Treatment Acceptability of NCAA Division I Student-Athletes

dc.contributor.advisorIso-Ahola, Seppoen_US
dc.contributor.authorHamberger, Michaelen_US
dc.contributor.departmentKinesiologyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2004-06-04T06:09:21Z
dc.date.available2004-06-04T06:09:21Z
dc.date.issued2004-05-25en_US
dc.description.abstractConsultations with sport psychologists can be a result of a coach implementing a sport psychology intervention for an athlete or team, or athletes personally choosing to utilize such services. The present study attempted to identify factors that could best predict an athlete's attitudes toward sport psychology consultants (SPCs). It was reasoned, following the Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1988), that positive attitudes toward SPCs would create more of an incentive for an athlete to utilize the services of a sport psychologist. Student-athletes (N = 204) from a large university participated in the study. Results from multiple regression analyses indicated that gender, sport type, and knowledge about sport psychology were the significant predictors of athletes' attitudes. Implications for the applied field of sport psychology are made, specifically, that SPCs should discover ways to increase treatment acceptability in male and team-sport athletes, as well as increase athletes' knowledge about the benefits and services of sport psychologists.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/1568
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPsychology, Behavioralen_US
dc.titleTreatment Acceptability of NCAA Division I Student-Athletesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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