Development and Validation of a Perceived Legitimacy of Hazing Behavior Scale for College Coaches

<p>Hazing in sport has recently received national attention from the media as well as the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Van Raalte, Cornelius, Linder, & Brewer, 2007), as hazing behaviors are prevalent within the sport community (Alfred University, 1999; Allan & Madden, 2008). While the attitudes and beliefs of student-athletes towards hazing behaviors have been examined (Campo, Poulos, & Sipple, 2005), coaches' perceptions of the phenomenon have been yet to be examined. As no scale currently exists to measure coaches' perceived legitimacy of hazing behaviors (PLHB) in sport, the study focused on the creation and validation of such an instrument for Division I, II, and III intercollegiate coaches. The PLHB scale underwent content validation through expert review and criterion and discriminant validation through the inclusion of a demographic questionnaire, the Defining Issues Test -2 (Rest, Narvaez, Thoma, & Bebeau, 1999), the Social Desirability Scale - Short Form (Strahan & Gerbasi, 1972).</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Kinesiology (M.S.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis (restricted to Georgia Southern)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Health and Kinesiology

Year dc:date.available

2010

Author dc:creator

• Bigham, Lauren

Contributors dc:contributor

• Jonathan Metzler
• Sarah Carson
• Barry Joyner

• ETD
• Perceived legitimacy
• Hazing
• Moral reasoning
• Social desirability
• Student Counseling and Personnel Services

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/416

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-1416