108 cases of superstitious athletes: do superstitious practice categories differ between males and females and team and individual sports?

Published: 2 October 2024| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/54y8v469h4.1
Contributor:
Attila Szabo

Description

We collected 108 cases of superstitious athletes on the internet and classified their superstitions as behavioral, clothing-related, or nutritional. Subsequently, we looked at differences in their frequencies among team and individual athletes, as well as males and females.

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Collect 108 (or more) cases of superstitious athletes through internet search (we used Google), read their stories, have two people classify their superstition - extracted from the story - as behavioral, clothing-related and/or nutritional. Than examine their frequencies in male and female athletes as well as team and individual sports practitioners. You can do a Chi-square test if you wish to determine the statistical significance.

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Szechenyi Istvan Egyetem

Categories

Psychology, Placebo, Compulsive Ritual, Sport

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