Significant Predictors of Soccer Players’ Moral Functioning from Components of Contextual Injustice, Sensitivity to Injustice and Moral Atmosphere

This study analysed the effects of contextual injustice on the moral functioning of soccer players with two goals: (1) to identify the factors of contextual injustice, moral atmosphere and sensitivity to injustice that significantly predict moral functioning and (2) to test the hypothesis that sensitivity to injustice has an effect only in unjust contexts. Three hundred players (from 16 to 40 years old) participated in the study. The analyses indicated a negative and significant effect of contextual injustice on moral functioning. Sensitivity to injustice was, like moral atmosphere, one of the best predictors of moral functioning. Moreover, sensitivity to injustice was a significant predictor of moral functioning in both just and unjust contexts.     

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The self-image of physically abused adolescents

Thirty physically abused adolescents were compared via the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire to thirty nonabused adolescents who were from a similar background. Another control group was comprised of normal adolescents tested by Offer, Ostrov, and Howard (1981). Results showed that physically abused adolescents feel worse in a number of areas when compared to nonabused adolescents. These areas include family relations, emotional stability, psychopathology, impulse control, coping skills, as well as poorer overall self-image. Implications are drawn for the professional's treatment of abused children and their responsibility to report abuse.This study was completed as part of the first author's doctoral dissertation at California Graduate Institute.Received Ph.D. from California Graduate Institute. Current research interests are psychoanalytic therapy and adolescent development.Received Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.