DESCRIPTION
Psychological transgressive behaviour in sports are often subtle and ambiguous, making them difficult to recognise and interpret. How people understand such situations may depend not only on what they see, but also on how a situation is framed beforehand.
In this BSc thesis project, you will investigate how moral framing influences awareness of psychological transgressions in sport using Virtual Reality (VR). Participants will experience the same VR sport scenario, but the way the situation is introduced will differ. By experimentally varying this framing, the study explores how prior moral cues can shape recognition, interpretation, and certainty when evaluating potentially transgressive behaviour.
This project offers hands-on experience with experimental research, VR-based methods, and the study of social and psychological processes related to safety and safeguarding in sport. It is also innovative research in the field of safe sports, as this concept has not yet been explored.
Research question
The main aim is to investigate to what extent normative framing prior to a VR scenario influence awareness of psychologically transgressive behaviour in sport?
TYPE OF Research
A between-subjects experimental design using a Virtual Reality with 360-degree video set-up.
INFORMATION
Please contact Lynn Weiher (l.weiher@utwente.nl) when you are interested in this assignment. The assignment is open to one student.
Literature
- McGee, S., Kerr, G., Atkinson, M., & Stirling, A. (2024). “I always just viewed it as part of sport”: Psychological maltreatment and conformity to the sport ethic. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/10413200.2024.2414002
- Fournier, C., Parent, S., & Paradis, H. (2022). The relationship between psychological violence by coaches and conformity of young athletes to the sport ethic norms. European Journal for Sport and Society, 19(1), 37-55. https://doi.org/10.080/15138171.2021.1878436
- Haandrikman, M., & Schipper-van Veldhoven, N. (2024). Building European Safe Sports Together: a conceptual framework of transgressive behaviour. Erasmus+ Project. https://research.utwente.nl/files/354565500/BESST_WP1_Report_final.pdf [Only chapter 2]