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Implicit doping attitude and athletes' accuracy in avoiding unintentional doping when being offered beverages with
Derwin King Chung Chan1, Lawrence Man Ho Yip2, Tracy Chor Wai Tang2
1The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Objectives:
Implicit doping attitude reflects the strength of one's automatic or unconscious evaluation of doping. This cross-societal study examined how implicit doping attitude predicted athletes' accuracy in avoiding unintentional doping.
Design:
A real-time experimental design with cross-sectional data from three geographical regions.
Methods:
A total of 681 athletes (Mage = 28.21, SD = 8.43; female = 47.1 %) from Hong Kong (N = 177), Australia (N = 164) and the United Kingdom (N = 340) completed two real-time experimental tasks for measuring their implicit doping attitude (a brief single-category implicit association test) and the accuracy of avoiding unintentional doping (a novel canned beverage sorting task).
Results:
Implicit doping attitude was significantly and negatively (β = -0.09, p < .05, R2 = 0.03, 95 % CI of β = -1.64 to -0.15) associated with athletes' accuracy in avoiding unintentional doping by screening out beverages with banned performance-enhancing substances. This association was maintained when we statistically controlled for the effects of society.
Conclusions:
Athletes with a positive implicit doping attitude were less accurate in determining whether unknown beverages with the possible presence of banned performance-enhancing substances should be consumed. The negative association between implicit doping and athletes' accuracy in avoiding unintentional doping appeared to be consistent across societies.
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