title: Examining a negative halo effect to anabolic steroids users through perceived achievement goals, sportspersonship orientations, and aggressive tendencies.
abstract: We investigated the social image of anabolic steroids (AS) users grounding our analysis on the achievement goal theory of Nicholls. Our main goal was to explore how an athlete's acceptance of AS use would impact on the way that athlete will be perceived by others. Non-AS-using participants reacted to one of two scenarios portraying a male athlete either accepting or refusing to engage in drug use behavior. The results suggested that the acceptance of anabolic steroids yielded an unfavorable social image--perceivers inferred a predominant ego orientation to characterize the AS-user's motivation as well as weaker sportspersonship and a stronger proclivity for reactive aggression than instrumental aggression. Moreover, the analyses did not yield significant gender or interaction effects. Finally, those findings are commented in view of methodological shortcomings and of the perspectives that they may offer for future research concerning the motivational aspects of the social perceptions of drug use in sport.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Education, Faculté des sciences, Université de Limoges, 87060 Limoges, France. yves.chantal@unilim.fr
authors.forename: Yves
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chantal
authors.forename: Iouri
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bernache-Assollant
authors.forename: Sandrine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schiano-Lomoriello
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D045930:Anabolic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D055030:Drug Users / Q000523:psychology*; D015987:Effect Modifier, Epidemiologic; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D010806:Physical Education and Training; D012938:Social Perception; D013177:Sports / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D045930:Anabolic Agents