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- Title
Virtue or pretense? Looking behind self-declared innocence in doping.
- Authors
Petróczi, Andrea; Aidman, Eugene V; Hussain, Iltaf; Deshmukh, Nawed; Nepusz, Tamás; Uvacsek, Martina; Tóth, Miklós; Barker, James; Naughton, Declan P
- Abstract
Social science studies of doping practices in sport rely predominantly on self-reports. Studies of psychoactive drug use indicate that self-reporting is characterised by under-reporting. Likewise doping practice is likely to be equally under-reported, if not more so. This calls for more sophisticated methods for such reporting and for independent, objective validation of its results. The aims of this study were: i) to contrast self-reported doping use with objective results from chemical hair analysis and ii) to investigate the influence of the discrepancy on doping attitudes, social projection, descriptive norms and perceived pressure to use doping.
- Publication
PloS one, 2010, Vol 5, Issue 5, pe10457
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0010457