Brooks and Bull (1999) Perceptions of the sport psychologist by female university athletes

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CONTRIBUTORS:

	Author:	Brooks, J. E.
	Author:	Bull, S. J.

JOURNAL:

Journal of Sports Sciences (JSS), 17(3), ?? - ??.

YEAR:

1999

PUB TYPE:

Journal Article

SUBJECT(S):

WOMAN; ATHLETE; PERCEPTION; SPORT; PSYCHOLOGIST; YOUNG-ADULT; ATTITUDE

DISCIPLINE:

No discipline assigned

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LANGUAGE:

English

PUB ID:

103-366-641 (Last edited on 2002/02/27 18:44:59 US/Mountain)

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ABSTRACT:
In this study we explored the existence of a favourable attitude towards sport psychologists by female athletes in relation to other sport-oriented and mental health professionals. Ninety female student athletes made judgements of similarity between 11 practitioner terms using the triad method. A rank-order task was also completed, where the 11 professionals were ranked on three expertise variables in sporting, mental and physical issues. The results were analysed using (1) the metric scaling procedure of correspondence analysis, (2) cultural consensus analysis and (3) PROperty FITing analysis. A two-dimensional solution provided the best interpretation of the similarity judgements. The correspondence analysis configuration positioned the sport psychologist centrally between a sport-oriented pair and the cluster of mental health professionals. Participants reported adequate consensus on all three expertise variables, which is consistent with the assumptions of Cultural Consensus Theory. Consistent with earlier research, the three variables were salient in the participants' similarity judgements of sport and mental health professionals. Our results suggest the existence of a more favourable perception of the sport psychologist and a distancing from a direct association with mental health practitioners. However, the centrality of the term may indicate a more cloudy distinction as to where the sport psychologist exists in relation to other professionals.

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