Perceptions of injustice among intercollegiate athletes: effects of response type on individual well-being and perceived team cohesion

When individuals perceive the relationship between what they put into an exchange relationship to be unequal to the outcomes they receive, they are said to be in a state of inequity. This perceived lack of fairness is often referred to as injustice and can have negative effects on the individual and team. Currently, there have been few theory-based approaches to exploring perceptions of injustice within an athletic context. In the present study, online surveys were completed by 78 student-athletes at regional universities to identify the specific types of injustice they perceived, the behavioral and cognitive responses to those perceptions, and the individual and team-related outcomes. Correlational and multiple regression analyses discovered that athletes experienced all forms of injustice, especially procedural, and were most likely to respond to those perceptions cognitively. When athletes did choose to respond behaviorally, this sample demonstrated negative effects to individual psychological health and social team cohesion.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Author dc:creator

• Klein, Linsey

Contributors dc:contributor

• Black, Kristen Jennings, 1991-
• Zelin, Alexandra I.; O'Leary, Brian J.
• College of Arts and Sciences

• College athletes -- Attitudes
• Justice -- Psychological aspects
• Social perceptions

Licence

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English, eng

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/661

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-1820