Part 3: Character & Moral Development in Sport

• Character & Moral Development in Sport 

  • Moral, prosocial connotations
  • Socially approved personality traits
  • Socialised to believe what is right & wrong from parents, schools, laws 
  • Get messages of what society expects of us 
  • A major goal of successful socialisation
  • Most research on character-in-sport has focused on Moral Reasoning & Sportsmanship (fair play)