Download or read book A Study of Character Among Collegiate Athletes written by Jill D. Heupel and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that sport builds character has been around for a long time. However, sports may not build the type of character once thought. Character of athletes was defined based on differing views held by sport scholars, coaches, athletes, and sport enthusiast. Sport scholars tend to view character of athletes from a moral perspective. Coaches, athletes, and other sport personnel view character of athletes from a social perspective. Previous research conducted by scholars in the field indicated that moral character scores among athletes were found to be lower than other groups measured, especially athletes who participated for longer amounts of time in more competitive sport settings and social scores tended to be higher in team sport athletes over individual sport athletes. A dependent samples t-test revealed a statistically significant difference between moral and social scores of athletes who took the RSBH Values Judgement Inventory. A Pearson correlation coefficient revealed a positive correlation between social scores and moral scores of athletes where 25% of the variance was shared. A separate one-way ANOVA was conducted for each character index to compare social and moral character of both male and female college athletes who played different competitive sports and attended the same NCAA Division II University. Statistically significant results were revealed between moral scores of athletes who participated in different sports and between social scores of athletes who participated in different sports at the same university.