Chapter 4
For every athlete associated with off the field violence, there will be some who have never been accused of anything and for every athlete accused of violence there is one who has never been faced with such allegations.
Following are two examples of the opposed extremes:
For every Ray Lewis there is a Bruce Smith, for every Kobe Bryant there is a Michael Jordan and for every OJ simpson there is a Walter Payton.
Even though there is a major number of innocent athletes than guilty athletes the perception is growing that athletes are more violent than non-athletes, this is due to the microcosm of society therefore a further analysis should be done to examine the relationship between anger and sport.
The problem of violence is …show more content…
People who participate in sport know that injury is always a possibility ,that accidental injuries might happen and that no blame should be assigned because nothing in the rule of the game bans these incidents.
Instrumental aggression is the hallmark for success in life and in sport and should be encouraged always.
The second type of aggression is called reactive aggression and sometimes refereed as hostile aggression. Reactive aggression is the behaviour that has its primary and sometimes solitary goal to harm someone.
This form of aggression is related to anger and is the behaviour that gets athletes in trouble both on and off of the field because reactive aggression in its most extreme forms is violence.
To explain better what is sport and aggression there is an interesting model called the Abrams model of sport violence.
This model explains that injury can be part of the game, we can differentiate violence in the same way that we differentiate aggression.
Incidental violence is violence that does not have as main goal to harm the other player, it is directed toward sports …show more content…
This distorted situation is called a hostility bias. if these situations happen in some athletes clubs must take quick interventions because they are hard to takeaway and if the athlete is younger it is easier.
There are various theories which have been proposed overtime to explain aggression in sport: the first theory is the frustration aggression theory. This theory is found in the book “frustration and aggression” wrote in 1939 (Yale Group 1939)
This theory explained that aggression is always a consequence of frustration and defined frustration as an interference with the occurence of an instigated goal response at its proper time into behaviour sequence. it meant the inability to achieve because of some type of impediment, for impediment the person striving implicitly or explicitly to reach objectives.
The greater the satisfaction anticipated on attaining the objective , the more aggressive people would become when there kept from reaching the goal.
Furthermore the level of the aggression depends on the intensity of the frustration,the frequency of the frustrating incidents and the severity of the consequences for acting
For every athlete associated with off the field violence, there will be some who have never been accused of anything and for every athlete accused of violence there is one who has never been faced with such allegations.
Following are two examples of the opposed extremes:
For every Ray Lewis there is a Bruce Smith, for every Kobe Bryant there is a Michael Jordan and for every OJ simpson there is a Walter Payton.
Even though there is a major number of innocent athletes than guilty athletes the perception is growing that athletes are more violent than non-athletes, this is due to the microcosm of society therefore a further analysis should be done to examine the relationship between anger and sport.
The problem of violence is …show more content…
People who participate in sport know that injury is always a possibility ,that accidental injuries might happen and that no blame should be assigned because nothing in the rule of the game bans these incidents.
Instrumental aggression is the hallmark for success in life and in sport and should be encouraged always.
The second type of aggression is called reactive aggression and sometimes refereed as hostile aggression. Reactive aggression is the behaviour that has its primary and sometimes solitary goal to harm someone.
This form of aggression is related to anger and is the behaviour that gets athletes in trouble both on and off of the field because reactive aggression in its most extreme forms is violence.
To explain better what is sport and aggression there is an interesting model called the Abrams model of sport violence.
This model explains that injury can be part of the game, we can differentiate violence in the same way that we differentiate aggression.
Incidental violence is violence that does not have as main goal to harm the other player, it is directed toward sports …show more content…
This distorted situation is called a hostility bias. if these situations happen in some athletes clubs must take quick interventions because they are hard to takeaway and if the athlete is younger it is easier.
There are various theories which have been proposed overtime to explain aggression in sport: the first theory is the frustration aggression theory. This theory is found in the book “frustration and aggression” wrote in 1939 (Yale Group 1939)
This theory explained that aggression is always a consequence of frustration and defined frustration as an interference with the occurence of an instigated goal response at its proper time into behaviour sequence. it meant the inability to achieve because of some type of impediment, for impediment the person striving implicitly or explicitly to reach objectives.
The greater the satisfaction anticipated on attaining the objective , the more aggressive people would become when there kept from reaching the goal.
Furthermore the level of the aggression depends on the intensity of the frustration,the frequency of the frustrating incidents and the severity of the consequences for acting