Winning Is Not the Only Thing

Annelies Knoppers ; Jayne Schuiteman ^[1] ; Bob Love ^[1]
1. [1] Michigan State University
  
  Michigan State University
  
  City of East Lansing, Estados Unidos
Localización: Sociology of sport journal, ISSN 0741-1235, Vol. 3, Nº. 1, 1986, págs. 43-56
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- The purpose of this study was to explore the dimensionality, situation specificity, and magnitude of game orientation in teenagers across the independent variables of gender, athletic status (athlete, nonathlete) and ethnicity (Anglo, Black, Hispanic). Subjects (N = 864) completed a Likert version of Webb’s Professionalization Scale (1969) in response to a description of a recreational and of a competitive situation. Responses to questions pertaining to the importance of victory and of skill comprised a professional orientation while questions focusing on fun and equity constituted a play orientation. The results indicated that game orientation was multidimensional and situation specific, and was mediated to some extent by ethnicity but not by gender and athletic status. The discussion includes a focus on methodology and instrumentation used in other studies pertaining to game orientation.