The role of achievement goals and moral disengagement in explaining moral attitudes and behaviours in sport
The aim of the present study is to test, in a sample of young athletes, a model linking task and ego orientation, moral disengagement, self-reported cheating behaviours through the mediation of the moral attitudes (e.g. attitudes toward sportspersonship, cheating, gamesmanship). Four-hundred and nine young Italian athletes (69.3% male; M age = 19.16 years, SD = 3.04) practicing individual (33%) and team sport (67%) filled out validated measures of achievement goals (i.e. task and ego orientation), moral disengagement, moral attitudes and self-reported past cheating behaviour.