The purpose of this study was to provide an ecologically valid account of the experiences of
'admitted dopers'. In-depth interviews were conducted with five elite athletes from the sports …

Objectives Doping threatens the integrity of sport and the health and wellbeing of athletes.
Operating as both a risk and protective agent, coaches may influence athletes'(anti-) doping …

Objective To explore the protective factors against performance enhancing drug (PED) use
in sport. Design Ten competitive athletes (M= 5, F= 5) representing five different sports (field …

Doping is typically referred to by some legal/moral heuristics, labelling the activity illegal and
unfair, and condemning doping users as cheats and rogues. Whilst these heuristics …

Aim This study aims to examine the circumstances which athletes say affect their
(hypothetical) considerations of whether to dope or not and explore the differences between …

The current study was designed to investigate the psychosocial processes that support PED
use in bodybuilders utilising Bandura's (1991) social cognitive theory of moral thought and …

This paper qualitatively explores national level athletes' willingness to report doping in sport.
Following ethical approval, semi‐structured interviews were conducted with nine national …

In sport, a wide array of substances with established or putative performance-enhancing
properties is used. Most substances are fully acceptable, whilst a defined set, revised …

The use of performance enhancing substances and methods (known as “doping”) in sport is
an intractable issue, with current anti-doping strategies predominantly focused on the …

This study investigated psychosocial processes associated with avoidance of health-and
morality-based deterrents to performance-enhancing drug (PED) use. In-depth semi …