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True play attitudes and behaviors in intercollegiate athletes

Author

Gordon Currie Graham, University of the Pacific

Date of Award

1987

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (M.A.)

Department

Graduate Studies

First Advisor

Glen Albaugh

First Committee Member

Larry Meredith

Second Committee Member

S. Thomas Stubbs

Third Committee Member

Taras Liskevych

Abstract

This thesis investigated the attitudes and the behaviors in the main sport environment of 53 intercollegiate athletes. Two instruments were developed, administered, and combined to give three measures of the "true play" characteristics of the subjects who were members of the men's golf, men's basketball, men's tennis, women's basketball, women's tennis and women's volleyball teams at the University of the Pacific. Results were determined by using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences: Update 7-9. ANOVA and Scheffe's post hoc test revealed, at the .05 level, that female athletes scored higher in true play characteristics than did male athletes; that star athletes scored higher in true play characteristics than did regular and substitute athletes; and that the sport of volleyball scored higher in true play characteristics than did the sport of golf.

Pages

74

Recommended Citation

Graham, Gordon Currie. (1987). True play attitudes and behaviors in intercollegiate athletes. University of the Pacific, Thesis. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2135