Predictors of Bullying among Athletes in the Romanian Context

The purpose of this study was to examine the explanatory power a predictive model bully/perpetrator behaviour in Romanian athletes, consisting negative pre-competitive emotions (anxiety, sadness, and anger), perception male gender normativity, relationships with coaches teammates. Additionally, we aimed explore mediation effect bully–victim on relationship between athletes’ connections their behaviour. current research involved nonexperimental, cross-sectional design exploring presence female athletes. quantitative methodology used collect analyse data obtained. Researchers translated, adapted pretested questionnaire set cultural background (SEQ, MAMS, CART-Q, In-group Ties Scale, BSQ) before distributing it 448 participants. 58.7% were participants, 41.3% mean age 21.15 (SDage = 2.37, range 18–32). conducted first half 2023. SPSS (V. 20) Hayes’s PROCESS tool investigate data. findings demonstrated that case anger, weaker are most important psychological factors predicting In contrast, only normativity play an essential role explaining mediates Athletes’ lead experiencing high level by stressing behaviour, which also contributes achieving