Attitudes toward violent conflict resolution among male and female karateka in comparison with practitioners of other sports.
Most modern martial arts are based upon a philosophy of nonviolence. Whether practitioners of karate indeed have more negative attitudes toward violent conflict resolution than wrestlers and boxers, noncontact sportsmen, and controls practising no sports was investigated (N = 319; 214 men, 105 women; M age = 24.1 yr.). Within sex, male karateka held relatively negative attitudes toward violent conflict resolution, whereas the opposite was noted for female karateka.
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Abo Akademi University, Vasa, Finland. kaj.bjorkqvist@abo.fi
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D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D001290:Attitude; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016139:Martial Arts / Q000523:psychology*; D013177:Sports; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology*