Drive for muscularity and beliefs about legal performance enhancing substances as predictors of current use and willingness to use

Tonya Dodge; Dana Litt; Allison Seitchik; Sarah Bennett

doi:10.1177/1359105308095970

Drive for muscularity and beliefs about legal performance enhancing substances as predictors of current use and willingness to use

Tonya Dodge, Dana Litt, Allison Seitchik, Sarah Bennett

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Abstract

Using a sample of college-aged male athletes (n = 56) and nonathletes (n = 43), negative and positive beliefs were tested as mediators of the relationship between Drive for Muscularity (DM) and use of performance enhancing substances (PES). Results showed that the Muscularity Behavior (MB) and Muscularity-oriented Body Image (MBI) subscales of the DM scale differentially predicted PES use. Results also showed that negative and positive beliefs are mediators MB-PES use relationship. Neither the MB nor MBI subscales predicted willingness to use a new performance enhancing drug.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1173-1179
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Health Psychology
Volume	13
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105308095970
State	Published - Nov 2008

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Attitudes
Beliefs
Performance enhancing substances

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