additive Integration,” and “Moderately Forgive, with Additive Integration.” The clusters’ composition was related to the members’ sex and type of sport. Cluster 1 contained 19% of the women and 32% of the athletes from collision sports. Cluster 2 contained 72% of the men, 53% of the athletes from non-contact sports, and 43% of the athletes from contact sports. Cluster 3 contained 54% of the women, and 58% of the athletes from collision sports.
Highlights
The objective of the present study was to map amateur athletes’ positions on forgiving an aggressor in sport under various circumstances
Inter-individual relationships are common in contact team sports, and participants may be subjected to various types of aggressive behavior by their opponents (e.g., Tenenbaum et al, 1997)
Gauché and Mullet (2005) highlighted differences in the influence of apologies, intent to harm, cancelation of consequences, social proximity, and attitude of others on willingness to forgive in two cases: physical aggression and psychological aggression in the workplace, and physical aggression in sport
Summary
The objective of the present study was to map amateur athletes’ positions on forgiving an aggressor in sport under various circumstances. With a non-additive rule, factors are not given the same weight and the curves are not parallel This theoretical framework has been used to characterize judgment positions in various domains. In a study of the political domain in Colombia, López-López et al (2012) mapped positions on forgiving individuals who had been more or less actively involved in the violence that has ravaged the country over the past 60 years These results highlighted the value of information integration theory (Anderson, 2008) in mapping the way people combine various factors when judging an act in sport or when judging willingness to forgive
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