Are athletics environmental? A study on whether being an athlete affects how on view and engages in pro-environmental behaviour

Organized sports can have many impacts on the local and global environment (Schmidt, 2006) which could stem from the greenhouse emissions of athletes’ participation in various competitions (Wharton, 2013). While sports organizations could put in measures to curb the environmental impact of major org...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Low, Zheng Yu
Other Authors: Michael David Gumert
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
Subjects:
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148129
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
id sg-ntu-dr.10356-148129
record_format dspace
spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1481292023-03-05T15:45:14Z Are athletics environmental? A study on whether being an athlete affects how on view and engages in pro-environmental behaviour Low, Zheng Yu Michael David Gumert School of Social Sciences Gumert@ntu.edu.sg Social sciences::Psychology Organized sports can have many impacts on the local and global environment (Schmidt, 2006) which could stem from the greenhouse emissions of athletes’ participation in various competitions (Wharton, 2013). While sports organizations could put in measures to curb the environmental impact of major organized sports events, the success would be dependent on the various stakeholders involved. Athletes, being a primary stakeholder (Mendizabal et al., 2020), contribute directly to the impact on the environment. As such, there was a need to understand how athletes view the environment and if there was a difference in their views and behaviours towards the environment from the general population. A sample of athletes from various institutes of higher learning like National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University etc., were recruited to take part in the study. People who did not engage in sports competitively were recruited to form up the sample of the general population as well. Participants were made to answer questions from the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale (Anderson, 2012) to measure their views towards the environment as well as the Scale of Environmentally Responsible Behaviour (SERB) (Lee et al., 2013) to measure on the prevalence of their environmentally-friendly behaviours. Due to factors like an athlete’s competitiveness, normative influence, and the time constraints faced by athletes, they would be less likely to care for the environment and engage in pro-environmental behaviours. Gender would also affect how environmental the athletes were and how much pro-environmental behaviours they engaged in. However, results found that there were no significant statistical differences in the NEP and SERB scores between athletes and general population. While there was a statistical significant difference in the NEP scores between male and female athletes, their SERB scores were of no statistical significant difference. Bachelor of Arts in Psychology 2021-04-21T01:44:02Z 2021-04-21T01:44:02Z 2021 Final Year Project (FYP) Low, Z. Y. (2021). Are athletics environmental? A study on whether being an athlete affects how on view and engages in pro-environmental behaviour. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148129 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148129 en application/pdf Nanyang Technological University
institution Nanyang Technological University
building NTU Library
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
content_provider NTU Library
collection DR-NTU
language English
topic Social sciences::Psychology
spellingShingle Social sciences::Psychology
Low, Zheng Yu
Are athletics environmental? A study on whether being an athlete affects how on view and engages in pro-environmental behaviour
description Organized sports can have many impacts on the local and global environment (Schmidt, 2006) which could stem from the greenhouse emissions of athletes’ participation in various competitions (Wharton, 2013). While sports organizations could put in measures to curb the environmental impact of major organized sports events, the success would be dependent on the various stakeholders involved. Athletes, being a primary stakeholder (Mendizabal et al., 2020), contribute directly to the impact on the environment. As such, there was a need to understand how athletes view the environment and if there was a difference in their views and behaviours towards the environment from the general population. A sample of athletes from various institutes of higher learning like National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University etc., were recruited to take part in the study. People who did not engage in sports competitively were recruited to form up the sample of the general population as well. Participants were made to answer questions from the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale (Anderson, 2012) to measure their views towards the environment as well as the Scale of Environmentally Responsible Behaviour (SERB) (Lee et al., 2013) to measure on the prevalence of their environmentally-friendly behaviours. Due to factors like an athlete’s competitiveness, normative influence, and the time constraints faced by athletes, they would be less likely to care for the environment and engage in pro-environmental behaviours. Gender would also affect how environmental the athletes were and how much pro-environmental behaviours they engaged in. However, results found that there were no significant statistical differences in the NEP and SERB scores between athletes and general population. While there was a statistical significant difference in the NEP scores between male and female athletes, their SERB scores were of no statistical significant difference.
author2 Michael David Gumert
author_facet Michael David Gumert
Low, Zheng Yu
format Final Year Project
author Low, Zheng Yu
author_sort Low, Zheng Yu
title Are athletics environmental? A study on whether being an athlete affects how on view and engages in pro-environmental behaviour
title_short Are athletics environmental? A study on whether being an athlete affects how on view and engages in pro-environmental behaviour
title_full Are athletics environmental? A study on whether being an athlete affects how on view and engages in pro-environmental behaviour
title_fullStr Are athletics environmental? A study on whether being an athlete affects how on view and engages in pro-environmental behaviour
title_full_unstemmed Are athletics environmental? A study on whether being an athlete affects how on view and engages in pro-environmental behaviour
title_sort are athletics environmental? a study on whether being an athlete affects how on view and engages in pro-environmental behaviour
publisher Nanyang Technological University
publishDate 2021
url https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148129
_version_ 1759856206123368448