Why They Juice

The Role of Social Forces in Performance Enhancing Drug Use by Professional Athletes

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9956963
AutoresJoshua Murray (Vanderbilt University, autor correspondente), A Van De Rijt (0000-0002-4208-3452, Stony Brook University), John M Shandra (Stony Brook University)
Ano2013
Volume46
Fascículo4
Páginas281-294
Data de publicação2013-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociological Focus (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0038-0237 • E-ISSN: 2162-1128
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00380237.2013.825832
OpenAlexW1990078838
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas29

Why do some athletes use performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), while others opt not to use? Past research has focused on individual player attributes associated with PED use, but has left social factors unstudied. Utilizing novel datasets on PED use in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and Major League Baseball (MLB), we explore the role that social forces play in PED use in pro sports. We find that PED use is concentrated in certain teams, that teams experience team-specific periods of heightened drug use, and that clean MLB players who transfer to a new team with PED users on it are more likely to begin using PEDs than those who transfer to a clean team. While we stress the limitations to the use of observational data on PED use (most significantly, false negatives), we take these findings to suggest that an athlete's decision to use PEDs is, to an important degree, determined by the immediate social environment

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