The primary purpose of this study is to help promote an environment in which athletes can participate in sports activities willingly by identifying causes of violence and harassment among athletes, psychological responses of victims, types of assaulte...
The primary purpose of this study is to help promote an environment in which athletes can participate in sports activities willingly by identifying causes of violence and harassment among athletes, psychological responses of victims, types of assaulters and violence, traits of assaulters, burnout states of Individual-Sports athletes and Team-Sports athletes who have experienced violence and harassment, reasons for persisting in athletics despite violence and harassment, and forms of violence and harassment among Individual-Sports athletes and team-sport athletes. In addition, this study purports to help athletes develop a sense of their own identity by minimizing the dropout of athletics due to violence and harassment.
In order to achieve these two purposes, we conducted a research on 311 athletes of boys' high schools located in D city, I city, and P city. The research was prosecuted depending on two complementary methods: one is open-ended questionnaire employed as a way of getting objective information about the characteristics and problems of violence and harassment; the other is an inductive approach, based on factor analysis, which is taken as a way of working out practicable solutions by finding out in what forms violence and harassment is committed.