The effect of dehumanization of extracurricular school sports members by coaches on the favorable attitudes toward corporal punishment

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K20039
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 59020:Sports sciences-related
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Teraguchi Tsukasa 大阪大学, 大学院人間科学研究科, 招へい研究員 (30779567)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 体罰 / 非人間化 / 潜在的態度

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Although previous research approaches to the eradication of corporal punishment have focused on two points, "improving attitudes toward corporal punishment" and "denying the effectiveness of corporal punishment," "improving perceptions toward victims" has not been examined. The purpose of this study was to examine whether dehumanization of victims (athletes) influences the justification of corporal punishment. The results showed that the dehumanization of athletes, both latent and explicit, was associated with a more permissive attitude toward corporal punishment when athletes were explicitly viewed as animals. The results also suggest that dehumanization beliefs are not fixed traits, but fluctuating state beliefs.

Free Research Field

社会心理学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

体罰の容認的態度を引き起こす要因として、これまでは体罰という行為そのものやその結果への認知のみが扱われてきた。しかし本研究で扱った「被害者への認知」が損なわれた場合、たとえ体罰が悪いと認識していたとしても体罰を容認する可能性がある。本研究の結果から被害者への認知のうち、運動部員への非人間化によって体罰を容認する危険性が示唆できたことは、社会的意義があると言えよう。特にこれらは部員の態度や行動などから容易に変わりうる可能性も見られる。今後はこの結果を元に、部活動指導者に対して運動部員に対する認知枠組みを改善する教育プログラムなどが提案されうる。