Attitudinal Outcomes of Punishment Events in Team-Sporting Settings

The organizational justice perspective suggests that procedural and distributive justice evaluations of a specific punishment event will affect an individual's reactions to the punishment. A 3 (decision-making procedure: autocratic, participative, group) X 3 (punishment severity: low, moderate, high) factorial design was utilized to develop punishment scenarios in team-sport settings which were evaluated by 205 participants. Decision-making procedure and punishment severity both produced significant main effects on evaluations of the fairness of the procedure. Only punishment severity produced a significant main effect on perceptions of the fairness and appropriateness of the punishment, as well as on perceptions of the likelihood of the punishment to deter future violations. Implications for future research and coaching effectiveness are discussed.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Psychology

Year

2000

Author dc:creator

• Tapp, Jason

• Psychology
• Sports Sciences

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/705

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.wku.edu:theses-1708