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Anti-doping and legitimacy : an international survey of elite athletes’ perceptions
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- Efverström, Anna (author)
- Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan,Högskolan i Gävle,University of Gävle,Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences,Idrottsvetenskap,Swedish School of Sports and Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden,Forskningsgruppen för pedagogisk idrottsforskning
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- Ahmadi, Nader, 1959- (author)
- Högskolan i Gävle,University of Gävle,Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences,Socialt arbete
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- Hoff, David (author)
- Högskolan i Gävle,University of Gävle,Lund University,Lunds universitet,Socialhögskolan,Samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och centrumbildningar,Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten,School of Social Work,Departments of Administrative, Economic and Social Sciences,Faculty of Social Sciences,Idrottsvetenskap,School of Social Work, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Bäckström, Åsa (author)
- Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan,Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences,Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden,Forskningsgruppen för pedagogisk idrottsforskning
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- 2016-05-18
- 2016
- English 24 s.
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In: International Journal of Sport Policy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1940-6940 .- 1940-6959. ; , s. 491-514
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Abstract
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- Anti-doping work is a comprehensive enterprise that entails control and governance of elite athletes’ everyday lives. However, in policy-making regarding doping and anti-doping in elite sports, the athletes’ perspective has not been considered adequately. Focusing on elite athletes’ perceptions of anti-doping as both principle and praxis, the study aimed to analyse how these perceptions can be understood from a legitimacy perspective. A survey study involving 261 elite athletes from 51 different countries and four international sports federations was conducted. The results showed that the athletes did not question the legitimacy of the rules, but had concerns about the legitimacy of the way the rules and principles are enforced in practice, specifically with regard to matters of privacy, lack of efficiency and equal conditions as well as athletes’ involvement in the anti-doping work. The article describes how athletes’ perceptions of the legitimacy of anti-doping work constitute the basis for their willingness to follow regulations as well as a precondition for the work’s functionality and stability. In light of this finding, the article calls for the empowerment of athletes in anti-doping work.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Övrig annan samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Other Social Sciences -- Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Idrottsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Sport and Fitness Sciences (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Anti-doping policy
- anti-doping practice
- doping in sports
- legitimacy
- performance-enhancing drugs
- anti-doping policy
- Samhällsvetenskap/Humaniora
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- art (subject category)
- ref (subject category)
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