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| Title: | Participation in college sports and protection from sexual victimization |
| Authors: | Fasting, K Brackenridge, C H Miller, K E Sabo, D |
| Date of Issue: | 2008 |
| Volume/Chapter no.: | tbc; |
| Abstract: | Some sociologists have argued that sport is a male-dominated institution and sexist culture in which female athletes experience various forms of discrimination, including sexual harassment from coaches and male athletes. Some research does indicate that female athletes suffer higher rates of sexual victimization from authority figures in sport than their nonathletic counterparts in education and the workplace. In contrast, researchers have also speculated that athletic participation can protect female athletes from sexual victimization through a variety of social-psychological mechanisms such as team membership, physical strength, and self-confidence. This paper reports on the first descriptive analysis to test the “sport protection hypothesis” among both female and male athletes, using cross-tabulation secondary analyses of data from the National College Health Risk Behavior Survey, conducted in 1995 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (N=4814). USA college stud... |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2438/2625 |
| ISSN: | ISSN 1612-197X International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology |
| Item Type: | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | Sport Sciences School of Sport and Education Research Papers |
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