@article{ref1,
title="Bullying trends inside sport: when organized sport does not attract but intimidates",
journal="Frontiers in psychology",
year="2020",
author="Vveinhardt, Jolita and Fominiene, Vilija B.",
volume="11",
number="",
pages="e2037-e2037",
abstract="Bullying is acknowledged by scientists as a considerable and still unresolved  problem in sport. By triggering stress-related emotions, they determine the behavior  of those experiencing bullying and cause various negative effects on their physical  and mental health. However, in the presence of the tenacious trend in sports &quot;to put  one's own house in order,&quot; athletes, coaches, teams, and sports organizations  themselves often do not emphasize bullying or state that they do not encounter the  problem at all, and adheres to the belief that athletes may use negative emotions  instrumentally in order to perform tasks given to them more effectively. The aim of  this research was to reveal the determinants of the internal environment of sports  organizations, causing trends of bullying in organized sport. To achieve the  research aim, a qualitative research paradigm was chosen. The empirical study  involved eight coaches working in organized sport in Lithuania. The survey was  conducted using the semi-structured interview method. Data were analyzed employing  inductive content analysis. The presented research results encompass the  transcriptions of interviews, which are conceptually divided into three main  categories revealing coaches' opinion on trends of bullying in organized sport,  related to the sports organization's internal environment. Categories identified  during the study can be equated to interrelated levels of model of Organizational  behavior. The micro level-interrelationships; the mezzo level-sports professionals'  (coaches') behavior; and the macro level-management of interrelationships. These  results revealed which determinants of the sports organization's internal  environment can be favorable for emergence of bullying and its dynamics in both  interrelationships among athletes and interrelationships between athletes and  coaches. And these trends of bullying, revealed on the basis of the responses of  coaches involved in the study, allow us to see harmful principles of coaching,  bullying-promoting traditions of team/group leadership, existing in sport, and to  predict how this may effect both the athlete himself, his environment and  attractiveness of the sporting activity itself.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1664-1078",
doi="10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02037",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02037"
}